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Dubya leans Liberal When...
A lot of Social Issues come up, Is it just me or is "No Child Left Behind" And his lack of border control more Democratic than you thought he could be?
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Re: Dubya leans Liberal When...
No child left behind is unfunded in his budget.
I assume this post was made tongue in cheek. If not, it's even funnier! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] edit: just in case youre serious, look at his actions with the FDA, clean air and water acts, energy bill, gay marriage, affirmative action.... better hope Chris Alger doesn't respond here, I'm missing most of them in my list. |
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Re: Dubya leans Liberal When...
He leans liberal with the issues you mentioned but those are only a couple of many social issues, most of which he is conservative. I dont know why no one deals with the border, I know it's politics but the majority of America wants something done.
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Re: Dubya leans Liberal When...
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He leans liberal with the issues you mentioned [/ QUOTE ] This is quite a revelation! [ QUOTE ] FDA [/ QUOTE ] By threatening the jobs of FDA officials that rightly shut down production of tainted food? By lowering the standard of what food is tainted? By raising the 'standard of proof' that and FDA official needs to shut down production of tainted food, that it is now virtually impossible? [ QUOTE ] clean air [/ QUOTE ] By lowering the clean air standards for companies, and not joining the international treaty? [ QUOTE ] water acts [/ QUOTE ] By increasing the permissible amounts of arsenic in our drinking water? [ QUOTE ] energy bill, [/ QUOTE ] By giving huge subsidies to an industry that is already making record profits? [ QUOTE ] gay marriage, [/ QUOTE ] By saying he's against it, and that if you happen to be born gay, you can't use your spouse's health care benefits in that capacity just because you happened to be born gay? [ QUOTE ] affirmative action... [/ QUOTE ] By trying to shut down the Un. of Michigan's affirmative action program? He has done all this and oh so much more. Almost universally to increase corporate profits at the cost of the citizenry's health and livelihood. |
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Re: Dubya leans Liberal When...
DOH! Misread who FishHooks was replying to.
Bush actions still stand tho, but not too relevant in this thread, heh. MMMMMM, Bushbashing... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] |
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Re: Dubya leans Liberal When...
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He leans liberal with the issues you mentioned but those are only a couple of many social issues, most of which he is conservative. I dont know why no one deals with the border, I know it's politics but the majority of America wants something done. [/ QUOTE ] Democrats don't want to do anything about it because it will result in higher food prices, which will hurt poor people. Republicans don't want to do anything about it because it will lower corporate profits, which will hurt rich people. |
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Re: Dubya leans Liberal When...
Nice talking points to a serious question.
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Re: Dubya leans Liberal When...
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A lot of Social Issues come up, Is it just me or is "No Child Left Behind" And his lack of border control more Democratic than you thought he could be? Discuss? [/ QUOTE ] Well, his decision to underfund NCLB is certainly Republican-esque in nature. |
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Re: Dubya leans Liberal When...
NCLB is one of the bigges jokes ever (or best con jobs)- I haven't read much about it lately, but my undrestanding of the bill when it was passed was that there is no way that any school could pass mustard in ten years. The bill is attempting to have 100% pass rates in proficiency tests, which is goddamn unlikely as it is- but it also counts disabled children (the mentally retarded included) based upon thier age. what do you think the chances of passing high school proficiency test for a kid with an IQ of 45 are? probably pretty low.
As far as i can tell the program - even when funded - was disigned to privatises the Education system in the states in a backhanded manner. |
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Re: Dubya leans Liberal When...
I think it just promotes faud by memebers of the school systems to make it seem like they are meeting the requirements, in order for them to get funding for their school and in turn keep their jobs.
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