What's the Deal on the HOV Lane?
Wednesday, May 17, 2000
- Title: "What's the Deal on the HOV Lane?" "HOV Lane" is the High Occupancy Vehicle lane formerly known as the carpool lane. High occupancy has evolved, generally, downward, from four occupants to three to, in Viginia, two.
- "looking covetously at Kleenex boxes …" Howard Hughes, as he got older, got nuttier. He refused to see anyone. He was reported to have walked around his apartment with Kleenex boxes on his feet instead of socks or slippers. He was also reported to have let his fingernails and toenails grow to extreme lengths.
- "Maalox moment …" Maalox is a popular antacid.
- "… act more like Mahatma Gandhi than George Patton." Gandhi used non-violence to gain independence for India from the English. George Patton whacked a soldier suffering from battle fatigue upside the head.
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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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