one thing about term limits is that it makes the elected politicians even more dependent on the lobbyists, bureaucrats and full time political aides than they do now. Moreover with the superpac provisions now legal because of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court decisions, that will give these shadowy unaccountable groups even more power.
Are you sure that is what you want, less democracy, not more? On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 6:57 PM, PT <[email protected]> wrote: > > <rant> > I just read about the Gov. of SC pushing for colleges to have to adopt a > similar "pay for performance" that the public school system has. No > college student left behind? Actually, I think it will result in many > being left behind. I can see colleges becoming a lot stricter when it > comes to admissions and retaining less than spectacularly performing > students. Is this a good or a bad thing? I get the uneasy feeling that > this is a bad thing. I suppose it depends on where the new cutoff line > is going to be drawn. > > A lot of students fark up when they go to college. It happens. > Luckily, there is a review process in place where a committee evaluates > the possibility of a student redeeming themselves and going on to become > successful and productive. It doesn't always work out, but in my case > it did. > > Through every fault of my own, I found myself in a bad situation when I > went back to school. I had to go through the review process and write > my essays, and all of that fun stuff. Luckily, the school let me > continue on and through a lot of extra effort, I dragged my GPA up from > a "boot your ass out of college" to a 2.9. I should break 3.0 at the > end of this semester. I have a 4.0 in my major. > > If the school had to weigh my individual circumstances against a wall of > hard numbers, I don't think I would be where I am now. Something tells > me this is not the way to go. We need more educated people. > > Like was said, though, I don't have a better idea. I just feel uneasy > about what what is going on. I can see some resorting to protesting for > lack of a better idea of what to do. They want to do *something* but > don't know what. When they feel that protesting is not really > accomplishing anything, then they will just become doubly frustrated. > That kind of thing can gain momentum. > > I do think that three things need to happen ASAP. > > 1. Corporations need to lose their status as individuals. They can keep > their legal protection for their owners, but they should not be able to > act as an individual with ridiculous resources available to them that > most private citizens can never have. > > 2. Lobbyists need to go away, unless maybe for not-for-profits. Even > then, I don't know. They don't serve the interests of the people. > > 3. The government needs to tighten its belt and suffer along with > everyone else. I am sorry, but the population is not the government's > personal piggy bank despite being treated like one for many years. Stop > throwing money at stupid shit and start cutting expenses. > > 3.5. Get rid of the "good old boy" system and maybe impose service > limits on the House and Senate ... get rid of the bloody career > politicians and make room for people who actually want to be there, and > are not consumed by the need to make sure they have a job next term. > </rant> > > Flame away :) > > On 10/8/2011 2:39 PM, Gruss Gott wrote: > >> * our educational system cost is unsustainable > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343357 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
