Saddam Captured!

[A Black Falcon]

Everything the government does has some waste. Does what scientists say about the environment change? Yes, of course. But that's a sign of good things -- that they are getting more accurate! Yes, we don't know for sure about how much we are to blame for global warming or how bad it'll get or if we can easily slow it down, but I'd say that that calls for serious national funding on the issue, not 'oh well it's happening but we don't care' like this administration says.

And anyway there's so many facets to protecting the people from pollutants... this administration wants to get rid of all the laws and say that industry will police itsself. That is a obvious lie and they know it because industry didn't police itsself the slightest bit until they were forced to by government and would happily go back to not doing that again, something this administration is trying to oblige them in... the list of things this administration has done to the environment is so long and so brutal that I honestly don't want to know it all. It'd be so depressing...

And as for schools, sure, costs increase and students don't improve as much as they should, but there is on alternative. See, if we let people leave public schools and go to private ones with some public money (vouchers) what we are doing is saying "okay you lucky ones get to go to a good (religious-affiliated) school and all you other dumb kids get abysmal and dropping quality education in the public schools which are losing badly needed funding through money going to vouchers"... it just makes it worse for most everyone! And anyway spending tax money on payouts to religous groups (esp. Catholics, since they run the most religious schools) and the like isn't right.

Oh yeah, and what is a better use for our money? Payouts to major corporations? Congregessional pay raises? Expensive military programs that will suck billions and billions of dollars down the drain?