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Oregon’s Legislature, Judicial, & Governor realize there is a small % of us that are statisticians. Fewer of us have time to take off making a living to do the math required to make a well informed decision. Oregon is transparent in its statistics in all but in 2 areas, the expenditures of The DOE. and The DOJ. Yet these Depts. are telling you what matters to get you to vote yes. Believe those agencies that are least transparent & supply the least actual facts?  Because of the hidden stats of these agencies, even statisticians have to vote blindly.  If you close your eyes while compiling your yearly state tax returns vote yes! Or open your ears & eyes to the deception that The State is presenting. If you wish to evaluate whether I am right or wrong go to this website: http://egov.oregon.gov/DOR/STATS/exp09-11toc.shtml; Facts: Corporations are our 2^nd largest source or revenue; Oregon spends the 2nd highest % of budget on corrections in the nation. Over I billion per yr; ODOC spends about $30,000. per inmate per yr; About $10,000. per k-12 student is spent per yr by the DOE; Oregon’s difference between education revenue and expenditures is: -$87,789,793. The national average is: +$135,590,065. This includes federal funds. See these sites, do simple math, & ask yourself, "Where is the money going?" http://nces.ed.gov/programs/stateprofiles/sresult.asp?mode=short&s1=41  http://nces.ed.gov/programs/stateprofiles/sresult.asp?mode=full&displaycat=2&s1=41 Oregon's not found the $ to fully pay for its correctional system. What's our priorities when it comes to children? If Oregon's to gain any of the new AR&A Fed. funds we have to make an exchange of these numbers. Yes won’t do it!  Are our children and grandchildren going to pull out of this recession on top through higher spending on education or shall we send our children to prison to wallow at the bottom of the pile? All of you must choose wisely! I VOTE NO!

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Speaking from the 4th legislative branch…this “Special Election,” will show if Oregon schools are actually teaching their students. The state employee unions & OR district atty. assoc. are appealing to the less intelligent citizens by trying to minimize questions with their unfair $10 min. tax claims. To influence educated voters, use facts & full explanations. As with most gen. public ads they have to appeal to the bulk of folks with IQs less than 90.  Yeah, give me a break too!  If Measures 66&67 are such great thinking problem solvers, why did those who wrote the ballots insure they were one-sided. The measures the state has come up with over the last 2 decades have so fooled the public with exaggerated claims & is the reason the state is in the financial mess it is in now. Measure 11…how many of our children have spent 6+years imprisoned for going through puberty. For violent crimes it was said & repeat offenders. BULL!  Deny them counseling. Don’t let them better themselves through special programs or out sooner to get on with legally lived lives.  Have none of you have ever made a childhood mistake.  Just never got caught?  Yet grew up, learned from the mistake without undo punishment.  Costs of these mandatory sentencings have near bankrupt Oregon. Why was it the legislature put off enacting Measure 57?  20 yrs. ago this state put a vendetta upon our children’s education. I urge a vendetta against the State of Oregon VOTE NO on both these ill conceived measures. Let us next take on the DA Assoc. who want these tax measures so they can continue to get paid big bucks to make our children into felons just for being children. It’s the under IQ’d running this state and those who vote into law these ridiculous measures.  What was that I heard in the news yesterday? Blond haired blue eyed terrorist?  Well, at least the State of Oregon made sure to employ enough guards to train them last year.  Pardon me I was “Thinking Out loud.”

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