Political Thoughts only

[red1030]

I do understand your response admin especially since you do have a business. I still need to learn more about Obama, so I have been reading on the web and listening to the news. I don't always trust what I hear in the news. Some of the news stations appear to have their own twist of the facts. Even during the democratic and the republican conventions it appeared that the news had their own candidates that they were promoting using their power as the news. I am very confused about which party would make the best of what we have to benefit America and its people. However, I do like some of the policies stated that they would like to implement better than others and the policies I lean towards tend to be equally divided between parties. UA said that Obama wants to give money to bring the third world countries up to our style of living. I would like to see that money left in the states not to be given to welfare reform or anything like that, but what about education for our children and grandchildren. Del and I live in NJ. In NJ we pay the highest property taxes than any other state. I live in a typical home in NJ and our taxes amount to $11,999.00 per year. That is absolutely outrageous. And this would be ok if our children had the best in Education but they don't. They do not have Art, PE, Band, Choir or any art type activities. They also do not have any recess equipment to play on and even worst there is no air conditioning in their rooms. There is air conditioning in the teachers louge and adnministration offices. AT the end of last year, a 8 year old boy passed out and was sent by ambulance to the hospital and was diagnosed with dehydration. I questioned how that could happen and then found out that in this school where my grand daughter who is 10 attends there are no water fountains that work and that the class room was in its 90's with about a 90% humidity that day. So I asked myself where does all the money go. The kids even buy their own books as if they were in college. I do live in the nations highest scores on their end of year testing. So that is a nice thing and I would gladly pay more for that...but their is more to education than arithmatic, reading, and writing. I know Hiliary is the one that got that program going...no child left behind. Consequently the schools obtain their federal finances related to their students end of year test scores, which for the schools translated into focusing only on the 3 r's since that is what the test focuses on.

Then there is the out sourcing of jobs... people lossing jobs he in america because the wages are cheaper in other countries. It was interesting living in Japan, because we could not bring more than about 6,000 lbs of our things because they would provide you with furniture in Okinawa, However, we could buy as much from the Japan economy which was cheaper than our retail and bring back with no pound restrictions and no cost. Most of my furniture is from Okinawa. I have oak and redwood. We are encourages to boost the Japan economy and are paid COLA so that we can do just that versus our own economy. There is so much ... America gives and gives and the other countries really do not care much for us. there was an old joke amoung the Okinawan's.... if you leave money of any amount on your car's windshield, and in the morning it is gone, it is because an American just passed by. Unfortunately I think they were right. I guess I have said too much again...love Red