posted on May 21, 2007 04:23:50 PM new
and it will only cost us $10 billion to start out with.
Yep....they ran on a platform of bashing all the spending that this admin. was doing.
Now...with their pork bill they TRIED to tie in with the war funding.....and now listen to what they're calling for to help them get elected.
MORE massive spending programs.
They've let some of the tax breaks we now enjoy, expire....which is raising our taxes.
And they just can't WAIT to spend billions and trillions more.
Hope the voters see all this spending they want to do....and remember they PROMISED to stop the spending.
LOL LOL
And some fools will buy their lines/lies too.
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Here's the socialists latest proposal......Kindergarten Proposal
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is proposing a $10 billion federal program aimed at providing voluntary pre-kindergarten for all 4-year-old children in America.
"Our educational system needs to be strengthened from start to finish, but we have to start where it all begins," Clinton told an audience of children, teachers and parents on Monday.
Clinton said she would pay for the program by closing tax loopholes and eliminating Bush administration programs she disagrees with.
"There are so many places to cut the money that is being spent in this government. Let's start by cutting 500,000 of the private contractors the Bush administration has had who don't do a job that is held accountable in any way," Clinton said, adding that ending the Iraq war will also provide money for investing in programs.
She said quality pre-kindergarten programs will more than pay for themselves because children will be less likely to enter special education programs, drop out of school or enter the welfare system. She also said preparing children for school also reduces behavioral problems.
"If you add up all the benefits, it's really astonishing," the New York senator and former first lady said, citing one study that says for every dollar invested in pre-kindergarten, there is at least a seven fold return. "We consistently fail to invest in what will save us money."
Clinton presented the proposal at North Beach Elementary School in Miami Beach. Before the announcement, she visited a pre-kindergarten classroom where children sang for her and answered questions.
She praised Florida for starting a statewide pre-kindergarten program, but noted that only 20 percent of the nation's children are in state-paid programs.
Her proposal would provide federal funds to states that agree to establish a plan for making voluntary pre-kindergarten services universally available for all 4-year-olds. States that already do so would receive money to expand or enhance the programs.
Teachers would need at least a bachelor's degree and specialize in early childhood education and the plan would require low student-teacher ratios, Clinton said.
"If children start school behind it is likely they will stay behind and by the third and fourth grade they are already feeling like they don't fit in, they're uncomfortable, they're being labeled failures and I don't think that's what we want for our children," Clinton said.
States would match federal funds made available to them dollar-for-dollar and could use the assistance to expand their existing Head Start programs.
The program would start with $5 billion and expand to $10 billion over the next five years as states increase their commitments. States would be required to provide services at no cost to children from low-income families and those from "limited English homes," Clinton's campaign said in a statement before the announcement.
"If states have achieved these quality benchmarks, they will be able to use the funds flexibly to meet the needs of their local communities," the campaign said.
The federal funds would be allocated through state governors.
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Edited to add.....kerry's promised 'taxpayer funded GIFTS' he promised.....costing trillions....still couldn't get him elected
but that fact won't keep the tax and spend dems/liberals from continuing to try.
You'd think by now that voters would see they rarely give their promised 'gifts' to the public.
But the ignorant will still hope for more and more handouts. Socialism runs strong in America now a days.
posted on May 21, 2007 07:47:40 PM new
I really believe that, Bear. The younger they get control of them for most of the day....the quicker they can train them with their mind think.
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I can picture the not too far away future, if socialism is allowed to continue growing.
It's where adults will just turn their children over to the state at birth - to be taught the correct way to think and feel. And, of course, we the taxpayers will be paying for them doing so.
For those who have any backbone, or whose parents still secretly practice their own religion.....there will be re-education camps where they can be re-educated to not have independent thoughts. And certainly not to speak ANY thing one independantly believes if it does't meet with the PC police laws. Those will be sent to jail - charged with hate crimes.
Reminds me so much I what I've read about the hitler era....when even children reported their own parents to the state...
reminds me so much of what I've read about how communist china does now. Like other communist nations where their liberties are being taken away....even as I type.
I fear for our Nation's future as these progressives/socialists and the radical/secular left gain more power in our Nation.
posted on May 21, 2007 08:24:54 PM new
Linda, that is an absolutely absurd reaction to a proposed plan to make pre-kindergarden available to all children.
posted on May 21, 2007 08:32:21 PM new
LOL....and YOU paid for it yourself. Didn't cost American taxpayers one red cent.
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It's just like the program they proposed before the last election. Where they were going to give FREE before school day care to ALL American children. LOL LOL
Didn't matter that those who could afford to were ALREADY paying their own way. Nope....all were going to have free day care.
Yep...gets those mothers out of the house and give them a taxpayer way to not have an excuse to get out and go to work.
It's ALL about socialism helen. That what the progressive call for each and every election cycle.
And now that they have power in both houses of congress.....these spending plans are only the TIP of the iceberg.
