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The whole basis of Christian Reconstructionalism is implementing the scripture in our political system. Since the Bible speaks of the institution of slavery, they think we should re institute it.
Not so. The voucher is only worth what the voucher allows. Parents must make up the difference. And except in Pennsylvania they won't have school buses to get their kids to school.
The voucher is made to pay for excat the cost of average schools, so if you don't need to pay anything for public school now, you don't need to pay anything for public schools with a voucher.
And that gives some poor kids at least a chance, unlike many of us who live in OK neighborhoods (of course there are those middle class who oppose to the vouchers because they are afraid poor kids will get in their schools, I think that is where the biggest opposition are).
Yea it is the middle class that opposes vouchers!
Right, teh people who either are sending their kids to private schools and scraping by to do it or would love to but can't afford $12,000 - $15,000 or even the $9,000 that a good Catholic school costs. Yea, right. Those already sending their kids don't want en extra $9,000 each and the one who can't yeat don't want to be $9,000 per kid closer.
Not to mention that vouchers will not include transportation so it will be rare for that to lead to more poor kids attending schools in better areas.
Try again.
Have you heard the story that a poor black women got sent to Jail (or almost) for using her parent's house for her kids school? All she wants is a better school for her kids. Why would you deny her the chance?
I would even support to not given vouchers to parents who made over $xxx per year (or reduce it gradually). You need to give the poor a chance of school.
Complete non sequitur to what i said.
If that's what you gleaned from my posts, your reading comprehension leaves much to be desired.She definitely have communist leanings
If that's what you gleaned from my posts, your reading comprehension leaves much to be desired.
Have you heard the story that a poor black women got sent to Jail (or almost) for using her parent's house for her kids school? All she wants is a better school for her kids. Why would you deny her the chance?
I would even support to not given vouchers to parents who made over $xxx per year (or reduce it gradually). You need to give the poor a chance of school.
Voucher means more choice for poor kids. Transportation is easier to deal with than rent buy more expensive house. If the parents are willing to make sarcrifives for their kids, we should make their life easier
You really have no idea how the poor live if you think transportation isn't a big problem. I can't tell you how difficult it is for them to by gas if they are lucky enough to have a car.
The bolded part is basically what I've been saying in the parts of my posts that dealt with Communism.Maybe I misread you, in that case sorry. I came from communist back ground, saw some pretty bad things. The theories of Karl Marx looks very nice, but it got major flaws when used in real life, much worse than the problems it is trying to fix.
The bolded part is basically what I've been saying in the parts of my posts that dealt with Communism.
But since you mentioned religion, and Christianity specifically: how is it possible that evangelical/fundamentalist Christianity is so strongly allied with the political right, whose goals revolve mostly around destroying welfare, gutting social security nets, and shovelling more money into the pockets of those who are already humongously rich?
What the "Tea Party" and even the less insane parts of the GOP advocate strikes me as the virtual ANTITHESIS of Christianity, promoting a "dog eat dog", "pull yourself up by the bootstrings or suffocate", "devil take the hindmost" ideology.
I haven't so far been convinced by any attempt to make Jesus a cover boy for any political party or ideology. Save perhaps some temporary activist movements which have had very limited human rights - related goals, such as abandoning slavery.
I see Jesus as antipolitical character. Every time when something related to politics was asked of him, he gave answers which were more related to religion than actual question asked.
Way how Jesus is portrayed in political propaganda tells much more about mechanics of political propaganda (People like Jesus = Let's represent Jesus being same us = People like us) than Jesus.
Since Jesus made so little direct political claims its kinda easy to read whatever agenda we want into stories about him. I personally see his message (and message of the NT as a whole, altho Paul focuses on religious community aswell) being about individuals spirituality, religion and morality and having very little to do with societal agendas.
Meaning that he did not intend to erect a new state or become its king, NOT meaning that he had nothing to tell people on how to manage a society. There's PLENTLY of very direct words on the topic on how his followers ought to treat the less fortunate: feeding them, clothing them, tending to their illnesses.Yep. Jesus specifically said his kindom is no of this world.
check out boarding schools. There are expensive ones, but there are good and cheap ones. The public ones are free but few in between.
There are working class parents that send their kids to private schools right now, and a voucher will help them that much.
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