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    1. [FLORIDA] Nail the perpetrator
    2. J B
    3. The demand to cut back class size that necessitates the rabid cutback in so many state services really put a cog in the plans of Bush to enhance this state's progress. The persons or person responsible should be the recipient of the blame. I am as devasted as anyone of the plan to bury the history library and archives, but the persons who voted for the measure to reduce classes were the masses who unthinkingly vote for anything that sounds good, without a thought for the expenses it might incur. The library is not the only cutback that will cause an uproar, I'm sure; but how else will Bush raise the money to finance such a cutback in classes? As a teacher, I remember the days when I had 45 in a class--true that was in high school. but the three years in elementary school teaching, the classes contained 30 and more (in second grade). Perhaps if the ridiculously exorbitant salaries paid to the powers that exist in the county education systems were cut in half, and many of the dead wood employees released from duty, surely millions of dollars could be reaped to help the system. Please don't think that I am not as concerned as anyone about the demise of the library. As a genealogist, I will suffer also. It is simply that I deem it a shame to beat the wrong horse. It is time for thinking persons to offer solutions to the governor to help keep the state running smoothly by demanding a revote and killing some of these bills passed---as the reduction in class size and the bullet train---and relieve some of Florida's financial woes. JB

    01/26/2003 05:32:01