10 Great Things

#51
#51
I am definitely not a big fan of either medicare or public schooling. Unfortunately, seeing either of those go away, in my lifetime, is nothing more than a pipedream. That being said, I think accountability for taxpayer subsidized schooling is a good thing.

I cannot, for the life of me, find anything good to say about Medicare.


I agree. I was taking the stance that one more cent towards either of these is a bad idea. But yea, in the realistic world they exist and thus accountability is a good thing.
 
#52
#52
yes, scholorships are availible, but for the entire for student population of the United States?

im not definding some of the dumb ideas PS's have. I firmly believe the problem lies generally with the people making the decisions, generally elected people that are elected based on a popularity contest. Prime example: catoosa county, GA. The people in the higher up finacially wanted a HS for their kids, public. SO the school board in their infinite wisdom gave someone basically a blank check and let them spend what they wanted on a school, they wound up spending 90 million on a HS That will not be above 20% in the next 5 years. They spent 60k on a score board for the gym, that money could have went soooo far in other places. The reason for this in Catoosa County and many other places is buddy buddy politics. THe school board IMO should be ran by people of buisness background and there should be more accountability for funds spent
if that makes any sense.
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#56
#56
joe speaks the truth again. i wish we could pick where our tax money goes. It makes me sick to see people at the grocery store buying steak and lobster on EBT and not working, where as i put in at least 60 hours a week and im having to buy the cheap stuff

Steak and lobster? The last time I saw someone buying food with stamps they had to exchange several items because they weren't covered. Special diet eggs were one item that they couldn't get.
 
#57
#57
yes, scholorships are availible, but for the entire for student population of the United States?

Not everyone is cut out for college. I know that wasn't your point, but scholarships don't need to be made available for everyone.
 
#58
#58
Not everyone is cut out for college. I know that wasn't your point, but scholarships don't need to be made available for everyone.

oh I agree. I was refering t private schools but I've seen people at college that have scholorships and they have no real gpa to maintain so they piss it away where as there are people that work 2 jobs just to make ends meet while they are in school
 
#59
#59
gotcha. no counter point on the substance just on the grammar?
I do not necessarily have a counter to the substance. I believe that if you think critically about what you have written, you will come to the conclusion that the central problem you addressed is universal, and the only solution to the problem is to take the burden of educating the masses away from agents of the state.
 
#60
#60
oh I agree. I was refering t private schools but I've seen people at college that have scholorships and they have no real gpa to maintain so they piss it away where as there are people that work 2 jobs just to make ends meet while they are in school

Guess I misunderstood a bit. I was skimming.
 
#61
#61
I do not necessarily have a counter to the substance. I believe that if you think critically about what you have written, you will come to the conclusion that the central problem you addressed is universal, and the only solution to the problem is to take the burden of educating the masses away from agents of the state.

I agree. the problem needs to start by eliminating the boneheads who make certain decisions and incorporate the private sector in decision making which I would think lead to better fiscal responsibility .
 
#62
#62
10. Refusal to sign off on Kyoto
Too early to say where this will leave us.

9. Enhanced interrogation of terrorists
We cannot know wheher that worked or not. We have his word for it, but he would never admit he was wrong if he was, so can't say.

8. Rebuilding of Presidential Authority / Executive Power
Huh? If by abuse of power, you might be right. But he did nothing to further define the limits of executive and legislative power as against each other. If anything, he coopted power that was not his to begin with.

7. Support for Israel (calling out Yasser Arafat)
I agree.

6. No Child Left Behind
No one, Republican or Democrat, child advocate or not, thinks this program is worth a crap at this point.


5. Worldwide promotion of democracy
At what cost? And did he really? Time will tell, but at this point highly doubtful.


4. Medicare prescription drug benefit
Another incremental expansion of Medicare, to be sure. But isn't that socialism? Where are the Obama critics????

3. Roberts and Alito
Time will tell. I haven't seen enough, yet. Certainly neither is initially proving to be a problem or radical in any direction, so I'm leaning that they will be fine.

2. Relations with East Asian Democracies
Are you on drugs?

1. The "Surge"
Yes, he gets credit in my book for going with that strategy.


I'll give you 1 and parts of 3, 4, and 7.
 

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