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Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey c
Author : Arthur Snell
And who ruffled my feathers? My state legislators did when they voted in favor of a bill costing $3m to produce curriculum materials for our public schools. So what’s wrong with that?
All members of the legislature, both republicans and democrats, voted in favor…with the exception of a single republican senator who felt that it was none of their business. He is right. Their job is to finance public education not to produce curriculum materials.
How could this have happened at a time when over 6% of our labor force is unemployed and we are in a severe and prolonged economic down-turn? There are several possibilities:
·The media failed to keep us informed.
·No organization protested (PTA, School Boards,
Teachers, parents etc. etc.
· The bill was proposed by a member of a politically potent ethic minority and, in the present climate of multiculturalism and ethnic diversity of course {“whitey” would grovel and vote for a bill clearly against their best interest as well as the interests of the students
This is just one more example of the failure of what we laughingly call DEMOCRACY. Democracy is like a wheelbarrow, you know. It doesn’t work unless you get behind it and apply some effort. Fail to do this and you forfeit your bitching and whining rights.
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