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> >Why should I be happy about my tax dollars supporting such an
> enterprise?
>
> What you should be unhappy about is that the tax money that could fix
> the schools is being spent by the Pentagon on weapons for a war that
> ended ten years ago.
>
I'm as unhappy about the Pentagon spending as you are. Actually, we could also
ask some Serbians if they think we stopped fighting ten years ago. We could ask
some Iraqis if we suspended hostilities ten years ago. Our friends at the
Pentagon will always find somewhere to drop their load.
>
> > We've tried showering them with money and that does not work.
>
> No, we have not. The buildings are crumbling, the books out of date and
> the classes are crowded. Meanwhile, we spend money on weapons for a war
> that's been over for ten years.
>
My Catholic grade school (which has since closed) and many others in the
country (especially in cities) have poor facilities and books that you could
carbon date. Yet people voluntarily use their own money to send their kids
there.
I have personally witnessed one public school district, and I know there are
others, where money sent for books and buildings has a spectacular way of
simply disappearing without a trace.
> >I know that not from reading Ayn Rand but from looking at the schools
> where I greu up.
>
>
> The ones who taught you to spell?
>
Well, a typo. The U and W are so close together on the keyboard it's easy to
make a mistake.
> >and what does this have to do with consipiracy????????
>
> Our rulers want us to be uneducated because an uneducated people are
> easier to manipulate. When I was a kid, Sputnik went up and the
> American establishment got scared. All of a sudden there was a ton of
> money for education. Anybody who wanted to could go to college. What did
> they get for their money? A whole generation of over-educated,
> under-employed kids out in the street throwing rocks at them, that’s
> what they got. They’ll never make that mistake again, rest assured. But
> they can’t tell us that to our faces because if they did, we'd be right
> back out there in the street with the rocks again. So they dumb us down
> behind our backs. That's a conspiracy.
I agree. It's also why I don't want to hear any of their current "solutions."
If you believe the above paragraph, if you believe the gov't wants an
uneducated people, then you shouldn't have the government in control of
education. They will take the money, get rid of the old crumbling building
where they dumb down the kids, and buy a shiny new building in which to dumb
down the kids.
But it's not just the kids, the rest of us are getting our own dumbing down via
CNN, Dan Rather, etc......
And dammit, I ran spell check on this email. "Dumbing" is not an approved word
(perhaps a conspiracy in and of itself.) You missed my misspelling of
"conspiracy" above. And I apologize if I ended any sentences with prepositions
or dangled any participles.
jeff
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