What Is Wrong with the Republicans

[What is really deadly here in NYC is the number of kids -- almost 90% in poor neighborhoods -- who do not graduate from high school and, thus, who are destined for a life of poverty -- or worse! We know how to reach these kids -- have for decades -- through early childhood beginnings for their educations and a range of practices designed to keep them in school or to direct them into vocational programs. We do such for a few through good luck and our excellent programs in some schools and our CUNY programs, but we are losing far too many now who will in too many instances spend their lives providing jobs for prison guards in upstate NY! But we could do it right if we invested the necessary funds in our public school programs -- in our children! Ed Kent]

A Look at Republican Priorities: Comforting the Comfortable
The estate-tax cut passed by the House of Representatives
would put $760 billion in new debt on the backs of
Americans in the name of making a handful of extremely rich
people even richer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/opinion/23fri1.html?th&emc=th

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A Look at Republican Priorities: Afflicting the Afflicted
At the same time that Republicans are fighting to exempt
the richest estates from taxes, they are blocking a raise
for the nation's poorest workers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/opinion/23fri2.html?th&emc=th

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