Social Sense
Mustang. fantastic post....One comment if I may about education...Since the Federal Government passed the law having to do with "persons with disabilities". This law mandates that people with disabilities must have equal educational opportunities up to age 18. Special classes and programs, with specially trained teachers are set up in schools and districts locally trying to make the costs as low as possible. The shared cost to the states/feds and local school systems can be astronomical, upward to $100,000 for some students if a student cannot be educated locally. I have been out of the mainstream for a few years, but I'm sure the cost hasn't receded.....I ramble..I hear what you say about education and wish it were possible to have more local control, but..stay well.....
What Perry and Sanford also know that most ordinary citizens don't is that the federal government is a creation of the several states and not the other way around and that is an important distinction. The federal government derives its powers, such as they exist, from the states.
I am also opposed to federal funding of education not simply because its not working but based on your argument that by taking the money, we are acknowledging federal authority over us.
Parliament passed the Townsend Acts to raise money from the colonies and the colonists did not pay. This gave rise to protests, including the Boston Massacre. The Townsend Acts produced the historic demand "no taxation without representation."
Parliament tried to assert its sovereignty over the colonies by imposing duties on tea, thinking the colonists would not forego the benefit, the pleasure of tea. Parliament gave a monopoly to the struggling British East India Company to handle the exportation of tea to the colonies in order to keep a clean record. In Charleston, the tea was warehoused and not sold (until the shooting started and then it was sold to raise money for the war effort) and of course it led to the "Boston Tea Party."
Calls to the Capitol ran 300 to 1 against the bailout and the switchboard operator shut down the switchboard. I have two "Republican" senators who both voted for the bailout and one of them just got re-elected (despite my vigorous campaign against him). The two RINO senators announced with glee a package they'd secured from the government for some disaster that I didn't even know occurred and rather than praise it was met with outrage by many state residents, especially on talk radio.
Many people have a sense of dread and foreboding but having their elected representatives ignore them and then in some cases sending those same people back creates schizophrenia.
What a fabulous post mustang. It is so in line with all our rights but the most important is the sovereignty of each state. It is indeed the snowball that bites us all in the end.
What the feds pay for, the feds control.
That is the great danger of these "bail-outs."
We really need to insist that power be returned to the states and their people, or we will lose what freedoms we have left.
According to research, 30% of graduating students in my state of Florida cannot read their own diplomas.
That's the effectiveness of federal money.
Although a few states are beginning to understand financial reality, I do note that most state governors are lining up for a handout from the federal government.
Are we into a cycle of bailout pleas without end?
You are far more optimistic than I am. I believe that freedom has become a rhetorical word to make us feel good. Private property rights are trampled on. Free speech is threatened by weasel politicians.
We are taxed in every way possible. Everywhere I look, I see cameras watching. This isn't what freedom is about. It's time to consider what the Second Amendment really means.
Go out and view this young ladies testimony before the Texas about the 2nd Amendment legislature. It says it quite sadly but profoundly.
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wow, somehow I goobered that up... I think I need some seriously strong coffee!
She testified before the Texas legislature about what happened to her and her parents at Luby's Cafeteria in 1981 because they passed a law that she could not carry a gun in her purse!
Did you see where we're PAYING high schoolers for grades now at an inner city high school....and not small potato bucks, either.
Then there's the Green Spot School...amazing. BIG, wonderful results from CARING about the kids.
You can't throw enough money at ANYONE, ANY teacher, to CARE more.
America pays the most,I believe, and we're really going down, down, dwon, in the world stats of 'who's best educated?'. Park outside a high school today and you'll know why we're doing so badly...oy. WHERE are their FOLKS?
Two governors isn't exactly a groundswell, but it's a start. The free stuff from the government mentality needs to be stopped because there's not such thing as free stuff.
Amen, Cube!
The good thing about Texas is that the Governor has very little power. The buck stops at his desk, true, and we still have a state legislature with a Republican majority. Texans put a lot of stock into common sense and taking care of personal responsibilities. We are one of the few states with a healthy surplus, too. It's the rainy day theory. Hurricane Ike this year and then Hurricane Rita in 2005 right after Katrina were hard on the state's resources.
We call him "Governor Good Hair", btw. Not the sharpest tool in the shed but he's ok. I'm waiting for Kay Bailey Hutchinson to run in 2010 for the office.
I believe freedom is a continous fight. This is actually one of the things that makes it special, it has to be won.
As far as federal money to states. I have written before that there should be very little federal money to states. Let the states pay their own way. This keeps the control on how money is spent local and therfore more controllable by the local populace. If a state wants flood control, let them pay for it. If they do not then they clearly do not feel it is important enough. This goes directly to your program A/program B analogy.
Great comment Chuck, and I wholeheartedly agree. If you give more control to the state, you don't have the fed second guessing your needs and getting it wrong, plus more control is given to the citizenry, which is as it should be.
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