'It'll never get that far -- right?'

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 20 july 08 | Vin Suprynowicz

[rellimpank]

If we had no armed central state to seize money from people against their will and fund the government schools, we'd have no tax-funded government schools.

Which means your public school teacher had a fatal conflict of interest when he or she taught you "why we need to have a central state, with the power to shoot or jail people who don't pay up." I'll bet he or she never mentioned, as one of the reasons, "Because otherwise my paychecks would stop coming."

Be deeply suspicious therefore of most of the reasons you've been given for "why we need a central state." When stop signs are removed and speed limits raised or eliminated -- when people stop depending on the false assurance that such "rules" will bind the drunk and disorderly -- accident rates go down, not up (see John Staddon, in this month's Atlantic.) When more potential crime victims are "allowed" to carry concealed handguns, violent crime rates go down, not up (See John Lott's "More Guns, Less Crime.")

Feel free to extend this premise to most of the other reasons you've been told we "need" a powerful government regulating everything, most especially the notion that we "need" the guvgoons to jail hundreds of thousands of drug users. Nobody jailed them before 1914, and America was so safe that hardly anyone locked their doors.

[rellimpank]

---the weekly Vin--

[sphinx]

especially the notion that we "need" the guvgoons to jail hundreds of thousands of drug users. Nobody jailed them before 1914, and America was so safe that hardly anyone locked their doors.

There was no welfare state and we didn't have antibiotics, so the problem tended to be self-limiting. Chronic alcoholics and addicts, once they reached the point of unemployability, tended not to live very long.

[exnavy]

The public school system has twisted the truth on almost every aspect of the American way of life. The sheeple had better wake up.

[underground]

Yea you just reminded me why I came up with my old tagline...

Socialist government: saving us from the mistakes of socialist government since 1913

I’m putting it back in the rotation!

[autumnraine]

You are correct.

[polymuser]

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So, is government being taught in government schools a conflict of interest?

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[upchuck]

So, is government being taught in government schools a conflict of interest?

Not as long as it is taught in a nonpartisan way.

[Chuckster]

Did you ever think it would get this far?

Indeed.

[thirst4truth]

"A Government resting on a minority, is an aristocracy not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing Army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace."

James Madison

1829 Virginia Constitutional Convention.

[polymuser]

So, is government being taught in government schools a conflict of interest?

Not as long as it is taught in a nonpartisan way.

Then, from what I directly know of our school district, and the many articles I've read, it is a conflict of interest, and should stop.