[Jhoffa_]

...wondering how they will make the rent payment and cover child-care costs.

Whoops! More than you meant to say, wasn't it Jeffords?

[Chi-townChief]

This guy just can't cease proving himself an ass.

[JimVT]

Jeffords says: "Too many hard-working people are stuck in low income jobs" and "education funding is disgraceful."

Right, Jim. And what did you do to stop the loss of 7000 Vermont high-tech jobs over the past year or two and with your buddy, Howard "Deficit" Dean (out-going...and I don't mean personable Dem. Gov.)?

And what are you doing to convince my town's NEA members that another 12% increase in the school budget is not going to improve educational scores.

From Vermonters for Better Education:

Vermont scores on the 2002 Scholastic Aptitude Test, taken by many high school juniors and seniors for college applications, are up from last year, but still below national averages of similar students.

While 2002 SAT results in the state are a few points above last year's scores, both verbal and math scores lag behind the average SAT scores of white American students. Because Vermont's population is almost 100 percent white, it makes sense to compare the state's scores to those of that particular demographic.

In 2002, white students scored on average 533 on the math portion of the SAT, and 527 on the verbal, compared to Vermont's scores of 510 on the math and 512 on the verbal, according to scores posted on the College Board web site. That means Vermont students scored nearly 40 points below other white students across the country.