Bush Education Policy Also Built on a Lie?: "the Houston Independent School District -- showcase for the 'Texas educational miracle' that President Bush has touted as a model for the rest of the nation -- is fending off accusations that it inflated its achievements through fuzzy math.
... If this were any other school district in the nation, few people would pay much attention. But Houston is the political springboard for U.S. Education Secretary Roderick R. Paige. He was school superintendent here before moving to Washington, and what originally began as an argument over dropout data has expanded into a debate about the administration's entire approach to educational reform."

Seems like there is a persistent pattern of falsifying data with these Bushies. Here they create a model for the nation, and base it on false results. (E.g. They create a critical test for all 10th grade students. Then they keep the students who won't pass out of 10th grade, and guess what? They get fabulous scores on the 10th grade tests. Wow! It looks like these tests transform schools. Let's do them nationwide. Ooops, Wrong!)

Where else have we seen false claims being made or data reported by this administration? Well, I am half asleep, but I remember the EPA's assurances to the people of NYC after 9/11 about the air quality being fine. Well, turns out that the EPA's public pronouncements were "edited" by someone at the White House, to say that, when the truth was that the air was full of toxic pollutants.

What about the tax cuts--you know, the one's we are borrowing $200 Billion, annually, to pay to the wealthiest 1%, so that they can create a few jobs for the rest of us--well Bush brings on a family to show how the tax cuts will effect the middle class. What he doesn't say is that he will get as much of a tax cut himself as the total income of that family of four. The family of four--hardly representative of the entire nation--will get less than 10% of the cut he will get in dollar terms.

I am so f**king sick of these lies and distortions. Stop it Bush.

And I am completely perplexed at how the American public can be so gullible that they just accept one lie after another. Not little ones. Big ones. $87.% Billion ones. $200 Billion ones. Ones that kill hundreds of American troops for no good reason. Just based on his lies, and the fact that he is called President.

As he so eloquently didn't say, Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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