On 12-05-10, BOB ACKLEY said to TIM RICHARDSON:

BA>Replying to a message of TIM RICHARDSON to ROSS SAUER:

TR> On 12-03-10, ROSS SAUER said to ROSS CASSELL:

TR> If the person pays the percentage on what the IRS says is `income',
TR> that the IRS says is what they owe......where do you or the lefty
TR> democrats have anything to complain about as to what they paid?

TR> One of the biggest problems this country has is the burden of taxes
TR> laid on it. That, along with the outrageous demands from unions for
TR> more and more benefits, have driven people either to foreign
TR> countries to produce, or out of business altogether.

TR> The democrats are slowly changing the American Dream from succeeding
TR> and becoming wealthy.....to the more you succeed, the less you'll
TR> keep.

BA>When I talked with her yesterday my sister reminded me that the left in
BA>this country
BA>is making noises about eliminating the tax deduction for home mortgage
BA>interest.  If
BA>that happens this country will see a wave of foreclosures and home
BA>abandonmnents
BA>greater than anyone thinks possible.  Wonder what Fannie and Freddie are
BA>going to do
BA>with all those empty houses - they sure won't be able to sell them.


Didn't you and I just recently have a conversation about this in one of
Klahn's echoes? Take a look at this:



U.S. Teens Lag as China Soars on International Test - BloombergHome News
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U.S. Teens Lag as China Soars on International Test


By John Hechinger - Dec 7, 2010 9:04 AM PT


Business Exchange Buzz up! Digg Print Email Fifteen-year-olds in the U.S.
ranked 25th among peers from 34 countries on a math test and scored in the
middle in science and reading, while China's Shanghai topped the charts,
raising concern that the U.S. isn't prepared to succeed in the global economy.


The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, which
represents 34 countries, today released the 2009 Program for International
Student Assessment. For the first time, the test broke out the performance of
China's Shanghai region, which topped every country in all academic
categories.


The U.S. government considers the test one of the most comprehensive measures
of international achievement.


The results show that U.S. students must improve to compete in a global
economy, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said yesterday in a telephone
interview.


President Barack Obama's administration is promoting national curriculum
standards and a revamping of teacher pay that stresses performance rather than
credentials and seniority.


"The brutal fact here is there are many countries that are far ahead of us
and improving more rapidly than we are," Duncan said. "This should be a
massive wake-up call to the entire country."






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