And fortunately, the founders of the Constitution understood that times and circumstances would change and provided a process for those changes to be implemented by we the people.
that's correct. that process, of course, is known as the
amendment process. if you can point me to the
Amendment establishing all these things, I would be most fascinated to hear about it, as my Constitution is evidently out of date.
None of the candidates that call for the elimination of the Education and Transportation have a snowballs chance in hell of winning a general election.
Obama is running in a 9% unemployment atmosphere. your hyperbole aside, every single candidate on that stage - to include bachmann - has a better than the chance you are ascribing to them. Ron Paul has polled within single-digits of Obama
multiple times. Paul, Bachmann, and Johnson have all said they would abolish the DOE immediately, and every other candidate has called for greatly restricting and shrinking their role.
It is why the libertarian party only receive 0.4% of the vote in the last election.
yeah? how did the Tea Party Republicans do in 2010?
What????????? That might require some more explanation there, you think?
not to mention a few more question marks
. You made the argument that the fed had the right to impede upon the rights of individuals and states for any reason that was deemed "for the greater good". I pointed out that the current US Citizenry is failing to produce itself, which means eventually it will die out - but that prior to that, it will go through a societal collapse; the first strains of which we are seeing right now in Greece, as not enough workers come up to replace and support too many retirees. Ergo, using your logic that the Fed must intercede in our freedom of movement to force us to place higher priorities on things than we would ourselves, the Federal Government has a mandate to penalize/criminalize homosexuality, and incentivize/force women to serve as baby-makers. It is, after all, for the Greater Good.
"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
see.... the difference there? is that my quote made
sense in the context.
Before unions, minorities and the mentally impaired were not allowed in schools with the "normal" white kids.
that is correct. and, after unions, minorities and the mentally impaired were not allowed in schools with the "normal" white kids. what was your point supposed to be? something explaining why our costs have exploded even as our results have stagnated or dropped?
Charter schools were supposed to be the market place alternative to public schools
supposed to be - but only if a market is allowed to function. for a market to function, consumers must be able to
choose between competing products. hence, the parental choice movement, to put choice into education. if public-union/public-school advocates were really so sure that their alternative was superior, they would welcome this opportunity to prove so, and justify the money we spend on them. that instead they hate, fear, and rally against it is most telling.
Obama's support is still head and shoulders above the support given to the libertarian views you espouse.
Obama is significantly less than 50% likely to be president come February 2013. the main agenda in 2012 will not be the DOE, but 1 Jobs and 2 budgetary/entitlement reform.