[TheForge] now Japanese nuke plants OT: POL:

[peter fels]

On Mar 18, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Andrew Vida wrote:

We are losing our economic position as a nation and thus our standard of living,
in part because of the deterioration in public education.
Public education offers a means for talent to rise in our society,
with less regard to the parents economic situation.

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> peter fels wrote:
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>> All good, except...How are you going to fund quality public education and research without...
>> " Stealing via taxation"?
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> 	You don't.  You leave it up to individual parties to figure it out. 
> Robbing me to educate your children is criminal.  I take it the truth of 
> this is not lost on you?

If you leave it up to ungoverned individuals to figure it out..you end up with feudalism, generally.
As for "truth"..people aren't capable of perceiving it...
We all tout our own little visions of truth.
And we are all wrong.
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