Archive for March 25th, 2007
But urban legislators said Albany for too long has sent big increases to richer communities to fund, in the words of Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples, a Buffalo Democrat, “bells and whistles” for suburban schools that already are far better equipped than city schools.”
“If you are living in or representing a district that does not have high needs, where the children are successful academically and the municipality has the ability to finance good education for children, then you should not be asking for equal state dollars,” Peoples said. “In the grand scheme of things, this is about us being really our brothers’ keepers, and the resources should go where the needs are.”
Crystal Peoples is clearly advocating socialism. No where does the Constitution allow for the taking of money to be given to others, making people their “brothers’ keepers” by government force.
This is another case of the cause of the problem being ignored while people fight over money allocation. School choice would be the logical answer. Each student would have “x” amount of educational dollars allocated that could fund the student at the parents’ choice for a school.
The competition created by school choice would have two big benefits. First, schools would improve. Schools that perform poorly would go out of business. Second, schools would be motivated to carefully examine costs versus results. This would end the ridiculous spiraling costs of education.
School choice clearly puts the interests of students and education above the interests of the Unions.
The governor said his plan is meant to “distribute educational funding based on the needs of our children, not the needs of politicians.”
Let the parents decide how to best meet the needs of their children, not Eliot Spitzer.
Source: Buffalo News: City & Region
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The Coming Ass Age
Climatologist Dr. Timothy Ball is featured in the new documentary debunking global warming, titled “The Great Global Warming Swindle.” For this heresy, Ball has received hate mail with such messages as, “If you continue to speak out, you won’t live to see further global warming.”
I’m against political writers whining about their hate mail because it makes them sound like Paul Krugman. But that’s political writers arguing about ideology.
Global warming is supposed to be “science.” It’s hard to imagine Niels Bohr responding to Albert Einstein’s letter questioning quantum mechanics with a statement like: “If you continue to speak out, you won’t live to see further quantum mechanics.”
Come to think of it, one can’t imagine the pope writing a letter to Jerry Falwell saying, “If you continue to speak out, you won’t live to see further infallibility.”
If this is how global warming devotees defend their scientific theory, it may be a few tweaks short of a scientific theory. Scientific facts are not subject to liberal bullying — which, by the way, is precisely why liberals hate science.
A few years ago, The New York Times ran an article about the continuing furious debates among physicists about quantum mechanics, which differs from global warming in the sense that it is supported by physical evidence and it doesn’t make you feel good inside to “do something” about quantum mechanics. It is, in short, science.
Though he helped develop the theory of quantum mechanics, Einstein immediately set to work attacking it. MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark called the constant testing and arguing about quantum mechanics “a 75-year war.”
That’s how a real scientific theory operates. That’s even how a real religion operates. Only a false religion needs hate mail, threats, courts of inquisition and Hollywood movies to sustain it.
read it all: Townhall.com::The coming ass age::By Ann Coulter
