From: dlo@druwa.ATT.COM (OlsonDL)
Newsgroups: alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.marrou,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.elections
Subject: Re: Is this a socialist county?
Date: 15 Aug 92 17:11:23 GMT


In article <l8l2viINNhnl@spim.mips.com>, mpolen@gelato.mips.com (Michael Polen) writes:
} In article <19259@drutx.ATT.COM>, dlo@druwa.ATT.COM (OlsonDL) writes:
} |> In article <wPe8oB1w164w@coldbox.cojones.com>, system@coldbox.cojones.com (Bryan Lockwood) writes:
} |> } Won't fly. In this scenario, education would be too expensive for many
} |> } parents to afford!
} |> 
} |> If they can't afford their children's education, then they shouldn't have
} |> had children in the first place!
} |> 
} That won't fly. 

Won't fly?  You are saying then that people having something that they
cannot afford does fly?  Very odd.

} 1.	If there were no educated workers, the rich could not 
} 	continue to amass wealth. 

Ah, that explains your defense of the public school system.  With your
anomosity toward rich people plus your belief that an educated workforce
makes rich people richer, it is only natural that you would want the
workforce to be as poorly educated as possible.

} 2.	At the time you decide to have children, you do not know how
} 	much it will cost to educate them.

So what?  I don't have to know how much a condo in Aspen will cost to
know that I cannot afford it either.   Should I buy one anyway?

} 3.	Education is as much a benefit to the society as it is to
} 	the individual.

I'll give you the same response I gave to someone else via email.

We also benefit when people are clean, but we are not obligated to
bathe them.  We benefit when people do not litter and pollute the
environment, but we are not obligated to clean up after them.  We
benefit when people act in a civil manner, but we are not obligated to
teach them right from wrong.  And even though we benefit from an
educated populace, we should not be obligated to pay for their education
either.

} |> } Maybe one way of
} |> } looking at it is to say that you spend the rest of your life paying back into
} |> } the system to cover your _own_ education.
} |> 
} |> If you buy a loaf of bread, you are not obligated to keep paying the grocer
} |> for that bread for the rest of your life.  Once you have paid your doctor for
} |> medical care, you are not obligated to pay for that care for the rest of
} |> your life.  Why must it be any different for education?
} 
} Education lasst longer than bread or medical care.
 
Fine.  Even apart from a public education, things can also be learned
from books or private lessons that can last a lifetime, too.  So if you
studied a book in a library, do you then hunt that author down to continue
to pay them for the rest of your life for that knowledge?  If you purchase
that same book at a bookstore, do you continue to purchase it after you
have already bought it?  If you took music lessons, do you continue to
pay the instructor for them long after those lessons are finihed?  If you
do any of these, you are a fool.

I sincerely hope you and Clinton will be happy together.  You deserve
each other.
--
David Olson            dlo@drutx.att.com
"The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they
can bribe the people with their own money."  Alexis de Tocqueville
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