>>Socialized schooling was started before the War Between the States. The federal government is a new comer to socialized schooling. Cities and States started socializing the school industry around 1850.<<
There is no question it was in the Federal interest to ensure the USA had an educated population. It should have been an amendment that said “Each State shall...” or something along that line. I can’t draft the damn thing here but it should have been a coordinated State effort and paid for and administered by the States.
Or anything other than the hobnailed boots of the feds we see today. Yes, they tip their hat to the States but Bush’s NCLB was a huge overreach that obama and the dems are now using to create federal indocrination — and lets not forget federal school meal programs b/c we know parents should not be expected to actually FEED their kids.
Social Security should be phased out not stopped immediately. Until recently financial planners, stock brokers, professors, etc. all talked about the three legged stool of retirement planning. The three legs were pension, savings and investment and Social Security.
People who responsibly worked that plan have had pensions disappear and investments ravaged. Dumping the 70 year-old who portfolio is 2/3 of what it was worth when he retired and whose pension was converted to a 401k when he was 55, is not good for society or the economy.
Bush actually had a pretty good plan except that he perpetuated government involvement. But his plan to phase out the program was headed in the right direction.
On the other hand, single payer schooling could be stopped tomorrow with little or no ill effect on society and improvement in the economy.
Jefferson suggested socialized schooling but the rest of the founders wisley rejected that idea in favor of a capitalist schooling industry.
There is no question it was in the Federal interest to ensure the USA had an educated population. It should have been an amendment that said “Each State shall...” or something along that line. I can’t draft the damn thing here but it should have been a coordinated State effort and paid for and administered by the States.
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That is the same argument the left makes for socialized medicine. A healthy population is at least as important as an educated one but conservatives reject that argument when talking health care.
That argument boils down to government knows better than the people and the market can’t be trusted with important issues.