kane

They also vote on morality. I read an article about the McCain campaign in Ohio where there were several conservatives interviewed and every one of them didn't think McCain would be a good president and thought Obama would be better for the economy, but they said as a Christian they couldn't bring themselves to vote for someone that is pro-choice so they were voting for McCain. So clearly, that is the only issue that really matters to them and that is pretty sad.


While I am for smaller government I think we now live in an age where some regulation is needed. Look at just about any third world country and what do you have? You have a very tiny number of people that are very wealthy and you have a huge number of dirt poor people. Free markets that have no restriction allow for businesses to use people and toss them out as trash and can cause problems. Sure there are things that free markets can solve and fix, but in some cases there is some governmental guidence that needs to be put in place. Should we just expect that every 8-10 years the banking system in this country will crumble to the ground and destroy millions of dollars in home values and retirement savings because the free market allowed for a small group to exercise extreme greed and destroy the system as they saw fit? I am all for free markets, I just think in this day and age there needs to be some oversight in some areas to make sure everyone is playing by the same rules.

Agreed. I think we need to put an end to anyone that is making welfare their career and encouraging illegals to come to this country by hiring them only to have them clog up our health care and educational systems.

Two interesting stories. In the city I live in the grade school no longer has graduations. They have what is called a "promotion of excellence." They fail nobody. My brothers son took 6 classes per term for a total of 18 classes his 8th grade year. He failed 15 of them and they let him go on to high school and they flat out told him that they would not hold him back unless the parents told them to. His wife will not hold him back so he moved on to high school. When I was in 8th grade in the 80's if you didn't pass your classes, you didn't graduate and had to come back. I think there were 10 or so kids my 8th grade year that were taking the year over again.

The second story is also from the city I live in. We have so many illegal and migrant workers that they now teach grades 1-4 in what they call "half and half." That means for half the day they teach in English and half the day they teach in Spanish. If you want you can request for you kid to be in an English only class, but if it fills up you are out of luck. So the kid is learning how to learn and has to also learn a new language. There was a measure on this years ballot that called for a law that would make it so that schools can only subject any student to the half and half classrooms for a total of 2 years, but it would create other classes that would "immerse" the Spanish speaking kids in English and teach them the language. So the tax payers are not only paying to educate these kids (most of whom are children of illegals and may be illegal themselves) but first they are teaching them English so that they can then teach them.