"We need our members, Republicans and Democrats alike, to understand this radical agenda and the people in high places who are behind it," she says.
Well, it sounds good to me, too. And we could start with eliminating the federal Department of Education.
But starting small, such as first creating private accounts for Socialist Security and moving to private education in stages, works for me also.
Now they're funneling medicaid money into public education.
***INVENTIVE USES FOR MEDICAID MONEY
Medicaid costs are rising far more rapidly than inflation, demographics or poverty can justify, analysts say. One clue to the growth in the $100 billion-a-year program came in a curious letter sent by the Illinois State Board of Education to school district superintendents.
The letter reportedly describes in detail how public schools can exploit Medicaid to funnel a fresh flow of taxpayers' money into public schools.
Stating that "the potential for dollars is limitless," the letter claims that "Medicaid dollars have been used for purchases ranging from audiometers to minibuses, from a closed-caption television for a classroom to an entire computer system, from contracting with substitutes to employment of new special education staff, from expanding existing special education programs to implementing totally new programs."
The letter "encourages" local public schools to use the experienced State School Board staff in order to "maximize federal reimbursement" of Medicaid dollars and use the "opportunity" to bill Medicaid for money already spent in 1994, 1995 and 1996. The letter was signed by the board's "Medicaid consultant."
In fiscal 1996, $72.5 million in federal funds were paid to Illinois schools for Medicaid programs.
When health care is provided by and in public schools, say critics, there is no way to separate welfare children from others -- all are eligible.
In 1986, Congress allowed states to expand Medicaid to cover children in families with incomes below the poverty line. In 1990, Congress required the states to provide Medicaid coverage to all poor children by the year 2002, and allowed states to extend Medicaid even further to the nonpoor
Source: Phyllis Schlafly, "Smoking Gun in the Medicaid Mystery," Washington Times, January 18, 1997.