Bush is low in the polls. The economy is in the toilet. So what does he do? Blame the lawyers and the teachers and threaten Congress. Gotta hand it to him. He has balls.
$800 BILLION for the war in Iraq. Nothing for medical care for American Children. And Bush calls himself a "Compassionate Conservative." Wait, I'm sorry, that was just to get elected.
He's faith based. Reality is so old-school.
And he wants to give inner-city kids the opportunity to go to religious schools. These kids know how to pray. They pray for food. They pray for shelter. They pray not to get killed in drive-bys. They pray for honest representatives who care. Democrats. They got prayer. They need books, classrooms.
And children usually go to the same house of worship as their parents. So where are these inner-city churches, synagogues, and mosques going to get the money for their schools? If their parents don't have money for food, clothes, other stuff, how will they have money for schools and books? Wouldn't we be better off just funding schools? Isn't that what public schools are? Schools for children.
There are a lot of Moslem children in places like Jersey City, and Detroit. They will learn about America in their schools. If they go to religious schools, I suppose it's possible that they'll go to Catholic School, or Yeshiva, but it seems a bit more likely that they will go to Moslem schools. Now I know that American History, as tought in American Public Schools, glosses over a few things, like slavery, the wars against the Native Americans, least it did when I was a kid. But I think the public schools are a better place to learn about America than the radical mosques.
The Adminstration took away Pell Grants for 90,000 college students in 2004. Now he wants to create Pell Grants for elementary school children? What about Pell Grants for their parents?
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