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To: Akula who wrote (282)	9/14/1999 7:48:00 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 440

Hahahaha! You crack me up, old man! Your put-on is very good, but also very amusing. :-)

To: Akula who wrote (282)	9/14/1999 7:59:00 PM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 440

Yes better funded..........throwing MORE money at a problem is the liberal way and a very anticipated answer for each problem the liberals have caused this once free society. We are slowly losing our freedoms BTW. If you will re read my post about education you will find that school vouchers will benefit the poor the most. I don't see the past 40 years of liberal education making us anything but a dumber society on a world standard. We were first in most categories but have gradually sunk to a global middle of the road education system. Give a person a voucher, dollar, check book ect and tell them to go spend it on the designated product or service..........me as a conservative have faith in Americans to make correct choices and not send their loved children to dilapidated schools. A liberal has no faith in American individualism and a liberal "feels" a system must make the choice. Yes the answer must be as it has been for 40 years.....raise taxes so we can fund a much larger socialist bureaucracy and make the number of people working for government in out free nation grow from 53% to say about 99.9%. Then we will have 1/10 th of all Americans contributing to the tax system and 99.9% of you people taking from it without contributions. Where do you draw the line Akula? I mean, what ratio of tax payers vs tax consumers would you prefer in this country?

To: Akula who wrote (282)	9/14/1999 8:11:00 PM
From: C Kahn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 440

Akula, BTW I don't care if you're 15 or 115. I sometimes wonder how honest many people here are about their age, occupation, etc. But if a point is worth discussing your age is irrelavent. c Kahn

To: Akula who wrote (282)	9/14/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: C Kahn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 440

Akula, if students want to do well in school, they will. Whether It's public or private. And if they don't care about doing well in school, they probably don't care how much money their parents spent on it.

To: Akula who wrote (282)	9/17/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 440

>>. Public schools are doing an excellent job although there is room for improvement. Perhaps if they were better funded . . . Said the parrot. In another post you similarly parroted the Lib mantra about "investing" more in schools. That is a diversion from the reality in which American schools spend on the order of twice as much per student on education as Germany and Japan and show inferior results. The past 15 years has seen massive new funding for public education with small result. The difference between Libs and conservatives is that only a Lib could defend throwing even more money into an "investment" w/o seeking a beneficial result for the students or an alternative investment. For Dem politicos public education is most important for social engineering and as a slush fund to reroute campaign contributions back to themselves. Education is clearly secondary. The US is such a great success in most other fields because it embraces competition. That can be witnessed w/in the realm of education in higher education, where the US is the envy of world due largely to the competition from large private universities and colleges. A similarly competitive environment should be fostered in primary and secondary education by allowing parents to take their share of the money to alternative schools. Until that time, US public education will continue to fail.