Quote: In North Carolina the schools are being devastated by budget cuts. The root cause? The Legislature killed a 1-cent sales tax that went to school funding. The public opinion? Sixty-eight percent of the voters wanted to keep the 1-cent tax. The unexplained? Why do they call the people who killed a 1-cent tax that 68% of the voters wanted to keep 'representatives'?
Sounds like the crap they pulled here in Iowa. They said a 20% increase in the sales tax was "Just a penny." and said we'd get to vote on it again in ten years. They lied about how they would spend the money, and of course they changed the law, taking away our chance to vote, and put the money into the "school infrastructure fund." The construction unions loved it. Now we're getting lots of Taj Mahal buildings, separate new buildings for administration, college level stadiums for high schools and a continuing downward trend in student achievement. But hey! we proved our dedication to education by throwing boatloads of money at it. It's for the children don't you know.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
