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catscradle Oct. 14th, 2004 02:54 pm)
catscradle Oct. 14th, 2004 02:54 pm)Just a few words on Bush side stepping the whole jobs issue and yammering on about education and how education was going to solve all the problems of the economy.
1. The education system is in a need of overhaul, I don't dispute that. It currently sucks rotten eggs and has for longer than Bush has been in the Whitehouse. However, the Bush administration stripped so much funding and forced State governments to do the same so he can run his war, I don't see how the guy can remotely begin to talk about education in a meaningful way. He not done a single thing to improve education.
2. Even if the US had the best education system in the world and the nation was full of PhDs, it wouldn't help the sucky job situation. All we'd have is a nation of over-educated people all pissed off they couldn't find jobs in their field or jobs that paid them enough. Or any job at all, actually. People with college educations are the ones that can't find decent work. We have the highest rate of people with masters degees that can't find work since the US became a nation. And those who have found jobs, are not getting paid the wages they need to survive.
Education is a good thing. I'm all for education and making it a better system. But it's not the answer here. And I'm so very glad Kerry kept pointing that out.
Bush's other (more famous) trick - TAX CUTS! If he tells us one more time that tax cuts are money in our pockets... (insert steam rising from ears as I push down that inate need to ultraviolence). Okay, first off, forgiving the fact that Bush's tax cuts are a very evil thing and only help the mega rich, I don't have kids. So I didn't see any tax cuts. Why are single people continually penalized for not getting married and reproducing? I could use a little tax relief considering what I pay into taxes and health insurance costs. But it's not a real break, so I can get over that. What gets me more is the insane troll logic that he's not capable of seeing even when he says it aloud into a microphone. If your salary is $9000 less a year than what you need to survive and, assuming you have kids, your tax cut is only $1000 per kid, how much help is that? Really? You have to have 9 kids to level that out. And assuming you have 9 kids, what you need to support those kids is going to drive up what you need to earn. It's a wage spiral. You're never going to get there. But there are a million ways to Sunday one can slam the whole tax cut thing....
1. The education system is in a need of overhaul, I don't dispute that. It currently sucks rotten eggs and has for longer than Bush has been in the Whitehouse. However, the Bush administration stripped so much funding and forced State governments to do the same so he can run his war, I don't see how the guy can remotely begin to talk about education in a meaningful way. He not done a single thing to improve education.
2. Even if the US had the best education system in the world and the nation was full of PhDs, it wouldn't help the sucky job situation. All we'd have is a nation of over-educated people all pissed off they couldn't find jobs in their field or jobs that paid them enough. Or any job at all, actually. People with college educations are the ones that can't find decent work. We have the highest rate of people with masters degees that can't find work since the US became a nation. And those who have found jobs, are not getting paid the wages they need to survive.
Education is a good thing. I'm all for education and making it a better system. But it's not the answer here. And I'm so very glad Kerry kept pointing that out.
Bush's other (more famous) trick - TAX CUTS! If he tells us one more time that tax cuts are money in our pockets... (insert steam rising from ears as I push down that inate need to ultraviolence). Okay, first off, forgiving the fact that Bush's tax cuts are a very evil thing and only help the mega rich, I don't have kids. So I didn't see any tax cuts. Why are single people continually penalized for not getting married and reproducing? I could use a little tax relief considering what I pay into taxes and health insurance costs. But it's not a real break, so I can get over that. What gets me more is the insane troll logic that he's not capable of seeing even when he says it aloud into a microphone. If your salary is $9000 less a year than what you need to survive and, assuming you have kids, your tax cut is only $1000 per kid, how much help is that? Really? You have to have 9 kids to level that out. And assuming you have 9 kids, what you need to support those kids is going to drive up what you need to earn. It's a wage spiral. You're never going to get there. But there are a million ways to Sunday one can slam the whole tax cut thing....
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You know, whether he means it or not, at least Kerry is saying things that sound reasonable and good sense. That Bush out right tells me things that scare the hell out of me - I mean, I don't have to research the double meaning, his very words scare the living shit out of me - puts Kerry ahead by virtue that at least I know there's a brain at work there.
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This is a sad point where I unfortunately have to defend the useless piece of flesh figure-heading the American apocalypse. Project "Don't fuck your children in the brain" overall increased Federal spending on education. However, due to an insane, regulation heavy approach has left money that could be handed to school boards with better effect passes through the hands of dozens of tight-fist, tight-asses in tight underwear and an end result: children get fucked in the brain.
Fully funded, perhaps the concept of ultra-regulating public schools would result in a better educated youth. I bet that just giving states money with a few stipulated requirements (it's a good idea to teach stuff like science and a bad idea to preach stuff like theo-science, be nice to all students regardless of their various cultural oddities) and states giving municipalities money with a few stipulated requirements (wouldn't it be nice if people in Ohio knew how long the Ohio-Michigan rival has been going on?), all on the concept that every young american deserves an equitable start in life and that stupid people cost the country more and provide the economy less than smarter people, that this would work better than the convoluted, micro-managed, financially retarding program in place now.
But fuck, we can't just give people something for nothing. Unless of course they're big corporations or completely wasteful government flesh-bags.
Vote libertarian or buy a gun or both! Either way start shooting!! Or vote green and spike the "Two" parties' asses and fat men to trees. Viva le revolucion!!!!