Ok ok you can get back in your chair; in the last debate he kept talking about education and how it is the answer to everything (or that is what he alluded to) that is one of the few things where he is right (though I don’t think is no-student-left-behind policy is working, or so most of the press says).
I notice how he was right when I see things here in Ag development, and example would be the rate of adoption of newer technologies by farmers in developing countries (probably in developed countries too). Across the board it is the ones who are more educated (can be something as basic as being literate enough to read feed ingredients, we aren’t talking PhDs here). Agriculture is about as basic a part of society as you can get, the underpinnings of society. So wouldn’t it make sense that if you strengthen the most basic part of a society the benefits will trickle down (up?) in the form of less poverty, cheaper agricultural goods, less agriculturally derived ecological abuses (chemical use, less land used more efficiently, less erosion, etc). Yes, Gee-Dubbya got that part right, now if he could only come up with effective policy to promote that for home and abroad.
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