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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (38474)	2/5/2013 12:29:52 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 85487

>> That's why the right came up with the family analogy in the first place; keep it simple, stupid. You have to keep it simple when you're trying to convey information to Obama voters. A better analogy, however, would be with a corporate entity or trust; but Obama voters have no idea what either of those is. >> If my grandparents hadn't spent "my" money on schools and public universities and tanks to fight the Axis, I'd have been home-schooled in Japanese history and culture, and been part of that low information crowd. Spending money on war is something you do. Only idiots question whether we can afford it; after all it is a legitimate function of government and when you're attacked, you borrow and spend all you have to to defend yourself. The question of money should never even come up outside of appropriation hearings. You do what you have to do. OTOH, universities are now just as out of control as government, due in significant part to the proliferation of student loans. Average kids can't afford university education anymore, and they are archaic and need to go. There is no reason excellent education can't be delivered by Internet at reasonable cost to students. Except, of course, for the university bureaucracy that [mal]functions pretty much as government does.