LIBERTY: “both approaches failed” … because they start with the gubamint!

Monday, September 4, 2006

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/09/fixing-government-in-new-jersey.html

Monday, September 04, 2006
Fixing government in New Jersey
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But it is not likely to be as easy as it might sound. Gov. Whitman slashed government spending and in the process gutted the DEP, but that approach has come back to haunt the state as several high-profile contamination cases in North Jersey show. The McGreevey administration, on the other hand, was a bastion of patronage and unnecessary government growth — boosting the state’s payroll without improving its provision of services.

Both approaches were failures and now the state is facing a fiscal implosion that, because of the competing layers of government, inefficiencies and the state’s culture of legal corruption could lead to a property tax revolt.
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I think you hit the nail on the head when you said “both approaches were failures and now the state is facing a fiscal implosion”. It’s the approach is always flawed when it starts with the gubbamint. Argh! Best way to handle the toxic site problem would be to “sell” (i.e., give some one the property with a chunk of change) the property to someone, anyone, or group. At least there would be someone to hold accountable. Rather than the faceless nameless stupid gubamint.

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LIBERTY: In the Best Interests of the Children

Monday, September 4, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/taylor/taylor130.html

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Educational priorities in America’s schools, public and private, are rarely based on definitive long-range goals to meet the complete needs of students. There are certainly many fine educational examples, but too often those are limited in scope and not district-wide. Many occur by happenstance, or are brought about by a few excellent teachers, many of whom often provide instruction in unapproved ways; using unapproved materials; unsupported by administration.
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It need not be that way. There are fine models that America could replicate, in public and in private schools; in day schools and in residential. One model would be the educational whole-child philosophies and whole-life focus of The Institute of the Deaf, Sint-Michielsgestel, The Netherlands.

However, American educational decisions are too often made by people who put power over scholarship; ambition over the best interests of children.
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It’s most interesting how the subtle change in motivation from the US government school (i.e., treating the deaf) to a private school (i.e., the priest educates people who happen to be deaf) produces remarkable results. We have to get the government out of all sorts of things that it gets into because it wastes time, money, and people’s lives. imho

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