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Our private schools here basically run on the same school schedule as the public one has. The onky difference is they may have a few days different due to religious holidays.

It doesn't matter.  You don't get bus service to private schools almost anywhere.  So, you still need someone who can take your kids to school and back home.  Lower income people and a lot of average middle class people don't have that option.  They are pretty much stuck sending their kids to public schools.  The money for these vouchers is robbed from public schools, in a lot of instances, and given to well off people who weren't gonna be sending their kids to public school, regardless of the existence of vouchers or not.

Historically, school districts didn't punish public schools for people in that distract that chose to send their kids to private school.  Now they get less money.  Even before that and having less money, if anything they could have done with more money, especially schools in lower income areas. 

I literally just got into an argument at dinner with my black sheep bro, when my cousin was here.  I got tired of arguing and told him no more politics talk.  He listened fortunately and had quite a few beers in him.

I tried to explain to him my whole it's not capitalism comment.  There is no real incentive for private schools to compete with everyone to get bigger and bigger and have more and more students attending their campus, with them building a bigger school continuously.  He was acting like all this competition would be great and would lead to better results.  It does nothing to improve the system.  It's just a way for rich people to get tax dollars for sending their kids to private school, while leaving less money for the children of parents who are less well off and have no choice but to send their kids to public school, regardless of vouchers.

For a person like him, if he didn't have my parents and if he actually raised his kids, and didn't mooch off my parents who raised his kids, such a system would have done nothing for him.  He wouldn't have a penny to kick in of his own money to pay for tuition, all of which isn't covered by vouchers.  He wouldn't want to spend money on gas, much less take the time, driving them to and from school.  He'd be lucky if he wasn't living on the streets with his lack of discipline and how he has shown no responsibility in his life.  Dude won the lotto having my folks as parents.  He doesn't even realize how lucky he is, how much he has benefited, and most importantly, not a lot of people have that and parents like mine.  Yet he's MAGA as eff.

It's like taking money out a homeless person pocket and giving it to a rich man and thinking it makes you and the world better off.  The voucher system does nothing to create overall better schools.  It just punishes poorer people, makes their only choice of school worse, while giving more well off people more options and money.

I don't think they are that stupid.  Their whole country would be flattened.  I don't believe it. 

Anyone other than him would be a more competent leader too.  How is giving us a more competent leader going to help them or even their friends, Russia and China?

You don't think when my ex and I moved here, we didn't look at school district and only look at homes in certain ones?  Anyone who can and who is a good parent, does this.

‪Qasim Rashid, Esq.‬
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Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital.

Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare.

The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

Israel shared intelligence with US of Iranian plot to assassinate Trump, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/09/politics/trump-assassination-plot-iran-israel

Israel shared intelligence with the United States that Iran had recently devised a new plan to assassinate President Donald Trump, two sources familiar with matter told CNN.

One of the sources said the warning came this week. Another source said the US had picked up a steady drumbeat of intelligence in recent weeks about possible plans to assassinate Trump, but the warning from Israel was new and concerned a specific plot.

The details of that plot were not immediately clear, nor was it clear if the US had detected it separately from the Israeli warning.

Asked for comment on the Israeli warning, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the White House pointed to Trump’s recent comments on Iran’s desire to kill him.

“They want to take out the US leader — me,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “I’m on whatever list. I saw this morning I’m on every single one of their lists. And so far, I guess I’ve been a bit lucky, but maybe that doesn’t last very long. These are evil, sick people. And we have to root out that cancer. That cancer. You know what you do? You’ve got to cut out cancer early. And that’s the way I feel.”

"...the warning from Israel..."