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		<title>By: morphus</title>
		<link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/10/afternoon-open-thread-184/comment-page-3/#comment-300765</link>
		<dc:creator>morphus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Following the USofA&#039;s the citizen is commodity model, options to where? &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For instance, last year there were large numbers of HS graduates submitting applications, so large they overwhelmed colleges and universities.  Meaning, there were large numbers of rejections solely because of volume.  Other than being redirected to community colleges, what are the options for aspiring HS grads. Applicants for nursing are being rejected because of lack of capacity in schools.  In recession/depression citizens using go back to college to acquire new skills, but the question is new skills for what industry?  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;H1-B workers are here replacing U.S. workers at ALL levels: colleges: grad student teachers and adjuncts, etc , doctors, nurses, medical technicians, IT, accountants, and teachers, while educated U.S. workers are languishing. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So, following the yellow brick road from HS to college, graduating HS students face admission capacity limits. From college to mainstreet, poor job creation creates bottlenecks forcing PHDs into downgrade schools to learn how to function as bachelor graduates, college graduates compete with HS graduates for bartending and waitresses jobs. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Where are the options in a shrinking job marketplace since 80s?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following the USofA&#39;s the citizen is commodity model, options to where? </p>
<p>For instance, last year there were large numbers of HS graduates submitting applications, so large they overwhelmed colleges and universities.  Meaning, there were large numbers of rejections solely because of volume.  Other than being redirected to community colleges, what are the options for aspiring HS grads. Applicants for nursing are being rejected because of lack of capacity in schools.  In recession/depression citizens using go back to college to acquire new skills, but the question is new skills for what industry?  </p>
<p>H1-B workers are here replacing U.S. workers at ALL levels: colleges: grad student teachers and adjuncts, etc , doctors, nurses, medical technicians, IT, accountants, and teachers, while educated U.S. workers are languishing. </p>
<p>So, following the yellow brick road from HS to college, graduating HS students face admission capacity limits. From college to mainstreet, poor job creation creates bottlenecks forcing PHDs into downgrade schools to learn how to function as bachelor graduates, college graduates compete with HS graduates for bartending and waitresses jobs. </p>
<p>Where are the options in a shrinking job marketplace since 80s?</p>
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		<title>By: RobM</title>
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		<dc:creator>RobM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now for the NBA. Donald Sterling of the Clippers whouldn&#039;t have a team either. He just isn&#039;t on TV.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now for the NBA. Donald Sterling of the Clippers whouldn&#39;t have a team either. He just isn&#39;t on TV.</p>
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		<title>By: rikyrah</title>
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		<dc:creator>rikyrah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP</description>
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		<title>By: Town</title>
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		<dc:creator>Town</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you&#039;re a hustler, you will do fine with a GED or a PhD.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Most people are not hustlers, therefore they need all the options they can get.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#39;re a hustler, you will do fine with a GED or a PhD.</p>
<p>Most people are not hustlers, therefore they need all the options they can get.</p>
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		<title>By: Town</title>
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		<dc:creator>Town</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This 2010 not 1864&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Love,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The NFL</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls</p>
<p>This 2010 not 1864</p>
<p>Love,</p>
<p>The NFL</p>
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		<title>By: mon_dieu_ishmael</title>
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		<dc:creator>mon_dieu_ishmael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>errr, all of the above reference COLLEGE DEGREES not high school degrees as mentioned in the original post.&lt;br&gt;I agree that you do not have to have a college degree to make a lot of money.  But not having a High School degree keeps you from getting that first good job, etc.. .&lt;br&gt;I have several relatives that have made very good lives for themselves without college degrees, but they all finished high school.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>errr, all of the above reference COLLEGE DEGREES not high school degrees as mentioned in the original post.<br />I agree that you do not have to have a college degree to make a lot of money.  But not having a High School degree keeps you from getting that first good job, etc.. .<br />I have several relatives that have made very good lives for themselves without college degrees, but they all finished high school.</p>
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		<title>By: pjamma</title>
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		<dc:creator>pjamma</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Myth, I&#039;m doing my best to keep them in business.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Myth, I&#39;m doing my best to keep them in business.</p>
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		<title>By: morphus</title>
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		<dc:creator>morphus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/14/cx_lh_06slate_collegeslide.html?partner=aol&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Forbes: Five reasons not to go to college&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/12/six-figure-degree-jobs-lead-cx_kk_0112nodegree.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Six-Figure Jobs You Don&#039;t Need A College Degree For&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ehow.com/how_4725722_sixfigure-income-college-degree.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;How to Make a Six-Figure Income Without a College Degree&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.payscale.com/ask_dr_salary/2009/01/six-figure-jobs-and-no-4year-degree.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Six Figure Jobs with No 4-year Degree&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/14/cx_lh_06slate_collegeslide.html?partner=aol" rel="nofollow">Forbes: Five reasons not to go to college</a><br /><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/01/12/six-figure-degree-jobs-lead-cx_kk_0112nodegree.html" rel="nofollow">Six-Figure Jobs You Don&#39;t Need A College Degree For</a><br /><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4725722_sixfigure-income-college-degree.html" rel="nofollow">How to Make a Six-Figure Income Without a College Degree</a> <br /><a href="http://blogs.payscale.com/ask_dr_salary/2009/01/six-figure-jobs-and-no-4year-degree.html" rel="nofollow">Six Figure Jobs with No 4-year Degree</a></p>
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		<title>By: RobM</title>
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		<dc:creator>RobM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WRB, Sepia, Plantmanx&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The issue of the President being committed to the public option is one thing. The strategy of having a healthcare bill regardless of its provisions is another. Where these two intersect is where the problem lies and answering it isn&#039;t being helped by name calling.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is my take on what you are saying on the passing of bills:&lt;br&gt;The Senate has two bills. One from HELP and the other from the Finance Committee. If the HELP bill alone passed the Senate it could not be used to reconcile w/ the house bills. The reason is under Senate rules unless money is allocated for a bill through the finance committee any bill passed would have no money to enact its provisions and as a consequence mean nothing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I have never seen this argument about the importance of the finance committee argued here before. I have always seen the arguments about the finance committee bill be whether or not the public option is in the bill for the Senate floor vote. The Senate floor vote passing w/ the public option being the end all and be all of the issue so when it comes down to the 51 vote &quot;reconciliation &quot; vote in the Senate the public option comes into being. The money issue has always been one of inside baseball. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If I understand the strategy WRB is advocating. The public option is in the HELP bill and can be put into the Senate bill through the Senates version of making the finance and help committees bills final. With the House versions all having the public option the Houses final bill and the Senates final bill can then be reconciled w/ one another and voted on. since the final vote takes place in the SEnate at this point w/ 51 votes the Democrats can pass a healthcare bill w/ the public option. this is what you call Presidnet obama playing chess on 20 levels and having faith he&#039;ll get it done&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Rikyrah and I believe that the public announcements of the WH have always worked to undermine the public option regardless of what is going on in committee. I base it on what happened to cram downs for primary mortgages in the final version of the bankruptcy bill. It never happened. This is what I think will happen in regards to the public option.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I&#039;lllet rikyrah give her own defense in regards to the tactics used outside and inside of the committee structure.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WRB, Sepia, Plantmanx</p>
<p>The issue of the President being committed to the public option is one thing. The strategy of having a healthcare bill regardless of its provisions is another. Where these two intersect is where the problem lies and answering it isn&#39;t being helped by name calling.</p>
<p>This is my take on what you are saying on the passing of bills:<br />The Senate has two bills. One from HELP and the other from the Finance Committee. If the HELP bill alone passed the Senate it could not be used to reconcile w/ the house bills. The reason is under Senate rules unless money is allocated for a bill through the finance committee any bill passed would have no money to enact its provisions and as a consequence mean nothing.</p>
<p>I have never seen this argument about the importance of the finance committee argued here before. I have always seen the arguments about the finance committee bill be whether or not the public option is in the bill for the Senate floor vote. The Senate floor vote passing w/ the public option being the end all and be all of the issue so when it comes down to the 51 vote &#8220;reconciliation &#8221; vote in the Senate the public option comes into being. The money issue has always been one of inside baseball. </p>
<p>If I understand the strategy WRB is advocating. The public option is in the HELP bill and can be put into the Senate bill through the Senates version of making the finance and help committees bills final. With the House versions all having the public option the Houses final bill and the Senates final bill can then be reconciled w/ one another and voted on. since the final vote takes place in the SEnate at this point w/ 51 votes the Democrats can pass a healthcare bill w/ the public option. this is what you call Presidnet obama playing chess on 20 levels and having faith he&#39;ll get it done</p>
<p>Rikyrah and I believe that the public announcements of the WH have always worked to undermine the public option regardless of what is going on in committee. I base it on what happened to cram downs for primary mortgages in the final version of the bankruptcy bill. It never happened. This is what I think will happen in regards to the public option.</p>
<p>I&#39;lllet rikyrah give her own defense in regards to the tactics used outside and inside of the committee structure.</p>
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		<title>By: Sepia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sepia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Amen! LOL!</description>
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		<title>By: mon_dieu_ishmael</title>
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		<dc:creator>mon_dieu_ishmael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LOL - this discussion brings back memories.  My wife and I went a private liberal arts schools for our undergrad.  Women were not allowed to wear jeans.   The could wear dresses, nice slacks, or skirts.   Of course my wife found this very unfair as many of the guys were wearing jeans.  So she led a rebellion by the freshman women against the dress code and against some of the other  &quot;in loco parentis&quot; rules that only applied to women.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL &#8211; this discussion brings back memories.  My wife and I went a private liberal arts schools for our undergrad.  Women were not allowed to wear jeans.   The could wear dresses, nice slacks, or skirts.   Of course my wife found this very unfair as many of the guys were wearing jeans.  So she led a rebellion by the freshman women against the dress code and against some of the other  &#8220;in loco parentis&#8221; rules that only applied to women.</p>
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		<title>By: Sepia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sepia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This could be Letterman&#039;s Top 10 List. *smh*</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This could be Letterman&#39;s Top 10 List. *smh*</p>
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		<title>By: morphus</title>
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		<dc:creator>morphus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The developers of the new website,&quot; says RedState, &quot;&lt;b&gt;hope to capitalize on the organic activism that gave way to Tea Parties across the nation&lt;/b&gt;...&quot; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;HA HA HA HA!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The developers of the new website,&#8221; says RedState, &#8220;<b>hope to capitalize on the organic activism that gave way to Tea Parties across the nation</b>&#8230;&#8221; </p>
<p>HA HA HA HA!!!</p>
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		<title>By: mon_dieu_ishmael</title>
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		<dc:creator>mon_dieu_ishmael</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree, &quot;it only gives you more options&quot;.  The options without a high school diploma are usually minimum wage jobs, the first fired in an economic downturn, and a hard scrabble life.  Inner city kids that drop out of high school almost automatically end up in dead end jobs (assuming they can even find a job).  And their children will be trapped in a cycle of poverty.  Its the difference between being a RN or a nurses aid, a civil engineer or a ditch digger, a lawyer and a defendant.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree, &#8220;it only gives you more options&#8221;.  The options without a high school diploma are usually minimum wage jobs, the first fired in an economic downturn, and a hard scrabble life.  Inner city kids that drop out of high school almost automatically end up in dead end jobs (assuming they can even find a job).  And their children will be trapped in a cycle of poverty.  Its the difference between being a RN or a nurses aid, a civil engineer or a ditch digger, a lawyer and a defendant.</p>
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		<title>By: caligirl</title>
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		<dc:creator>caligirl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>wow!!!   she needs to get more $$.  clean his ass out and make an example.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>wow!!!   she needs to get more $$.  clean his ass out and make an example.</p>
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		<title>By: Town</title>
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		<dc:creator>Town</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Limbaugh knew this was going to happen.  This is only a publicity stunt so he can go on the air and complain that Obama kept him from owning a NFL team.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Limbaugh knew this was going to happen.  This is only a publicity stunt so he can go on the air and complain that Obama kept him from owning a NFL team.</p>
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		<title>By: morphus</title>
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		<dc:creator>morphus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When there is job creation.  A missing part of the discussion.</description>
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		<title>By: Town</title>
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		<dc:creator>Town</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know, right?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Just let everyone snicker about her tracks and keep it moving.</description>
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<p>Just let everyone snicker about her tracks and keep it moving.</p>
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		<title>By: lamh32</title>
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		<dc:creator>lamh32</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/10/top_ten_reasons_why_the_gop_website_relaunch_is_fizzlin.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Why The GOP Website Relaunch Is Fizzlin&#039;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;10. In a section devoted to &quot;future leaders,&quot; there were none. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;9. In the subsequent rush to get up a &quot;future leaders&quot; page, they choose &quot;you.&quot;&lt;br&gt;8. The last GOP accomplishment cited on the accomplishment page was from 2004. &lt;br&gt;7. The what&#039;s up page -- hip! starts with this sentence: &quot;&quot;the internet has been around for a while now&quot; &lt;br&gt;6. Administrator passwords were accidentally posted. &lt;br&gt;5. When the RNC hosted a kick-off conference call, the website was down. &lt;br&gt;4. The website cites Jackie Robinson as a GOP hero. Robinson wasn&#039;t a GOPer, and he criticized the GOP on race. Robinson left the party because of its views on race. He had been, as a reader points out, a Republican for many years.&lt;br&gt;3. The first question on the conference call was from an Hispanic Republican who asked why the GOP site didn&#039;t have a Spanish-language page and noted that the White House had one. &lt;br&gt;2. Bragging about web redesigns is so 2004.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. It&#039;s not timed with the start of any major advocacy campaign -- or political campaign. And it portrays itself as something it&#039;s not: diverse and ready to embrace new ideas. That may be what the party leadership aspires to, but, at least when it comes to diversity, a few pictures of Hispanics and African Americans doesn&#039;t make up for ... well, the history of the party.  &lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
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<blockquote>10. In a section devoted to &#8220;future leaders,&#8221; there were none. </p>
<p>9. In the subsequent rush to get up a &#8220;future leaders&#8221; page, they choose &#8220;you.&#8221;<br />8. The last GOP accomplishment cited on the accomplishment page was from 2004. <br />7. The what&#39;s up page &#8212; hip! starts with this sentence: &#8220;&#8221;the internet has been around for a while now&#8221; <br />6. Administrator passwords were accidentally posted. <br />5. When the RNC hosted a kick-off conference call, the website was down. <br />4. The website cites Jackie Robinson as a GOP hero. Robinson wasn&#39;t a GOPer, and he criticized the GOP on race. Robinson left the party because of its views on race. He had been, as a reader points out, a Republican for many years.<br />3. The first question on the conference call was from an Hispanic Republican who asked why the GOP site didn&#39;t have a Spanish-language page and noted that the White House had one. <br />2. Bragging about web redesigns is so 2004.</p>
<p>1. It&#39;s not timed with the start of any major advocacy campaign &#8212; or political campaign. And it portrays itself as something it&#39;s not: diverse and ready to embrace new ideas. That may be what the party leadership aspires to, but, at least when it comes to diversity, a few pictures of Hispanics and African Americans doesn&#39;t make up for &#8230; well, the history of the party.  </p></blockquote>
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		<description>Education doesn&#039;t create jobs, it only gives you more options.</description>
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