From: cwinemil@keys.lonestar.org (Chris Winemiller)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: CDF'S MISSION: LEAVE NO CHILD BEHIND
Date: 24 Dec 92 14:53:50 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: None

bradj@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Brad R. Johnson) writes:

> In article <wm56VB1w165w@keys.lonestar.org> cwinemil@keys.lonestar.org (Chris
  Winemiller) writes:
> >curt@ekhadafi.austin.ibm.com (Curt Finch) writes:
> >
> >>                 =====  CHILDREN IN CRISIS  =====
...
> >>      CDF characterizes the conditions for children in 1992 as a
> >> national disgrace and calls on the nation -- from the White House
> >> and Congress to parents and local communities -- to invest in
> >                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> children's future.
> >  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >Ah, yes: spend and spend and spend!  Just like we do now!  Sure fire way
> >to get results!  (chuckle)
> 
> It is possible to invest without spending money.

Of course you're right.  But that's not what the CDF talked about. 
They're talking about spending your tax money.

> It seems many parents are not putting
> enough time and care into their children's education.

Agreed again.

> >I'd like to apply for these programs for my kids.  After all, I am a
> >very scarce minority: a white male over-taxed taxpayer, who pays for the
> >upkeep of his own family (single-income family no less!) and who is
> >forced to act as a money tree for state and federal agencies to suck up
> >his money for programs for everyone else's kids but his own.
> 
> Thanks for supporting us all Chris.  It's really kind of you to be putting
> in so much more than your fair share.

As do most middle class folks.

> Here's a proposal that you might agree with - let's have it so that the taxes
> that you contribute to education only support your children.

Your tongue-in-cheek proposal matches the deliberate absurdity of my
original posting, which I think you didn't catch.  Your proposal (if
you're serious about its characterizations) is false because it assumes
that public education problems are due primarily to lack of money, and
that rich kids get all the lucky breaks in public education.  I have
news for you: _all_ kids (with rare exceptions) are getting screwed by
public education.  Why the heck do you want to perpetuate such a
worthless system with the same worthless solutions (spend, spend,
spend!)?

The point of my posting was _not_ that I wish to quit contributing to
others' education, but that the CDF still thinks that spending money is
the only solution.  If they're going to take that position, then I want
_my_ children to get all the freebies like everyone else is getting:
Head Start, free immunizations, etc., etc.  After all, that _is_ fair,
right?  If I will be forced to foot the bill, then I have every right to
insist that my children receive the benefits along with everyone else. 
You see, it's the liberal's position that says, "Everyone else got
theirs with _your_ money, screw you."  Actually, they rob everybody by
making taxpayers pay for unnecessary facilities (like football fields),
unnecessary administrators, and state/national organizations that remove
control from local school districts.

> I don't buy it, but maybe that's why I'm not a Republican.

If you don't buy the _real_ screwball situation, then you shouldn't be a
Democrat!

Chris

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