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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (44629)	1/15/2006 6:55:28 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I hate to tell you this, but I've essentially given up on preventing nationalized medical coverage down here. I just hope it won't be as dad as the Canadian system where a doc would be an idiot to go into private practice. At some point, under some pretext- -and there are many possibilities- -our federal gov't s going to shove national health care down our throats. They almost made it before. I figure within the next 10-20 years. It is the same political premise that opposes a voucher system to break up the government monopoly on education because it would undercut "the system" which provides education for the poor. Better that every young person be subjected to a wretched bureaucracy that educates no one, than to allow most parents to find a decent education for their own children. The US TV news series 20/20 had a program on education last night. You may receive it up there. Basically the host, John Stoussel, challenged the NEA's (National Education Association, with branches in every state) mantra that more money will solve the US's education problems. He pointed out that the states that spend the most per pupil usually achieve the worst results and that the US is near the top in per pupil spending, yet near the bottom in achievement. The charts supplied in this have to be considered simply embarrassing. What is seen is a constantly rising expenditure on a per pupil basis with either no improvement or an actual decline in results. mwhodges.home.att.net Updated to 2004: mwhodges.home.att.net If this keeps up, you can write off your neighbor to the south. And maybe you'd better start learning Chinese. Message 19218032 nces.ed.gov A good source of info: edreform.com Opening this can be a bit tricky. When it asks "Open for read omly?", answer yes. Then look at the US rank. oecd.org X or any other defender of the US educational status quo is welcome to challenge ths data. In fact, I DARE them to do so. One of the cures Stoussel suggested was vouchers to introduced competition into the situation instead of a state monopoly. The education funds attach to the pupil and gowith him. If he or his parents decide to change schools because of poor education, the school can potentially go bankrupt.