Using their keen observation and imagination, and elementary statistical calculation, our reformers tell their readers that with eight primary differences of opinion on the subject there are an incredible 256 possible combinations of these gruel recipe alternatives. Therefore, they decide that the best solution available is to scrap the federal socialist program and replace it with a multitude of local socialist programs. These local programs would, in the interest of harmony, accommodate any preference whose adherents numbered at least five percent of the local population. Of course, this is an absurd and impossible situation, just ask the former Soviet Union, but then again, it is this way only because, when it comes to our food needs, we ve grown obliviously accustomed to the better system the free market. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of education, and Ms. MacArthur s solution, which eschews the free market, is not a step in the right direction.
Government is, in every instance, that point where human imagination has failed.
We can do better than this. Our children deserve better than this ridiculous food fight Robert Lallier is a software engineer living in California.