quote:Originally posted by Husker:
As far as I'm concerned the Department of Education should be abolished and the teacher's union disbanded. Educatin desperately needs to be privatized. Taxation is necessary as long as the benefits are equally realized by all citizens e.g. roads, military, etc. Even if someone doesn't have a car the national highway system still benefits them e.g. trucking. As for legislation determining the use and ability to tax I have but one answer: the passage of the Enumerated Powers Act. As for FDR, there is a growing number of historians that believe his policies did more to extend the depression than deliver us from it.
I was a product of the public school system. My children are not. I see the difference and it's a big one. The public system is nothing less then a crime in progress.
I wouldn't necessarily disband the public school system, I'd want tax vouchers for it instead.
The districts here actually spend about $11,000 per year per student. My sons went to a prep school for under $10,000 per year. One that put the fear of God into them too.
You know on second thought, if the public schools were disbanded but everyone was required to attend school, there would be an immense savings and it would reduce the tendency of the contraband to have children?
Savings kinda' like eliminating Social Security. Then there could be more discretionary spending? Hum? I have to think about that some?
What was the name of that Senator from West Virginia that a few years ago got 46% of all US highway funds spent in his state? Wasn't he the chairman of the transportation committee? Byrd? Was that it?
I guess pork is a great thing when you are getting it and just a raping when you are not?
Lots of vested interest in this country. It kind of amazes me that we can get along well enough to govern at all sometimes?
As far as FDR, I don't know, I wasn't around then but it seems to me that the American people voiced their opinions enough to keep Republicans out of the
White House from 1932 until 1952? Must have been something to it?
Senator McCarthy didn't last too long either. Everyone got tired of being called a Communist by him? Maybe he should have just called them Democrats? Then everyone would have understood?
Hey. What's John Edwards up to these days? Oh yea. Forgot. He's busy counting his illegitimate kids. Elliot Spitzer was smarter. He hired professionals? He just should have used a payphone though to make an appointment?
Oh well. That's why I used the term "unalienable right". Either one agrees or disagrees and it avoids fighting the Civil War all over again and digging up the bodies in the back yard.