news of the moment.

y'all understand what this means don't you? That's right, Bush is using our tax dollars to pay for christian education. A direct an deliberate affront to the seperation of Church and State. The broader issue is that Bush is determined to turn the recovery efforts in Louisiana into a showpiece for neoconservative economics and ideology.


Bush Proposes Vouchers for All Displaced Students
By Amy Goldstein
The Washington Post

Tuesday 20 September 2005

"The expansive eligibility for private-school payments intensified the dispute over Bush's approach to providing federal relief to people and places harmed by the hurricane. Democrats on Capitol Hill and public education advocates had begun to complain that the president was using the catastrophe to weave into legislation a version of federal funding of vouchers for private education, which the administration has sought, unsuccessfully, since 2001.

"It makes it even worse," Paul Houston, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, said of the idea that all displaced families could obtain money for private schools. "It is really a tone-deaf response to the crisis. It is a real grab to get an ideological position across that they haven't been able to achieve under normal circumstances.".."

Geez. sounds like Bush is trying to put an ideological agenda ahead of the public good....

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and...here is a story that the mainstream news media will never print. Why? For two reasons: 1) The mainstream only prints what is approved by the White House. 2) It was Bush's neoconservative thieves that stole the money.

What Has Happened to Iraq's Missing $1bn?
By Patrick Cockburn
The Independent UK

Monday 19 September 2005

"One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq's defense ministry in one of the largest thefts in history, The Independent can reveal, leaving the country's army to fight a savage insurgency with museum-piece weapons.

The money, intended to train and equip an Iraqi army capable of bringing security to a country shattered by the US-led invasion and prolonged rebellion, was instead siphoned abroad in cash and has disappeared.

"It is possibly one of the largest thefts in history," Ali Allawi, Iraq's Finance Minister, told The Independent.

"Huge amounts of money have disappeared. In return we got nothing but scraps of metal.".."

An Honest Administration would conduct a legimate and impartial investigation into what happened to a BILLION DOLLARS, for a crooked Administration it is just business as usual.