Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]
- From: Paul Johnson <baloo@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:29:23 -0700
On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:31, Curt Howland wrote:
Excuse me, prior to 1840 education was all private. Therefore, your
first "reason" is false.
Yeah, and prior to 1840, so few people knew how to read that the US came up
with the retarded electoral college system to make sure someone who knew how
to read would be around for the vote. That approach to education certainly
did us a lot of good.
The purpose of the public programs is to ensure that *something* is
there for the middle class and poor. It doesn't have to be
gold-plated.
Your premise is false. The "middle class" and "poor" were doing very
well indeed without coercive "public" schooling.
America didn't have much in the way of any middle class prior to the
widespread accessability to education. Now that this situation is
redeveloping in the US, we're seeing the middle class disappear and the lower
class exploding.
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