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" And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes. "
Money
Live
Recreation
" Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. "
Opportunities
Debate
School
" Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime. "
Fight
Giving
Will
" If we increase spending, we have got to raise taxes or any combination. "
Spending
Combination
Got
" In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country. "
Legal
Decision
Moral
" I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second. "
Security
Worry
First
" It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act. "
Difficult
Act
Civil Rights
" It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree. "
Impossible
Graduation
College
" Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money. "
Waste
Shown
Money
" No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. "
Education
Opportunity
Pay
" Obviously, there has to be a profound change in direction. Otherwise, interest on the national debt will start eating up virtually every penny that we have. "
Change
Eating
Direction
" One of the problems with even suggesting that purpose of a Federal law is for law enforcement officers to assist in protecting the public outside their jurisdictions is that it may give them encouragement or even a sense of obligation to do so. "
Encouragement
Purpose
Problems
" Present law has a process to ascertain whether or not a patient is in a persistent vegetative state, and it should not matter what politicians think. "
Think
Matter
Present
" Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly. "
Education
Work
Training
" The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime. "
Death Penalty
Crime
Anything
" The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. "
Than
More
Years
" The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before. "
Security
First
Before
" The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary. "
Justice
Juvenile
Year
" There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments. "
Volunteer
Fire
About
" Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in and excel in literacy, education, treatment and other development programs. "
Time
College
Good
" We can be more inclusive. "
Inclusive
More
" We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit. "
People
Progress
Nation
" We can fight Big Industry. "
Fight
Industry
Big
" We can play politics, or we can reduce crime. "
Play
Politics
Crime
" We live in an information and knowledge-based economy. "
Live
Economy
Information
" While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. "
Obstacles
Education
College
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