[Vision2020] The 'Value' of Public Schooling

[lfalen]

Good answers, Chas, I mostly agree.

Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Chasuk chasuk at gmail.com
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:14:19 -0800
To: "heirdoug at netscape.net" heirdoug at netscape.net
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] The 'Value' of Public Schooling

> On 2/22/07, heirdoug at netscape.net <heirdoug at netscape.net> wrote:
> 
> > The 'Value' of Public Schooling
> > by Jacob G. Hornberger
> 
> <snip>
> 
>    1.  The drug war is an immoral sham that has accomplished nothing
> more than enriching government officials and drug dealers. Drugs should
> be decriminalized.
> 
> True.
> 
>    2.  Public schooling is nothing more than a system of socialism
> applied to education. It should be abolished, leaving education to the
> free market.
> 
> Too many nuances here to be dismissed or approved in a single sentence.
> 
>    3.  Abraham Lincoln waged war on the Confederacy for the purpose not
> of freeing the slaves but of preserving the Union.
> 
> True.
> 
>    4.  U.S. intervention in World War I constituted a horrible waste of
> American life. It did not accomplish its purported goal of making the
> world safe for democracy and ending all future wars and actually
> contributed to the rise of N. Lenin and Adolf Hitler.
> 
> I don't possess enough information to agree or disagree with any force.
> 
>    5.  The federal government, not free enterprise, caused the 1929
> stock-market crash and the Great Depression.
> 
> Probably true.
> 
>    6.  Franklin Roosevelt intentionally lied to the American people when
> he said that he was doing his best to keep America out of World War II.
> 
> Probably true.
> 
>    7.  U.S. officials during World War II intentionally delivered East
> Germany and Eastern Europe into the clutches of the Soviet communists.
> 
> Probably true.
> 
>    8.  Lyndon Johnson won his 1948 U.S. Senate race by stuffing the
> ballot box with fake ballots and later, as president, he intentionally
> lied about the supposed attack on U.S. forces in the Gulf of Tonkin.
> 
> True, at least the latter half.
> 
>    9.  The U.S. government's interventionist foreign policy in the
> Middle East gave rise to the 9/11 attacks.
> 
> TRUE.
> 
>   10.  Given that Iraq never attacked the United States, President
> Bush's war on Iraq constitutes a "war of aggression," a type of war
> that was punished as a war crime by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.
> 
> TRUE.
> 
>  11.   Minimum-wage laws hurt the poor and should be repealed.
> 
> Undecided due to lack of knowledge.
> 
>   12.  Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are immoral, socialist
> programs that should be abolished immediately, along with the taxes
> that fund them.
> 
> I agree and disagree simultaneously.
> 
> Am I half libertarian?
> 
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