Posted on 02/14/2010 5:42:10 AM PST by Kaslin
WASHINGTON -- Only two things are infinite -- the expanding universe and Democrats' hostility to the District of Columbia's school choice program. Killing this small program, which currently benefits 1,300 mostly poor and minority children, is odious and indicative. It is a small piece of something large -- the Democrats' dependency agenda, which aims to multiply the ways Americans are dependent on government.
Democrats, in their canine devotion to teachers unions, oppose empowering poor children to escape dependency on even terrible government schools. Unions and their poodles say school choice siphons money from public schools. But federal money funds D.C.'s program, so killing it denies education money to D.C. while increasing the number of pupils D.C. must support.
Most Democrats favor a "public option" -- a government health insurance program. They say there is insufficient competition among the 1,300 private providers of insurance, so people should not be dependent on those insurers. But tuition vouchers redeemable at private as well as public schools is a "private option" providing minimal competition with public schools. Government, with 89 percent of the pupils, dominates education grades K through 12. So, do Democrats favor vouchers to reduce American's dependence on government education? Of course not.
For congressional Democrats, however, expanding dependency on government is an end in itself. They began the Obama administration by expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program. It was created for children of the working poor but the expansion made millions of middle-class children eligible -- some in households earning $125,000. The aim was to swell the number of people who grow up assuming that dependency on government health care is normal.
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Great find...yep! Used to be that the only two things infinite were "Death and Taxes"! Now that the Dependency Class no longer is required to pay taxes, sure looks like the infinite is now "Dependency and Death"! How times have changed (with the revisionist textbooks)!
Beck was right when he said he agrees with the democrats that not doing anything to help the economy was disastrous. He went on to say that disaster was preferable to where we’re going and disaster is our only way out.
We’re going to have to drag the whole socioeconomic house of cards down on ourselves before we can start to rebuild.
Where I come from the solution is called “Golpe De Estado”
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