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It's Virtual War

Submitted by tommy shannon, Dec 15, 2007 21:04

Let go, dam you let go!

The Teachers Union has this country by the throat and will not let go. Monopoly is the only system that produces a product that gets worse and costs more every year. This is not what made America great; it is what made the USSR a workers paradise. Except in the USSR the State wanted not only productive educated students, but ever-lastingly loyalty to Commies. What it got were lotsa bureaucrats, which is a real form totalitarianism.

In case you have been in a lead mine for 25 years the USSR fell of its own incompetence and bloated bureaucracy that only a monopoly can produce. And our monopoly union and monopoly governments are dancing long after the music stopped in the USSR.

But don't call them Leftists. If you ever do they quickly identify you as a child-hater and Nazi. And you don't want that, so let's sacrifice the children's futures on the altar of Government&Unioniosm. Where everyone goes home fat and indifferent to our kids needs.

At least they won't call us Nazis.


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Dec 16, 2007 20:21

Billions of dollars could be saved by doing away with the archaic public school system of huge buildings, thousands of... [MORE]

frank w 

Dec 16, 2007 08:55

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tommy shannon 

Dec 15, 2007 21:04

Today, a student faces much higher expectations, and the student often has much higher aspirations also. We simply cannot produce... [MORE]

John House 

Dec 15, 2007 19:29

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John Spencer Yantiss 

Dec 14, 2007 13:23

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