Quote Originally Posted by shine View Post
i think they all are. health insurance aside . did he improve the economy ? i hear your schools are top shelf. ours suffer because of the high number of kids with little english skills. but then i feel government interference in any of it is wrong. people dont like perry but the economy here is pretty stable.
and for the record i dont want another politician in there. i voted for ross for boss . we need a business mind to dig out of this.
I do not believe he improved much of anything. Businesses were heading off shore at that time, but, I do not remember him leaving office with a deficit.

Schools here in New Bedford have had as much as a 30% drop out rate! The current state gov't. enforces a standards test before kids can graduate H.S., so they teach'em exactly what is in the test. No more / No less... what local businesses end up hiring is somebody who is so out of touch with todays reality, they're really handicapped and the employers have to teach them everything all over again! Many communities are now rebelling against the govenors standards. Another example of our schools and what's being taught is the schools have to teach a language, so the portuguese kids get taught.... portuguese! And the spanish speaking children are taught... Spanish! They are all bi-lingual anyway 'cause their also taught english.. but the mono-lingual kids can choose from french or spanish for a second language...

And of course very few of them can add or subtract without a handheld calculator! Or make change.. or read a non-digital watch... so I cannot say our schools are any better than yours, just a different set of "immigrants".