We know your vote counts - make sure it's logical too!
Political ad writers COUNT ON YOU TO NOT THINK FOR YOURSELF
and to not know how your own government works. Here is my rant of the week -
not against, or for, any candidate, but about putting on our thinking caps -
and knowing what we are talking about before we speak!
An ad against Vernon Parker says he told Tea Partiers he
wants to get rid of the Department of Education (yes, he did say this), and
therefore Arizona will lose $800 million dollars in educational funding. This
is NOT A LOGICAL CONLUSION!
The DOE basically says 'teach what we tell you to, or we
won't give you federal money for education. We don't care if you want to teach
to the needs of your students and your geographical area. No local control of
curriculum allowed." (My own words.)
But if there is no DOE, the DOE can't take away our funding
for not doing what the DOE says we have to do. (See how that works...) So the claim is ILLOGICAL.
Later (not in the ad), it appears that to cover up for this
lack of logic, the ad writers say there will be no Pell Grants for college
without the DOE. Who says there will be no college grants without a DOE? Not
Vernon Parker. In the video quoted, he says that the DOE educational rules have
resulted in kids who can't read at a third grade level and don't know history -
- responding to charts and a presentation obviously made before he started
speaking, about poor test scores, something very few will disagree with.
Clearly the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,
creators of the ad, did not learn critical thinking in school either.
Here's a link to a Press Release (not news, but Public
Relations), accusations related to the quote, and oddly the entire video of
Vernon Parker's speech, which does not support the accusation. I guess they are
counting on you to not actually listening.
http://azdem.org/news/releases/Vernon_Parker_Cuts_Education_AZ_CD9/
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