Statement of Principles


Nevada government keeps getting bigger and BIGGER. We deserve minimum, strictly limited, constitutional government in this State.

Forget all this blather about a $3B "shortfall". The budget for the '12/'13 biennium should be no more than $200M.



Friday, December 17, 2010

Both Sandoval & Jones Support Education "Stamps"

Originally posted in a LVRJ Forum

Why are political conservatives, a group associated with opposition to food stamps, housing stamps and other forms of social welfare programs, also associated with SUPPORT for education stamps (vouchers)?

"Means testing" vouchers just means hiring *more* CCSD bureaucrats AND private school administrators to certify who has limited means. It means more test cases for lawyers to argue over process; more activist judges to decide what is "fair".

More "education" money diverted to non-teaching activities. Higher private school cost structures and higher tuitions. More government. Higher taxes.

How about parents who actually *have* kids take the responsibility for educating them? We need to go back to the inexpensive, little red schoolhouse model, where parents joined together to hire/board a teacher and kids actually learned to read and write quite elegantly by 6th grade, instead of the bulky, expensive, one-size-fits-all bureaucratic model we have today where HS graduates who can't even read their own diplomans are encouraged to enter college and educrats make out like bandits.


You want vouchers? I'll give you vouchers.

The absolute minimum amount of government required by the Nevada Constitution REQUIRES would cost ~$100M/yr (and probably less). Everything else is PORK which the legislature could simply vote out of existence.

Tax revenues are currently running ~$2.5B/yr. The legislature chooses to spend ~all of it on pork. Send us VOUCHER (rebate) checks instead.

It works out to ~$1,000 per resident.

2 comments:

  1. By your rantings that make no sense and the numbers never add up it appears you are a product of that "little red schoolhouse" that only went to 6th grade.

    By your postings, there is no state that you would be happy in. I am betting no country you would be happy living in.

    The public paid for your school, time for you to return the favor.

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  2. Thank you Anonymous. I have only read a handful of his posts but they are all ridiculous. I laughed at his rantings because they are so off the wall. I agree that parents need to be more involved in the education of their children and I believe that parents are a major reason for the failure of education. Unfortunately, there is nothing the government can do to mandate and monitor parents to fulfill their responsibilities. Heck, if this author had things his way it would just be a huge free-for-all and there would be a massive discrepancy in the quality of education that kids are receiving because many parents are not knowledgeable/intelligent/trained/etc enough to teach their own children what is necessary to succeed in life.

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