[Bay Kid]

Originally Posted by Byte1

Public schools WERE, no longer. The gov got involved. Private is better.
The Post Office WAS, no longer. Private is better
Highways "WAS." Nuff said.
Space Program? Private is better
The Gov involvement only produces slaves of the Gov. I am not saying that we have a bad gov, but I am saying that it is getting worse than it ever was. We are becoming Europe and that is not a good thing. We WERE the model for the rest of the world.

The government is too big. We need the gov to motivate, NOT run the country. Americans are becoming drones, dependent on the government. Until someone can absolutely prove different, I believe in our form of Capitalism and the trickle down effect. Why? Because I have lived overseas and KNOW that our low income folks live as well as middle class anywhere else in the world. I know that the rich produce jobs, not the unmotivated. I know many people that have told me that it was far easier to take unemployment and welfare than to take a temp low paying job. The big LIE that comes from certain factions is that low paying, minimum wage paying jobs cannot support a family. Those jobs were NOT meant to support a family. Anyone expecting to do the minimum to support their family, deserves exactly what they get. If they are not motivated to rise above poverty, then they get exactly what they expect. A hand up? Part-time, low paying jobs are expected to be just that, part-time or temporary. I have worked three jobs at once in order to support my family and I knew that I was not going to make those jobs a career choice. I knew that I would rise above that. I had no intention of DOING the minimum and get paid the minimum. I took those jobs rather than accept food stamps or welfare, knowing that there were plenty of jobs out there waiting for me to apply for them. I find no disgrace or embarrassment in the fact that I cleaned toilets for a while. I went from poverty and high debt to debt free and retirement from a six figure income. I am not special. No one GAVE me anything. I worked for it and I did it without the gov interference.
As for politicians being the problem, I can agree to a certain extent. I know that it is the American voters' fault that we elect those that will DO THE MOST FOR US. We need leaders, not givers. They are giving us someone else's money, not theirs. And we will vote for those that bid the highest. The problem with the gov is us.

Public schools in Virginia have the Governors School for top grade students. They allow 5 students per school. Now the govern wants to dumb that down for equality. The same thing that has happened to public schools over the past 60 years will now happen to the governors school. Plus they removed 11th grade excel math courses, for equality. Sad