Re: [OT] Iraq

Howard Brazee wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:11:33 -0600, LX-i <lxi0007@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Choices are being made for Americans every day, with the money taken from us, and being used for who knows what. Do I want to use my money to bail out an airline? Nope. I fly occasionally, and when I do, *then* they get some of my money to try to help their bottom line. Why are my tax dollars funding schools? Among my three kids, they have a total of one semester in a public school. So, I've basically payed for everyone else's kids to go to school, and I *still* had to write a check to a school (when we sent them to private school) or buy textbooks myself (when we home-school). Sure, it's my choice, and it's one that I've made - but why should I still be taxed to fund public schools? I don't care about public schools!

The state pays for public schools because powers want lots of workers
earning them money. Educated workers make the country strong and
wealthy - which gives them more power.

But the idea that the "government is the solution" in the first place is what boggles my mind. What has the government done well? There have been several studies that show private schools doing a lot more for their students with a lot less money per student. Doesn't that merit at least a passing glance? Nope - government is the answer. Let's pour our money down a drain that isn't doing what it's supposed to do, and whose employees and their union grumble loudly whenever any legislation is passed to encourage them to do it!

The same thing applies to all the issues I mentioned above, and then some. When the government takes *my* money to give it to someone else (not the aforementioned "common" things), *that's* socialism.

When the government takes your money to do anything at all with it, it
is still taking your money and spending it the way it wants. Some
people think some expenditures are worth while, and others think other
expenditures are worth while.

I'm all for charity. I give my money to charity, I volunteer, my Cub Scout pack volunteers too. I just resent the government taking the money and using it for *their* preferred charity instead of me having that money to put to *my* preferred charity.

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