I will agree teacher accountability is a plus. I was a school board president and tried to introduce a merit bonus for the top 10 teachers - selected by secret ballot of the teachers themselves - boy did the union squeal! I knew it wasn't gonna fly, I just wanted to break the mentality. There are good teachers and bad teachers. I feel you can't pay a good teacher too much, and whatever you pay a bad teacher is too much.
The energy bill isn't a plus in my opinion, a give-away to oil companies, no long-term direction like development of fusion.
I granted Afghanistan as a plus, but Iraq was not part of the war on terror.
The idea of introducing risk to Social Security via the stock market isn't a plus to me, and the "crisis" is solved by simply raising the cap - and yes, I earn above the cap.
See, I agree on teacher accountability/testing. [^]In my state, (Joisey) they mandated minimum funding per student, so what did most districts do? HIRE MORE ADMINISTRATORS [xx(] Yeah, THAT will improve education....Throwing money isn't the answer to better education.
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