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...whose job would that be? Well, it's your job, U.S. taxpayers! If this seems unfair, that's because it is. Mortgage brokers, investment bankers, house flippers and other sharpies got rich causing this mess. Now all of us have to pay to fix it. The one possible bright side is that, if done right, bailouts don't ultimately have to cost a lot of money. If the government buys assets when everybody's panicked and sells them when markets have calmed down again, it could even turn a profit...
...students leaving the public school system every year for greener pastures, it’s become far too easy to simply label that system “broken” and follow suit. Renewed community-wide participation in state education would be accompanied by a sense of urgency to fix that system’s myriad problems. Of course there is a place in the world for private schools; it’s simply important, in the name of equal opportunity, to ensure that the discrepancy between them and their public counterparts should never grow too wide...
...That's a lot of money we can be using for wildlife conservation.' RACHEL LEVIN, spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, on why the agency won't spend $300,000 to fix a duck stamp that mistakenly lists a phone-sex number instead of a number to re-order stamps...
...Fix the Vote! Re the quote in "Back & Forth" about letting thousands of voting machines remain broken for November's election because of a scheduling backlog [Sept. 1]: We can find water on Mars and land a man on the moon, but we can't produce a working voting machine in eight years? Heads should roll. Norma Wilkinson, Long Beach, Calif...
...Fix the Vote! Re the quote in "Back & Forth" about letting thousands of voting machines remain broken for November's election because of a scheduling backlog [Sept. 1]: We can find water on Mars and land a man on the moon, but we can't produce a working voting machine in eight years? Heads should roll. Norma Wilkinson, LONG BEACH, CALIF...