Do you think therefore,
that there would be an impedance placed on children
from poor families achieving an equal education?
If there were no public Schools?

Actually I didn't know there was any such thing as a private non religious school, I don't remember them in my time, of course I was in private religious school so I wasn't informed of much outside that view..

It would be horrible. The next generation of poor will become even more poor due to lack of education. The rich will stay on top. The next middle class generation could very well disappear.

Interesting, very interesting.

I wonderwhy so many were against a central bank to begin with . Jefferson got rid of the first one and Andrew Jacks abolished the second. Andrew Jackson was the only president to pay off the national debt. I wonder why fiat currency is so much better than any other... Why is sound money so detrimental?

We have them in St. Louis. They're very upper-crust.

There are... plenty. One is just around the corner from where i live.

With a school voucher program parents will have a choice of where to send their kids. Schools that participate would see an influx of $ making it more likely that they would want to participate. At the same time by participating they are forced to comply with federal regulations on equal rights and such. Competition is introduced into the system which will in theory have an effect on not only private schools, but public schools also.

What about Reading, writing and arithmatic? Don't you think more focus should be placed on this as well? What about applied sciences and applied mathmatics to learn how to apply textbook stuff to real life?

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They already focus on reading, writing and math. My child has applied science and math.

The public schools have cut back on art and gym. I'm a firm believer that exercise enhances learning. Learning how to a play a musical instrument facilitates brain development. Studies have shown that it enhances spatial thinking. That is important for engineering and science.



indeed

wouldn't that be where a voucher system comes in?

so Fanta, can you explain the mechanics of fiat currency and why it is successful now?

It caused trouble in Rome i believe. In fact many say it caused it's fall...

Why do you think having money represent debt is mechanically sound?

I know that Obama had talked about doing vouchers.

I'm not sure that's the way to go. I would only be satisfied if every single child in the U.S. would receive one. I think it would hurt neighborhoods. I also think it will cost more than what we have now.

That's where fixing our budget comes in.

I find it tragic that a third of our money goes to paying interest on the national debt... Be nifty if we could put all that onto vouchers and transportation to the schools wouldn't it? This money is just wasted. But, it's mathmatically impossible to pay it off with a central bank.

Another nifty cut would be wars. Why on earth are we the world police? If the world needs us to be i say tax every country that wants our help. Or better yet, mind our own freakin business. That's almost another third of the budget.

Theres a handful of government programs that could be eliminated as well. For instance the department of homeland security. That should be the FBI and NSA's jobs. Not to mention the police force. They need to start pooling some sources as lack of security was never our country's problem. It's been lack of managibility. We had enough info to prevent 9/11. We just had poor communication.

Or what about the "War on drugs"? Can you imagine how much money we would save by making pot legal?

There are plenty of places to save billions. Billions that could be spent on our children's education. I also believe whole heartedly that we won't have thebest education anymore if schools have no competition. There needs to be a goal to work for.

Well not having children I never thought about it really, good to know there is, but not so good that they cost so much.

So you're back to the Gov funding education again.
Only this time indebted with a private corporation. No doubt they would lose all means to regulate or control the cost of the private corporation.

If they did Ron Paul would scream about how Gov had become too large again.

That would be the downside. Unfortunately they have to make up for having no government funding. The upside to having no government funding is that some politician in D.C. can't tell the school's history professor, or any other teacher, how his or her class should be taught.

Too bad there isn't a way to get teachers to compete for jobs huh?

I agree.

Sounds kinda like our central bank doesn't it? And AIG? lol


No im not necessarily against government funded education. I am for shrinking the government, but the process must be done slowly over decades.

The only reason i suggest vouchers is to get competition going, so every school needs to be the best...

Which "large government" is a rhetoric tool used to "explain" any governmental problems or programs the right doesn't agree with. Our government is growing with the population which should happen as the country gets "larger" but it is not over grown. We are not facing socialism which is the supposed end result of "larger government" or worse communism.

I had very little accounting but in basic accounting "loose" money is listed as debt, if I am correct.

So that means we have loose, fiat currency..? Hmmm...