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CA: Budget impasse down to $2 billion
Mercury News ^ | 7/4/03 | Ann E. Marimow

Posted on 07/04/2003 10:44:08 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

Edited on 04/13/2004 3:31:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: Torie
"The American Dream is a song of hope that rings through night winter air. Vivid, tender music that warms our hearts when the least among us aspire to the greatest things -- to venture a daring enterprises; to unearth new beauty in music, literature, and art; to discover a new universe inside a tiny silicon chip or a single human cell." -- Ronald Wilson Reagan

61 posted on 07/04/2003 2:17:24 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Cuba serĂ¡ libre...soon.)
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To: Torie
Keep the American dream alive my brother...Happy Fourth.
62 posted on 07/04/2003 2:18:32 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez (Cuba serĂ¡ libre...soon.)
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To: Torie
No, it wouldn't unravel, it would teach a lesson to those who think taxpayer money solves everything. Let them pay for it and when the burden gets too big to handle there will be a BUNCH of brand new conservatives.
63 posted on 07/04/2003 2:22:17 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Torie
None of that will get very far.

I doubt that you really even understand it and prefer to be argumentative to doing the work of thinking about it. For example, all we have to do to enforce Beck is sue.

Only that will precipitate systemic reform, as the teacher's union panics over the empty desk and pink slip syndrome.

Oh, ONLY, eh? That's an insipid argument even on the face of it. Seeing as vouchers have failed twice and constitute a threat to the independence of private education, I would rather truly privatize the public schools in a more insidious fashion. This plan privatizes the money flow without having to go the political battle. Once suppliers are forced to guarantee the product, the fluff will simply disappear.

You'd best take a look at that strategy as a whole. It's a lot more subtle than you realize.

64 posted on 07/04/2003 2:41:20 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (California: Where government is pornography, every day!)
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To: Carry_Okie; 4Liberty; Grampa Dave; Ernest_at_the_Beach
I saw a frontline program on PBS last night on this very subject that made me absolutely sick! It's probably on their web-site, too. About the attempt to raise money on Wall Street for the privatization called "Edison Schools." It was attacked unmercifully by the union leaders until a stock that had been worth over $50/share was driven down to $.14. Disgusting! Stupid! Sickening!

I confirms exactly what 4Liberty said above in gut-wrenching visual terms!!! Carry Okie, why hasn't anyone sued under the Beck decision?

65 posted on 07/04/2003 3:10:02 PM PDT by SierraWasp (The Endangered Species Act had not saved one specie, but has ruined thousands of American Dreams!!!)
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