What would JESUS think (of a record like this) ?

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George W. Bush claimed that as the governor
of one of America's largest states
he had been a "Reformer With Results" :

His friends who own all the mainstream media let him get away with his groundless claims, despite the facts, namely:

EDUCATION under George W. Bush:
Out of 50 states, TEXAS scored:

• 3rd from Last in High school completion. ⁽²⁾
• 15th from Last in Teacher salaries when he became "Gov." ⁽¹⁾
• 13th from Last in Teacher salaries at beginning of 2nd term. ⁽¹⁾
• From '89 to '99 average teacher salaries went DOWN 1.1%
          (in constant $'s) !
• Dead Last in Teacher salary plus benefits. ⁽¹⁾
• SAT (combined math & verbal scores ) ⁽¹³⁾:
• Score of 995 =   7th from Last in 1996
• Score of 995 =   6th from Last in 1997
• Score of 995 =   7th from Last in 1998

          FAMILY VALUES under George W. Bush:
                Out of 50 states, TEXAS rates:

• Dead Last in # of poorest counties in country. ⁽³⁾
• 2nd from Last in # of children living in poverty. ⁽³⁾
• 2nd from Last in # of children without health insurance. ⁽³⁾
• Highest number of people stripped of Medicare benefits (10)
• Dead Last in % of poor working parents without insurance. ⁽³⁾
• 2nd from Last in % of population without health insurance. ⁽³⁾
• 6th from Last in Child support collections ⁽³⁾
• 5th from Last in Teen Birth Rate. ⁽⁴⁾
• 3rd from Last in Hunger Rate.
• 3rd from Last in Per capita funding for public health. ⁽⁴⁾
• 4th from Last in Delivery of social services. ⁽⁴⁾
• 6th from Last in # Mothers receiving prenatal care. ⁽⁹⁾
  
          CULTURE under George W. Bush:
          Out of 50 states, TEXAS rates:
  
• 3rd from Last in Quality of Life in Texas
          (Spending for parks and recreation) ⁽⁷⁾
• 3rd from Last in Spending for the arts. ⁽⁷⁾
• 5th from Last in Public libraries and branches. ⁽⁸⁾
• 3rd from Last in Affordable Housing (12)
• 7th from Last in Home ownership (2)
• Dead Last (i.e. highest) homes insurance rates in the nation (11)
• 4th from Last in Spending for police protection(12)
• 3rd from Last in Quality of place to raise children. ⁽⁹⁾
•   (was 22nd from Last BEFORE Bush!)
• Teen drug use - down nationally, but up 30% in Texas. ⁽⁵⁾
• Teen smoking - down nationally, NOT in Texas ⁽⁵⁾
• Dead Last (i.e. highest) # of executions (per capita) ⁽¹¹⁾

          ENVIRONMENT under George W. Bush:
          Out of 50 states, TEXAS rates:
  

• Dead Last in # of Smog days.
• Dead Last in Pollution released by manufacturing plants. ⁽⁶⁾
• Dead Last in Pollution by industrial plants.
          in violation of Clean Air Act. ⁽⁶⁾
• Dead Last in Greenhouse gas emissions. ⁽⁶⁾
• 2nd from Last in Spending for the environment. ⁽⁷⁾
• 3rd from Last in Spending for parks and recreation. ⁽⁷⁾
• 5th from Last in Water Resources Protection.
  
  God bless you, TEXAS, if YOU were happy
  with such a governor.  The rest of the country
  would have been eternally grateful to you
  for keeping him there !
  
          Sources:        
  ⁽¹⁾ National Education Agency.
  ⁽²⁾ U.S. Department of Education Office
          of Educational Research and Development.
  ⁽³⁾ U.S. Bureau of Census, Current Populations Trends.
  ⁽⁴⁾ U.S. Dept. Health and Human Services:
          National Center for Health Statistics.
  ⁽⁵⁾ 1998 Texas School Survey of Substance:
          Use Among Students: Grades 7-12, Texas.
          Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse.
  ⁽⁶⁾ U.S. EPA, Office of Pollution and Prevention .
  ⁽⁷⁾ Texas Observer.
  ⁽⁸⁾ Statistical Rankings by State.
  ⁽⁹⁾ Children's Rights Council.
  ⁽¹⁰⁾ Families USA
  ⁽¹¹⁾ National Association of Insurance Commissioners
  ⁽¹²⁾ U.S. Bureau of Census, State Government Finances 1998
  ⁽¹³⁾ College Examination Board

  There is even more at :
  http://www.I know what you did inTexas . com
  ( a Democratic National Committee site on Bush)

[ used with permission of www.HilltopDesign.com ]
        While President Clinton is remembered for ONE famous lie, George W. Bush lies so much that catalogues of such lies are appearing all over the place, beginning with our very own at : www.LiberalsLikeChrist.Org/about/bushlies.html.

David Corn published a whole book,
about them, featured at the www.bushlies.com/ site:

www.bushwatch.com/bushlies.htm &
http://www.schlatter.org/Dad/Politics/bushlies_1.htm   &
The American Prospect   &
Online Journal   &
"Top Ten at Lies.Com   &
TVNewsLies   &
http://www.serendipity.li/impeachment.htm   &
Molly Ivans "Bushwacked" (by G.W.B.)   &
Lies about Military Record
Bush's "education miracle"?
It's a miracle he wasn't exposed sooner.
It's a commonplace with the national media that the strongest card in Bush's play for the presidency is his education record in Texas.  It's now becoming clear that the Bush education record is nothing but "smoke and mirrors."  That may be putting it kindly, if Boston College's Walt Haney is right in his in-depth study of education reform and statewide testing in Texas in the 90's, "The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education".  Haney marshalls his facts to show that "The Texas 'miracle' is more hat than cattle."
        "Because Texas Academic Achievement Scores (TAAS) scores were given such great importance, cheating scandals and "teaching to the TAAS' were inevitable".  Haney documents that many students haven't fared well at all.  There has been dramatic growth in dropout and student retention rates (especially in the ninth grade), an explosion in special education classifications and an upsurge in students who skip graduation - and the TAAS - for a GED that isn't really a "high school equivalency' certificate." The Texas Education Agency's number-jugglers created classifications designed to mask the true dropout rate and make it appear that a greater percentage of students than ever before were staying in school.  From 1994 to 1998, the number of special-education students in the state doubled.  To summarize, then, officials were able to gild the in-state education statistics by having more students drop out and by moving poorer students into categories that allowed them to skip the TASS tests, upon which Bush based his "miracle." Further, officials cooked the books to hide these negative outcomes.
        Is it really fair to say that Bush had anything to do with the phony numbers and manipulation of categories that caused the education "miracle"?  Well Bush is claiming that "As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards." Bush's people claim that "while only 52 percent of students passed the exit exam in 1994, that rate mushroomed to 72 percent in 1998."   Why haven't there been any corresponding miracles in Texas' SAT or ACT scores.  College entrance exam scores have remained flat, his minions explained, because more Texans are taking them, which is good.  But Bush's crew haven't been able to explain why more students are taking the tests in the rest of the country as well, yet national average scores have risen."Wouldn't it logically follow that any politician bragging about meeting his own standards would assure himself that his figures are correct? Since they are misleading, at best, the Governor is either consciously misleading us on one of the major claims of his campaign, or is he so far out of the loop that he doesn't know and doesn't care how the figures were reached? If so, is this the kind of person we want in the White House?
        Further, "Ernesto M. Bernal, a University of Texas-Pan American professor who teaches graduate-level educational psychology courses, primarily to teachers and administrators....echoes the findings in "The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education".  Boston College professor Walt Haney says that 'less than half, but at least a quarter' of the increase in passing rates can be credited to statistical and other bureaucratic acrobatics." For example, "the percentages of students retained in grade 9, or whose TAAS scores aren't calculated in school rankings because they are classified 'in special education' have mushroomed.  So has the number who drop out of school but aren't counted as 'dropouts.'"
        At the very least, then, Bush is claiming credit for an education "miracle" clearly based on phony numbers.  If he or his advisers have no knowledge of how the numbers were obtained, he has failed as governor to oversee his education program, he lacks the ability to evaluate the validity of the outcomes of that program, and he is unable to appoint education officials to do good, honest work in his name.  We don't believe such ineffectiveness would change if Bush were to reach the White House.
        At any rate, Bush should stop bragging about an educational "miracle" that doesn't exist and stop telling the voters to choose him as president on the basis of his non-existent education accomplishments in Texas.  The problem is, what does he have left to brag about then? How he cleaned up the environment in Texas? --Politex, 9/11/00

Also, check out :
AWOL from National Guard Duty
The Real Lie is what Bush and in friends in the media
have been saying about Al Gore "inventing the Internet"
Bush's 'Texas miracle' in schools? (Sacramento Bee)
Education 'miracle' or 'myth'? (Birtannica.com)
the sneaky G.O.P.  plan to 'BushWhack' Social Security !

Check out these links from Texans :
School Modernization Facts -- Texas
High TAAS Scores Nothing to Cheer About?
Dallas News.com: Metro
Ad Watch - Bush: Dangerous World, 11/16/99
Bush to Latinos: Higher Education is Not My Priority

The Well Hidden Bush Family Value$ won't be hidden FOREVER !

Many a great truth is said in jest, or as Jay Leno has said: "Don't you think a man who has fried so many people ought to be called "Colonel" rather than "Governor"?         Texas prisons may be so bad that "Compassionate Conservatism" means executing people to spare them an even worse fate trying to stay alive in their prisons ! What IS a "Compassionate Conservative" anyway? or is it somebody who "feels the pain" of the Super Rich and can't stop crying about the heavy tax burden they have to carry ?

How "bright" is Gov. George W. Bush ?" New study shows that Bush was in TOP  5% of his classes at Harvard and Yale . . .   alphabetically.         "In 1989 Bush told Roland Betts, his good friend and former Yale classmate:  "You know I could run for governor but I'm basically a media creation.  I've never done anything.  I've worked for my dad.  I worked in the oil business.  But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office." Fortunate Son by Hatfield ( Page 95 . . .ch 4 . . .).  Betts was also a partner in the Texas Rangers and in Spectrum 7, an energy company.  ( pg. 289).         In early June, 2000 New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a Republican, was introducing his friend George W. Bush, the Texas governor and the GOP's presumptive nominee for president in Albuquerque.  Now, the Bush campaign has worked very hard in recent months to portray its candidate as a man of reasonable intelligence.  That has not been easy in the face of missteps, mispronunciations and other signals that the Texan might be a few bales short in the brain barn.         Bush has even been posing for pictures with faux intellectuals such as Henry Kissinger in order to create the impression that he can hold his own on issues like war and peace.  But Johnson, a man known for his frankness on issues such as drug policy reform, offered a taste of the true Texan.  The New Mexico governor began his introduction of Bush before a crowd of 600 by relating the following:  "At one of these governors' conferences, George turns to me and says, `What are they talking about?'  I said, `I don't know.'  He said, `You don't know anything, do you?'  And I said, `Not one thing.'  He said, `Neither do I.'  And we kind of high-fived.''  Celebrating ignorance with a high five.  Now, that's the real George W.         For some entertaining musical pictures of George W. Bush and other Republican individuals and institutions, get to know a great web site with hundreds of fun lyrics and midi files, all free: The "Boot Newt" Sing Along Page.   He's Really That Dumb ("Little Drummer Boy")

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