<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG>Do you have the references for these stats?</STRONG></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:uswa12@Lorainccc.edu" title=uswa12@Lorainccc.edu>Tom Lehman</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com" title=lbo-talk@lists.panix.com>lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 13, 2000 6:10 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Bush Stats</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>  <P><B>The state of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George W. Bush, is</B> <BR><B>ranked as follows:</B><B></B> <P>        50th in spending for teachers' salaries <BR>        49th in spending on the environment <BR>        48th in per-capita funding for public health <BR>        47th in delivery of social services <BR>        42nd in child-support collections <BR>        41st in per-capita spending on public education and ... <P>        5th in percentage of population living in poverty <BR>        1st in air and water pollution <BR>        1st in percentage of poor working parents without insurance <BR>        1st in percentage of children without health insurance <BR>        1st in executions (an average of 1 every 2 weeks for Bush's 5 years <BR>as <BR>        governor) </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>