Now The Authoritarians Demand We Bid Farewell To Ronald McDonald

ToogoodReports ^ | April 21, 2002 | Vin Suprynowicz

[good_ash]

Wow, you must have gone to clown college to be so smart in libertarian talk! ;)

Seriously, I'll second the idea that most 'conservatives' are terrified by true freedom, lacking faith that they would do the right thing if there wasn't a law guiding their behavior.

[good_ash]

"Yep. "Personal responsibility" is just a ruse spewed forth by the extremists who advocate total abolition of public schools. It's a totally irresponsible position. So I suppose you could call it "evil"."

Gee, so I being a person who doesn't have children, who has made an effort to make sure he doesn't have children, and doesn't believe his money should be taken away for solely for use by people who have CHOSEN to have children, is now evil??? I guess I'm the evil clown, then.

It must be nice to live in such a black and white little world:

People who support taxing the childless to pay for education of other people's kids: Good.
People who believe that those who have children are responsible for raising and educating them: Evil

You seem incapable of seeing the forrest for the trees. If the government doesn't seize money to pay for public education (and where I live, they take a lot), then parents have the money to pay for a private education. If more people have more of their own money to spend, economic activity increases, returning more money to the people, creating jobs. People then have money to spend on their children's education.

Here's a hint, Willie: The government doesn't need all the money it spends per pupil to educate them. What costs $10,000 per pupil per year in a government school can be done just as effectively for $2,500 in a private school.

If a couple can't afford to spend $2,500 on their children's education (remember, they have more money now since they're not being taxed for public schoools), then they shouldn't have had children in the first place.

I guess when you have only two simplistic options, 'good' and 'evil', you can't comprehend 'better'.

[Willie Green]

Gee, so I being a person who doesn't have children, who has made an effort to make sure he doesn't have children,

You have our qualified gratitude for your sacrifice.

[RepoGirl]

Speaking of those unwashed Eurotrashii and the banning of tobakky products--I lived in London for a goodly portion of my student days and have spent some time among the Amphibians, as well-- I can say that, I'm Alsatian, a virtual charceuterie of German, English, French and Austrian genes...

My point? Everyone smokes. Everywhere you go in Gay Paree, just about anyone over the age of two years old has a cig spackled to their lips! Young skinny models, intense, brooding anarchists, street vendors, callow art students; in fact, all the good little follow-the-leader socialists ingest as much tar and nicotine as seemingly possible-- so sh*tload a good all that banning of advertising does, eh?

People have a way of really speaking for themselves, I guess.

Off to make Mexican food and ogle the dreaminess of Shep Smith...

Repogirl

[good_ash]

Too bad being pithy and offering an intelligent, reasoned argument aren't the same thing. You might want to work on that. One carries more weight than the other in debate.

[Willie Green]

One carries more weight than the other in debate.

Abolition of public schools is an issue unworthy of debate.
Its an extremist view held by kooks and deserves only mockery.

[CubicleGuy]

Abolition of public schools having people pay for their own kids' educations instead of having the government point a gun at them in order to get their property taxes so they can be forced to pay for the education of someone else's children, against their will, is an issue unworthy of debate.

If you say so, Willie.

[good_ash]

Abolition of public schools is an issue unworthy of debate. Its an extremist view held by kooks and deserves only mockery

It's become terribly apparent that you are incapable of debate and only capable of engaging in mockery.

The saddest part of it is that you think you're smart and have an intelligent position. The truth is you're just like a child who sticks his fingers in his ears and babbles when someone has a view you don't like.

Very Pathetic.

[aruanan]

I think that food Nazis should be force fed chocolates, whipped cream, cream cheese, and sticks of butter until their livers explode.

[weikel]

Yeah your a real conservative posting lots of workers of the world unite crap and you support Buchanan who picked a radical feminazi as his running mate if your a conservative then Islam is a religion of peace.

[weikel]

He is a liberal hes always posting workers of the world unite crap.

[Willie Green]

Actually, your irrelevant and illiterate replies are the most persuasive evidence I've seen on this thread that support of public schools is a waste of taxpayers' money.

[weikel]

Yeah I guess pointing out the communist nature of someone claiming to be a conservative is irrelevant(sarcasm). Why don't you go read Marx.

[weikel]

I will however thank you for the HTML bootcamp threads.

[Willie Green]

I read Marx years before you were even born, kid. Same with Adam Smith, Mao Tse Tung, Thomas Jefferson, Ayn Rand, Plato, Milton Friedman, Keynes, Galbraith, Nietzsche, Aquinas, etc. etc, etc. I don't engage in adolescent, dogmatic regurgitation of any of them, I do my own thinking.

I see you managed to rectify your sloppy punctuation. Well, I suppose that's a small step in the right direction. But you still need work on your sloppy and uninformed thought processes. Smearing Ezola Foster as a "radical feminazi" is laughably inept.