This is a follow up on a previous article I wrote about tax supported schools in this country. I quoted a newspaper article last December which stated, “Education represents more than 55 percent of nearly 8.2 billion of Georgia’s fiscal year 2009 budget, according to the governor’s office of planning and budget.
I’m going to round it off to understand numbers easier, instead of 55 percent, let’s just say one-half or 50 percent, this would mean 4.1 billion for schooling in the state of Georgia. Some states may have a higher budget and some may have a lower budget. California may have a larger budget than Montana.
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The Tail Is Waggin The Dog Over Socialistic Schools (Issue 182)
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The newly elected President is trying to ram-rod as much legislation, about as many things as possible, as quickly as he can.
In less than two months, he has proposed, passed, pitched and promised so many billions in bailouts, one would think, what’s left, and what’s next? Oops almost forgot, education.
Yesterday came the speech from the president about large amounts of money to be poured into so-called education. This is the all-time, old time standby pitch for all politicians. Their safety-net pitch, the underlying notion, we can always get away with talking more money for education. It’s across the board. Republicans and Democrats, hang together when it comes to voting for more and more money to be extracted from the citizens for tax supported schooling.
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The Dog Bites the Flea, The Flea Bites the Dog – They Stay Together: Politicians and Schools (Issue 179)
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“School days, school days, dear ole golden rule days, reading, writing and arithmetic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick.”
When I hear about what is going on in schools today, it’s shocking to me. They have become killing fields, full of graduating students that can’t read and vaccinating with poisonous substances. Plus a laundry list of other shock and awes going on. In the tax-supported system, it’s more about indoctrination than education. Sometimes when I’m around young students in middle school or high school, I play a little game by asking them if they bought a dozen oranges for 50 cents and sold them for $1.00 a dozen, would they be making 100% or 50% profit? They invariably say 50%.
Several years ago I had a nephew attending a state university. I happened to answer the phone one day when he called his mother. She couldn’t come to the phone so I asked him if I could help with anything. He said he just want to know how to put a quarter in the washing machine. I said, “oh my God, they have educated you beyond the capacity to think!”
I grew up in a different era, a time when so much was different than it is today. Living in red clay country in Northeast Georgia, I rode a bus to a county school. Everyone in the county attended the same school. It was a rather large building of 3 stories, where students started in first grade and attended through high school. It has a large playground area with a gymnasium in one corner and a cute little cottage in another, where we learned home economics.
