Poor Families Not Allowed on the "Do Not Call" List? Bush Gives Poor Children's Telephone Numbers To Military Recruiters

After all the trouble that people have gone through to avoid being harassed at home by unwanted telephone calls, a national "Do Not Call" list was established. But guess how George W. Bush got around that? By slipping into his "No Child Left Behind" law a provision allowing the private family telephone numbers of CHILDREN who don't pass tests (the ones being left behind) to be culled from their school records by military recruiters. These military recruiters then hound these kids to join the military. Of course these are NOT the children of economically well-off families so the USA continues its tradition of shoving its poorest into the military, but now is even more aggressive. With Bush's No Child Left Behind Law, these children who have been left behind by conservative political policies all their lives so that their future are dim by high school, are then swept into the military after being persuaded that there really is no other viable option for them.

This aggressive violation of privacy authorized by Bush is also taking its toll on recruiters. who spend several hours a day cold-calling high school students, whose phone numbers are provided by schools under the No Child Left Behind Law.

So who is organizing parents at schools across the country to demand that their children's school records NOT be accessible to the federal government or military recruiters, that their telephone numbers not be culled from their children's school records and that their underage children NOT be telehoned by military recruiters preying on their children (whose lives have been adversely affected by conservative political and fiscal policies), hoping to persuade them to join the military????

Republican Politics and the Fear of Death

Ignoring that in the past seven years, this case has already been reviewed by more than three dozen judges and justices on both the state and federal level, congressional leaders proudly announced Saturday that they would pass a law moving Schiavo's case to federal court and effectively requiring that her feeding tube be reinserted while a new round of appeals begins.

So frightened of death are we in the USA that we play political and religious games to try to take the place of God and the cycle of life and death. When will Bush and his Republican gameplayers realize they are not God and that the Schiavo case is personal, not political?

Are We Surprised? Cancerian Dubya Calls His Mother to the Rescue

Moody, and with the strong potential to be oversensitive, pinchingly mean and isolationist, Cancer is also the sign of the Mother - so are we surprised? that Dubya has called her to push his Social Security plan that will give his rich broker friends trillions of dollars in fees?

I think not.

Hmm, Barbara Bush has never had to financially plan for retirement, nor rely on Social Security. What can she say that is of worth? Not one of the 17 grandchildren in the Bush family will ever see poverty because of their family inheritances, wealth and familial Saudi connections. So again, what worthwhile thing can she say? We shall see......

I also ponder this: did you notice that the plan says it "allows" people under age 50 to play the stock market to try to get some retirement income, rather than the truth - that it will FORCE them to play the form of gambling we know as the stock market?

Can forcing people to play the stock market game of chance be made a legitimate government law or policy?