I am greeted daily with socialist nonsense from the horrid San Jose Mercury News editorialists. Don't ask me why I torture
myself by reading their drivel. Maybe I secretly need to remind myself that Marxism didn't die when the Berlin Wall fell in
1989. The schools keep churning out hordes of economically ignorant boobs who've fallen for the idea that capitalism is the root
of all evil. If only we would give every last penny to our bettors (them, of course), the world would be heaven on earth.
In any case, the endless election circus includes a series of ballot initiatives, all of which demonstrate that the mouth-breathers
we sent to represent us in Sacramento do nothing useful. We end up voting on all the bond measures directly, and those that
fail do not deter the big spenders. They shop for a liberal judge to overturn the will of the people, and we get it good and hard
regardless of the election results. The whole system reeks to hell.
My letter below denounces the paper's plea for voting yes on every single school bond measure, and there are too many to count.
To the Editor:
Am I the only one tiring of the incessant pleas for more school funding? "The Case For Helping Schools" [October 11] is only the
latest example of the mentality that if only we would spend more money on our failing schools that all would be well. This is
sheer fantasy. Government schools will never succeed in educating students well. It is organized as a socialist institution where
spending is completely divorced from performance. How can we possibly expect to graduate literate, critically-thinking young
men and women when the system has no accountability, where failure is rewarded with bigger budgets and mediocrity is dressed
up as excellence?
Can we please admit that socialism in all spheres of society is a hopeless, utopian endeavor? This country used to know how to
teach students how to read, write and think. Then the educrats entered the scene and screwed it up. So why don't we fire the
useless bureaucrats with the six-figure salaries and replace them with teachers who have to perform to keep their jobs?
But no. Instead we'll throw more good money after bad trying to fix an inherently flawed system. How many more children will
be sacrificed to prove the point?