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Backgrounder #2638 on Education
January 10, 2012
January 10, 2012 | Backgrounder on Education
Abstract: A November 2011 Heritage Foundation report—"Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers"—presented data on teacher salaries and benefits in order to inform debates about teacher compensation reform. The report concluded that public-school teacher compensation is far ahead of what comparable private-sector workers enjoy, and that recruiting more effective teachers will be more difficult than simply raising salaries. The debate over the report's findings has generated substantive inquiries as well as some misconceptions. Here, the report's authors respond to questions and concerns, in the process showing that certain critical accusations—such as undercounting teachers' work hours or overestimating retirement benefits—are simply false. The broader implication of the authors' research is that the current teacher compensation system is not working. The United States needs a more rational system that pays teachers according to their performance.
Our recent report, "Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers," [1] concluded that, on average, public-school teachers receive total compensation that is roughly 50 percent higher than what they would receive in private-sector employment. While salaries are at appropriate levels, fringe benefits push teacher compensation far ahead of what private-sector workers enjoy. Consequently, recruiting more effective teachers for public schools will be much more difficult than simply raising salaries.
The report has drawn considerable attention from media outlets, policymakers, and teacher advocates. Several scholars welcomed our report as a valuable contribution,[2] but a number of misconceptions about the report have also been circulating. In some cases, critics rushing to judgment have made claims that are flatly incorrect. Other commenters have raised more substantive issues about measuring teaching compensation.
Our goal has been to inform debates about how to reform teacher compensation. It is in that spirit that we address common questions and concerns about our argument that public-teacher compensation is above fair market levels, seeking to refocus the discussion on our original objective.
Issue: Teachers work at home and on weekends, not just at the school building during classroom hours. How did you measure teacher work hours?
Perhaps the most common misconception is that we somehow undercounted the number of hours that teachers work. For example, Stanford University's Linda Darling-Hammond claimed that we generated our conclusions only "by underestimating the actual hours that teachers work—using 'contract hours' rather than the 50-plus hours a week teachers actually spend preparing for classes, grading papers, and communicating with students and parents outside of school hours."[3]
Where Darling-Hammond got the idea that we used "contract hours" is not clear, but it could not have come from reading our study. We relied on teachers' self-reports of the hours they work, not on contract hours.
The Current Population Survey (CPS) asks the following question: "In the weeks that [you] worked, how many hours did [you] usually work per week?"[4] The median number of work hours per week reported by teachers was 40, which is the same as reported by non-teachers.[5] Some teachers in the CPS work more than 40 hours, and some work fewer, but overall their hours are not dramatically different from those of other professionals. If a teacher did report working, say, 60 hours per week, we accepted that number.
Could teachers have misunderstood the CPS question as referring only to hours worked while physically in the school building? The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) took an even more detailed look into teacher hours using a time-use survey, in which individuals create detailed logs of what they are doing over the course of an entire day.[6] The BLS noted that teachers do, in fact, put in more work time at home and on weekends than other professionals. But do teachers work longer hours overall? According to the BLS, the answer is no. The average workweek for teachers is a little under 40 hours, similar to what teachers reported in the CPS.
Though she did not cite a source, Darling-Hammond's claim of "50-plus hours" worked by teachers echoes a survey conducted by the National Education Association (NEA). According to the NEA, teachers report an average of 50 hours per week "spent on all duties."[7]
There are two major problems with interpreting this NEA number. First, only 37.8 percent of teachers to whom the NEA sent its survey completed it.[8] (The minority of teachers who filled out the eight-page, 64-question survey could plausibly work longer hours during the school year than the average teacher.)
Second, the NEA survey specifically probes for extra work time outside normal work hours. Using the NEA data to compare work hours between teachers and non-teachers would require asking non-teachers the same set of detailed questions about hours worked both at the office and at home. Otherwise, only teachers (not workers in general) would be nudged to report more hours than their initial intuition tells them.
Do some teachers work long hours? Yes—and when they do our study accounts for it. But do teachers as a whole work longer hours than workers in other occupations? The reliable data say no.
Issue: Shouldn't teachers receive a premium for how hard they work in general?
Related to the work-hours issue is the difficulty of teaching in general. Teaching certainly does require hard work and dedication, but many people work hard who are not teachers. One of the ways to assess whether teaching requires a compensating differential for work difficulty is by comparing public-school-teacher salaries to private-school-teacher salaries. Since both sets of workers are teachers, the daily demands they face will be more similar to each other's than to the non-teaching experience. But teachers in public schools receive average salaries that are 10 percent higher than salaries of teachers in private schools, and the disparity persists even after controlling for school and student characteristics.[9]
Issue: Teachers pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets. How does that affect your analysis?
In a press release responding to our report, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) cited "hundreds of dollars" per year in personal funds that teachers spend on their classrooms.[10] Barnett Berry of the Center for Teaching Quality made the same point, putting the number at $356.[11] Other data support an even higher amount: the Schools and Staffing Survey reports that in 2007–2008, 92 percent of public-school teachers reported spending their own funds on school supplies or other needs, with average spending at $415 per year.[12]
This follows an argumentative pattern similar to the first two objections we have listed: Teacher advocates make a point about the difficulty of being a teacher and then assume, without evidence, that this difficulty must be greater than that of other professions. We know of no systematic data on personal funds spent by non-teachers. Even if one assumed, however, that non-teachers suffered zero out-of-pocket expenses, the amounts spent by teachers on classroom supplies would have little effect on our analysis. Average teacher salaries and benefits total well over $100,000 per year, and our measured teacher compensation premium over the private sector exceeds $30,000.[13]
In addition, teachers enjoy a special federal tax deduction of up to $250 for work expenses. The deduction is above-the-line, meaning that teachers are eligible even if they have high-earning spouses or do not itemize their other deductions. According to IRS data, 3.8 million individuals filed for the educator-expense deduction in 2009.[14]
Finally, we note that rising costs for teacher compensation, in particular pensions and retiree health benefits, may constrain or reduce the funding available for classroom materials.
Issue: Teachers with long tenures accrue greater retirement benefits than younger teachers. Did you overestimate the value of retirement benefits by looking only at veteran teachers?
Education Secretary Arne Duncan claimed that we "exaggerated the value of teacher compensation by comparing the retirement benefits of the small minority of teachers who stay in the classroom for 30 years, rather than comparing the pension benefits for the typical teacher to their peers in other professions."[15] Similarly, Barnett Berry of the Center for Teaching Quality claimed that we "didn't consider" the fact that some teachers leave the profession before collecting benefits.[16]
These claims are false. While we used a 30-year veteran teacher as part of a simple example to begin our pension discussion, our study makes clear that teachers with less tenure receive lower benefits than veteran teachers. For that reason, we valued pension compensation based on the "normal cost" of providing benefits, which is the average value of benefits accruing to all employees in a given year.[17] This value takes into account many factors, including the fact that some teachers do not stay in the profession long enough to collect benefits. So our estimate accurately reflects the value of pension benefits for the average teacher.
Issue: Did you account for the fact that some teachers do not collect Social Security benefits?
Roughly one-quarter of public workers at the state and local level, many of whom are teachers, do not participate in the Social Security system.[18] Our report accounts for this by assigning public-school teachers a lower average value of employer contributions toward Social Security than private-sector workers.
Teachers often suggest that not participating in Social Security is a disadvantage. However, Social Security pays middle-income and upper-income workers a below-market rate of return, generating only about two-thirds of the benefits that workers could receive by investing in safe government bonds.[19] In contrast, public pensions pay employees guaranteed implicit returns more than double those available through government bonds.
Put another way, Social Security imposes an "implicit tax" on participants by collecting more in contributions than it will return to them in benefits. Teachers who do not participate in Social Security are naturally exempt from this implicit tax. By and large, teachers and other public employees benefit from not participating in Social Security.
Issue: Standardized tests are unfair measures of teacher skills. What about communication, organization, and management ability?
Our report notes that teachers score lower on standardized tests than other college graduates. In one section, we used the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) to measure whether teachers are paid commensurately with their cognitive skills. They are. When controlling for AFQT scores rather than paper educational credentials, teachers receive salaries on par with private-sector workers.
Two critics claimed that the AFQT is designed to measure specialized vocational skills, such as automotive and electronics knowledge.[20] This confuses the AFQT with the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), a set of 10 tests of which the AFQT modules—word knowledge, paragraph comprehension, arithmetic reasoning, and mathematics knowledge—make up only four.[21] So we are not asking teachers to service a car engine or build a circuit board, as the critics have implied. We measured teachers' reading and math skills, which have value both in the classroom and in the broader labor market.
What about other skills not covered on a math or reading test? Teaching certainly does involve important organizational and interpersonal skills that formal tests may not capture, but these skills have wide market applications. If teachers are not fairly paid for their non-cognitive skills, one would expect teachers who shifted to private-sector jobs to receive significant raises. But they do not. Using data from the Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation, we are able to track changes in individuals' salaries as they switch jobs. We have shown that the average public-school teacher suffers a slight wage decrease upon leaving the profession.[22]
Issue: Shouldn't you have controlled for test scores and years of education, not test scores alone?
Another criticism focuses on the choice of control variables in one of our regressions.[23] Traditionally, economists use statistical techniques (called "regression analysis") to compare salaries while controlling for a wide variety of differences between workers, including their educational attainment. We have done so in our own work on federal employee compensation.[24]
But years of education is problematic for analyzing teacher pay. Most teachers receive degrees in education, which is widely held to be a less rigorous field of study than the average college curriculum. Research based on the Collegiate Learning Assessment concludes that education majors accumulate significantly less knowledge during college than students majoring in social sciences, humanities, math, or science.[25] Likewise, most evidence suggests that master's degrees in education do little or nothing to improve the teaching output of degree holders.[26]
If education programs impart less knowledge, one would expect education majors to earn less after graduation than majors in other fields. Thus, assuming that teachers should automatically earn the same salaries as other workers with bachelor's or master's degrees—and calling teachers "underpaid" when they do not—is highly questionable.
To more accurately compare teacher salaries, we used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a survey that includes scores on the AFQT, a cognitive test battery taken by 94 percent of respondents in the dataset. Unlike years of education, which may differ in quality or rigor, the AFQT is objective: Each person takes the same test.
Should our calculations control for education and AFQT score, or for the AFQT score alone? Some critics preferred the former, while we opted—openly and following discussion in our study—for the latter. Our goal was to replace a noisy and indirect measure of cognitive skills (years of formal education) with an objective one (AFQT score). Including both variables in the regression would make sense if we thought that education alone was a fair measure of skills across occupations but simply leaves out other skills that the AFQT measures. While it may seem natural that "more is better" when it comes to control variables, education is not merely an incomplete skill measure when it comes to teachers—it is a flawed and misleading one.
Our approach is not new. Derek Neal of the University of Chicago, who for most of the past decade was editor in chief of the Journal of Labor Economics, coauthored a widely cited 1996 paper in the Journal of Political Economy that used the same regression specification (AFQT included, education not included) for many of the same reasons.[27]
Neal and coauthor William R. Johnson showed that the difference in wages between whites and blacks is dramatically reduced when controlling for AFQT scores, but barely reduced when controlling for education. Here is a key passage from their paper:
Some have argued that our specification should include controls for both AFQT and either years of schooling or years of schooling following the AFQT. We prefer the AFQT only specification for several reasons. Given AFQT, schooling measures serve as proxies for skills that either are not captured by AFQT or are acquired after the test date. In either case, schooling is an indirect measure of these skills, and it is straightforward to show that given the other controls in our specification, this source of measurement error introduces a bias toward overstating the black-white wage gap. Further, as we noted previously, this bias will be magnified if years of schooling is not only a noisy measure but also one that systematically overstates the relative skill of blacks.[28]
Replace "black" with "teacher" and "white" with "non-teacher," and this passage would fit well in our own report. Now, it turns out that including both AFQT scores and education in Neal and Johnson's regression would not change their results much, while with teachers the differences are larger. The point, nevertheless, remains.
The AFQT regression is just one of three major results we use to argue that public-school teacher salaries are at roughly market levels. Another is that public-school teachers receive higher salaries than private-school teachers, and the last is that workers who switch between public-school teaching and non-teaching jobs make more when they are teachers. Perhaps most important, we show that—even if public-school teachers received salaries significantly lower than comparably skilled private-sector workers—more generous fringe benefits are more than enough to make up the difference.
Issue: Many teachers have been laid off recently, so how could they have extra job security?
Secretary Duncan says that we "appeared to create out of thin air an 8.6 percent 'job security' salary premium for teachers—despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of education jobs were lost in the recession and teachers continue to face layoffs."[29]
As our report made clear, job security is not the same as a job guarantee.[30] Some teachers have lost their jobs, but the data show that, over the past five years, public-school teachers were only half as likely as workers in other white-collar occupations to become unemployed. That extra security has a value, and we described in detail our method for quantifying it.[31]
Issue: If teachers are overpaid, why don't more people want to be teachers? And why do so many teachers quit?
AFT President Randi Weingarten responded to our study by asking, "If teachers are so overpaid, then why aren't more '1 percenters' banging down the doors to enter the teaching profession? Why do 50 percent of teachers leave the profession within three to five years…?"[32]
In fact, teacher colleges nationwide regularly graduate tens of thousands more students than can possibly find teaching jobs. As Stanford University's Eric Hanushek writes:
The U.S. has for a long time trained considerably more teachers than the number of positions that annually become open in schools. For example, in 2000, 86,000 recent graduates entered into teaching, even though 107,000 graduated with an education degree the year before.[33]
These figures underestimate excess demand for teaching positions, since they omit non-education majors who become teachers. Shortages of specific kinds of teachers—math and reading specialists, for example—do exist, but the average teaching position is easily filled.
Turnover is high among new teachers, as it is among most professions. But over a full career, "the average rate of teacher turnover is very close to similar professions," write Douglas N. Harris and Scott J. Adams in the Economics of Education Review.[34] Turnover among public-school teachers is also considerably lower than among private-school teachers.[35]
Issue: Even if current teachers are overpaid, shouldn't we still pay more to recruit better ones?
Jonathan Chait of New York magazine writes that the best interpretation of our findings is: "Pay teachers badly, and you'll get a lot of bad teachers…. If we paid teachers more, we'd get better teachers."[36] This is a misinterpretation. Our study shows that teachers are currently compensated much more than the level and quality of their skills. In other words, American taxpayers are paying for better teachers than they are getting.
This is why an across-the-board increase in teacher pay is not likely to improve teacher quality. The fact that public-school teachers are today compensated above market levels implies a fundamental problem with current hiring practices. The money is already there, but higher teacher quality has not come along with it.
Economist Dale Ballou demonstrated in the Quarterly Journal of Economics that "Important indicators of a strong academic background and cognitive ability do little to improve the prospects of an applicant for a public school teaching position."[37] Many of the best teaching applicants—those who graduate from more competitive colleges, earn higher GPAs, or hold degrees in specialized areas, such as math or science—are turned down in favor of less qualified candidates who took the traditional route of majoring in education.
Given Ballou's results, raising teacher pay without structural reforms will not put more highly qualified teachers in the classroom. In fact, Ballou and fellow economist Michael Podgursky have argued that higher pay without reforms could lower the quality of teachers in the classroom.[38] Higher pay would reduce the number of teacher retirements, lowering the number of job openings for new teachers. Higher pay also would attract more applicants, but as Ballou's paper indicates, this is no guarantee that the best applicants would be selected. Under these conditions, Ballou and Podgursky estimate that a 20 percent across-the-board salary increase would raise the average SAT scores of teachers in the classroom by only two points, from 925 to 927.
Issue: Education is extremely valuable to society. Shouldn't teachers be compensated for the value they create?
In labor economics, it is generally held that employees are paid their "marginal product"—that is, they receive compensation equal to their contribution toward producing additional goods or services. If paid less than that, they will move to competitors who pay them more. If paid more than their marginal product, their current employer loses money.
It is important not to confuse marginal product with total product. If there were no schools and no education, for instance, future incomes would, obviously, be far lower. But the relevant question is not whether education is important in general, but how much the average teacher improves upon it. Although education is extremely valuable, the marginal product of one additional teacher is much less so. Indeed, the number of teachers per student has risen significantly over the past five decades without a clear impact on student achievement.[39]
One can consider how much a student's future earnings are increased by having good teachers rather than mediocre or poor ones. This is a margin where teacher pay is more relevant, since it is the individual teacher who contributes to students' future earnings. In a well-publicized article, Eric Hanushek estimated that more effective teachers can lead to large increases in students' future earnings.[40] But this finding says nothing about how high the average teacher's salary should be—it argues only for differential pay, a policy that we would welcome. The larger the effect of high-quality teachers on students, the larger the pay differences should be between high-performing and low-performing teachers. As it stands, in most schools there is little or no compensation bonus for the best teachers.
Issue: Other countries pay their teachers much more than the U.S. pays its teachers. Are they all overpaying their teachers as well?
Several commenters have cited data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) showing that relative teacher salaries are lower in the U.S. than in other industrialized nations. The OECD ranks the U.S. 22nd-lowest out of 27 industrialized nations, with American teachers receiving just 60 percent of what comparably educated and experienced non-teachers earn in the U.S.[41]
This result is questionable. Both our own report and past studies have demonstrated that American teachers receive an average of 80 percent to 90 percent of what comparably educated American workers earn in salary, with no estimates as low as 60 percent. Furthermore, the OECD report does not compare fringe benefits, which we have shown are the main drivers of the teacher compensation premium.[42]
Even if we accept the OECD report at face value, it does not directly relate to our own research question, which is whether public-school teachers receive compensation on par with their skills. Better paid teachers in other countries may simply be more skilled than American teachers. Countries that impose higher standards on the teaching profession—by raising entrance requirements to teacher colleges, for example, or by successfully recruiting the best applicants for teacher positions—might be justified in paying higher relative wages than the U.S.
Teacher quality is a major factor affecting student achievement.[43] Some have suggested a general increase in teacher pay would improve teacher quality.
Our research contradicts this assumption. The average public-school teacher receives more compensation as a teacher than he or she would in the private sector. In other words, the public is already overpaying for the existing teacher workforce.
The current teacher compensation system is not working. Absent structural reforms, an across-the-board pay increase will have little impact on teacher quality. What is needed is a more rational system that pays teachers according to their performance, encouraging the best teachers to stay and the least effective teachers to leave the profession. Unfortunately, public-school administrators rarely have the flexibility in personnel management that is needed to implement this kind of policy. Ultimately, teacher-pay reform is likely to be most successful in school systems free of the regulatory burdens imposed by union contracts and school district bureaucracy.
—Jason Richwine, Ph.D., is Senior Policy Analyst in the Domestic Policy Studies Department at The Heritage Foundation, and Andrew G. Biggs, Ph.D., is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
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[1]Jason Richwine and Andrew G. Biggs, "Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers," Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis Report No. 11-03, November 1, 2011, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/10/assessing-the-compensation-of-public-school-teachers.
[2]See, for example, Robert Costrell, "Are Public School Teachers Overpaid?" remarks at the American Enterprise Institute, November 1, 2011, at http://www.aei.org/events/2011/11/01/are-public-school-teachers-overpaid/ (December 29, 2011), and personal communication from University of Missouri economist Michael Podgursky and Harvard University political scientist Paul Peterson. For a cautious and balanced perspective, see Frederick Hess, "Making Sense of the Whole 'Are Teachers Overpaid?' Thing," Education Week, November 18, 2011, at http://www.aei.org/article/education/k-12/teacher-policies/making-sense-of-the-whole-are-teachers-overpaid-thing/ (December 29, 2011).
[3]Linda Darling-Hammond, "Teachers Paid Much Less Than Their Peers," U.S. News and World Report, November 9, 2011, at http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/are-teachers-overpaid/teachers-paid-much-less-than-their-peers (December 29, 2011).
[4]Current Population Survey, "2009 Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement," 2009, pp. 8–24, at http://cps.ipums.org/cps/resources/codebooks/cpsmar09.pdf (December 29, 2011).
[5]These numbers are based on full-time workers (35 or more hours per week) between 2001 and 2010. The mean (as opposed to median) hours per week for teachers and non-teachers are greater than 40, due to some workers reporting very long workweeks. For all non-teachers, mean hours were 43.2. Non-teachers with at least a college degree reported mean hours of 44.8. Mean hours for teachers were 43.7.
[6]Rachel Krantz-Kent, "Teachers' Work Patterns: When, Where, and How Much Do U.S. Teachers Work?" Monthly Labor Review (March 2008), at http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf (December 29, 2011).
[7]National Education Association, "Status of the American Public School Teacher 2005–2006," March 2010, p. 9, at http://www.nea.org/assets/docs/HE/2005-06StatusTextandAppendixA.pdf (December 29, 2011).
[8]As noted in the survey's methodology, "one must assume that nonrespondents (62.2% of the sample in this survey) have the same characteristics and attitudes as respondents." (Emphasis and parenthetical note in original.); ibid., p. 2.
[9]Richwine and Biggs, "Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers," pp. 9–10.
[10]Press release, "AFT President Randi Weingarten Responds to American Enterprise Institute Report on Teacher Compensation," American Federation of Teachers, November 1, 2011, at http://www.aft.org/newspubs/press/2011/110111.cfm (December 29, 2011).
[11]Barnett Berry, "Time to Pay Teachers What They Are Worth," U.S. News and World Report, November, 9, 2011, at http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/are-teachers-overpaid/time-to-pay-teachers-what-they-are-worth (December 29, 2011).
[12]National Center on Education Statistics, "Schools and Staffing Survey: Percentage of Public School Teachers Who Spent Their Own Unreimbursed Money on Classroom Supplies and Average Amount Spent During the 2006–07 School Year, by State: 2007–08," at http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass0708_004_t1s.asp (January 3, 2012). The $415 figure is the product of 92.4 percent of teachers reporting spending their own funds and $450 in average annual spending for those who spend out-of-pocket.
[13]Richwine and Biggs, "Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers," p. 23.
[14]The average expense claimed was $212. Assuming an average marginal income tax rate of 25 percent, this deduction reduces average out-of-pocket costs by $53. Internal Revenue Service, "2009 Estimated Data Line Counts. Individual Income Tax Returns," August 2011, at http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/09inlinecount.pdf (December 29, 2011).
[15]Arne Duncan, "Teacher Pay Study Asks the Wrong Question, Ignores Facts, Insults Teachers," The Huffington Post, November 9, 2011, at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arne-duncan/teacher-pay-study-asks-th_b_1084881.html (December 29, 2011).
[16]Berry, "Time to Pay Teachers What They Are Worth."
[17]For an introduction to what a normal cost is, see American Academy of Actuaries, "Fundamentals of Current Pension Funding and Accounting for Private Sector Pension Plans," July 2004, at http://www.actuary.org/pdf/pension/fundamentals_0704.pdf (December 29, 2011).
[18]The actual figure is 27.5 percent. Dawn Nuschler, Alison M. Shelton, and John J. Topoleski, "Social Security: Mandatory Coverage of New State and Local Government Employees," Congressional Research Service Report for Congress No. R41936, July 25, 2011, Table 1, at http://www.nasra.org/resources/CRS%202011%20Report.pdf (December 29, 2011).
[19]Office of the Chief Actuary, Social Security Administration, "Moneys Worth Ratios Under the OASDI Program for Hypothetical Workers," July 2010.
[20]Lawrence Mishel and Monique Morrissey, "Garbage In, Garbage Out at Heritage and AEI?" Economic Policy Institute, November 23, 2011, at http://www.epi.org/blog/garbage-garbage-heritage-aei/ (December 29, 2011).
[21]Bureau of Labor Statistics, "National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 User's Guide," at http://www.nlsinfo.org/nlsy79/docs/79html/tableofcontents.html (December 29, 2011).
[22]Richwine and Biggs, "Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers," pp. 10–11.
[23]Mishel and Morrissey, "Garbage In, Garbage Out at Heritage and AEI?" and Jeffrey Keefe, "A Better Way to Slice the Data," The New York Times, January 2, 2012, at http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/01/02/are-teachers-overpaid/a-better-way-to-slice-the-data (January 3, 2012).
[24]Biggs and Richwine, "Comparing Federal and Private Sector Compensation," American Enterprise Institute Working Paper No. 2011-2, June 2011.
[25]Richard Arum, Josipa Roksa, and Esther Cho, "Improving Undergraduate Learning: Findings and Policy Recommendations from the SSRC–CLA Longitudinal Project," Social Science Research Council, 2011.
[26]Eric A. Hanushek and Steven G. Rivkin, "Teacher Quality," in Handbook of the Economics of Education, ed. by Hanushek and Finis Welch (New York: Elsevier, 2006), pp. 1051–1078.
[27]Derek A. Neal and William R. Johnson, "The Role of Premarket Factors in Black–White Wage Differences," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 104, No. 5 (1996), pp. 869–895.
[28] Ibid., p. 876.
[29]Duncan, "Teacher Pay Study Asks the Wrong Question, Ignores Facts, Insults Teachers."
[30]"During the recent recession and state and local budget crunch, some public-school teachers were indeed laid off. Employment in education by local government declined by 2.9 percent between September 2008 and July 2011, according to BLS data. Nevertheless, these job losses occurred in a period in which overall private-sector employment declined by 4.4 percent." Richwine and Biggs, "Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers," p. 20.
[31]Richwine and Biggs, "Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers," pp. 20–22.
[32]Press release, "AFT President Randi Weingarten Responds to American Enterprise Institute Report on Teacher Compensation."
[33]Eric A. Hanushek, "The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality," National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 16606, December 2010, p. 1.
[34]Douglas N. Harris and Scott J. Adams, "Understanding the Level and Causes of Teacher Turnover: A Comparison with Other Professions," Economics of Education Review, Vol. 26 (2007), p. 336.
[35]National Center for Education Statistics, "The Condition of Education—Teacher Turnover: Stayers, Leavers, and Movers," at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/tables/table-tat-1.asp (December 29, 2011).
[36]Jonathan Chait, "You Get the Teachers You Pay For," New York, November 1, 2011, at http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/11/you_get_the_teachers_you_pay_f.html (December 29, 2011).
[37]Dale Ballou, "Do Public Schools Hire the Best Applicants?" Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 111, No. 1 (February 1996), p. 120.
[38]Dale Ballou and Michael Podgursky, "Recruiting Smarter Teachers," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Spring 1995), pp. 326–338.
[39]Eric A. Hanushek, "The Failure of Input-Based Schooling Policies," Economic Journal, Vol. 113 (February 2003), pp. F64–F98, at http://web.missouri.edu/~podgurskym/Econ_4345/syl_articles/hanushek_failure_of_input_EJ_2003.pdf (December 29, 2011).
[40]Hanushek, "The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality."
[41]"Building a High-Quality Teaching Profession: Lessons from Around the World," Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2011, Figure 1.1, at http://asiasociety.org/files/lwtw-teachersummit.pdf (December 29, 2011).
[42]Given that a greater proportion of health and retirement benefits are provided by government in Europe, fringe benefits may be a more important component of compensation in the U.S.
[43]Hanushek, "The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality."


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Is there a list of shops in Georgia that specialize in Karts? Myself and my 16 year old son are ready to put the motocross bikes away and get into Kart racing. We will need two Karts and I'm not sure what class yet. I'm thinking for myself a shifter Kart, I'm a big guy 6'4" 240 lbs. I want something to haul my big butt around a track and try to be competitive. My son is 6' and 185lbs (we grow-em big in Gainesville) so I think he may have a few more options. We have been around racing all of our lives and are pretty mechanical. I would like to start with a couple of used Karts, reading the forums it sounds like we may have a learning curve so I would rather learn with a couple of used ones. We have been to the track in Barnesville and since we live in Gainesville we have been to AMP a few times. We are open for suggestions. Thanks in advance!
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Crashin-welcome to,the Craziness! You will love kart racing. I am a long term karter as an escapee of both motocross and car,racing.
Consider a clone class first . In expensive, competitive and fun, of both you and your son. Roberts kart shop in Lovejoy GA is our full time, race kart only shop not too far from the track and open some evenings and 1/2day on Sats.. Steve and his wife Stacy own and run the place. Steve is a national champ,karter,supporter and supplier. He has chassis, engines. Etc.
I have a loaner kart that I have set up to. Loan to newbyps. Both of you get some track time in it, race it, hang out and learn. You will then be hooked and better know what direction to go in.
We are here to help. Let me know,if you want to borrow my kart...chip
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Best thing is to go to Roberts Kart Shop in Lovejoy, and spend a bit of time there picking the Stevie's brain for what tools you might need, because more likely than not, he'll have what you need ready for purchase at his shop. (Tools, recommendations for kart stands manufacturers, etc.)
I second Dr. Chip on running a clone class - the engines are basic, and similar to the ones that rental karts will run at AMP, just a bit faster. Our senior clone group is so big that we have four classes to run with it! It's a great group of guys here, so just keep the questions coming and your knowledge will grow.
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I would also recommend clone class for a starter class.
Feel free to contact me anytime I could put you in a brand New Race ready Ionic Edge for $3,000.00. Maybe less if you buy two.
Feel free to call me anytime!!!
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We have karts for sale at TS Racing Atlanta at AMP. Come see us. Be glad to help with options. Jim Fry. 404-275-1787
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There is a huge difference between clone and a shifter.
He is asking about two karts. Does it make sense to have clone and a shifter? I do not think so. So why you suggest clones?
@Crashin, you can check Classified section on this site, people are always changing chassis/karts so you can find something for your start.
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[quote="Ihor Bilyy"]There is a huge difference between clone and a shifter.
He is asking about two karts. Does it make sense to have clone and a shifter? I do not think so. So why you suggest clones?
Ihor-I can only speak from my own experience. In 1988, I switched from 2 cycles to 4 cycles when I started racing at Barnesvile. My Briggs flathead never let me down.
I returned to karting and Barnesville in 2008 and rented a TAG. I was way over my head, and I had a DNF because of mechanical problems. Then someone suggested that I start with a "clone" engined kart.
I asked "what is a clone" on this website back in 2008. the rest is history for me.
Clones represent a great entry level, affordable class foe people to get started in. Then, depending on their abilities and budget, they can move up. Yamaha has proved to be a good step up. Then Rotax, and shifter. I always want the early "karting experience"..I get tired of that saying..to be a positive one. I know of too many people who started with in faster classes and just gave up. Clones represent, to me, a first step on the ladder of motorsports. We do not put a newby in a Formula 1 car.
My same experience in motocross and road race motorcycle racing. The newbys get the big bore bikes, and the experienced get the smaller bore bikes. And the small bore experienced riders whip up on the big bore newbys. You know how I know. Good racers are fast on the straights, great racers are fast through the turns, as you know.
I sometimes think I would like to step up to something faster, but I have not stop improving my clone lap times yet, since 2008. In fact, I alsost quit racing clones early on because I was so discouraged, getting lapped. A stedy improvement has come my way, and the "Sportsman" class got me feeling competitive again.
Being competitive is what was important to me. Knowing I had a chance to win, and did. I drove Clarence's shifter, and what a blast. Fastest vehicle I have ever driven. But I was all over the place, on and off the brakes/throttle too early or too late, missing shifts, etc.
I would love to have a shifter, or a Yammy or a TAG to play with. But with age comes wisdom. I am just not that fast. Would like to be, would like to have been a pro rcer, but I just do not have what it takes. But Sportsman Clone makes me feel competitive. MAny days I have left the track saying to myself: "I am a racer". But not ready to quit my day job...yet
And each year that I go back to my highly modified dual engined vintage kart, I have many times got off the kart and said outloud "I love my clone"
I believe that clone racing is the place to start, get comfortable, learn the basics, have fun and not be frustrated, and move up when you are ready. c
disclaimer: I flunked high schhol typing-really-and I need new glasses-really.
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I did not mean to slight any other provider of karts, parts, or services.
But we do appreciate sponsorship = time, products, services and $$.
That helps keeps us racing..c
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hi all
i need install resque in Ubuntu11.10 ,after installing redis and "cd" the directory the resque ,there something error about
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cp: can not create regular file "/usr/ bin/ dtach: insufficient permissions
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when i type the command in this way: sudo rake redis:install dtach:install ,ubuntu can't tell the comanad ?!
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Lots of Pics - FOTDs from the last few weeks
It's been a hectic last couple of weeks. I was going through pictures on my computer last night, and I wanted to catch you guys up on a few photos i've taken over the last couple of weeks. Everybody likes picture time! It also gives me an opportunity to get in a few FOTDs that I haven't had time to post.
Here I am modeling my Odd Couple Mineralized Duo, MSF DUO in dark/shimmer, with Gleeful Mineralized Blush. I was having one of those moments where I got super excited about my new goodies and had to wear them all together. For this look, I went home during lunch and put on my makeup, took a picture and went back to work. The colors are still vibrant but work appropriate.
This pic takes us all the way back to Memorial Weekend. My friends and I had a barbeque and I rocked the Neo-Sci Fi Collection. I have on magenetic fields e/s, bronzescape solar bits, evening aura e/s, and I'm wearing electro lipstick with pink grapefruit lipglass on top.
Here is a pic from the Best Makeup Artists of Georgia Meetup a few weeks ago. Fellow blogger Jaimie/my Makeup Mentee is to my left. Next to her is another Atlanta makeup artist Thomasina, and next to her is model Hannah. In this pic I'm rocking my new MAC Pro lipstick Lady danger. On the eyes, I'm wearing neutrals including gorgeous gold and some browns I can't remember.
This is the makeup that I wore to my Star Boutique gig last Friday. I wanted something vibrant...it shows up a bit washed out on camera but it was bright in person! On my eyes I'm rocking the teal color from the Heatherette Trio I think it's calling Hopping, along with the purple e/s from my UD deluxe eyeshadow palette...and a few other colors I can't remember, lol. On my lips I'm wearing Comet Blue Dazzleglass. I try to mix it up and go back to collections I tend to neglect.
Peace up A-Town down...if you're in the Atlanta area and you're an aspiring makeup artist/beauty junkie hit me up! I'm trying to expand my Atlanta makeup clique :)
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- Roselyn said...
Ren! You are soooo making me miss my light-colored hair!! It looks so good on you. I've been debating to go back but I'm just scared of the damage and maintenence that comes with it. Ugh... But you are looking GREAT!
- July 24, 2008 at 10:47 AM
- xoxo Jaimie said...
Great pix! Horrible of me, great of you! Oh and Bombchell is in Atlanta too, we should totally induct her! lol
- July 24, 2008 at 10:51 AM
- Wes said...
You know Ren, you've become a makeup inspiration to me! I plan on expanding my knowledge of makeup and developing my own unique style (like you've done)... I'll start w/ myself first but who knows where it'll lead??
- July 24, 2008 at 11:37 AM
- Product Junkie Diva said...
Great looks Ren!
I see you in that pic Jamie.
Great work as usual.
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- July 24, 2008 at 11:47 AM
- Tammy M said...
I wish I was in your makeup clique!!! Can I be an honorary "out of town" member? He He!
Thank you so much for the info...on my way!
I should be coming up to ATL sometime this year, my hubby has relatives in Stone Mountain? I think that's where he said....
- July 24, 2008 at 11:50 AM
- Stephie said...
you are so goregous ate! i love the blue look the most.
- July 24, 2008 at 11:51 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
roselyn: i think you'd look great with the light hair...i personally try to avoid using heat products and use intense conditioner to keep it healthy...that way i can keep my blond, lol
jaimie: awww i like the pic of you!
wes: yay wes! i'm so excited...i know you got some makeup skills in there...and with your gorgeous hair, you'll be on fiyah!
product junkie diva: thx girl!
tammy: you can definitely be in the honorary clique he he...stone mountain isn't too far...hit me up when you get here!
- July 24, 2008 at 12:09 PM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
stephie: my long lost love where have you been!
- July 24, 2008 at 2:12 PM
- Yellow Fever said...
lol about getting excited about your new goodies and wearing them altogether! I do that all the time!
- July 24, 2008 at 2:49 PM
- yummy411 said...
beautiful! lady danger is a killer.. oh and i LOVE the blue look (purple and blue?) at the bottom. i sooooooo have to try that ;) i think i did, but it doesn't look as good as yours ;)
- July 24, 2008 at 3:55 PM
- Nic Nic said...
you looks great in all the looks! The purple is really soft but very pretty. I really love the blue look too!
- July 24, 2008 at 4:08 PM
- Tia said...
"Odd Couple" is such an awesome color for Asian skin-tone! I love all your FOTD looks! When you put together a makeup lesson class for us ATL people, HOLLER at me. I would LOVE to learn tips from you! I hope everything's been well with you. Take cares, chica!
- July 24, 2008 at 4:16 PM
- Savvy Gal said...
Like the blue shadows, isn't just a cool splash of color for a hot day.
- July 24, 2008 at 7:40 PM
- Mrs. Brookaltimore said...
I love all of your makeup looks, especially the natural one from Memorial Day. I love your YouTube vidoes! Keep them coming! =)
- July 24, 2008 at 8:21 PM
- Askmewhats said...
You looked so cute with the white frilly top!!! so sexy!!!! and I love the way you smile!!! You've got great looks each and everyday!
- July 24, 2008 at 8:46 PM
- Joey said...
Your FOTDs are always the best (: So gorgeous!
- July 25, 2008 at 3:22 AM
- Bliss said...
Im so loving your haircolor and all your FOTDs are flawless, i love you especially at the Makeup Meet, you look fab with red lips.
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F-22 Raptor flies into Cannon
February 24, 2007
A pair of F-22 Raptors stopped at Cannon Air Force Base to get a taste of New Mexico air a year before their arrival at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo.
The Air Force's and New Mexico's newest fighter aircraft was introduced at Cannon Saturday morning after making a trip from Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Fla. The advanced tactical fighters are being tested in Cannon's airspace, and will be moved back to Tyndall.
The Air Force is retiring its fleet of F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighters beginning in March 2008 and replacing them with F-22s.
Beginning in late 2008, two F-22s will be delivered monthly to Holloman until two full squadrons of 20 fighters apiece have been filled, according to Capt. Rebecca Garcia of Cannon.
Maj. James Rich, the Equipment Maintenance Squadron commander at Cannon, managed the maintenance crew for the F-22 at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Va., for three years before arriving at Cannon. He described the inner workings of the Air Force's latest advance in stealth technology.
The Raptor sports two Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 turbofan engines, which allow the aircraft to achieve supersonic speeds over Mach 1.5 without using its afterburners, Rich said.
Typically afterburners tend to suck up more fuel, but the Raptor's aerodynamic design reduces wind resistance, allowing the aircraft to use less of its afterburn, Rich said.
Maj. Shawn Anger and Maj. Lance Pilch of Tyndall trained the first squadron of F-22 fighters for Langley.
Anger has logged about 300 flight hours on the F-22 over 2 1/2 years.
He also worked with F-16s, and compared the two fighters on maneuverability and speed.
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The F-22 also showed advances in the cockpit, Anger said.
"The flight control system is just so much more advanced," he said, "just due to computer technology. The jet is just an amazing performer both at low speeds and high speeds."
Garcia said the F-117 maintainers at Holloman will be retrained to maintain the F-22s.
Rich also said the F-22 fighter was designed for easier maintenance, including a color-coded engine.
"The plane was designed where you can drop one panel in the middle of the plane and have access to everything," he said. "It used to be you had to find someone with small hands to get to the nuts and bolts inside the plane, but now a nominal male can get his hands into the plane to work."
Langley has already received its two squadrons of F-22s, and Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, will receive two squadrons as well before Holloman.
Cannon's new mission does not include the Raptor.
At a glance
Price: $125 million per plane
Primary Function: Air dominance, multi-role fighter
Length: 62 feet, 1 inch
Height: 16 feet, 8 inches
Wingspan: 44 feet, 6 inches
Speed: Mach 2 class.
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DNC Drama...Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008, at 1:51 PM
I guess I should start out by apologizing for the recent hiatus. I could make excuses all day long, and believe me I have them, but that's not really important. I'm going to do my best to keep up with the blog a little better in the future.
What I'm wondering is how do you guys feel about the Democrat National Convention going on out in Denver?
I've got to say I was fairly impressed by Michelle Obama's speech. I felt like she did a good job of coming across as an average person.
Hillary's speech, on the other hand, seemed almost robotic. But, that's how I've always felt about her. She doesn't come across as even being the slightest bit genuine in what she says.
My gut tells me she's just putting on a front and at home praying Barack loses so she has a chance in 2012.
I suppose the big acceptance speech tomorrow will be quite the production. I saw a picture earlier showing the stage he will speak on and it looks like an ancient Greek temple or something.
The buzz seems to be that McCain will announce his vice-presidential pick Friday morning in an effort to halt coverage and talk about Barack's speech. Politically speaking, that seems like a good strategy.
What are your thoughts?
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I assume that the guy was an idiot, but I don't know. This was a divorce case and sometimes a lot of accusations are made that are no where near true. I would hate to divorce the Governor's sister if I was a State Trooper. Things could get real ugly for you real quick. He is still there and there had to be some reason the Director of Public Safety wouldn't fire him. I think she got in too big of a hurry.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Wed, Sep 3, 2008, at 10:48 PM
Interesting indeed Jimmy....but he would have cast a vote against the war! because he is smarter and more compassionate than most.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Wed, Sep 3, 2008, at 12:05 PM
Was Obama sworn into office in 2005? If so, how did he vote for the war which started in 2002-2003? Interesting.
-- Posted by Jim Morrison on Wed, Sep 3, 2008, at 2:32 AM
Maybe the guy was a complete idiot who acted in a way that needed firing. My sources claim that ANY governor would have recommended and found a way to get rid of this creep. I BLT, I am calling this one goes NO where. Neat to see how she is scrutinized though......Also interesting to compare her record of going after corruption in ALASKA with Obama's record of going after corruption in ILL/Chicago. Must not be any corruption to go after there...funny.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Tue, Sep 2, 2008, at 10:40 PM
Maybe she cleaned out the corruption. I don't know. She is or may soon be under investigation for abuse of power in the firing of the Director of Public Safety because he would not fire her ex brother in-law trooper. Maybe, we will see. Maybe people below her did it without her knowledge.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Tue, Sep 2, 2008, at 5:00 PM
McCain's choice of Palen as VP deffinitely has caused me to think twice about voting third party. She is very pro-life, pro-gun-rights, pro-traditional-marriage, and anti-tax. She cleaned out much of the Alaskan political corruption. I may vote for Palin since she's on the ticket. And-- she's for "drill here! drill now! pay less!" I like that!
-- Posted by swift on Tue, Sep 2, 2008, at 3:46 PM
Stop showing how little you know GOAT. That piece of land is not fragile and an overwhelming majority of Alaska is ready to start drilling there yesterday. NO one but liberal environmental wacks and the GOAT buys into this disturbing an ecosystem load of crap.
Just talking about drilling lowers the price of oil. And reducing our drilling in the Gulf due to a hurricane drives the prices up quickly. Lucky for you you're a GOAT and walk everywhere.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Sun, Aug 31, 2008, at 8:27 PM
Yes, Palin is too strict for me. If a little girl is pregnant with her grandfather or other relatives child or a woman is pregnant with her son's child or from a rape incident I will not tell her what to do. These things happen daily and if Palin doesn't agree with me on that; which I think she doesn't, then I can't trust her not to promote her belief and I can't vote for her.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Sun, Aug 31, 2008, at 10:45 AM
Well GL, people all over the U.S. have participated in the destruction of the mountains of appalachia to get the coal energy to build this great country and people in places like Florida, California and yes all the U.S. won't let us put a oil rig off their shore because it is not pretty to tourist or (might) spill or drill a test site because a caribou might see it. I say if we can't drill in your neighborhood, then find your own.
With oil over 100 dollars per barrel I say lets put another million barrels on the market every day. Over a year that is a pretty good chunk of change added to our economy.
Did you ever stop to think that maybe the people behind the no drilling movement stand to gain financially if we don't?
In Eastern Ky there are counties that sell liquor and those that don't called dry counties. When a dry county tries to get on a ballot to allow legal liquor sales then the counties surrounding them pour vast amounts into the election opposing the referendum. They do this because they do not want to lose the revenue from the dry county. Now, who could really be behind the no drilling movement? Who stands to gain monetarily? Follow the money!
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Sun, Aug 31, 2008, at 10:37 AM
Oh, I.B., for shame, not to care about the fragile ecology of the Far Northland... You're such a peace-loving soul! If the caribou enjoy the heat from the pipeline, the more sad for them. And, just because there aren't many people up there, it doesn't mean that it's "barren." It's rich in all sorts of species.
However, it's interesting that Palin is even too conservative for our Dexter Statesman Conservative Super Blogger himself! HeHe!
-- Posted by goat lady on Sun, Aug 31, 2008, at 8:02 AM
She probably knows a little more about ANWR than I do and I really don't care about it. The world has been stripping the mountains where I am from for generations. A little oil drilling in a barren waste land isn't going to harm anything. In fact I hear the caribou kind of enjoy the heat from the pipelines. As conservative as I am though she may be a little too strict for me.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Sun, Aug 31, 2008, at 2:54 AM
I heard the Alaskan gov appeal to the disenchanted women disappointed by Obama's not having chosen Hillary.... Yeah, someone who supported Hillary is gonna go for a pro-life, gun-toting ultra-conservative????!!! Get real! What bimbo is gonna switch, just because Sarah Palin is a woman?
And I can't believe an Alaskan governor supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge! That's like hiring the fox to protect the chickens!
-- Posted by goat lady on Sat, Aug 30, 2008, at 5:21 PM
Both conventions will be the same. No substance. All fluff and rhetoric. All politics as usual. There will be no change in that.
You used to be able to enjoy the Democratic conventions because of the fights that would break out on the floor. Now there's not even that. Both conventions are a waste of money. They're just an excuse for a party - a very expensive party at least partially funded by the American taxpayers.
This morning they announced that McCain has chosen the woman govenor of Alaska as his running mate. There are going to be a lot of people who have to decide whether to vote for a ticket with a woman on it or a ticket with a black on it, forget the party.
-- Posted by Ducky on Fri, Aug 29, 2008, at 3:03 PM
I've enjoyed watching the convention and have taken it for the show/entertainment it is. I expect to get actual information elsewhere.
-- Posted by gardengirl on Fri, Aug 29, 2008, at 11:27 AM
Since when did character mean a thing to a liberal when dealing with politics?
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Aug 28, 2008, at 8:16 PM
I cannot believe they chose to pay tribute to Ted Kennedy. After what his past is filled with, I simply cannot believe the socialist loving Dems would honor a murderer. I'm upset he's lived this long. Sorry to be so down about it, but the girl in the car with him that night, didn't get a tribute.
-- Posted by mobrigade on Thu, Aug 28, 2008, at 3:29 PM
Did notice Hillary leaving out being a proud wife...amazing how many bed wetting yellow puppy dawgs blindly worship them and their self righteous, self serving, arrogant crap.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Thu, Aug 28, 2008, at 9:26 AM
Anyone can give a good speech..... the hard part is writing it. Do you think Michelle wrote that or a staff member whos job is writing speeches?
-- Posted by greer958 on Thu, Aug 28, 2008, at 8:24 AM
Corey Noles' response:That's a very good point. It's a shame these amazing speech writers are always left in the dark while some flapping head gets the credit. If I'm not mistaking, a guy who helped write Bush's first State of the Union after 9-11 was from Scott City. Correct me if I'm wrong.
As I expected, the DNC has been nothing but a selfish political boosting, Bush bashing, daytime soap opera that we all know the liberal media has come to love. Day one we started off with a speech from the Anti Christ's number one servant. Most of us know her as Michelle "For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country" Obama. After analyzing her speech I come the opinion that it's only significance was to try to appeal to the "swing voters" that she's truly a classy American first lady. It also reminded me of Barack Obama's speech several years ago. Just like Barack, she indeed delivered a rousing speech, so motivating that most of her audience failed to realize that it was about nothing. To try to boost the ratings after the first night in the comedy club, day two could only start off with the "Nutcracker" herself, Hillary Clinton. In this blog I have chosen to give her the respect by referring to Mrs. Clinton by her so called gangster name, Hill-dogg. (For those of you who don't know, while seeking the Dem. nomination, the name Hill-Dogg came about to try to appeal to young Black voters during the primary elections. While she never admitted to using it, a Hill-dogg campaign was launch into full effect. Frankly, I never thought the Dems would sink to the level, but they always love stir up a good surprise.) Hill-Dogg's Speech was the self political boosting one of the night. She opened up stating to everyone how she's a proud mother, proud American, proud senator, and so on. Unfortunately for Bill, she never mentioned anything about being a proud WIFE. I guess former president Bill "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Clinton never lived up to his husbandly duties. The good news for him is, there always another intern around the corner, so keep your head high Bill. While giving her speech, Hill-Dogg never officially endorsed Obama. In fact, to me it sounded more like she was preparing for here campaign against McCain in 2012 pending and Obama defeat. Unfortunately I wasn't able to catch the Bill Clinton comedy hour tonight. I realized that I was all out of popcorn and soda for his show. I'll just have to wait for his highlights. Last but not least I want to give my thought about Joe Biden.______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. And that's all I have to say about him.
-- Posted by The Robber Barons on Thu, Aug 28, 2008, at 12:42 AM
We can either 1)SAVE THE DRAMA FOR OBAMA or 2)DRAIN THE MAIN MCCAIN. These are our options.
Both parties have marginal candidates courtesy of an eroded system. Each blames the other party for our current situation. Each claims to have the answers we need to prosper. And then reality hits like a boomerang to the back of the head for the 8th straight time...and it hurts.
But this time it will be different. We are going to have REAL CHANGE...reminiscent to a diaper. Can't wait!
-- Posted by layne staley on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 11:13 PM
Corey Noles' response:You're absolutely right about throwing around solutions. The fact is, good ideas or not, we won't see them implemented because if the problems are fixed what do these politicians have to run on?
Agree GOAT....Both will get media hype....no doubt. Tough to wade through it all. It is like a speech giving contest.....everyone forgets these are just words. Hillary is not inspirational in any way to me.....She is a Clinton and I sincerely believe those two can fake sincerity better than any people I have ever seen. And wouldn't you like to have "friends" like Biden.....? (kidding)
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 10:27 PM
I have to disagree, Corey, I thought Hillary's speech was inspirational, and I'm not a particular fan of hers. But, despite the praise that the CBS people gave Bill Clinton, I thought his speech was lackluster.
As for the "media circus," both conventions will fit that bill!
-- Posted by goat lady on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 10:15 PM
I just am not happy with a Northerner and an Easterner on the ticket. I think Obama could have at least picked a running mate from the Midwest or South and I would have felt a little more comfortable. This is not a good combination as far as I am concerned.
-- Posted by I.B. Le Truth on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 10:08 PM
Without a television, I'm getting my info from the AM news and talkshows as well as patriot radio via shortwave. My gut feeeling is that this is a lot of facade; a media circus. The party still remains divided with many Clinton supporters even thinking of voting for McCain.
If McCain is able to pull support from moderates in the Democratic Party, he can afford to go without the support of conservatives like myself and many others.
That being said, where was the main stream media coverage of the Prohibition Party Convention, Constitution Party Convention, or Libertarian Party Convention? I'm for Chuck Baldwin unless I can be convinced otherwise.
Glad you're back at it Corey. Hope you'll be at the Constitution Party candidate Dr. Greg Thompson's town hall meeting at Hickory Log 6pm Sept. 12th. Interestingly, it's the day after the first organizing meeting of SEMO Life Chain.
-- Posted by swift on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 3:16 PM
Still glad Michelle Obama is finally proud of her country at the ripe ole age of 43. The Clinton's are the most arrogant, self righteous people and the fact that Obama did not choose her shows he at least has some sense. Even as a loser (primary), she comes out and claims to have all the answers. Bill will do the same tonight. I wish they would go away....instead, they will work to see that Obama loses and hope this country has no better choice than her in '12.
-- Posted by shannonhoon on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 2:47 PM
My thoughts...I'm sick of hearing it all. For the ones who have their minds already made up, all this hub-bub is annoying...especially when it's the only thing covered on the only channel I get.
I can't wait until November. Can it come soon enough?
-- Posted by mrsdolphin on Wed, Aug 27, 2008, at 2:33 PM
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