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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 02/10/2006 : 05:31:32
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Because this is what they result in, and it is good. We know that it is all a good thing because Bush and his fellow travelers tell us so, and of course, Bush has never felt the need to admit a mistake.
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Programs Bush Wants to Cut or Kill
By The Associated Press
Thu Feb 9, 6:21 PM ET
The 141 programs that President Bush proposed to eliminate or cut in his 2007 budget, with potential savings in millions:
EDUCATION
Educational technology state grants, $272 million
Even Start, $99 million
High school programs terminations:
Vocational education state grants, $1,182 million
Vocational education national programs, $9 million
Upward Bound, $311 million
GEAR UP, $303 million
Talent search, $145 million
Tech prep state grants, $105 million
Smaller learning communities, $94 million
Safe and Drug-Free Schools state grants, $347 million
Elementary and secondary education program terminations:
Parental information and resource centers, $40 million
Arts in education, $35 million
Elementary and secondary school counseling, $35 million
Alcohol abuse reduction, $32 million
Civic education, $29 million
National Writing Project, $22 million
Star Schools, $15 million
School leadership,$15 million
Ready to Teach, $11 million
Javits gifted and talented education, $10 million
Exchanges with Historic Whaling and Trading Partners, $9 million
Comprehensive school reform, $8 million
Dropout prevention program, $5 million
Mental Health integration in schools, $5 million
Women's Educational Equity, $3 million
Academies for American History and Civics, $2 million
Close-Up fellowships, $1 million
Foundations for Learning, $1 million
Excellence in Economic Education, $1 million
Higher Education Programs:
Education demos for students with disabilities, $7 million
Underground Railroad Program, $2 million
State grants for incarcerated youth offenders, $23 million
Postsecondary Student Financial Assistance Programs:
Perkins Loan cancellations, $65 million
Leveraging educational assistance programs, $65 million
Byrd Scholarships, $41 million
Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational opportunity, $3 million
B.J. Stupak Olympic scholarships, $1 million
_Vocational rehabilitation programs:
Supported employment, $30 million
Projects with industry, $20 million
Recreational programs, $3 million
Migrant and seasonal farmworkers,$2 million
Teacher Quality Enhancement, $60 million
Total $3,468 million
That is only in Education -- there is much, much more.
Our government and our country has been hijacked by a Confereracy of Dunces who are determined to drag the rest of us down to their abyssimal level of intellectual poverty and outright ignorance. The sooner that we are rid of these corrupt, cretinous, and mendatious poltroons, preferably by deserved and and in many cases long overdue incarceration, the sooner we can start repairing the disasters they have wrought.
Yesterday is not fucking soon enough! 
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 02/10/2006 : 09:02:22 [Permalink]
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Well, filthy, it certainly wouldn't do for the peons to remain better educated than the President and his men, would it?
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 02/10/2006 : 09:38:02 [Permalink]
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As I recall, Bush called himself “the education president.”
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2006 : 04:26:39 [Permalink]
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| Well Kil, that was a big clue. Bush also actually said, "War is Peace". And of course we know how they pick names for bills like the Clean Air Act, etc. |
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2006 : 21:15:05 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by filthy
That is only in Education -- there is much, much more.
Yesterday is not fucking soon enough!
That's for sure. You know that saying, something about... If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.
Well, those cuts can't come soon enough. The more the better.
Look at education in the USA, it's sucks. Something needs to be done and throwing money at it hasn't helped.
Here in Los Angeles some government officals want to build more 'homeless' shelters. That only encourages those bums to come here. Get the bums out and the bad school boards out and put the money to better use.
One thing would be nice, give it back to the people who actually earn it. Let them put their kids in schools that serve better than public ones. |
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 02/13/2006 : 07:48:37 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Snake
quote:
Originally posted by filthy
That is only in Education -- there is much, much more.
Yesterday is not fucking soon enough!
That's for sure. You know that saying, something about... If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.
Well, those cuts can't come soon enough. The more the better.
Look at education in the USA, it's sucks. Something needs to be done and throwing money at it hasn't helped.
Here in Los Angeles some government officals want to build more 'homeless' shelters. That only encourages those bums to come here. Get the bums out and the bad school boards out and put the money to better use.
One thing would be nice, give it back to the people who actually earn it. Let them put their kids in schools that serve better than public ones.
You do realize that some of the education cuts are for training new teachers and college aid don't you, Snake?
Some of the programs he was talking about cutting I can agree with. Quite a few in education (including funding for some of his No Child Left Behind" programs) are counterproductive. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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NubiWan
Skeptic Friend
USA
424 Posts |
Posted - 02/13/2006 : 09:28:47 [Permalink]
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$3,468 million X 3 = 1 month of the Iraqi war
Guess we do have to have priorities, huh? |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
4907 Posts |
Posted - 02/13/2006 : 11:05:47 [Permalink]
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The total of all terminations and reductions comes to $14,483 million.
Using these statistics from the CIA World Factbook:
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0-14 years: 20.6% (male 31,095,725/female 29,703,997)
15-64 years: 67% (male 98,914,382/female 99,324,126)
65 years and over: 12.4% (male 15,298,676/female 21,397,228) (2005 est.)
That's 234,931,412 people who are over 15. That comes down to about $62 per person. |
Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
2511 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2006 : 22:52:24 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Valiant Dancer
You do realize that some of the education cuts are for training new teachers and college aid don't you, Snake?
Some of the programs he was talking about cutting I can agree with. Quite a few in education (including funding for some of his No Child Left Behind" programs) are counterproductive.
If the 'would be' new teachers are anything like a lot of the ones my kids had or the teacher girl friend (to be fair, I don't know if her teaching skills are good or bad, but anyone who believes in past lives therapy leaves some questions)of my brother then they aren't getting very good training now. Do you want to pay for training more bad teachers? But anyway, I think they can find the money. They sure find it for projects that really don't need doing. LOL, like that bridge in Alaska we keep hearing about. |
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