I personally found Zoltan's points unfounded and rediculous. I addressed, however, nearly every line of his post. Now I'll address yours:
"You haven't refuted Zoltan's contention that our investment in education has yielded pitiful results. Even teachers agree. Furthermore, why now would Clinton and Gore suddenly make education a campaign issue when they haven't introduced one reform in seven years?"-
Zoltan provides no evidence to that effect. In fact, our education scores are significantly higher now than in the past. Furthermore, your second assertion could be refuted by any regular newspaper reader in the third grade. How about NAFTA, health care reform, and Medicare/Medicaid?
"North Koreans, Russians, Chinese, Iraq, renegade governments. Perhaps you missed the fact that we just finished spending $15 billion on bombs that were dropped in a 2,000 year old civil war? Don't you think we need to replenish? Or do your trust all of these countries to be our buddies from now on?"-
North Korea can't even feed it's people without foreign assistance, Russia is too poor to even think about supporting an effective military, China is happy so long as it gets trade, and Iraq poses no threat warranting more military investment. In the case of Russia and China, any conflict would likely be nuclear and there is nothing we could do about that.
"What way? Through the unions of course. Dem politicos use teachers unions to fund their campaigns and do their campaigning. Unions in return want more govt money. It's a dirty cycle that has continued for decades."- Why exactly do teachers want money? They don't get paid anymore. I know what you're thinking - those teachers are a pretty sinister lot.
"The only "voucher" system we have is at private colleges and universities and takes the form of government loans and grants. As Zoltan has stated, our universities are the envy of the world. You have no other basis to judge the possible success of a future school voucher program except that of higher education. If you analyze this issue objectively, you could come to no other conclusion."- Higher education does not qualify as empirical evidence in a school vouchers debate. Furthermore, other countries have good colleges as well (Oxford.) |
