Hooked on Phonics
Monday, May 1, 2000
- TITLE "Hooked on Phonics" Mullings, today, is largely about education. The "Hooked on Phonics" people say they help people learn better. It's a joke. It's Monday. Leave me alone.
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Here is the full list of so-called "facts" as distributed on the internet:
- From (one assumes) the Gore Campaign:
The state of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George W. Bush, is ranked:
- 50th in spending for teachers' salaries
- 49th in spending on the environment
- 48th in per-capita funding for public health
- 47th in delivery of social services
- 42nd in child-support collections
- 41st in per-capita spending on public education and ...
- 5th in percentage of population living in poverty
- 1st in air and water pollution
- 1st in percentage of poor working parents without insurance
- 1st in percentage of children without health insurance
- 1st in executions (avg. 1 every 2 weeks for Bush's 5 years)
Just think of what he could do for (to) the country if he were
President
Please forward this to every person of voting age!
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- From the Bush Campaign:
Texas under Governor Bush:
- 1st in student improvement on test scores, especially for
African-American and Hispanic students.
- 1st in reducing the amount of releases and disposal of toxics -
more than all 49 other states combined.
- 1st in the nation to allow a patient to appeal an HMO's
decision to deny care.
- 1st to create a prison ministry to help offenders reintegrate
into society.
- 1 of only 3 states to require reductions of harmful pollution
from older, unpermitted utility plants.
- 1 of only 10 "highly successful" states in reducing welfare
rolls between 1995 and 1998.
- 4th in growth in total personal income.
- 9th in teacher pay, when adjusted for cost of living and teacher experience.
- $1.8 billion investment in healthcare initiatives.
- 1.2 million jobs created, representing more than 10 percent of
new jobs created nationwide and 48,000 new businesses.
- Lowest unemployment rate in twenty years -- 4.7 percent.
- Doubled the number of adoptions of abused and neglected children in Texas.
America under Clinton-Gore:
- The number of uninsured Americans increased by more than 8
million.
- Almost 70 percent of fourth graders in the highest poverty
schools cannot read at basic level.
- Teachers were victims of 1.8 million crimes at school,
including 657,000 violent crimes.
- Illegal drug use among high school seniors increased 78
percent.
- Federal prosecutions of gun-related offenses decreased by 46
percent.
- More than 12,000 U.S. soldiers are on food stamps.
- Enacted a $115 billion tax increase on Social Security enefits.
- Federal government is the nation's largest polluter, costing
taxpayers nearly $400 billion for cleanups.
- 45 convictions, 72 indictments/misdemeanor charges, and 8
imprisonments related to the 1996 campaign finance scandal, improper conduct by Clinton-Gore cabinet officials, and Whitewater.
What did Arkansas look like when Al Gore joined Bill Clinton in 1992?
- 50th in environmental policy initiatives.
- 47th in per capita state spending for education.
- 43rd in per capita spending for higher education.
- 41st in citizens living in poverty.
- 45th in children living in poverty.
- 47th in children without health insurance.
- 45th in children living in hunger.
- 43rd in infants born with low birth weight.
- 47th in personal income.
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- "Streak Hitter …" Students of baseball stats will argue that even in the example given the batter would be 8 for 40 or .200. That is probably worse than most "streak hitters" bat and remain in the major leagues.
- "… they do the lion's share …" The Lions are another social/service organization as are the Rotary, the Elks, the Moose and the Raccoons. It struck me as amusing that she would mention lions in this context.
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