The is an article this morning in the Sacramento Bee where is talks about how the top priority of newly sworn-in State Senate President Darrell Steinberg is to expand the role of government in California, moving the responsibility for the health of children from their parents to the state government.
Are you kidding, Senator?
This concept of yours is a major problem for a whole slew of reasons. But let’s start with the biggies.
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December 7th, 2008 at 12:00 am
There you go again Jon, off the rails to the far right. If you read the article, you know that Senator Steinberg wants to try to cover the children who do not have health insurance coverage. It’s hard for me to make any other comment on your take about trying to help people who need help other than to hear you say “BAH HUMBUG and ARE THERE NO PRISONS?” followed by “AND THE UNION WORKHOUSES. ARE THEY STILL IN OPERATION? THE TREADMILL AND THE POOR LAW ARE IN FULL VIGOUR, THEN? I’M VERY GLAD TO HEAR IT.”
December 7th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Too bad those same arguments were not made years ago concerning government schools. We failed to make that argument then, now our government schools are failing our kids…. turning out idiots whom know everything about diversity, alternate lifestyles, politically correct history, and feel good believing that 2 + 2 = 5. The kids that now attend private schools will be signing the front of the paycheck so those kids now trapped in government schools can sign the back of the paycheck… that is if they are not welfare recipients.
In the same way I have a feeling we are going to lose this children’s health care argument, and in the future we will be stuck with a failing and costly monstrosity much like government schools. Too many people believe the purpose of government is to take care of us cradle to grave.
December 8th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Wow Ken, you have really gone off the rails to the far right – maybe all the way off planet Earth. The young people I know who are in school are not idiots. They are learning and progressing and I am not afraid of the future for our nation. We are, by and large, turning out well versed and smart young men and women of whom we should be proud. But then, maybe you are talking about your circle of friends and acquaintances and as my dear old mother always said, “The fruit never falls far from the tree.”
December 9th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Well Bob too bad you don’t get around much or catch a glimpse of the results for standardized testing in CA. Sure there are smart kids out there… when I taught as a professor of clinical dentistry at UOP dental school there were smart kids– but that of course is a private school. I currently am school board president for a local K-8 school that scores in the 80th percentile in the nation for standardized testing… but again that is a private school. My kids go to high school where 85% of the kids go to college… the top-notch colleges in the nation– but again that is a private school. 4 miles from my house there is a government high school where 5% of the kids go to college, usually a junior college– again that is a government school. A few miles from that are the government schools in North Highlands where they routinely score in the mid teens for the state standardized testing… those kids are trapped in a government school and unless they are somehow rescued they will grow up to be liberal Democrats collecting a welfare check.
Then there is the irresponsible and outrageous cost of government schools. Why can my kids go to a pirate school where 85% of the kids go to college and consistently score in the 80% on standardized testing for about $6,000 per year while right around the corner a government school sends 5% of the kids to college while scoring in the mid teens for the standardized testing while spending close to $12,000 per year?
I am pro-choice to the max!!!! Every child in CA should have the opportunity to receive a quality education and to that end they should be able to choose where they go to school. Unfortunately facts (and test scores) show that quality education and government schools are NOT one in the same!
Face reality Bob, government health care for the children will turn out as mediocre and costly as CA’s government schools.