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p.s. There's a population growth graph at this site. If you've never seen one, you should. This is a major issue for the whole world, if not THE major issue. http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.ear....

Be sure to note the difference in the last hundred years, or even the last fifty or so.

The Chinese will soon be buying up the U.S.

We do not need Palin in national politics, and certainly not anywhere near the international arena.

Why are "die-hard" Hillary supporters voting against the person she endorses? Are you anti choice? Anti birth control? What is Palin's view on the crisis in world population? Are you aware of it? Have you ever seen a graph of the world population? If not, please look at one. If you're voting for her just because she's a woman, please don't vote. That's not the way to pick a vice president and president. If voters continue to vote on non issues, we will continue to have non presidents. Please do some homework before November.

"Redistribution economics," as you call it, is paying taxes for government services. Some countries big on redistribution economics are Japan and many Western and Northern European countries such as Germany, Belgium, and even England. Some countries not big on it are Mexico, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. "Redistribution economics" is not class warfare; but allowing the greedy rich to become greedier and richer by the nanosecond, while so many lack opportunity, is class warfare. I doubt that you are rich, Future. And big business nationalized - and internationalized - itself long ago. Big American businesses care about rich CEO's, not American employees.

Obama offered a tax break to 95% of American taxpayers, because 95% of us are not rich. The Dems have gone too far in the past with rights with no responsibility, but Obama is addressing responsibility. If you have not listened to his acceptance speech, you should.

You're right; nobody should vote for an individual just because he or she is... And what kind of mother is a woman who works as much as this one, anyway? She might be a good managerial mother, keeping the calendar or something, but she sure can't be spending much time with her five children. So why does she even have five children? She doesn't believe in birth control, either?

Incredible choice that shows McCain's "judgment." Great selection - for Democrats.

"Strong," as in "ulta-competitive"?

What has become of raising children? Who is raising her five? You cannot do what this woman has done and spend the time with your children that they deserve and need. I hope their father is doing it. As a woman, I am sickened that so many women seem to think that it's just fine not to spend much time with your kids, just as long as you "achieve" in the eyes of a male-dominated society.

Many Hillary women will not vote for an anti-choice candidate. They also do not want creationism taught in schools. Most Hillary women are not ultra conservative. It is an insult to women to assume that they would vote for a woman only because she's a woman. That's as ignorant as not voting for a woman only because she's a woman.

This woman does not have the experience to be president, should something happen to John McCain. Reports are that he met her all of once before offering her this position, obviously thinking that to Clinton fans, one woman's as good as another. Thankfully, this Palin choice will probably send most Clinton supporters flying to help Obama.

Qualifications for substituting are lesser than qualifications for full teachers.

Why are they hired? A cynic would say it's because they're cheaper. With many administrators treating teachers poorly, with a lack of funding, and with non-competitive pay, you can't fully staff the district. You may also want to ask yourself, neiman, that if many positions aren't filled by teachers, how about the ones that are? Are the teachers here the same quality as teachers in places where pay and working conditions are better?

Why are they hired? The CCSD cannot have classes full of children with no adult supervision. If the community and state will not support teachers, then the community and state will attract some poor teachers, and will attract few teachers. (Which is not to say that there aren't great teachers here, because there are. But if you're a teacher who can't get a job in another state, where are you going to look? Nevada would be one place...)

Subs do have to meet standards, but they're not as high.

There seems to be an increasing sense among employees who work with the public that there is NEVER, EVER a reason to raise your voice, and that if you do, you must be a whack job who may be treated with disdain -in this case, disdain that killed.

This is certainly not the first case of something like this happening in an emergency room. Obviously there is something enormously wrong with a medical system where the profit motive is the driving force. Americans need to wake up and take a clue from other systems. That requires paying attention, educating yourself about candidates before you vote, becoming aware of what goes on in other places, etc., rather than listening to politicians who will simply carry on the status quo. And that's a problem. It is a whole society whirling out of whack - take it from a teacher! - and people need to wake up, stop shouting blame (as people will at this nurse- which she deserves, but she's got a huge, broken system behind her), and actually start working at trying to effect change, rather than looking for somebody to provide an easy way out.

Every year I end up spending a couple hundred dollars on my classroom, except the past two years when they gave us a card for $200.

I cannot even make my mortgage and basic living expenses on this salary, so I will not be buying any crayons for my students. Then I will be looked down on by the parents as not being a good teacher. If I had bad administrators, as many teachers do, I'd catch @#$&# from them, too. This state is pitiful.

Nance, you have got to be kidding with this one.
"Also, Democrats choose union pay raises over the rest of the budget and taxpayers."

Yeah, those "union pay raises" why half of CCSD teachers quit, not able to afford to live, and having to put up with all kinds of #%&* that people in other occupations don't.

Nance, there isn't a union for teachers here. There is an inept, ineffective "organization." Schools here are being destroyed because teachers here are being destroyed, and have no power.

Go, Ron T!

I thought I might be the only teacher who feels that vouchers might be a positive move in education. (Not that that's going to happen anytime soon. But more choice, and allowing parents to take kids out of the mainstream if they don't like it, seems like a good idea to me. Too much government is as bad as too little. The voluntary removal of kids who aren't going to work and don't want to be there would be positive, as far as I'm concerned.)

The monopoly of the school district is also bothersome. This has been an issue I've always had mixed feelings about. But when it's broke, fix it - and this district is broke. Maybe breaking it up would be helpful. The major problems I see with a split are poorer neighborhoods going downhill, and losing a good magnet program. If those problems could be addressed, break it up. Introduce some variety and competition.

Even before I read that Ron Taylor is amenable to vouchers, I supported him. If you live in District B, please vote for Taylor. We need a classroom teacher who knows our daily issues on the board, one who will try to improve the district, and who will do so with integrity.