On Sun, March 16, 2008 8:47 am, John Oliver wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 07:41:57AM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote: >> Actually, in this age of "privatization" and tax cuts for everybody >> (except, somehow, not us), the public schools practically have begging >> cups out. Fees for "extra" classes, parent volunteers to teach >> languages, >> "socials," auctions, recycling drives, penny jars, participating >> merchants >> (whatever the hell that is) ... everything but "pay your property taxes >> and good schools will be there for the kids." Now we just pay the taxes. > > And this illustrates the basic problem with our philosophy of, "Throw > more and more and more money at schools!" That money *will* get spent, > but that doesn't mean a dime will ever get to the classroom. > > First, look at how we fund schools... with a tax that guarantees that > nobody can ever actually own property. We are merely allowed to rent it > from the government for a while. If you don't believe me, stop paying > your rent and see how long you get to keep "your" property. Any system > built upon such a fundamentally morally and intellectually bankrupt > concept can never be a healthy, functional system. > > California spends more on education than every other state in the Union > and probably 90% of the rest of the world put together. There is no way > that more money is somehow going to magically fix our problems. Until > we have a way to cut through the unions, the special interests, the > ivory-tower academicians, and the certifiable crazy left-wing > politicians who have created and keep maintaining the current mess; we > are *never* going to see change, only more of the same... "Send us more > money! And more! AND MORE!!!"
Boy have you been brainwashed. Conservative sylogism. 1. Government doesn't work! 2. Put us in charge. 2a. <the suckers do put them in charge> 3. Destroy responsible agnecies and bleed the treasury dry with tax cuts for the wealthy. 4. Hey, governmnet suddenly doesn't work. 5. QED: We were right! -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
