DEBT CEILING ISSUE and a REPUBLICAN OPPORTUNITY!

The Congressional Republicans have a golden opportunity with the upcoming debt ceiling issue, and hopefully they will take advantage of it. Obama recently claimed that raising the debt ceiling does not raise the national debt. Theoretically, he’s right, but the only reason the debt ceiling needs to be raised is so the government can borrow more money – which undoubtedly will raise the debt! So the Republican strategy should be to raise the debt ceiling, but tie it to a provision that prohibits any borrowing which would raise the national debt. The provision would, however, allow borrowing to replace mature debt with new debt, but only on a dollar for dollar basis. This way Obama can’t claim that Congressional Republicans didn’t give him what he wanted, and it keeps him from raising the debt, which he said a debt ceiling increase would not do. Then leave it to Obama and the Democrats to deal with!

MYTHS ABOUT OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM!

There is no truth to the claim that increasing spending per pupil improves student achievement! There has never been a definitive study that shows any correlation between spending and student achievement. If fact, some school districts which have the highest per capita spending per student have some of the lowest scores on achievement tests.

HOW YOU BELIEVE IS IMPORTANT!

There are people who believe they can, and there are people believe they can't, and they are both right!