Hi again, Matt!
 
 MS>     Don't you see the bad side of this feel-good story?
 
All I saw was two hard working teachers talking about ligitimate 
educational "cause and effect" -- "theory and practice" -- in an 
echo set up for them to do that.
 
You keep mentioning that bond issue that failed out your way.
Were you, perhaps, supportive at all of the bond issue as a 
responsible citizen -- or were you at various forums denouncing 
education in your community?
 
You don't do it as much any more but when you first started using 
this echo you came off to many as saying:  "Daddy professor, me 
lawyer. GRRRR!"  
 
You could be a tremendous influence on your community either way;for good or 
bad with that kind of assertiveness.  ...I'm wondering 
if it isn't time for you to put aside your childhood resentment 
of education and work for the betterment of it in your area.
 
If you work to get that next bond issue passed and support the 
teachers in your area it could make all the difference in the world.
 
I'm sure that you know that without something as simple as touch 
a human being -- deprived of it from birth -- will wither and die.
Maybe it isn't important to you that some parents are crack or 
heroin or alcohol addicted and totally incapable of parenting -- 
the typical Republican response is "that's the parent's responsibility" 
here -- but it's important to me and many others that a well rounded 
set of skills for living are passed on to future generations; not just 
those that Republicans are going to milk for all they are worth 
and balk at anything close to just compensation for. 
 
I just opened up a Black & Decker blender the other day -- said 
"Made in the USA" on the outside.  Outside was all plastic - probably 
less than two bucks manufacturing cost -- Jug, case and all.  Inside 
was a *very* well manufactored, state-of-the-art motor with a "Made 
in China" label on it.  ...kinda makes me want to publish a "Southern 
California Freeway Bag Limits and Seasonal Prohibitions Guide" and 
leave Republicans unmentionedÿ-- everyone alse "bag limit - 0" and 
"No open season".
 
Matt, it sounds like you're just too cheap to be willing to support 
the infrastructure of a really great country  --  worse than thatÿû, 
it sounds like you'd like to destroy the proven institutions that 
made it so great.ÿ Of course Clinton wants to take credit for the 
crime bill causing the decrease in crime but did you notice that 
the time crime started dropping was the same as when all the little orange 
trucks atarted rolling out on the highway to do infrastructure 
work?  Working people WORK, get paid, spend their money and fall asleep 
exhausted after a long day.  The spinoff work from the way they spend 
their money duplicates the process.  Republicans steal, cheat and 
con people out of money and then invest it overseas.  Crime hits the 
ceiling then.  ...kids have to know stuff like that rather than be 
indoctrinated that the Republicans are for family values & conservative 
issues.  That's simply BS -- the "Republican Christmas Party" tape 
clearly puts that myth to rest.  "Trickle Down" is another myth.
Peoples' lives are being destroyed out here in the trenches and your 
"Let 'em eat cake" philosophy ought to get you no less a vivid 
response than the French gave for it.  I *can* see how you'd like 
to keep 'em ignorant though.  It just ain't gonna happen. :)
 
Best,
 
-frank:)
--- Maximus 2.01wb
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