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Skriven 2005-03-04 18:50:00 av THURSTON ACKERMAN (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ED HULETT
Ärende: If It Ain't Broke
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EH>THURSTON ACKERMAN -> VERN HUMPHREY wrote:
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EH> VH>>>> Taxes drive businesses off.  States must compete for industry and
EH> VH>>>> business, and low tax states tend to win those competitions --
EH> TA> with
EH> VH>>>> resulting improvements in their economy.

EH> TA>>> Thats why we Massachusetts-Liberals are increaseing our investments
EH> TA>>> in education. We can't compete with the Asians making widgets; but
EH> TA>>> knowing howtos is much more profitably in this information age.

EH> VH>> Are the investments paying off?  One clear lesson from the education
EH> VH>> debacle is that there is no correlation between dollars spent and
EH> VH>> quality of education.

EH> VH>> Do you have a strong accountability program, and how does it work?

EH> TA> That is one of the other advantages of Charter Schools. We are
EH> TA> closeing two in Boston because the students weren't doing any
EH> TA> better than public schools.

EH> VH>>>> It's far better to have poor people working and earning their
EH> TA> keep tha
EH> VH>>>> to have them standing in line at the soup kitchen.

EH> TA>>> That is an excellant reason why we should bring our troups back home
EH> TA>>> to close our Mexican boarder and keep all those additional poor
EH> TA> people
EH> TA>>> where their culture refuses to control their proclivities.

EH> VH>> Do you know who will follow the troops if they come home too soon?

EH> TA> No body interferred with our Civil War and I don't see why your
EH> TA> grandchildren should interfer with the Iraqi Civil War. (I do
EH> TA> think we should do our friends the Kurds a favor and leave our
EH> TA> hardware with them so they can more adequetely protect themselves
EH> TA> this time 8-!

EH>England had the Hessians and we had the French. History must not be a
EH>subject you did well.

I did do better with a slip-stick; but I did know the difference between
the opponents in our Civil War (or War Between the States if you would
rather 8-), and the American Revolutionary War between the English
Crown's Hessians and we Colonials and the French who were are friends
at that time.

EH> VH>> And HOW do we "close our Mexican border?"  Right now, several states
EH> VH>> either have or are enacting legislation to give FREE college to ILLEGA
EH> VH>> immigrants (Arkansas is one!!)  We have laws and regulations that in
EH> VH>> many places forbid police to report illegals to the INS.  The courts
EH> VH>> have ruled that a teacher with the children of illegals in her classro
EH> VH>> cannot report to INS.

EH> TA> Bivouac our 150,000 GIs and Marines along the border. Post a six-pack
EH> TA> to each grunt that brings a ill dressed, longhaired, Hispanic speaker
EH> TA> to morning roll call. (The GI that brings in the largest total each
EH> TA> week gets a two week TD pass to home. Yahoo!-)

EH>For an octogenarian you sure come up with some loony ideas.

I know; its very radical to suggest our National Guard Troops
(that presently make up 40% of our overseas armed forces 8-(
should be used guarding our homeland borders. (Imagine how
outlandish I will become in my 90s ?-)

Ciao, Ack.
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