Bush uses School Children for photo-op & CUTS SCHOOL FUNDING

[jackstraw45]

Photo-Op: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5032462

REALITY: President Bush's budget recommends eliminating or cutting 154 programs, many of which impact schools. Some of the programs significant to Mississippi include:

From MS Clarion Ledger:
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050221/NEWS01/502210355/1002

- Comprehensive School Reform: Allows local schools to adopt reforms for improvement. Offers structured training for teachers and emphasis on literacy its first year. State receives $2.49 million.

- Even Start: Pays for early childhood and family literacy programs. Mississippi receives $2.59 million.

- Upward Bound: Serves high school students from low-income families and from families in which neither parent holds a bachelor's degree with the goal of getting them into college. Mississippi receives $3.1 million.

- Talent Search: Identifies and assists individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds who have potential. The program provides academic, career and financial counseling. Mississippi receives $2.34 million.

- GEAR UP: Cultivates low-income high school students for college entry. Mississippi receives $12.5 million total through 2007 for the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs.

- Safe and Drug Free Schools State Grants: Provides dollars to states for programs to cut drug and violence prevention in schools. State receives $5.29 million.

- Educational technology: Helps states and schools buy technology such as computers for the classroom. Mississippi receives $6.1 million.

- Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program: Pays college scholarships for "exceptionally able" students through a competitive process by congressional district. Mississippi receives $412,500 for 64 scholarship recipients.

Sources: The Associated Press, U.S Department of Education Web site, state College Board, state Department of Education.

[gademocrat7]

1. shrub is proving again that he cares nothing about the poor.

Programs that make a difference in low income families lives are too important to cast aside. But shrub is greedy and evil. He must take care of the wealthy.

[bryant69]

2. The conservative way to help the poor is to give to the wealthy

The wealthy way to help the poor is to buy luxary items.

Yeah it doesn't make much sense does it?

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. That's a long-standing pattern of his

If he uses your program for a photo op, that's a sure sign that it's going to get cut.

[chalky]

4. Yeah. Remember his visit with the vets at Walter Reed?

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/july-dec05/walterreed_8-25.html

If you see Shrub coming toward you followed by a pack of cameras...Run away! Run away!

[Art_from_Ark]

8. It's all part of the "Smile and Slash" policy

http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/04/14/boys/print.html

(scroll down for article)

[jackstraw45]

5. kick

:kick:

[Karenina]

6. Not the first time.

*Dipshit dauphin did a photo-op in Portland, Oregon some years back with kids from a successful program. CUT THEIR FUNDING the second he landed back in D.C. STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE.

[jackstraw45]

7. Why can't the DNC point this out?

They spend millions every year in ads...how hard is it to point out this crap on a national scale?

[Disturbed]

9. The Dems are mostly complicit in this.

The New Right Wing Agenda


"The most important implication of all this is that large segments of the domestic and world population are no longer seen as worth worrying about. On one level, this is just racism and classism. But there’s more than that going on. In the past, capitalism was optimistic and assumed that it would keep expanding, which provided the basis for a “corporate liberalism” that saw everyone in the world as a potential consumer and/or laborer - and therefore having some potential worth. But the new reactionaries see the future as much more of a zero-sum game. Partly, this is an expression of their incredible greed and corruption - their incessant efforts to rip off wealth for themselves and their narrow sets of cronies. In any case, the result is that most of Africa, large swaths of Latin America and Asia, and significant parts of the domestic US population have been simply written off -individuals who may arise from the trodden mass are welcome as junior partners, but there is no concern at all for the general well being of these sectors beyond token PR and the limited need to keep local elites from causing too much anti-American trouble on the world stage.

"The amazing thing is that the right wing fundamentalists have been able to seize power and win a large amount of support - or at least acquiescence -- among the US electorate. The people I talk with point to a number of contextual reasons. First, this country lacks any significant institutionalized alternative.

The Democratic Party is both complicit and fratricidal. The labor movement is the only really powerful potential organized opposition, but they are ideologically scattered, organizationally weak, and under unremitting attack. In addition, the powerful role of money in shaping our electoral outcomes is another key ingredient in the right wings success, as well as in keeping liberal (much less radical) alternatives from gaining influence in the Democratic Party.

More at: http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0613-02.htm

[jackstraw45]

10. More reason to CLEAN HOUSE in 2006

Support candidates only who go on the RECORD supporting impeachment in January 2007.