Thoughts
My brain always gets me in trouble. I always have these stray thoughts that keep crashing in. Things like:
‘Has anyone ever considered that we Traded a 400 Billion dollar Fishing industry made up of American Small Businessmen for BP (A Brit company) 100 Billion in profits?
Or,
Why doesn’t Texas’ debt matter?
I mean Texas is further in debt then Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky,…Combined. But no one seems to care.
Or,
Is NCLB the most diabolically evil piece of Legislation ever passed. The Teachers hate it. Schools scores are getting worse. The worse performers get less and less funding and score lower….AND, NCLB is 35% of the Education budget for the State of Wisconsin, without NCLB, Wisconsin wouldn’t have a Budget ‘Crisis'(See Texas). And Wisconsin and Indiana are going to partially pay for NCLB by lowering Teachers’ salaries and benefits….
Was NCLB INTENDED to bring down the Public School system in the US or is it just Unintended consequences of a Bush/McGraw golf outing?
http://theweek.com/article/index/210730/debt-crisis-is-texas-americas-ireland
Should a Federal Law that impacts the budgets of so many states be constitutional?
http://theweek.com/article/index/211705/the-dire-state-of-the-states
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/bushplan/index.shtml
“What’s the right funding level for a bad law?”
Good stuff Roscoe. 😉
Passionate. Thats always a good thing
I empathise with your sentiments, but about BP might I correct a slight error. The largest shareholder of BP is JPMorgan Chase – the largest hedge fund in the United States
Despite the fact what I think of Rachel Maddow, The following is very interesting.
When you are watching this, remember state and local governments would not be in trouble if not for NCLB.
Now who will benefit from PRIVATIZING all public sector processes.
http://hoosieraccess.com/2010/06/28/does-indiana-have-a-model-state-budget/
After what I’ve seen in recent years, it wouldn’t surprise me if people started offering up their children as blood sacrifices to BP and other big oil companies. I don’t see much difference between that and apologizing to them for their mistake while gulf coast children inhaled benzine and corexit fumes 24/7. As you can tell, I’m still very bitter over the Deepwater Horizon fiasco. 😥
I read you blog Roscoe and I really need to study about this stuff. No Child left Behind, wasn’t that somehow to help kids improve in their education? Somehow that sounds like a good idea, but again so did the health insurance that President Obama gave us.