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Cash for Kids

by Kathy Brown on August 27th, 2009 | 2 comments

First, there was cash for bad banking, also known as TARP money.  Then, there was cash for General Motors.  Next, there was cash for clunkers. Now, it is cash for energy saving appliances.  Here's a stimulus idea:  cash for kids!

How about every parent, who wanted to, could walk into the Principal's office and ask for cash in exchange for getting their child out of that school so they could go wherever they really wanted to go?  As it is, poor children are left inside the walls of failing, secular humanist schools (Foundational Presupposition Chart).

This would be a great stimulus to the public government schools.  Presently, they receive our tax dollars for each pupil to operate.  If parents were given (in form of a voucher, no strings attached), just eighty per cent of that amount back, the school could keep the twenty per cent to use for a smaller number of students remaining.  What a windfall! What a terrific boon for the private sector, too.  All of the non-public schools would have an influx of families which would create a better competitive market, which enables the best to flourish. 

Of course, this is all predicated on the concept that there is a level playing field in education.    The government "option" would no longer have an endless funding stream that trumps every other available alternative.  It is also based on the old-fashioned idea that parents know what is best for their children, and that everyone (rich or poor) should have an equal opportunity to an excellent education of their choosing. 

As Americans begin to wake up to how  much we have surrendered ourselves to a system that takes away liberty, perhaps we will show up at town meetings and ask for a real stimulus package:  cash for kids.

 

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