Good link above to an opinion piece wondering how people will cope when they don't have Bush to kick around after January. Who will be left to blame? The author cites a number of examples of Bush-bashing but she missed an opinion piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal that blamed the sorry condition of illegal immigrant meat packers on, who else, George Bush. The article is only available via subscription but trust me, its author is absolutely beside himself over Bush's callous treatment of the poor workers and the president's personal intervention (with Dick Chaney, no doubt) to create hell on earth for the until-then happy workers.
Fine,and Bush is certainly the Devil himself, but a quick Google search turned up a book review dated 2001 that blames the problem on a change in immigration law that was enacted in 43 years ago.
"Congress in 1965 inadvertently came to the rescue of the union-busting, wage-lowering strategy of the new meat packers. The 1965 immigration law had a major impact in the direction of the meat-processing industry by creating surplus labor pools with spiraling family chain migration and massive refugee resettlement operations."
Bush hadn't even begun drinking or joined Skull and Bones in 1965, when, according to this second article, Eden was lost, but it's his fault for not fixing it! The three Demmerkrat administration we enjoyed since 1965, Johnson's, Carter's and Clinton's were too preoccupied to take care of these people but Bush, that awful Bush, will rot in Hell for his wilful failure to do so. And now he's leaving. What will we do, what will we do?
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A Non Squitor to be sure...but could you comment on how a family new to a community can get the real low down on schools in the area. In my hometown after 35 years one develops a knowlege and understanding of the good bad and ugly around schools in various towns and specific schools in a given town.
My experience here is that realtors give the very general "Schools are great" but can't / won't get specific. Without friends in town to help (and I don't yet have any) how can I best manuver picking an appropriate school district for the needs of my family? Thoughs
You can't get an answer from real estate agents because we're prohibited by law and regulation from doing so. Steer someone away from one area and you've broken at least one civil rights law and you're subject to strict sanctions, including fines and loss of license. So we all say meaningless things like "all our schools are great" when we know darn well that they aren't. It may be fair, but it's not very useful. All that said, and with full knowledge that lots of parents are very attached to other schools, I'm a Riverside School / Eastern alumnus and so are all three of my kids. Your kids will certainly get a fine eductation at ANY our schools (take that, regulators) but I and my children did just fine here in Riverside.
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