Assorted quips and pics

President Obama...before you sign anything the new Congress passes consider that 63 percent of eligible voters didn't vote for these new representatives. 

The conservatives are hoping President Obama will do what Clinton did during his final years. Here is a list of things the Republican Congress gave to Clinton to sign that contributed to the mess we are in now. Please Obama don’t follow in Clinton's footsteps.

Balanced Budget Act of 1997
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997
Iraq Liberation Act
Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act
Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act
Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000

The Koch’s plan to spend almost $900 million on the 2016 elections. If you still don’t think our Representatives are bought and paid for maybe this salient fact will change your mind.

"Approximately 41 million Americans now carry student debt, a figure which rose 40 percent between 2004 and 2012."  National Center for Education Statistics

51% of our nations children come from low income homes according to a study done by the Southern Education Foundation. 

University of Washington economist Dan Goldhaber has shown that nonschool factors such as family income account for 60% of achievement in school. 

Ken Bernstein highlights the point that poverty is the real issue, noting that, “US schools with less than 25% of their children in poverty perform as well as any nation [on international comparisons], and those with 10% or less of their children in poverty outperform Finland.”

Poverty is the real foe of an educated population and privatizing schools is not a cure for poverty.

There are no studies that confirm that charter schools are better than public schools. Private and charter schools can pick and choose their students...public schools are mandated to accept everyone.

Poverty is the real foe of an educated population.

"In 2012 there were 11,000 people killed in terrorist attacks, and 437,000 people killed in homicides." Vision of Humanity

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