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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Daily Kos: A few things I do not understand

Daily Kos: A few things I do not understand:

A few things I do not understand

How does lowering the minimum wage in Greece do anything to improve the economy of the nation? Does lowering the income of those barely making it in any way contribute to stimulating the economy, or is it merely to increase profits of those already benefiting from wages that are insufficient?

Why is the Obama administration taking $6 million dollars from the funding of NAEP - the National Assessment of Education Progress, aka the nation's report card on education - and devoting it instead to creating yet another international comparison?

Why do we insist on "looking forward" and not holding to accountability CIA agents, military planners, elected and appointed officials who lied us into a war that cost trillions, committed war crimes, and worse, yet we are willing to destroy the lives of teachers and principals who are trying to help our children because their scores on poorly designed tests being used for purposes for which they were never intended are not high enough?

How if we think people gamed the financial system or worse, do we not insist on full accountability and