Homeschool World Forum

I cant believe Edwards pulled out!! That saddens me! I guess it would have to be Obama then. I have not found a Rep. that I like or how he views the issues this time round.

Edwards could actually be King Maker. If Hillary and Obama are too close and neither get the majority, then Edwards' delegates could be vitally important. There are a lot of if's, but if this is the case he may become the most powerful man in the country, selecting the Democratic Presidential candidate.

Theoretically, Edwards was running on "change", and Obama exemplifies that better than Hillary, so Obama should get more of a boost from Edwards pulling out. It would be nice if he won so we at least don't need to worry about Hillary in the general election.

Just to be the devil's advocate here, the road to hell is paved with good intentions I don't think that Obama actively means us harm, but that doesn't necessarily mean harm won't result anyway as a side effect.

In point of fact, the amount of money spent specifically for the Iraq war only comes to maybe a few hundred billion dollars over a period of 5 years. The majority of the money goes towards developing new technologies (being tested in Iraq) and boosting our military to effective levels again. If we'd continued to maintain our military at pre-Clinton levels, for instance, the overall bill now would be significantly lower.

Basically, we could save maybe $60 billion a year by not being in Iraq. Given the $11,000 per student we're paying for grade schoolers (which I doubt would be much less for preschoolers), that's enough for about 5 1/2 million children. But you have to realize that war is temporary, whereas we'd be stuck paying this until doomsday, and studies have shown that preschool offers no significant benefit in terms of education. Honestly, the best thing children of that age can do is just play with building blocks, and daycare will work equally well for that.

Not that I really support daycare either.

my son was 3 and doing 1st grade work. He was in a Montessori while I was working. He was preschool age, a toddler. Do you think building blocks would have been fine for him? 60 billion would go a long way for more daycares that are montessori like. I dont like daycare either but people have to work since that is the society we live in now.