browncoat77 wrote: I find it interesting that people have been complaining about crappy school systems in America, while also downing a liberal mentality. correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you calling programs funded by taxes socialist? If so, then it is ironic to have a problem with paying taxes that are used to help fund things like schools, because if schools got more funding, they could afford better books, better teachers, and better facilities. That money comes from taxes.
Um...These things aren't contradictory. Public schools exist because of socialistic institution. The problem with public education is not the number of books, but what is written within. I'd love to explore all the problems with modern American public schools (as time permits).

My father has a 6th grade education that was better than my public school education. How does that happen? Why was it, that before the '60's "reforms" my father spent less years in school to learn more than I learned in double that time?
I've found a few answers for that one.

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browncoat77 wrote: Also, in response to someone's post regarding capitalism not being taught in schools -- actually, there are public schools that do have high-school business classes. This country is by no means socialist or communist. If anything, it had been leaning with the Bush administration toward fascism, which is on the opposite end of the spectrum of political systems from socialism/communism.
This country IS Fascist. But, you can't blame just the Bush family, you have to also blame Truman, FDR, etc. Socialism and Communism are two very different concepts.
browncoat77 wrote:Also I have a question: Does anyone have a model of a better government in mind, perhaps in Europe somewhere or something? And if it weren't for liberals, there would still be Jim Crow laws in the South....not all liberals were Democrats. There can be liberal republicans too; its just that this whole new Neo-Con craziness has tended to equate republicans with the extreme right.
Yes, our Founding Fathers, who were Classical Liberals (they wanted change) had a great idea for a new government, it was a Capitalistic Republic. Unfortunately, we're not a Republic and (thanks to the corporation of the "federal" "reserve") we're not Capitalistic either. And..."neo-cons" aren't new and they aren't conservative, yet they are cons and commies.
browncoat77 wrote:Edit: I found this page
http://www.politicsdefined.com/content/fascism.htm about fascism.
Bush was very, very nationalistic. He and his ilk wanted to do things like ban books, for crying out loud. They were by no means for "the little man," so it was pretty much the opposite of socialism. They supported certain types of "down home Americans" not because they were "the little man" but because they tended to be extremely nationalistic, to the point where they supported a bill actually titled "The Patriot Act." As though if you disagreed with the bill it meant you were not a patriot, i.e. non-nationalistic. In the web page I referred to above, the author says in fascism "Therefore all individual's business is the state's business, the state's existence is the sole duty of the individual." Phone tapping, anyone??
Thanks for reading.
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I'll try to check out that page when I have more time. I'm still trying to make it through this forum as I have time. It can be tiring.
