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Originally posted by Aurel
Last night, Fox news was talking about stem cells research. Tonight, it is abortion. Tomorrow, I bet it will be gay mariage...I get the feeling that this election campain is going to be focused on the petty, meaningless issues, because nobody will want to be deal with the important ones: Iraq, health, education, social security.
Aurel
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Stem cell research is decidely not petty. The GOP should hang it's head in shame over their stance wrt this issue.
Education is a mess because the lawyers have mandated all kinds of services to be paid for at tax payers expense for special ed and special needs children, as a result kids that can learn are short changed, NCLB scores hinge on getting that last 1/10% to pass an exam, never mind the mastery of the subject. So a disproportionate amount of resources go to that fringe group. The unions are also partly to blame, anyone else think it's inane to pay a gym teacher or art teacher the same as a Math or Physics teacher?
SS is a mess because 30 yrs ago it was decided that current ss $ would be comingled w/ other income taxes and spent. An IOW was issued, now that the day those IOUs are coming due the govt.(mostly those on the right) is squirming and looking for ways to duck their responsibility. People have spent decades plqaning w/ ss as 1 leg of their retirement now some(GOP) want to yank that leg from under them.
Iraq never would have gone in there myself but the pottery shop analogy is useful, We broke it, it's ours. Neither party has a reasonable plan as to how to fix it.