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talkpolitics2011-07-16 10:14 am
paft.livejournal.com) wrote in talkpolitics2011-07-16 10:14 am
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They Could Always Go Work in Factories
Teri Adams, Head of Independence Hall Tea Party and School Voucher Activist:
Our ultimate goal is to shut down public schools and have private schools only, eventually returning responsibility for payment to parents and private charities. It’s going to happen piecemeal and not overnight. It took us years to get into this mess and it’s going to take years to get out of it.
In other words, Adams would like education to be, along with medical care, available only to those who can pony up the cash for it.
The article I’ve linked to includes a few quotes from people speculating about what drives the American right’s hostility towards public education. The ban on teacher-led prayer is invoked, along with the mercenary desire to funnel the money now paid into public schools into private hands.
I suspect it’s much more simple than that. Without universal education, the far right wouldn’t have to contend with so many pesky arguments about the facts of history, math, science, etc.
Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes
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Re: I see.
You are asking the wrong question. You are asking what I would do if I were "running the world" instead of the governance we have now, after I have specifically stated that the world shouldn't have a king in the first place.
Ask who feeds you, determines where you should live, how you should get around, whom you should marry...these are all examples of voluntary systems. By the same mechanisms can people arrange protection of property and security of their persons and communities. I put it to you that the idea that electing a government "protects the weak from the strong" is a delusion that serves people in power. Electing the people who abuse the weak is no solution to the problem of people abusing one another.
Re: I see.
M: You are asking the wrong question. You are asking what I would do if I were "running the world" instead of the governance we have now, after I have specifically stated that the world shouldn't have a king in the first place.
You have simply been asked a very basic question about how you think society should function. This has nothing to do with whether or not montecristo should be king, or whether we should have a "king" at all.
M: Ask who feeds you, determines where you should live, how you should get around, whom you should marry...these are all examples of voluntary systems. By the same mechanisms can people arrange protection of property and security of their persons and communities.
And what mechanism do you feel should be put in place for the protection of property and the security of persons and communities? How should those mechanisms be funded? In what sense would they be "voluntary."
STILL WAITING.
Re: I see.