Reply #20: I got as far as the 1st section: The Arts

[Nevernose]

I don't know what the Artist Corps for the schools is, but I know we just laid off our art teacher, our drama, our foods & nutrition, 1 Spanish, 4 English, 2 history, 1 math, 1 science, 1 special ed, and the entire health department. Next year most of my English classes will have 50 or more students in each class, and that a majority of them are on the bottom rung of the socio-economic ladder. I realize that this is NOT Obama's fault. I do know that his understanding of or recommendations for the American educational system are frightenly ignorant at best. He may by decimating the world's best school system for no other reason than to get easy votes and appeal to cost-cutting Republicans, but hey, at least we've got an artist corps, right?

And I wonder how that expansion of the NEA did in the latest round of budget negotiations?

If I sound irrational, it's because at this point my wife and I are both starting to lose it from the stress (which begins with Arne Duncan and is making its way down). He does seem to have lots of small victories, but it seems to me and many others that he loses every time it really matters: on the big stuff. In the interest of fairness, I will read the rest of that blog entry right now.

I think my main problem with Obama is that he's just not what we need right now. He's out of touch, and what the Washington Democrats need right now isn't a negotiator-politician, it's a leader.