Yes. Yes he is. In fact, he is the Anti-Christ.
More to come later, I have to calm down after seeing Ron Paul’s supporters follow him like zombies.
In short, watching Paul’s Iowa Republican Straw Poll speech made me physically sick. I mean, he really wants to drop the Department of Education.
I gotta stop…for now.
3 Comments
August 12, 2007 at 6:48 AM
I began teaching high school in 1975, just before the Department of Education was founded. The growing federal role in education has resulted in a dumbing down of the curriculum and a huge increase in labeling kids as learning disabled. Getting rid of the Dept of Ed is one of the best things you could possibly do to improve education. Educational reform has to come from parents, teachers, and principals. Centralized control simply makes things worse.
August 12, 2007 at 12:48 PM
Government CAUSED all the problems we have today, don’t expect more government problems to fix them. Saying the department of education helps education is like saying the PATRIOT act is patriotic.
August 12, 2007 at 9:39 PM
Mike, the Patriot Act has little to do with Patriotism and although the Department of Education is flawed, it has a lot to do with education.
I know the rhetoric that Ron Paul speaks sounds liberating after seven years of a neoconservative administration but the nearly pure capitalism that Paul pushes is too dramatic of a change. Yes, things need to be changed.
The Department of Education needs help, but the department is still needed. Ron Paul wants to extremely cut back aid to those that need it via cuts in medicare, medicaid, social security, and welfare. These are flawed systems and at times abused, but they are essential to our country. We ought to help those who need it, I am not talking about a total redistribution of wealth; but, maintaining and improving the progams we currently have.
In short, taking government away is not going to help the major problems that we have now: poverty, drugs, violent crimes, and even the War in Iraq. Maybe we are too buearucratic therefore taking too much power out of the people’s hands and that is a problem, but that problem is not is not as immediate or as important as helping those Americans that need help the most.