To Your Good Health John McCain

Sen. McCain, if you are elected, I will attend my synagogue daily to pray for your continued good health. The very thought of Gov. Palin as president gives me the creeps.
Speaking of good health, Sen. McCain, why can't the people of the U.S. have health care similar to what Congress has? Your plan for health care is horrible. Tax credits? People can't afford this to begin with.
I'm not surprised by your health plan. The Republican Party never wanted medicare to begin with. President Eisenhower was dead set against it. Ironically, President Eisenhower and the other Republican President, Ronald Reagan, both underwent devastating prolonged illnesses. Luckily, they were covered by governmental insurance. The average Joe, Sen. McCain, would have been wiped out.

N.Y.C. What to do with the excessed teachers

Thank you Miss Weingarten for agreeing to that miserable 2005 contract where senior teachers lost seniority transfers and where principals can excess teachers at will. As a result of this, people who have taught for many years have been excessed due to a drop in student population. At first, the newspapers made it appear that these people were incompetent when they had been receiving satisfactory ratings all the time. Now, you don't hear that as much.
Miss Weingarten, let my teachers go. You are not the personnel director for the central board. You are working for the benefit of teachers in this city. Infact, now that you're AFT President, you should seriously consider relinquishing your UFT presidency.
Let the excessed teachers who want to retire-go!!!!! They have suffered enough from the indignities of a totally uncaring school system which you have so ably helped to transform. As long as these teachers do not suffer the indignity of a penalty for retiring early, if they want to go, don't step in their way.