If this case had happened to a regular citizen, he or she has to be in jail for the rest of his or her life.

Wake up Americans, why do we have to vote such man to currupt our own lives.

Doyle supposed to serve the citizen but not to cheat from the citizen.

If you were being intellectually honest about markets and consumers making decision, then you would get government out of America’s most costly infrastructure program: Interstate Highways. Why is it that everything Obama does smacks of a rhetorically bizarre mix of Communism, Socialism and Fascism, but a 1950s project done by Eisenhower and clearly modeled on Third Rich Nazi infrastructure and pushed by GM and big oil is sacrosanct and beyond criticism?

Look at the real numbers and the real cost. Don’t forget to tax the highway for its land, like you tax the railroad. Don’t give tax breaks to big oil, coal and nuclear. Stop giving tax breaks to energy companies for cleaning up after themselves. When it comes to nuclear, remember to have the utilities prepay for that guard who needs to sit at the nuclear waste site for 10,000 years. (That would be six hundred thirty-five million one hundred thousand dollars at minimum wage with no benefits for one guard 24×7 for ten thousand years. No idea how we make the storage infrastructure last 10,000 years when we can’t keep a concrete panel bolted to a wall for more than 20.)

Future energy cost in a true free market will move us inevitably toward more energy efficient transportation. If we didn’t subsidy roads and automobile use, we would have entrepreneurs building rail projects today. Only people who swallow the triple delusion (1. If we drill we will always find more cheap oil. 2. That global warming is not caused by man. 3. We can invent our way out of our resource problems.) willingly consume the hogwash of staying the course as defined by the current GOP.

The GOP has no constituency that supports transit for the poor or for environmental reasons, because those constituents have been driven out of the party by your ideological radicals.

The population is growing, urban density is rising. Sprawling across Wisconsin’s agricultural land (the best soil on the planet) is not sustainable if we want to feed a hungry planet. Density will increase (especially since your party doesn’t like teaching about birth control) and density makes rail profitable. Rail projects in Asia (which we will inevitable look more like demographically) actually make money and are run by profitable private companies.

It is not just the GOP alone that is the problem when it comes to sprawl. The highway building cool-aide is drunk down by both parties. A prime example of bipartisan corruption due to the influence of developers, unions, and highway builders. Since rail passenger companies have no lobbyist showering money on the GOP, rail will remain unpopular with that party.

The world is changing and you want us to stick our heads in the sand and pretend it is not. America succeeds by anticipating change and showing the leadership to move forward with that change.

A close study of the program reveals an effort to profile and track our children via a computer data system in each state capitol. States are allowed to spend as much as 50% of their “awards” on this new bureaucracy. Within 48-hours of each test, schools are required to send each student’s score to the government centralized data collection agency. Students private profile and each test score will be accessible by the Federal government – and other unknown “Researchers”, thanks to an effort to break down barrier state laws that formerly protected students’ right to privacy. Here, in Wisconsin, one such bill was passed last December.

One has to wonder why the Federal government needs access to these intimate details of each child’s education. I’ll leave that for others to decide for themselves.

Another costly component of Race to the Top is an enormous amount of teacher and administrator re-education… workshops… training… WHY? Aren’t these people highly educated professionals, many of whom have decades of classroom experience?

After Wisconsin failed the first round, one Reviewer raised valid concerns over any possible benefits to school districts outside of Milwaukee should Wisconsin become a part of the Race to the Top:

“While Wisconsin has some areas of real strength in its application, such as ambitious plans, for an instructionally useful assessment system and encouraging the development of charter schools, it also suffers from some profound weaknesses. For example, the application is so limited in its discussion of educator evaluation, how those evaluations will be conducted, and the potential uses of the resulting data. And, while the application describes robust plans to intervene in Milwaukee, it provides relatively limited support to the other LEAs, many of which have relatively stagnant growth. So, while there is at least some attention paid to all four reform areas, the quality of these efforts varies tremendously.”

It is clear that the Race to the Top is intended to be a power grab, wresting control over all aspects of local decision-making from school boards that are accountable to their voters and transferring this power to State and Federal government entities. It remains evident that the Federal government knows the dollars that will filter down to local school districts will not be enough to fund the mandates and they fully expect a burden to be placed on local districts, and ultimately, our taxpayers. The actual wording implies that the State will have at least some measure of authority over our budget decisions because the statement reads that they expect states to “repurpose… local sources of funding”. I find this to be totally unacceptable.

“In light of this analysis, we conclude that States can propose high-quality Race to the Top plans within the Department’s suggested budget ranges, particularly given that, as part of their reform plans, States are expected to coordinate, reallocate, or repurpose other Federal, State, and local sources of funding to support their Race to the Top goals.”–4000-01-U, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, 34 CFR Subtitle B, Chapter II, Docket ID ED-2010-OESE-0005, RIN 1810-AB10,
Race to the Top Fund

Thank God Wisconsin dodged the bullet. Pity the states that didn’t.

http://www.planetizen.com/node/34490
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007800.html

Your propagating lies for purely ideological purposes and so blinded by you partisanship that you support actions that are not in the best interests of the human race.

Until the funds are allocated, then they’ll find an endangered rodent living in the proposed path and spend another hundred million tying the project up in court another 15 years.

(Monorail! Monorail! MONORAIL!!!!)