Are you registered to vote? You have probably heard these five words hundreds or thousands of times during the course of the past few months, and with the election right around the corner this question has been even more prevalent. But let's ask a more important question - do you know what you're voting for? While each voter has his or her own hierarchy of issues in this election, The Triangle's Editorial Board would like to focus in on one issue that affects all of our readers - education.
If this election has shown us anything, it has made very clear that there is still much hatred, prejudice and ignorance in our "great" society. So much so, that as I'm writing this, another duo is being investigated for plotting to assassinate Barack Obama.
Some years ago, my son was thinking of buying a house in the San Fernando Valley and asked my advice about getting an adjustable rate mortgage. I told him to stick to the old fixed rate. Happily, he did. Recently, Alan Greenspan was asked about the adjustable rate mortgage - and sub-prime-driven housing bubble that has brought capitalism's house of cards crashing down all over the globe.
Paula Antonio Sophomore, Computer Science My "ideal candidate" is something I have certainly thought about. November 2008 will be the first time that I will vote in a presidential election. I was not born in the United States, so to be able for the first time to have a say in how this country will be led is very exciting.
It doesn't take a top economist to figure out that the nation's current economy is in trouble. Fiscal irresponsibility and excessive government spending in the last eight years have destroyed the surplus and economic growth this country saw during the Clinton administration.
