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On snowy days, nonessential government employees are told to stay home with pay. During budget-cutting sessions, all government employees are totally essential. What gives?
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I blame business and banks for the slow recovery of jobs, not the government.
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Thirty years later and I've got to ask: When does that trickle-down economics thingy kick in?
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Bipartisanship does not mean, "Follow me." It means, "Let's talk about it."
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I am a Republican because we can't all be on welfare.
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I never knew how disgusted I was with the democratic process until we got into the health care debate. Is Congress for American citizens or special interest groups?
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If President Obama and Congress want to raise our taxes, maybe those taxes should go toward teaching classes in personal responsibility. People need to learn to take care of themselves.
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The Constitution is not the Bible 2.0. Like it or not, "all men are created equal" applies even to those who don't believe they were created.
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If Sarah Palin is elected president and all kinds of ethics investigations arise, will she quit and go home, as she has before?
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Maybe when Sarah Palin comes to Wichita in May, she can see the wizard and buy a brain.
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The U.S. Department of Education should be shut down. The No Child Left Behind law puts all the burden on teachers and none on students and parents. The biggest problems in USD 259 are students who don't care to do homework and administrators who don't care that students don't care.
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Think of how much money the state would save if we combined districts like Wichita, Derby, Goddard and Maize into one. This would end the duplication of administrators, allow combining of bus routes, permit specialized classes to be taught under fewer teachers and standardize the curriculum across the county.
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The state has just as much right to waste our money and go bankrupt as the federal government does. School districts should not be forced to consolidate and save taxpayer money.
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Media hype about Japanese auto recalls is intentionally exaggerated. This circus act is designed to allow GM to get out of the ICU and get all its workers on the payroll. It is the American worker and his consumer spending that keep the world economy afloat.
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Is there no end in sight for long-suffering Wichita gamblers? Conspiracy or karma? You decide.
