Quote Originally Posted by mont974x4
Education...schools are a mess. Get the governemnt out of them. Give us back out tax dollars. If you have no kids in school you don't pay into them. If you want your kid in school you pay for it and you take them where you want. If you are unhappy with a school, try another one. When your kid and your money walk away...the school will listen.

I do think we need to find a better way to protect the environment. Acid rain and pollutions certainly are real. I am not convinced either way on the global warming issue. The problem is we need a healthy balance between protecting the environment and the needs of society (and the means we need business). How do we get new energy? So many on the left want their cake and want to eat it. I think we need to open up our own natural gas and oil operations to create American jobs and American money while we also fund and develop alternative sources like nuclear power, ethanol, practical wind resources
well, I admit in advance to being so far left I stand beside myself. Democrats and republicans are too scared to venture far from the "safe" center ground. Anyway, I could concede most of those those, except for education. We should all pay for education. Speaking purely statistically, the higher the level of education, the less likely an individual will end up on welfare or turn to crime as a way of making ends meet. We all benefit from living in an educated society. And likewise, the best education shouldn't go solely to those families with the money to pay for it. So I suppose I have no trouble paying for education...
And as for resources, I'm always surprised when people point out other sources of oil as a solution, when oil is the problem in the first place. It's not going to last. Whether fuel resources are depleted in the next 100 years or the next 20, we know that they're not going to last forever. With that in mind we should be moving into different areas now. I see nothing wrong with investing more money into sustainable energy and creating new jobs and growth in that sector rather than opening up new oil fields which we can all agree are at best a postponement and denial of the problem.

Apparently religion doesn't exist, so it's all just politics then. :thumbsup: