beware of politicians who try to use "schools" to get your vote

Robin's commentary --

With the November elections around the corner the political ads trying to earn your vote are starting to become more hot and heavy.

If you listen to John Kitzhaber ad is touting the old line of it's all about schools and our children.

our future is our children... we need education for a future... we need education for jobs.

PLEASE DO NOT FALL FOR THIS!

sure, education is a good investment unless you go to Lane community college, but either way, your return on your investment is not going to be immediate and unless there are businesses to employ graduates, those graduates will move out of the area and therefore still not help the local economy.

also remember that they tend to use "schools & children" to try and coax you into voting for whatever it is that they want.

If you remember measure 66 & 67 they were really pushing that it's "for the children" and look what happened.

For me, any politician that starts using the it's for the... schools... children... public safety... quickly run and hide.



But this seems to be the year that we are recycling the politicians and personally, I think this is one time that we should forget about recycling, do away with the old and bring in the new.

President Obama was correct in the fact that we need "hope and change", however, not in the way that Obama was planning... but in a way that it's really time to clean house and literally "throw the bums out."