Fwd: TOOTING MY OWN HORN

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From: rrdd3939@aol.com
To: rrdd3939@aol.com
Sent: Sat, Nov 14, 2009 10:17 pm
Subject: TOOTING MY OWN HORN

                                     by rickcosmos (aka Richard DePersio)

Recently, former judge, Napolitano stated on Fox News that states should begin considering

invoking "Nullification Doctrine." An idea first suggested by this writer in an article five months ago and discussed with  members of New York State Senator Marty Golden's and New York

Congressman's Michael McMahon's staffs on more then one occasion to increase probably

that it got to the senator and congressman themselves. I'm fairly confident that it did: probably,

to their regret, they know me now; persevere: keep emailing and phoning your representatives

in government and they will come to know you whether they like it or not - make them hear you!).

       I was pleased to discover that my state senator had completed a bill calling for a Constitutional Convention and planning to submit it this fall (your writer was sent a copy of the whole bill and unlike members of the U.S. Congress actually read it and endorsed it in one of his articles). Both approaches are necessary for restoring powers taken from the people and

from the states in spite of Amendment 10 in the Bill of Rights. States have the power to do it

but never have but Constitutional Conventions have been called by the U.S. Congress to add

amendments to the Constitution (Obama and company are doing it with out a convention and

should be impeached but that want happen because Obama is a liberal democrat and most

democrats who control congress are liberals). And, you can easily see why they wouldn't

call for a convention to reduce their own powers which is why we must go back to the policy

of U.S. Senators being chosen by state legislators (as it was prior to 1917) and they were

more committed to the interests of their home states in real not political terms. Read about the

"Nullification Doctrine (which this writer likes even better) for yourself - - - I can't do all the work!!!!

       A number of experts and politicians are talking about reducing college from 4 to 3 years due to the high cost.I started talking about it in 1993. I stated that colleges would be taking in  less money but it would encourage more younger people to attend college - it would balance out. I further talked about: 1) too much in the way of core requirements in colleges which recover and slightly expand upon material that students should have learned in elementary and high school - they should be more like degree programs advertised on T..V. by vocational and

technical schools where you can earn a B.A. in 3 years and an A.A. in 1 1/2 years

because they focus on major and minor; B) high school should be 3 years for bright and

well behaved students and elementary school 7 instead of 8 years. Just think with these

students graduating younger they will be more inclined to attend college and graduate school

too! Something, we need as we fall behind students in other post-industrialized nations and

even some industrialized nations in education. 

      Of course, liberals would oppose it: stupid, smart and well-behaved, smart but incorrigible

or educationally lazy and those with mental and/or physically impairments must share the same classroom. Hold back our best and brightest. Don't discriminate and show favoritism

to those our nation will most need; don't reward hard work and good behavior. Redesign programs for the stupid and the smart but educationally lazy so that they'll want to go to school and contribute to society (they aren't college material) and won't wind-up on social services and dependent on government. Just the way liberals want them! They'll become productive members of society - just the way liberals don't want them!

     John Stossel, formally at ABC and now at FOX Business pointed out last year that in

most public high school classrooms one-third of students have their heads on their arms while

they sleep, one-third are chatting and the final one-third are struggling to hear the teacher!