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By: mighty aphrodite

mighty aphrodite — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:44:31 +0000

#29 – PP, would you like to take some of our illegal alien children off our hands here in the land of “fruits and nuts”. You can share our pain in the education department. Our public schools are horrible!!

By: senatortombstone

senatortombstone — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:55:42 +0000

I think that TABOR is a good thing. The less taxes for everyone, the better. I am responsible for my own health and no one else’s. I will pay to send my children to private school or have my wife home school them. I would never leave anyone I love to the government’s care.

To me it seems that all liberals care about are the rights to a free ride and sodomy.

I don’t care about what holes you plug, or if you abort yourselves. Just stay the hell away from my paycheck!

By: Paul Carter

Paul Carter — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:29:00 +0000

I am conflicted about Prop A. I support most of the groups that will benefit from its passage, and I am not totally against taxing myself to provide the needed support. I am, however, adamantly against continuing subsidies to corporate interests that make Prop A’s passage appears necessary.

Take K-12 education as an example. The state prohibits school districts from imposing any tax or impact fee on corporate developers. As a result, property owners must tax themselves to build new schools, the need for which was created by corporate developers, or allow their kids to be educated in overcrowded schools.

Iâ€™ve never before voted against a measure for K-12 education, but I will not continue to increase my taxes so state politicians give more and more tax subsidies to developers. At the very least, voters in school districts should be given the choice of imposing taxes or impact fees to build additional schools generated by development.

It will be a difficult choice for me come election day, but right now I’m leaning against voting for Prop A.

By: Mr. Evil

Mr. Evil — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:01:16 +0000

The corporate media machine at work again. Read this; http://mediamatters.org/items/200510070001. Itâ€™s short and to the point.

By: progressive and proud

progressive and proud — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:38:40 +0000

By your polls, Phinga, the repub led states are the ones that are in need of tutoring. I see that great Northeast dem led states are doing well. Hmmmmmmm

By: me3

me3 — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:50:50 +0000

correction to my last post:

I meant to say, “both would rate BETTER than the bottom 10.”

By: me3

me3 — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:49:01 +0000

I wish someone would STOP spewing this nonsense about funding for education. Just because a state doesn’t spend a lot of money on education does not mean the quality of that education is not good. States like Colorado and Utah may not spend a lot of money on K-12 education, but I would bet that both rate than the bottom 10 in terms of test scores and graduates.

To recap: more money for public education does not directly equate to better public education.

By: Phinga Bheng

Phinga Bheng — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 22:44:16 +0000

http://www.morganquitno.com/edrank04.htm

Texas is ranked 33rd, Colorado is 21st. Ryan, you friggin liar. Looks like you’re in no position to be commenting on education.

By: progressive and proud

progressive and proud — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:29:34 +0000

33rd by what poll, IRI? Please give us your source.

By: Hunter Morrow

Hunter Morrow — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 18:25:04 +0000

34th is what I’ve seen, though other studies probably put Texas as last. Yes, Ted Kennedy played a part in its authorship, but so have others, it was bipartisan.

By: I-RIGHT-I

I-RIGHT-I — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:10:12 +0000

This is like them basing â€˜leave no child behindâ€™ off of the â€™successâ€™ of Texas. Texas is ranked 50th (as in LAST PLACE) in the nation in education. Clearly bush has turned failure into an artformâ€¦

Comment by Ryan Neat

Texas is ranked 33rd. Liar. Also, dipshit, No Child Left Behind was the creation of Ted “swimmer” Kennedy.

By: Pablo in Mexico

Pablo in Mexico — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:03:56 +0000

RYAN NEAT

I loved it. How true. No child left behind because he is behind anyway.

By: progressive and proud

progressive and proud — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 15:00:12 +0000

Susan, they are truly blind.

What happened to all of that clap trap about fiscal responsibility? Republicans cannot govern fiscally because of their greed. They just can’t help their need for PROSPERITY as they call it. The words sound good, but that’s all – just words and repubs eat it up like candy. How easily fooled they are by some sweet sounding name. No child left behind – SOUNDS good anyway.

Call it what you want but crap is crap even if you change the name to pink balloons. We should go into sales, fellow progressives. These people will buy ANYTHING.

Mine mine mine and you can’t have it.

By: Universe Man

Universe Man — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:55:11 +0000

These statistics are distinctly uninformative.

“CO ranks 47th in education funding.”
Okay… and how does it rank in things that actually matter, like literacy rates and high school graduation rates? Big spending does not mean wise spending.

“…share of low-income individuals enrolled in Medicaid is lower…”
So maybe CO’s poor people revert more quickly to self-sufficiency than those in other states? Maybe charitable medical care is more prevalent, better funded, and better implemented than in other states? Maybe since CO is such a healthy state, fewer people need socialized medicine?

“housing loans”, “court hearings”
Maybe, like all government entities, CO state government is corrupt to the core and spends way too much of its considerable budget on pork and political favors and way too little on things that actually matter? And maybe if they had more money and power, CO officials, like any humans, would become even more corrupt and waste even more taxpayer money?

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 02:40:06 +0000

Colorado’s home foreclosure rate is double the national average.

By: Mike N.

Mike N. — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 02:38:33 +0000

Why do all of you fools want bigger government? Are you too childish to take care of yourself?

By: Southwest Bob

Southwest Bob — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 02:20:06 +0000

Hey, it’s working. Reduce taxes for the rich and limit services to those who need state and local services. . . the poor. I worked in corrections for thirty one years. Not until the illegal drug starting impacting “rich” families did the “general” population begin to demand drug education and intervention programs from the government. If you don’t need any financial support, why not endorse the reduction or severe limitation of government growth? Folks, this is class warfare, nothing more, nothing less.

By: Mama Kin

Mama Kin — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 00:37:56 +0000

More lies from the lefties. Here are the facts on TABOR in Colorado. And what thinkprogress failed to mention is that TABOR reduced Colorado’s potential deficit by 83%. If the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights had not forced the politicians to restrain their spending in the 90s, the deficit would have been $1.1 Billion.

http://www.americansforprosperity.org/index.php?id=334