GWB has clearly decided that schools need to be run more like a business, since business made America Great. A little quality control is all you need. After all, how much difference can their be between teaching and making cars.? Just a few good management tools.

Like Lincoln Savings and Loan. Maybe Neil can bring to education the superlative business expertise he demonstrated during the Savings and Loan Fiasco. Oops, sorry. He was just a Director and as outraged by management's actions as the depositors who lost everything. Not that he lost anything. Or offered to return any of the money he'd made thanks to those managers.

Chrysler is laying off 26,000 workers. A portent of things to come? Staff costs are a big component of a corporation overhead. So do we end up cutting teachers because the market (in the form of standardized tests) isn't performing according to managements goals?

Bush wants tax money given back to (some) of the people in the form of tax cuts. (Mostly to the very rich as, clearly, us bottom feeders would waste the money on things like food and such). Unless you own a major league team, them tax money should be used to build your team a stadium.

Government can certainly be run more business-like. To claim it can or should be run like a business demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the nature of business and of government.

When do I get to start saying I told you so???

Regards

John