http://educationconversation.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/dear-dr-walter-williams

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I can’t help but wonder if the problem may be our own years of state schooling. We lack the vision and the courage to take back our children and our future and to enable the less fortunate to do the same, to put the state in its place (which is not in our children’s minds and consciences), and to fly into the future. We yell, but not too loudly. We act, but not too boldly.

Free choice is staring us in the face. We still have the liberty to embrace it. My fear is that if we travel much farther down the road of all-state-schooling, we will all end up with no safety net. Our private education community will exist no longer – it will be part of the state system. Eventually, we will not even have the memory of freedom.

Respectfully yours,
Tammy Drennan

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Another Blogger takes on Williams. (As I did!) Since taxes are theft, why are vouchers OK? Even if they are a step on the road to liberty, why is it moral to make me pay for someone else’s choices? And, the blogger makes the excellent point “golden rule”. When the Gooferment provides the gold, it will make the rules. Why exchange one bad system for another bad system?

Unfortunately, the answer is to not pay for services you don’t want. Of course, that means, that the “nice men with guns” will come a steal from you, hurt you, imprison you, or even kill you.

But then we are not kidding anyone about the slaves that we are.

Argh!

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