As everyone knows, the state has been furiously cutting back on the education budget. After reading the article “In The Classroom: Staying in school together” on March 2, I realized that our tax dollars are funding a program to help teen mothers raise their infants. Oops!
Don’t teens take a health class? Remember — freshman year? As accidents like these could’ve been prevented, why do we have to pay up?
Bottom line: If you think you’re ready for a baby at 17, make sure you are financially stable.
ELI TAHAN
Glendale
President dismisses Republican ideas
The presidential health-care summit was an exercise in one-party rule, and it played out on national television for all Americans to see.
A few days before the summit, the president published his ideas and put them on the Internet. At the summit, President Obama and legislative leaders from both parties talked about health-care reform for nearly six hours.
The president chaired the meeting and divided the time. He gave Democratic legislators 114 minutes, Republican legislators 110 minutes and spent 119 minutes at his bully pulpit.
The president pushed his ideas, Democratic legislators supported his ideas, and the Republicans laid out five cost-effective ideas to start an affordable health-care-reform process. The president dismissed the Republican ideas and closed the meeting by giving the Republicans four to six weeks to sign on to his ideas or the Democrats might force health-care reform into law and let the November elections decide who was right.
Isn’t one-party rule great?
LYNN MCGINNIS
Glendale
