Liberals: Why are you against school voucher programs?
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"Superficially, school vouchers might seem a relatively benign way to increase the options poor parents have for educating their children. In fact, vouchers pose a serious threat to values that are vital to the health of American democracy. These programs subvert the constitutional principle of separation of church and state and threaten to undermine our system of public education."\n\nDetails here:\nhttp://www.adl.org/vouchers/vouchers_main.asp\n\nBasically, vouchers are expensive and do nothing if the same type of schooling is obtained with the vouchers, which is most often the case.  If the public schools are broken, you fix them, you don't trash them and create a whole new industry.
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Hey kid - get used to it.  Libs/Dims will never answer a straight forward question with a straight forward response.  \n\nJust expect vile and vitriol from the vacuous region between their ears.  \n\nSince today was  the letter "V" day on Sesame Street, I thought I would give you libs the opportunity to learn a few more.\n\nBYW answer to your question  price=supply/demand.  Simple math, nothing more, nothing less.  \n\nI suppose liberals want to save the oil so one day we can have what, an organic deposit zoo. I apologize for their ignorance and insults
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Because it's part of community effort. It's because we need certain things in the community if we are to have a community. And we agree those things communally and, if you disagree with those things being provided communally, you have the ability to change policy at the ballot box and decide another, communal policy.\nExample: why should people with no children pay for schools? Why should people with no cars pay for roads?\nAnswer: Because society could not function if we raised generations who could not read and write. Because even people with no children depend on doctors and lawyers and engineers and electricians and plumbers. If you want any of those things, pay for schools.\nEven if you don't drive, you need roads for lorries to deliver your bread and groceries to the supermarket and for the ambulance to drive to your home when you have a heart attack.\nAnd while the kids are using the sports facilities you don't want to they are not breaking into your home or getting fat and choking up hospitals.\nIf you don't like it, vote to change it or move to the woods and join become a survivalist.
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that program is full of shit...they expect too much out of some of the kids just so they can follow the no child left behind motto..... no matter where the money goes...its not good for all of the kids.
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I am totally against it..\nU see tchers at skool dont teach properly and then they advice us to go for tuitions (to the same tchers) once someone scores less in his theory..\nSo what do u think\nAint tht a disgustiong way of makin more mony
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Liberals think that all problems are answered by throwing money at it and not giving any thought as to what the real problem might be.  The result of that is high taxes and taxes that usually hurt the poor the most.  Their thinking is keeping the poor and ill-educated down and throwing them a bone every now and then.  The poor and ill-educated buy into this.\n\nConservatives believe that money should be spent wisely.  Where is the money needed most and how far will the dollar go?  Money for the poor is needed, but education and job training is far more important.  Studies show that the poor and indigent would rather be taught a trade and or educated than spoon fed.  Make more money available to those that want to better their life through education and job training skills.
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I am so pissed.  Not at this, but at the idea.  I thought liberals weren't supposed to be afraid of ideas.\n\nHowever, in California they have purged the textbooks and educational exhibits to take out such UnAmerican things as Teddy Roosevelt (a hunter which is not PC).  He is in the lists of who the Presidents are, but if you try to find out about Yosemite, you will learn only of John Muir and Lincoln, as if John Muir had a seance with Lincoln's ghost and by some miracle Yosemite valley was added to the National Park system.\n\nThey are now requiring that when famous people who were gay are discussed in elementary school, the book needs to tell about their sexual orientation.  My kids are older now and can deal with it, but I frankly don't think it is the school's place to discuss sexuality with kindergartners.  I bet the books aren't going to say someone is straight every time they discuss a famous straight person.\n\nThere is nothing so scary as someone who uses thought control 'for your own good'.
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Most liberals think they are good because they want to take things that people work hard for, and give them to people who are 'less fortunate'.  And by less fortunate, I mean people who decided not to go to school and learn something, and people who are too lazy to get a job because they will lose their welfare checks if they do.
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I don't really know much about this issue.  It seems to me though that if students could take their tax dollars to whatever school they wanted, then the schools would have to compete for business, and "when banks[schools] compete, you win." The schools would become competitive, and if a school wanted to keep itself afloat, then it would have to work really hard to keep up the educational standards.  \n\nI apologize for not giving you reasons against the vouchers.  This is the only thing I could think of off the top of my head.
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It is the biggest reason I think, and from there the reasons go down hill.\n\n1)  We support another country so they hate us (Israel is the most common answer).\n\n2)  We don't like to give money away without strings.  They hate strings being attached to money so they resent us for telling them how to spend our money.\n\n3)  They disagree with our values.  Oddly enough they'd hate liberals even more for their open ways, but they view America as morally corrupt.
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I’ll start with the left-wingers who, along with their arrogant accomplices in the media, are killing us with twisted, mind-numbing message of ultratolerance.  I hate the way the liberals stick their sticky fingers into my paycheck and force me to pay for some failed social program in the name of compassion.  I hate their unrelenting celebration of sodomy in the mist of AIDS epidemic, which, by the way, has largely decimated both America’s blood supply and the health care industry.\n\nIn addtion;\n\nThe liberals would rather see a nation dependent on big government than a nation of strong, self-reliant families.  Just look at the epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases and the costs to society.  Americans must fork over nearly twenty billion dollars annually in taxes at the federal, state, and local levels just to pay for the consequences of sex outside marriage.  That, my friend, no longer makes sexual behavior a “private” matter.  Not when you reach into my pocket to pick up the pieces of teen pregnancy, STDs, and government-subsidized day care.\n\nFurthermore;\n\nI refuse to whistle Dixie while my country is being overrun by psycho-lib Commu-Nazi organizations like the ACLU who defend child molesters and terrorists, who trash our traditions, and who silence religious speech while wrapping themselves in the flag to justify child pornography—virtual or otherwise.\n\nFinally;\n\nThe liberals, like the early Bolsheviks, said that “religion is the opiate of the masses.” They replaced the Church with the state, and God was replaced by communist “heroes.”  That really worked well for everyone.
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Not to sound too cynical, but here goes. Have you never thought about the REAL reason for free education? Oh, you were under the impression it was to learn! Well, ok, it is for that to some extent, but it's also a vast free baby sitting service that keeps kids off the streets while their parents go out and work so that they can all keep consuming. It also institutionalizes them so that the vast majority become used to a non-democratic higher-archical system which will prepare them well to knuckle down to the drudgery of life in some office when they go off to work. Last but not least, it keeps unemployment down, by keeping teenagers off the job market.\n\nDo you really think parents will be leaving their kids at home to school themselves, trusting them not to eat chips and watch TV all day? I think not. It just wouldn't suit the system, the losses would outweigh the profits. Who knows, kids might even start thinking for themselves!
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I was forced to sell my home after 23 years. I could not pay the taxes. $2000 per year. I don't have kids in school and I refuse to pay for your kids to get Golf and Tennis lessons free. I also refuse to pay for your kids sports. In Ohio they took $40 million from public schools and gave it to private schools. The Neocons call it vouchers. In fact it's redistribution of my wealth. I will never pay school tax again in my lifetime. My property Taxes went up 5 times over 10 years under Republicans in the State.
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Check this out. The Liberals are against individualism because they can't control you as easily if you are not one of the sheep.\n\nIf you are better at what you do than someone else, you may hurt someone's feelings. Don't be a winner. \n\nIf you get better grades in school, some other student will have low self-esteem. Don't be smart. \n\nIf you have a business and do well, you will have more than you deserve. Don't be successful.\n\nIf you love your country and believe in the rule of law and not in the rule of lawyers, you are heartless, or racist or sexist or homophobic or ....... Well, you get the idea. Don't disagree with them.\n\nAnd that Socialism crap they seem to want doesn't work, like you say, but please, don't be too hard on the poor.  If they just can't make it, even though they try, they deserve a hand up until they can get on their feet. It's nothing to do with stupidity, only effort. God helps those who help themselves. So do I.
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The Catholic church has ruined any chance of resurrecting the idea of private schools, not to mention that the average joe like me who would like to put their kids into private school can't even come close to affording it. I tried it and just can't afford it. I was raised catholic, and the amount of money my family put into the collection plate every week would astound you, and for that dedication for over 20 years, we get high tuition at these schools. Plus, don't forget the priest scandals. This has forced many to remove their children. I remember a time when George Bush said he'd provide vouchers to families, but as I understand it only the city of Washington D.C. has gotten them. Sound a little biased? What happened to no child left behind? I am all for religious schooling. My kids at regular public school are being pushed at an overwhelming rate to learn things that they are not ready for because the U.S. wants to produce more intelligent kids like those in China. Well, they are only hurting our kids and education reform is necessary in the immediate future or our kids are going to pay the price even more.
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I'm a liberal because I think for myself, believe in true equality for all, and I don't think that a government that bases it's policies on the 'needs' of Big Business has my (or your) best interests at heart. In addition, I value the future as a gift for my daughter, and conservatives only seem to think and plan in four year blocks.
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They don't have an argument based on logic. They may be good for employers, but aren't good for those of us who subsidize their education and health care, while our own children's education and our own elderly family member's health care gets worse and worse. Since they don't have an argument based on logic, they try insults and guilt.\n\nWhatever.