Fwd: Addendum: "IN THE STATE OF POLITICAL SHOCK

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Subject: Addendum: "IN THE STATE OF POLITICAL SHOCK

                                                  by Richard DePersio

UNTHINKABLE: CONSERVATIVE IN PRAISE OF A LIBERAL. Odd Couple. Politics makes for strange bedfellows. (Don't misinterpret for he is still wrong in wanting society to sanction  an

immorality and abnormalacy  but this reporter will not fall into   a ADD digression for we must

remind ourselves that we are talking education and economics here). He did the unthinkable: a

liberal democrat stood up to the unions for the sake of the children. The federal government was

offering a prize (shockingly, too, a liberal federal government to the states for coming up with

original and creative ways to educate public school children or expanding successful existing

ones.

        Governor Patterson of New York who is legally blind but saw the light  proposed increasing

the number of charter schools in New York State from 200  to 460. As stated, in the article proper,regular public schools have bigger budgets and higher teacher salaries then public magnet magnets schools which in turn receive more funding then charter schools. Nonetheless, charters out perform magnets and magnets out perform regulars. So much for the liberal myth that we must throw good money after bad when it comes to regular public schools. Charters are non-union and when they were aloud several years ago, unions demanded and got a cap on their number - in New York the cap has been a mere 200.

        Patterson did the unthinkable for a democrat: he climbed out of the union pocket and

stood tall. Unfortunately, his fellow democrats in the state legislature wet their pants which resulted

in democratic in-fighting over what to propose for the special educational funds. They met the

deadline for applying for the 250,000,000 to 750,000,000 for which the state was eligible but

without a proposal on how to spend it which meant they could make a specific proposal by

a second deadline but now be eligible for only between 0 and 250,000,000. The dems continue to

fight amongst themselves and in all likelihood the second deadline will come and go.

Liberals look down on moderates and conservative thinking themselves elite - they're

liberal or stupid according to the dictionary both words are synonyms.

      The Governor who couldn't see a yellow stripe down his back was also unable to see the

big 'L' on his chest and proposed reducing the growth of government spending (some cuts

would have been nice for failing programs but we can't expect miracles) and only modest tax

increases (cuts would have been preferable but it is still shocking) to deal with the economic/financial crisis. His democratic colleagues in the legislature will no doubt be true to form: tax and spend!

      This reporter rarely takes an interest in state and local politics but had to take the

rare opportunity to throw accolades at a (former liberal?) democrat!!!!