Heard on the radio tonight that Locke and the State Superintendant of Schools said that if I-695 passes that the future of our schools are at stake.

It seems that their goal of wireing all of the classrooms for the internet and lowering class sizes will be greatly reduced because of this.

I guess I-695 should have been titled I-666 as it seems it is the Devil incarnate.

What next will they blame on I-666. Oklahoma bombing, Columbine, Bill Clinton.

Ed - checking the back of my head for a tattoo

-- Ed (ed_brigdes@yahoo.com), October 20, 1999

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I think he forgot to mention that if this measure passes, the sky will also fall.

Why is it no one against this measure can propose any reasonable definates in terms of an alternative?

Fine they don't think this tax is fair any longer, but why in the heck are they only saying they will need to rethink this and nothing more? I would be more apt to rethink my position provided they would put some reasonable alternative on the slate. I guess they just aren't serious about rethinking. Maybe they just want this defeated and hope that the issue will just go away, and everyone will forget their empty promises.

-- Matt Greenway (mgreenwa@u.washington.edu), October 20, 1999.

For every day that goes by without the political establishment coming up with a viable alternative, that many more absentee ballots get filled out voting yes and the backlog of yes votes grows. Of course, if they come out with something too blatant at this stage, everyone will think they are just manipulators and vote yes anyway. My guess is they're screwed.

-- (zowie@hotmail.com), October 20, 1999.

Ed

You just don't get it. 2 percent of the budget goes to pay for 98 percent of services the public considers essential and 98 percent of the budget goes to pay for things the polit/bureaus consider essential.

Can everybody come up with a list of things the P/Bs consider essential.

How about:Wa. State Arts Commission?

"any time someone gets something for nothing,someone else gets nothing for something."

Ricardo

-- Ricardo (ricardoxxx@home.com), October 20, 1999.