hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:22:56PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>Doesn't that make you feel cheap, though? I mean, I can understand if >>you are unemployed or if you have fallen on hard times financially. >>However, I don't particularly like the fact that I and my neighbors >>(very few of whom have school age children, must are grown up) are >>*forced* by the government to subsidize education for *everyone else's* >>children. > > > Did your neighbours have the opportunity to have a subsidised education > when they *were* children? > > I can't say that I much mind paying so that others can have the same > advantages I had when I was a child. Especially when I look around here > (in Quebec) and notice that the education the children are getting now > is *much* better than that I had. Life is improving, despite all the > doomsayers. > I don't paying either. That is why I tithe and donate my time an resources to good local causes. I am not disputing that. I am saying that it is wrong for the government to *force* people to do it, whether they want to or not. That is not freedom. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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