American Thinker | Kyle-Anne Shiver | Oct. 31, 2007
If Democrat Congress people genuinely care about children and want to improve their lives, the best place to begin would be to lower the exorbitant tax levies forced upon the children’s parents by wasteful, behemoth, big-spending, never-accountable federal government. Instead of spinning their tails in a flurry of angst about going green, the Democrats in Congress might just try to sensibly stay in the black for a change. As Benjamin Franklin might say if he were a blogger today, Every dollar saved by government is a dollar in the pocket of some child’s mother and father that can buy bread, clothes, shelter, books, and even medical care. […]
Secondly, if the Democrats do indeed care about our children’s futures and want to give them (and our country) a nice leg-up on life, they might consider opposing instead of supporting the teachers’ unions, which require our government schools to ignore bad teachers and failing schools, promoting their vested interests at the expense of our children’s education. It has long been understood, and is not even worth debating, that one of the most crippling things that can happen to any child is the denial of a first-rate education in his formative years.
Our schools, under the iron-fisted monopoly of union groupthink, have done more to cripple children and keep them shackled in poverty and enslavement to the State than anything since the Depression. If Nancy Pelosi cares about children at even half the rate her hissy-fitted rhetoric implies, then she will make a move to cut the teacher unions off at the knees and restore educational control to local school boards and parents in the true American tradition. With that accomplished, our valiant Speaker of the House can throw the full weight of her political muscle behind school vouchers that will inevitably weed out bad teachers and bad schools as healthy competition invigorates our cancer-ridden government schools.
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