Misanthropic Scott says:

#78 – LibertyLover,

Tell me someone, you know personally, who needed an operation or anything else, who was actually refused treatment?

That’s a bullshit argument. Tell me someone you know personally who is homeless. We tend to associate with people in similar socioeconomic status. It doesn’t mean that others don’t exist.

School vouchers!

And who gets to set the standards? Some bureaucrat in Washington? It should be handled at the State level. How they decide it is none of Washington’s business.

I will never ever understand this sort of non-argument. State is a government. Fed is a government. Why does it mean so much to you to have your state set the standard? Do you think it’s good to have Mississippi with much lower standards than New Jersey? What do you have against Mississippi?

Besides, where in the Constitution does it state that the Federal Government is responsible for educating the kids in this country?

When the constitution was written, was there any requirement at all that children go to school? So why is this a valid argument?

Where do you think the “government money” comes from? Me, you, Bill, Joe, Sarah, etc. And they don’t get a say in how it is spent on their kids? They don’t have a choice, Scott, on where they send their kids. They are stuck sending them to whatever rathole happens to be down the street.

A voucher is nothing more than a tax refund to allow parents a choice as to whether or not they want to send their kids to a better school instead of the monopoly system run by the government.

Well, by that argument, I want my school voucher money since I don’t have any kids using either system. And, while I’m at it, I want a refund for all of the federal dollars spent on the military and on corporate welfare.

There is a reason the teacher’s union is afraid of vouchers — it will make them accountable. We can’t have that, now can we?

Teachers should be accountable. I just don’t think sending federal money to church is the way to make it happen. And, yes, it is federal money, just like the military budget and the money doled out by the Export/Import Bank. I fail to see how you see it differently.

I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. And yes, they are in business. But they’ve also taken the oath. Believe it or not, there are people who actually care about other people and are willing to do something about it instead of lecturing from a keyboard.

Texas must be an idyllic paradise … except for the assholes trying to teach creationism in the state regulated public schools.

How many homeless people have you offered your couch to over the last few years? Oh, that’s right — it’s easier to legislate someone else doing it.

Ah yes. Another straw man. Instead of actually supporting programs to help the poor, just point out that most people wouldn’t invite them into their homes. Here’s an interesting little fact. I don’t trust most people, homeless or otherwise. This argument is, much like most of your others, not an argument at all. Real reform to does not begin by bringing one homeless person into your home.

Jeez. And, I’m the misanthrope here. I think you hate people more than I do.

Freedom to starve!!