Creigh Deeds will support education in area, beyond
The upcoming gubernatorial campaign results should be of a major concern to those who have any concern with local education and the state of our high schools.
Bob McDonnell wants to take millions of dollars away from our school districts statewide and use our local education monies as a funding mechanism to build superhighways and mass transit in Northern Virginia.
Unlike the McDonnell-Gilmore-like approach to government finance, Creigh Deeds takes a well-balanced tone of compromise and prudence while refusing to cut monies earmarked in the Virginia budget for local school districts.
State education cuts will leave the local real estate taxpayer with a greater burden in finding a meaningful resolution to the needs of all our local high schools.
Obviously supervisors find a $99 million, three school scenario hard to swallow, but just wait until the multimillion dollar cuts flow down to Wise County and Norton if McDonnell is elected.
Enlightened men should not be willing to gut a Southwest Virginia child’s education for an inch of black pavement in Virginia Beach, as McDonnell does.
If local education means much of anything to you; or, you simply want to avoid higher local taxes to fund education, then Creigh Deeds is the correct and responsible choice for governor.
Chelsea Rose
Wise, Va.
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Kona-
Now you’re getting on the bandwagon of ‘jobs created, or saved’? We all see through that creative accounting…
Further, you say the recession is over because YOUR BUSINESS IS UP??
Why not tell them exactly what your business is- perhaps they’ll then understand WHY it is up…
Kona, maybe you need to take your blinders off and look past your front door. I’m not sure that the 9.8% of the U.S. population who are unemployed right now will agree with you. The 106 bank failures so far this year sure don’t support your position. And look around Bristol and the Tri-Cities at all of the small businesses that have closed their doors just this year. Your “Professional Economists” need to look and see what the real world looks like – not just what their numbers say. Slowly working our way out of this recession is one thing. Being “conclusively over” is quite different.
Looks to me that people want socialism! When they get it I better never hear any complaints about it with you people aggressively wanting it!
Professional economists never stick their necks out. It is conclusively over because my business is consistently up. As are the businesses of everyone I know.
When a professional economist states that we’re heading back into recession, then you’ll have a point.
Until then, it’s over.
Quoting BusinessDay - “NO OFFICIAL will yet declare the worst US recession in 70 years is over — it will take several months of improved numbers before anyone goes that far — but yesterday’s stronger than expected GDP result for the third quarter has boosted sentiment.“ “Boosted sentiment” is not the same as “conclusively.“
The latest GDP growth proves conclusively that the recession is over. Over half a million jobs have been either created or saved.
These are not matters of opinion, they are statistical facts.
I know exactly what you’re saying. Frankly, I think that right now this whole country is “suffering fiscal perdition and social degeneration” because of the ultra-Liberal Democratic leadership. I am seriously afraid that our country is on its way toward bankruptcy. That’s my opinion and, of course, you have yours. I can see that we’re both very politically biased.
Hey, I don’t want to see any state in this country suffer the fiscal perdition and social degeneration that always goes hand in hand with Ultra-Conservative Republican leaderships.
McDonnell, if elected, won’t affect me at all. I just don’t want this kind of varmint being in a position of power anywhere.
But hey, it’s a referendum on the people of Virginia. If you want to flush your state down the toilet, that’s your prerogative. But I’d still hate to see it.
OK. It’s good to know that you are that close to him to know what his personal feelings are and specifically how he thinks and that it “is his genuine world view”. But, let’s just wait and see what happens next Tuesday. I live in Virginia (not Tennessee) so this is especially interesting to me.
He was 34. A seasoned adult.
The text was very long and written in great detail.
That is his genuine world view. There is no denying that. I believe he’s lying now. If not, he was lying then. Either way, his comments are clear and pointed. No reason to think that he feels any differently today.
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