Oklahoma Teacher Shortage

[Midtowner]

Let's compare apples to apples. The lottery propaganda sold a projected $300 million revenue boost to get its agenda established, all with the help of then-gov Brad Henry. The problem is those same people *had* to know their revenue projections were bogus. It was a deceitful illusion from the word "go."

lol, a conservative telling poor people he knows how to better spend their money than they do and wants to have the governmetn force that choice. I'll bet you don't even realize how ideologically inconsistent this position is.

[jerrywall]

lol, a conservative telling poor people he knows how to better spend their money than they do and wants to have the governmetn force that choice. I'll bet you don't even realize how ideologically inconsistent this position is.

Seriously? You support preying on the poor and uneducated who need their money the most?

[Midtowner]

Seriously? You support preying on the poor and uneducated who need their money the most?

Preying on them? It's their money, they get to choose how to spend it.

[jerrywall]

Preying on them? It's their money, they get to choose how to spend it.

Because it takes advantage of the folks most likely to be too poorly educated to know better, and who can least afford it. And it does so while not providing the benefit the proponents claimed it would.

[Jersey Boss]

Because it takes advantage of the folks most likely to be too poorly educated to know better, and who can least afford it. And it does so while not providing the benefit the proponents claimed it would.

It appears that you could be referencing Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson or other TV preachers.

[jerrywall]

It appears that you could be referencing Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson or other TV preachers.

Maybe, but I see a difference with the state being one of the actors.

I don't have a problem with casinos, for example, but I don't think the state belongs in that business. And to push it as some great boon for eduction was and is flat out dishonest.