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Well, it's not like Amherst every bothered to bust anyone for drugs, so that financial aid is intact.

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*grin*

It's also people who got a record before college, and are now trying to change paths... which is considerably harder without funding. NPR had a story about a girl who'd ended up earning a GED while without family and homeless. She's made it into a decent school, but since she has a prior drug conviction, she can't currently get loans, which would mean not going to school.
Theoretically, aren't the Republicans in favor of people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps? All that's on offer here is loans, after all.

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But it's helping us fight the War On Drugs! I think we've got it just about won. Go us!

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So we can focus on the War on Terror, now?

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But whatever happened to the War on Poverty?

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Didn't you hear? We won!!!

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Next time I see a poor person, I will tell them to report to the nearest POW camp.

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We're supposed to call them Salvation Army Homeless Shelters now.

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Oh, I understood the political ramifications perfectly, I was just grumbling about the 1600-SAT scorers at Amherst who still couldn't figure out how to smoke pot w/o setting off the smoke detectors several times a week, even by junior year.

Morons. I never touched the stuff, and even I knew enough to not trip the smoke detectors.

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it ran out of money.

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*rotfl* You win.

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Wow! Someone won!

Now what war was I fighting again?

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The War on Carbs?

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Test-taking ability doesn't always correlate to intelligence.
(However one defines that outside the test-taking context.)

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The War on Drugs used by Terrorists to fight Poverty. Or maybe the War on Terror caused by Poverty-striken Druggists. Sadly, not the War on Stupidity.

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Definite lack of vision on the politician's part... or is that an inability to start a war on oneself?

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Are you sure? I seem to remember 2-3 people getting ousted for drugs.

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Ha!

But now that I think about it, maybe the No Child Left Behind thingy was supposed to be a War on Stupidity . . . but now that I think about _that_, I seem to recall They've totally fucked up that one, too. Oh well.

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Not during this administration.

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But aren't they waging a War on the Poor? Isn't that the same thing? I mean, no poor people means no poverty, right?

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Love those unfunded mandates.

There are a number of places that have already opted out of NCLB; they couldn't get the numbers to work so all students would actually get a good education, rather than having to pay a lot to get a few kids up to par, and the rest given less because there wasn't enough funding for anything more.

The basic idea is a nice one, but when it comes down to nuts and bolts, as written, it's not a good law.

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I was referring to the War on Stupidity. I didn't realize the subject heading had reverted back to "Poverty." Although, I suppose one can make the case that those who are stupid are mentally impoverished.

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nah, that was d*** the psychopath who claims that dean lieber was out to get him, and used drugs as the excuse. he'd already graduated by that point.

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It was written by nuts, basically.

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er, nuts who bolted, i meant to say.

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you mean, the Stupidity on Children?

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What about Matt what's-his-face? And the other guy? And there might have been another. Of course, these might have happened while I was working for Campus Police after we graduated. I don't remember.

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The Administration is busy waging war on everyone else; why not on itself next?

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