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Commentary 3
Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006
Okay, simple question: Who do
you want for your governor for the
next four years? Do you want a
man who is going to defiver results,
or somebody who is going to prom
ise you the moon to get your vote
and then decide, once in office,
what he or she really wants your
tax dollars going towards? The first
man is Governor Ted Kulongoski,
and the second is Ron Saxton, the
Republican Party’s candidate.
We’ve seen the same things out
of Washington D.C. for the last few
years, with the president saying that
he’s going to have tax cuts for the
wealthy, and then that debt and the
poor economy are going to work
themselves out in the long run.
The only problem is that the U.S.
National Debt keeps growing. With
a war on two fronts, and maybe one
coming up in North Korea, can we
as a state and a country handle more
tax cuts for the top one percent?
We have already seen the current
policy fail on the national scale;
do we really think it is going to
work in Oregon?
Ron Saxton has also tried
to rally support for Measure 41,
which “would cut income taxes by
about $140 a person, [but] would
leave the state $400 million less
to spend each year,” according to
The Oregonian. Kulongoski, the
article states, is “seeking sev
eral new sources of money
- a surcharge on car insur
ance to pay for more state
troopers, a big increase in
the $10 corporate minimum
tax to provide Head Start to
every poor child who wants,
in, and keeping the corporate
kicker — so that he can use the
surge in state revenues to beef up
education, from preschool through
college, while maintaining other
state services.”
The article goes on to quote the
governor as saying that structural
tax reform is unnecessary, “because
the economy will keep pumping
enough income taxes into state
[reserves] to offer more services,
plus build a big rainy-day fund.”
It seems to me that Ron Saxton
is promising things that he won’t
be able to back up, and Kulongoski
is ready to make a change in our
economy by using things that will
work
Saxton will bring
fresh ideas
illegal immigrants if he becomes gov
ernor. I couldn’t believe that a politi
The Clackamas Print
cian was mentioning illegal immigra
tion. He had my attention.
I normally have a problem with
Oregon has given the Democratic
agenda a nice long turn; it is now time what politicians don I say about ille
gal immigration (both Democrats and
for the Republicans to have a go.
Most of the gubernatorial ads look Republicans are guilty), and I applaud
very similar. They usually make the Saxton for having the courage to not
same general promises, add that the only touch on that subject, but for
other guy sucks and mention that, if promising to enforce laws that have
you elect him, the sun will implode been ignored for far too long.
There is a tremendous amount of
and apes will mle for 3,000 years.
I thought that until I saw Ron pressure for all politicians to avoid
enforcing immigration laws because
Saxton’s ad for governor.
In one of Ron Saxton’s ads, he they risk angering a certain commu
mentioned that he will stop the Oregon nity of voters, which would have
DMV from issuing drivers licenses to Oregon continue to avoid the subject
Saxton is showing us that he cares
about Oregon’s real problems
and is looking at the big
picture, rather than focus
ing on a million small
things that could be
better.
I don’t want
to
spend
my
time bashing Ted
Kulongonski, so I
will end this by say
ing that he has been
a very proactive
governor and man
aged not to do anything
sleazy or backhanded
in his term. The prob
lem is, nothing has real
ly changed for Oregon.
Most of the initiatives
he took to help Oregon
were superficial solutions to
deeper problems.
We all know that if
we’re not moving for
ward, we’re moving back
ward. Everyone should
move out of their comfort
zone and take a chance
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on Saxton.
Megan Koler
The pointless majors: pointless no more
Jon Bergeron
David Stark
The Clackamas Print
“Lots of
mechanics
classes.”
feel Lavender
This week's poll com
piled by Liz Travers
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In a world where knowl
edge is power, there is no such
thing as a pointless major.
There
are
abounding
opportunities for even the
most seemingly obscure field
of study. For example, major
ing in dead and forgotten
languages, such as Sanskrit,
would on the surface appear
to be a fool’s errand, but
demand for reliable transla
tors for ancient texts is higher
than one might expect.
Or look at Cultural
C o -E dttors - in -C hief : Sam Krause,
Anthropology. Depending on
the culture, a person could be
hired as an adviser for com
panies expanding
beyond national
borders,
as
a
researcher,
or
even be called to
go on a lecture
circuit espousing
the greatness of a
culture and what
society as a whole
can learn from it.
Often
times,
when told that
someone is going
to be an English
major, the only
profession
that
Those who
can: do; those
who can’t:
teach.
A d M anager : Elizabeth Hitz
Katie Wilson
C opy E ditor : Colleen Watkins
N ews E ditor : Megan Koler
C ommentary E ditor : Tayo Stalnaker
F eature E ditor : Laura Cameron
S ports E ditor : Mike Guidice
A&E E ditor : Matt Olson
P hoto E ditor : Adam J. Manley
springs to mind is that of
a teacher, but, when studied
enough, any language yields
sur
prising
results.
While
true that
English
maj ors
can
become
teachers,
there are
a number
of other
possible
voca
tions,
such as
P hotographers : Juno Dean, Jeff
Sorensen
S taff W riters : Justin Goe, Frank
Jordan, Andrea Simpson, Jeff
E) epartment A dviser : Linda Vogt
Sorensen, David Stark, Liz Travers,
Alexandria Vallelunga, Nicholas
Delzell, Sean Van Walchen
P roduction A ssistants : Rachel
Gillette, Genyva Laubach, David
Stark
becoming an author, journal
ist, technical writer, speech
writer, journalist, or even
Nobel Peace Prize Winner.
The field of Linguistics
is a rarity for majors these
days; however, the need
for Linguistic majors in the
field of Speech Pathology is
so rare that they are highly
sought after.
So the old axiom goes,
“Those who can: do; those
who can’t: teach.” If a major
has no reasonable applica
tion, at the very least, the
education of others is pos
sible.
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