Says his own department of education findings.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/ed...02reading.html

Way to waste another billion dollars a year, jackass.

Oh, wait, there's more: the program was a boondoggle for conservative publishers.

That was revealed in 2006.

Once they had the reigns, the Democrats trimmed 60% off the program's budget.



I understand some people just don't like government, but why would you vote for people who say the government can't work, then spend more money than the other guys, on boondoggles, no less?

Another example of Bush actually being very liberal when it comes to spending.

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"Never spend your money before you have earned it."

--Thomas Jefferson

"One man with courage is a majority."

--Thomas Jefferson

I agree with the above poster Bush is a fiscal liberal and the republican congress of the first years of his administration were just as bad, if not worse, that's they didn't get reelected.

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true Bush spent like a drunken Sailor

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i resemble that remark HIC............

lol..................

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Aint but three things in this world thats worth a solitary dime,
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Tom T. Hall
http://www.obamatruth.org/

Yeah exactly...

In general im fiscally conservative, so naturally I want lower taxes and low government spending (there are a few issues I support government spending on though, and therefore im not always Conservative on fiscal issues.....Universal Health Care for Children for one)


However if your going to lower taxes...well thats fine. But you HAVE to keep spending low as well or else your going to get into trouble. I believe we are seeing the results of that in our nation.

If you plan on doing alot of spending, then make sure you have enough money coming in to foot the bill.

You cant have it both ways though. You cant spend alot and have no money coming in. Its just simple mathematics that if you put the two together it just doesn't work.

In real life if you go try to buy stuff without any money they will tell you to get lost. I guess in Government though you just invent some money or something lol.

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"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments"

--George Washington

"Never spend your money before you have earned it."

--Thomas Jefferson

"One man with courage is a majority."

--Thomas Jefferson

In other words, students whose reading comp were below average benefited from the program. Considering the number of students who read below their grade level in my district, virtually all of them, it sounds like it wasn't a total loss.

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That is kind of funny...

I think it's weird what people expect from education initiatives. They expect that it should help all kids.

I think it's more that the kids most behind need the most help, the ones in the middle are doing fine as is, and the kids on top don't need any special help- they just need to be allowed to go on ahead!

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Is also worth taking into consideration that not all children are going to take to a normal educational system and no matter how much money you dumb into the system, it will not change. Education starts at home, if parents aren't involved in a childs education, there is very little teachers/beaurocrats can do about it.

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