No ‘Choice’ (projectile vomit communist tirade alert)

In These Times ^ | March 31, 2004 | Glen Ford and Peter Gamble

[A Jovial Cad]

My wife & I probably spend $150-$200 a week at Wal Mart on groceries *alone* (four growing kids can really put away the chow), not to mention all the asundry household necessities like soap, asprin, toilet paper, ammo, etc. This article reassures me that it is money well spent. I just love it when the lefties start to whine about "consumerism"; it always makes me want to go out and buy another wide-screen TV...

[Cultural Jihad]

File it under: Irrational Democrats wallowing in their whining.

[driftless]

These are the same people ie. leftists who are behind the urban sprawl myth. In reality they hate small towns and want everyone to live in huge cities in tiny cramped apartments so supposedly everybody can gather for mandatory group hugging sessions and multicultural awareness drives. I moved out of a trailer park and into the country to get away from these people thank you very much.

[driftless]

Coincidentally the small mom-and-pop grocery stores, hardware stores, bookstores, etc. have mostly been put out of business by the superstores. Times change. Bigger may not always be better, but it is what Americans want. Except of course for the socialist authoritarians who know better than you how to spend your money (yuk,yuk).

[Aquinasfan]

To that end the Waltons, through their Walton Family Foundation and in close collaboration with Milwaukee’s Bradley Foundation, literally invented the national school “choice” network and its wedge issue-weapon, vouchers.

Great news! Death to the public schools, the opiate of the people! Long live education!

[Publius6961]

The family’s immediate personal ambitions are more modest: to destroy public education in the United States.

I was holding my nose reading this article until I got to this gem. That got my attention. I have never been inside a Walmart in my life. That is definitely about to change, thanks entirely to Glen Ford and Peter Gamble.

Oh, after reading the above sentence, it was clear that I needed to read no further. I wonder what their intention was in writing another 3000 words?

[Moonman62]

Commies are terrified of a "tidal wave of money", in the form of $1 billion of philanthropy?

In spite of the stench, the smell of terrified commies in the morning is the smell of victory.

[Moonman62]

Wal-Mart shifts the burden of its exploitation to the public, causing federal taxpayers to pay more than $2,000 per employee in social safety net costs to subsidize John, Jim, Sam, Alice and Helen’s profits.

I'll guess that these commies never complain about the subsidized costs of 12 million illegal aliens.

[Army Air Corps]

"These are the same people ie. leftists who are behind the urban sprawl myth. In reality they hate small towns and want everyone to live in huge cities in tiny cramped apartments so supposedly everybody can gather for mandatory group hugging sessions and multicultural awareness drives. I moved out of a trailer park and into the country to get away from these people thank you very much."


Yep, these are the very same people. They are also the same folks who think that McDonald's is more evil than Stalin or Pol Pot. In short, they are mindless lunatics who are the bane of rational folks. These kooks are also involved in peace and trade protests because they can afford not to work. Frankly, I am often in a quandry as to how to react to these morons - do I rail against them or do I take a nap?

[Army Air Corps]

I'll guess that these commies never complain about the subsidized costs of 12 million illegal aliens.


Watch that language or the Speech nazis will send you to Sensitivity Training. "Illegal Aliens" are supposed to be Undocumented Migrant Workers and not national security and economic risks.

[Askel5]

I think, in the long run, folks will be extremely sorry they supported vouchers.

[narses]

I disagree. The sooner we break the evil that is the NEA, the better.

[Askel5]

Do you not understand that the Voucher System PERPETUATES the NEA?

[bondjamesbond]

Do you not understand that the Voucher System PERPETUATES the NEA?

OK, I'll bite...

How do vouchers, which will promote the growth of independent, not necessarily unionized, schools perpetuate the NEA?

[MrB]

Funny that the only evil they will recognize in the world is embodied in successful capitalists.

People like Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Hussein, etc are just "misunderstood madmen" - not EVIL as they should be recognized.

[narses]

How? And if so, why does the NEA oppose them so vehemently?