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	<title>Comments on: Bush: I liberated America&#8217;s school children.</title>
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		<title>By: telestai2</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5417856</link>
		<dc:creator>telestai2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OOPS! forgot to say that 74 is dedicated to LtDan.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OOPS! forgot to say that 74 is dedicated to LtDan.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5417856', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: telestai2</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5417852</link>
		<dc:creator>telestai2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No child left behind act will go down in history of one of bush’s greatest acheivments, and you libs can’t do anything about that.

You&#039;re being ironic, right? This IS a joke, right?? You can&#039;t spell &quot;achievement&quot;-- did YOU get left behind? or, even more frightening, did you NOT get &quot;left behind,&quot; but instead, you are a PRODUCT of that initiative? I rest my case.

Having been an educator (public school, junior college, college, university) for nearly 40 years and having hundreds of contacts in education, I have yet to meet ONE genuine educator who does not loathe that &quot;achievement.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No child left behind act will go down in history of one of bush’s greatest acheivments, and you libs can’t do anything about that.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re being ironic, right? This IS a joke, right?? You can&#8217;t spell &#8220;achievement&#8221;&#8211; did YOU get left behind? or, even more frightening, did you NOT get &#8220;left behind,&#8221; but instead, you are a PRODUCT of that initiative? I rest my case.</p>
<p>Having been an educator (public school, junior college, college, university) for nearly 40 years and having hundreds of contacts in education, I have yet to meet ONE genuine educator who does not loathe that &#8220;achievement.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5417852', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5416750</link>
		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you wish to change your answer be sure to erase completely...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you wish to change your answer be sure to erase completely&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5416750', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: chabuka</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5415634</link>
		<dc:creator>chabuka</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I see that Bush&#039;s &quot;no child left behind&quot; boondoggle worked for some of the adults (at least, &lt;em&gt;I think&lt;/em&gt;...LTDan is an adult) no thinking..just preparing for never-ending testing is &lt;em&gt;not learning &lt;/em&gt;or exercising your brain in a cognitive thought process...! I doubt, &lt;em&gt;your&lt;/em&gt; thought process can come to any sort of intelligent reasoning on that thought, either..&lt;em&gt;still think the world is flat..?&lt;/em&gt; LTDan?..it should be ForrestGump</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I see that Bush&#8217;s &#8220;no child left behind&#8221; boondoggle worked for some of the adults (at least, <em>I think</em>&#8230;LTDan is an adult) no thinking..just preparing for never-ending testing is <em>not learning </em>or exercising your brain in a cognitive thought process&#8230;! I doubt, <em>your</em> thought process can come to any sort of intelligent reasoning on that thought, either..<em>still think the world is flat..?</em> LTDan?..it should be ForrestGump<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5415634', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Old Goat</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5415520</link>
		<dc:creator>Old Goat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;LTDan Says:
No child left behind act will go down in history of one of bush’s greatest acheivments, and you libs can’t do anything about that.

KEEP LIBERALISM OUT OF SCHOOLS
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Do you even think before you type, or do you basically crap on your keyboard?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>LTDan Says:<br />
No child left behind act will go down in history of one of bush’s greatest acheivments, and you libs can’t do anything about that.</p>
<p>KEEP LIBERALISM OUT OF SCHOOLS
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<p>Do you even think before you type, or do you basically crap on your keyboard?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5415520', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: telestai2</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5415408</link>
		<dc:creator>telestai2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The soon-to-be-EX Prexy sez, &quot;Now, under this system, if your public school is failing, you’ll have the option of transferring to another public school or charter school.&quot; That is, you&#039;ll &quot;have the option&quot; IF there IS a decent school available; if the schools in your area haven&#039;t been savaged by budget cuts, educational gerrymandering, massive unemployment, decaying infrastructures; if qualified teachers can earn a living in your area; if the dropout rate hasn&#039;t skyrocketed because of teenage pregnancies and drug problems (sex education and community-service programs being &quot;liberal trash&quot;); if you have access to a SAFE neighborhood to which you can SAFELY and realistically send your children. . . 

Mr. President, do you REALLY believe that iterating, and reiterating, and re-reiterating a fairy tale changes it from fantasy to truth? that one or two examples of what education could/should be will balance the tens of thousands of examples of HORRIBLE schools/neighborhoods in the USA? that your wish is society&#039;s command?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The soon-to-be-EX Prexy sez, &#8220;Now, under this system, if your public school is failing, you’ll have the option of transferring to another public school or charter school.&#8221; That is, you&#8217;ll &#8220;have the option&#8221; IF there IS a decent school available; if the schools in your area haven&#8217;t been savaged by budget cuts, educational gerrymandering, massive unemployment, decaying infrastructures; if qualified teachers can earn a living in your area; if the dropout rate hasn&#8217;t skyrocketed because of teenage pregnancies and drug problems (sex education and community-service programs being &#8220;liberal trash&#8221;); if you have access to a SAFE neighborhood to which you can SAFELY and realistically send your children. . . </p>
<p>Mr. President, do you REALLY believe that iterating, and reiterating, and re-reiterating a fairy tale changes it from fantasy to truth? that one or two examples of what education could/should be will balance the tens of thousands of examples of HORRIBLE schools/neighborhoods in the USA? that your wish is society&#8217;s command?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5415408', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: markusmarkus</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5415108</link>
		<dc:creator>markusmarkus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;LTDan sed:  &quot;No child left behind act will go down in history of one of bush’s greatest acheivments.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Yeah, and if that&#039;s an achievement, I&#039;d like to see his failures.  Ooops, we&#039;re surrounded, no, &lt;strong&gt;engulfed by boooosh&#039;s failures&lt;/strong&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>LTDan sed:  &#8220;No child left behind act will go down in history of one of bush’s greatest acheivments.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Yeah, and if that&#8217;s an achievement, I&#8217;d like to see his failures.  Ooops, we&#8217;re surrounded, no, <strong>engulfed by boooosh&#8217;s failures</strong>.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5415108', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: roscoe</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5415106</link>
		<dc:creator>roscoe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chimpy the Ass Clown could never come close to passing any of his required NCLB standard tests.

What a joke, go home to Texas soon &amp; shut the hell up.  The sames goes for Rove, Cheney, &amp; Palin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chimpy the Ass Clown could never come close to passing any of his required NCLB standard tests.</p>
<p>What a joke, go home to Texas soon &amp; shut the hell up.  The sames goes for Rove, Cheney, &amp; Palin.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5415106', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: A Patriot Acting</title>
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		<dc:creator>A Patriot Acting</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If I&#039;m correct, when George Bush was the Governor of Texas, he pushed for making pre-k and kindergarten OPTIONAL! F@cking idiot!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If I&#8217;m correct, when George Bush was the Governor of Texas, he pushed for making pre-k and kindergarten OPTIONAL! F@cking idiot!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5415052', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5415054</link>
		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>liberated by a number 2 pencil and a bubblesheet? Ahhh more weapons of mass instruction....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>liberated by a number 2 pencil and a bubblesheet? Ahhh more weapons of mass instruction&#8230;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5415054', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jerseyboyblue</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5415048</link>
		<dc:creator>jerseyboyblue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, for pity&#039;s sake...can someone please shut this idiot up?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, for pity&#8217;s sake&#8230;can someone please shut this idiot up?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5415048', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Technodaoist</title>
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		<dc:creator>Technodaoist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Can you read? Or can you write? Or can you add and can you subtract?”

Because your corporate overlords don&#039;t need you any more educated...

After all, if logic and deductive reasoning were taught, this administration would never have won the elections that they stole.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Can you read? Or can you write? Or can you add and can you subtract?”</p>
<p>Because your corporate overlords don&#8217;t need you any more educated&#8230;</p>
<p>After all, if logic and deductive reasoning were taught, this administration would never have won the elections that they stole.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5415020', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: roscoe</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5415012</link>
		<dc:creator>roscoe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let me add that EugeneDebs is right on about NCLB.
What a POS that the Chimp in Chief tossed on us &amp; our children.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let me add that EugeneDebs is right on about NCLB.<br />
What a POS that the Chimp in Chief tossed on us &amp; our children.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5415012', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: roscoe</title>
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		<dc:creator>roscoe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have spent 20 years in public education as a teacher, principal, &amp; college professor; public education is a friend of mine.  You Chimpy are no &quot;Public Education.&quot;

Get lost, you Proud to be a C Student Fraud &amp; let someone with some intellect like our 44 President Obama lead the way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have spent 20 years in public education as a teacher, principal, &amp; college professor; public education is a friend of mine.  You Chimpy are no &#8220;Public Education.&#8221;</p>
<p>Get lost, you Proud to be a C Student Fraud &amp; let someone with some intellect like our 44 President Obama lead the way.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5415010', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Perry logan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Perry logan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Speaking of children, did you know that--after falling to its lowest level in history under Bill Clinton--the U.S. infant mortality rate started to go up for the first time in 40 years when Bush II took office?

So it&#039;s literally true: &lt;b&gt;when Republicans get into power, the babies start to die&lt;/b&gt;.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVPy-ejcbjM</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speaking of children, did you know that&#8211;after falling to its lowest level in history under Bill Clinton&#8211;the U.S. infant mortality rate started to go up for the first time in 40 years when Bush II took office?</p>
<p>So it&#8217;s literally true: <b>when Republicans get into power, the babies start to die</b>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVPy-ejcbjM" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVPy-ejcbjM</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5414944', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bozo The Neoclown</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bozo The Neoclown</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From it&#039;s inception, NCLB was designed to make the public school system fail in chinpy&#039;s push to privatize everything. 

seriously, I don&#039;t know what the hell the hot mess in the videoclip is talking about, charter schools are not private schools, they are public schools with an admission procees. Thus, a child from a &quot;failing school&quot; would have to go through that process and may not gain entry.

 The only thing his proposed crappy assed voucher would have done is act as a rebate for the rich to send their kids to private school since the poor would not have been able to produce the remainder of the tuition fee.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From it&#8217;s inception, NCLB was designed to make the public school system fail in chinpy&#8217;s push to privatize everything. </p>
<p>seriously, I don&#8217;t know what the hell the hot mess in the videoclip is talking about, charter schools are not private schools, they are public schools with an admission procees. Thus, a child from a &#8220;failing school&#8221; would have to go through that process and may not gain entry.</p>
<p> The only thing his proposed crappy assed voucher would have done is act as a rebate for the rich to send their kids to private school since the poor would not have been able to produce the remainder of the tuition fee.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5414942', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5414934</link>
		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LTdan Says: 

You are waaaaay too stupid for anyone to take seriously. NLCB is hated by every teacher I know. Bush failed to fund it. YOU are too ignorant to understand that things dont become true just because you say them or post them on a website. Your ignorant delusional fantasies are just that and have no realtion whatsoever to reality your feckless moron.</description>
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<p>You are waaaaay too stupid for anyone to take seriously. NLCB is hated by every teacher I know. Bush failed to fund it. YOU are too ignorant to understand that things dont become true just because you say them or post them on a website. Your ignorant delusional fantasies are just that and have no realtion whatsoever to reality your feckless moron.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5414934', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Tropics500</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tropics500</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry to double dip, but there&#039;s another point to be made. 

The Bush brothers history has been to test drive and see what they could get away with in TX, then Jeb tried it out in FL and if they were able to achive the scam, take it national. This system worked well for NCLB, election fraud, war profiteering and varous bank schemes, the biggest of which we&#039;re seeing play out right now. I think we&#039;d all have a heart attack if we really knew how much money the Bush brothers have made by doing &quot;public service&quot;.

Jeb in 2012! Imagine Smirky, only more evil and a little smarter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry to double dip, but there&#8217;s another point to be made. </p>
<p>The Bush brothers history has been to test drive and see what they could get away with in TX, then Jeb tried it out in FL and if they were able to achive the scam, take it national. This system worked well for NCLB, election fraud, war profiteering and varous bank schemes, the biggest of which we&#8217;re seeing play out right now. I think we&#8217;d all have a heart attack if we really knew how much money the Bush brothers have made by doing &#8220;public service&#8221;.</p>
<p>Jeb in 2012! Imagine Smirky, only more evil and a little smarter.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5414916', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Tropics500</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5414912</link>
		<dc:creator>Tropics500</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>NCLB was a complete success in that it enriched the coffers of the Bush family, primarily Neil Bush, whose company made big bucks selling test software.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Watchdog_asks_Why_Bushs_kid_brother_0912.html

I think with the Bushies we sometimes over think it. Most of the time their primary motivation is simply profit. Follow the money. That&#039;s usually where the answer is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NCLB was a complete success in that it enriched the coffers of the Bush family, primarily Neil Bush, whose company made big bucks selling test software.</p>
<p><a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Watchdog_asks_Why_Bushs_kid_brother_0912.html" rel="nofollow">http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Watchdog_asks_Why_Bushs_kid_brother_0912.html</a></p>
<p>I think with the Bushies we sometimes over think it. Most of the time their primary motivation is simply profit. Follow the money. That&#8217;s usually where the answer is.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5414912', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ElBruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/08/bush-liberation-schools/comment-page-2/#comment-5414888</link>
		<dc:creator>ElBruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>NCLB is explicitly designed to destroy the Department of Education.  Consider: underperforming schools get less funding.  That means if your school sucks, it&#039;s going to get even worse next year, thanks to NCLB.  Eventually most of the public schools end up destroyed, and rebuilt as private institutions.  Only a handful of public schools remain over time.  Of course, once you make something bad enough, you can then claim that it&#039;s gubmint&#039;s fault, and the whole thing should be privatized - so you bring your endgame by blaming the decline in surviving public schools on public education in general.  Result?  The destruction of public education in America.

Then Halliburton (or whatever) walks off with hundreds of billions in their pockets for not providing services - again.

Of course, this doesn&#039;t affect the wealthy kids whatsoever.  Their kids were going to the best private schools anyway.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NCLB is explicitly designed to destroy the Department of Education.  Consider: underperforming schools get less funding.  That means if your school sucks, it&#8217;s going to get even worse next year, thanks to NCLB.  Eventually most of the public schools end up destroyed, and rebuilt as private institutions.  Only a handful of public schools remain over time.  Of course, once you make something bad enough, you can then claim that it&#8217;s gubmint&#8217;s fault, and the whole thing should be privatized &#8211; so you bring your endgame by blaming the decline in surviving public schools on public education in general.  Result?  The destruction of public education in America.</p>
<p>Then Halliburton (or whatever) walks off with hundreds of billions in their pockets for not providing services &#8211; again.</p>
<p>Of course, this doesn&#8217;t affect the wealthy kids whatsoever.  Their kids were going to the best private schools anyway.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5414888', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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