Re: Candidate's ed policy

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In a message dated 5/2/2008 7:36:02 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
robmarx1@yahoo.com writes:

So  that's why all the manufacturing jobs have moved to
China and India!   Those highly educated rural and
urban women and children who don't unionize  and are
easy to control are so highly educated!  I knew it! 
Come  on.  That's the biggest red herring I've heard so
far.  Its got  nothing to do with education and
everything to do with the bottom  line.  Share holders
want profits, CEOs want to increase their  income
because they are oh so poor. 
Rob:
 
The idiocy of the rationale jumps out at us, until we realize we have  been 
so dumbed down that we buy into this Reaganesque trickle-down theory which  41, 
42, 43 practiced without blinking an eye.  I would say there's hope  with 
Independents until I read my history book which mentions illustartive types  like 
Perot, Forbes and Nader !!!  So far, I don't see any one of the three  
candidates running with the ability to improvise an education message from their  
corporate-sponsored script.
 
Allow me to play: so if we adapt NCLB's high standards(they are still yet  to 
be defined, because they keep moving up and down and around like GW's victory 
 surge and his Commander-in-chief dance into wall jigs), very soon our 
children  will become as highly skilled as Chinese and Indians.  They will learn not 
 to speak for themselves, bust their unions, and accept wages commensurate 
with  their WTO partner countries.  Congress could then reduce the minimum wage  
so as to return to family value porridge Sunday dinners and true prayer in 
lieu  of school lunches.
 
In the meantime, we will usher in a new era of pagan Gods:  the God of  
Shell, the God of BP, and the most fearsome of them all, the God of Dick Cheney  
the Sharpshooter.  
 
May I just add one for the road:  can we outsource Art to be the  American 
expert cultural ambassador to Namibia ?  I hear they need one for  a new volcano 
dedication.
 
Quan 



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