jonks
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- Feb 7, 2005
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Originally posted by: Genx87
Originally posted by: Jack Flash
I think it's profound how the McCain supporters will advocate "It's your money, do with it what you want," except when Barack Obama does what he wants with his money.
He's a man who needed secret service protection sooner than any other candidate running for president due to the death threats he receives so frequently. Think his kids might be a bit safer in a small, secure school? You crucify a man for looking out for his two most important people in the world.
I dont believe the issue here is spending the money how they want. I know for a fact if I had money like him, my kids would go to a private school as well. It is the idea that he is in bed with the teachers union which is against the idea of a voucher system where the money allocated for a student stays with the student and not the district. Meaning poor to middle class families are stuck with what the state tells them.
So while he is out bobbing with the Union and helping to keep people(usually poor to middle class) from having a choice of school. He is easily excercising his right to send his children to a school not mandated by the state. For being a champion of the poor on this issue he is clearly not helping them.
Vouchers are coupons, not free tickets. You get $3500 towards the tuition of your choice. But that money comes out of funds that would go to public schools. The majority of middle-class and nearly entire lower-class would not be able to send their kids to a private school even with the voucher. So their kids are now still going to a public school, only the public school has even less funds than it did before.
He IS helping the poor by preventing the pillaging of public school funds in the form of vouchers that go towards families already paying for private school.
