On the obsession of education cuts and a blip on gun control

In a time of tight budgets, I wanted to express my distaste for this obsession with cutting the budgets for education. How can people stand and preach about getting this country back on top on one hand and then demand the elimination of its education system on the other? I understand that our system isn’t the greatest but it is a hell of a lot better than cutting it out completely! If you cut public education you are severely hurting the future of this country because without public education people would be forced to enroll their kids in private schools. Now for some this would be an improvement but what about those who have single parents or parents who can barely afford health insurance let alone paying for a private education. Yes for the most part private schools are often superior to public schools BUT that is because of their price, size, etc. If you cut public education and funnel huge amounts of kids into private schools you suddenly eliminate many of their advantages. You crowd their classrooms, forcing prices to increase, which would force more people to choose debt or an educated child. Sure cutting education and other social programs are great talking points, but the reality is that doing so would in the long run hurt this country far more than it would help.

This is just a small portion of Rand Paul's, and Tea Party supported, proposed budget. The link below will give you more of a taste of how absurd this guy really is in terms of what he wants to do to the budget. This country tried to have a tiny central government, which is what the Tea Party wants, once before, it was called the Articles of Confederation and it failed bad enough that people decided a new constitution was needed.



http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/25/news/la-pn-0125-rand-paul-budget-20110125





On the subject of guns, again, I believe that gun control IS constitutional and in fact demanded. Thanks to an interview Mike Bloomberg gave to Lawrence O’Donnell tonight I went back and reread the 2nd Amendment and immediately saw what he stated and which I have overlooked a lot. The 2nd Amendment does grant the right for us to carry guns in this country BUT the first four words of the amendment are “A well regulated Militia”. If people are going to pound their chests about their 2nd Amendment rights, then they have to accept the ENTIRE amendment. Not only does the amend say you can have a gun, but it REQUIRES those guns to be well regulated. Therefore an assault weapons ban, extended clip bans, requiring permits, etc are TOTALLY constitutional.