A new left-wing socialist conspiracy to look out for…

[bobbyjimmy]

Folks, the socialists in power have a new program they're trying to unleash that everyone should be on the lookout for. Apparently, they've got it into their heads that the best way to spend YOUR hard-earned money is by building these things called "public libraries" all over the country. That's right, PUBLIC libraries, just like the way they want PUBLIC health care and PUBLIC transportation. Will they ever learn?

Get this: these "libraries" are going to be filled with all sorts of books, movies, and compact discs for people to just "borrow" whenever they want. As if all this stuff just grows on trees. So any welfare mother who doesn't feel like actually working can just waltz into one of these places at any time and just take as many of these books as she wants for her kids to just sit there and read. For free.

And think about this: you're a writer, you spend years and years sweating over your book, only to have everyone in America just read it without paying! How are you supposed to afford your rent? Liberals love to talk about making things fair, well, where's the fairness in that? Someone once said there is no such thing as a free lunch and they were right.

So, as usual, the liberals want to live in their imaginary world where everything is free without thinking about economic realities. These "public libraries" will be the downfall of society- no one will want to pay for any kind of art or entertainment anymore, and the book, music and movie industry will suffer unrepairable damages since they'll never recoup their expenses. The U.S. doesn't really manufacture anything anymore, and now they want to take the only thing we do export, entertainment, and bankrupt the industry???

Not to mention the most enraging thing about this, which is that it is a grievous violation of my fundamental right as an individual to do what I want with MY money. Where does the government get off forcing me to pay for the entertainment of a bunch of lazy illegal immigrants? That's right, because these libraries will be open to EVERYONE, regardless of whether you have a green card or not. Is this really what our founding fathers envisioned???

You know what I say? GET A JOB. Get a job and buy your own damn books by supporting great all-american businesses like Barnes & Noble and Amazon that are shining examples of what you can do when you put your mind to something. Or better yet, forget about reading all that liberal brainwashing they sneak into children's' books and just GO OUTSIDE. We didn't have these "libraries" when we were kids, we didn't bother with fancy books, we just played outside like kids are supposed to do, breaking windows playing baseball and chasing girls with snakes we found by the river.

With the way technology is going anyway, being able to read is an obsolete skill that only old people will have, like knowing how to write in cursive. Rather than wasting money on building "public libraries" the government should get out of the way and let us invest that money in new markets with a proven track record like the video game industry that will generate MORE money. But of course, that's all too logical for our socialist government to understand. Thank you Obama Hitler!!!

 

[cashmcall]

Folks, the socialists in power have a new program they're trying to unleash that everyone should be on the lookout for. Apparently, they've got it into their heads that the best way to spend YOUR hard-earned money is by building these things called "public libraries" all over the country. That's right, PUBLIC libraries, just like the way they want PUBLIC health care and PUBLIC transportation. Will they ever learn?

Get this: these "libraries" are going to be filled with all sorts of books, movies, and compact discs for people to just "borrow" whenever they want. As if all this stuff just grows on trees. So any welfare mother who doesn't feel like actually working can just waltz into one of these places at any time and just take as many of these books as she wants for her kids to just sit there and read. For free.

And think about this: you're a writer, you spend years and years sweating over your book, only to have everyone in America just read it without paying! How are you supposed to afford your rent? Liberals love to talk about making things fair, well, where's the fairness in that? Someone once said there is no such thing as a free lunch and they were right.

So, as usual, the liberals want to live in their imaginary world where everything is free without thinking about economic realities. These "public libraries" will be the downfall of society- no one will want to pay for any kind of art or entertainment anymore, and the book, music and movie industry will suffer unrepairable damages since they'll never recoup their expenses. The U.S. doesn't really manufacture anything anymore, and now they want to take the only thing we do export, entertainment, and bankrupt the industry???

Not to mention the most enraging thing about this, which is that it is a grievous violation of my fundamental right as an individual to do what I want with MY money. Where does the government get off forcing me to pay for the entertainment of a bunch of lazy illegal immigrants? That's right, because these libraries will be open to EVERYONE, regardless of whether you have a green card or not. Is this really what our founding fathers envisioned???

You know what I say? GET A JOB. Get a job and buy your own damn books by supporting great all-american businesses like Barnes & Noble and Amazon that are shining examples of what you can do when you put your mind to something. Or better yet, forget about reading all that liberal brainwashing they sneak into children's' books and just GO OUTSIDE. We didn't have these "libraries" when we were kids, we didn't bother with fancy books, we just played outside like kids are supposed to do, breaking windows playing baseball and chasing girls with snakes we found by the river.

With the way technology is going anyway, being able to read is an obsolete skill that only old people will have, like knowing how to write in cursive. Rather than wasting money on building "public libraries" the government should get out of the way and let us invest that money in new markets with a proven track record like the video game industry that will generate MORE money. But of course, that's all too logical for our socialist government to understand. Thank you Obama Hitler!!!

I know your being sarcastic....and I enjoyed it..AND I love Libraries..BUT WHAT THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO DO IS...Let us, the people, create a system where we can send our kids to the schools of our choosing...even the poor..

 

[bobbyjimmy]

I appreciate your comments, but, last time I checked, we actually do live in a system where you can send your kids to the school of your choosing. Assuming you live in the U.S.A. I mean.

 

[dogtowner]

Yes the socialists did drive out the entrepreneur from the lending library business Benjamin Franklin founded in Philadelphia way back when.

"And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library ... this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous. It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing. These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans, made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries, and perhaps have contributed in some degree to the stand so generally made throughout the colonies in defense of their privileges." - The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

 

[cashmcall]

I appreciate your comments, but, last time I checked, we actually do live in a system where you can send your kids to the school of your choosing. Assuming you live in the U.S.A. I mean.

Yes they can..but only if you can afford it..Now back to your post.. cursive script, which I learned as a child, but abandoned for just printing around junior high, because I found it too time consuming. I never bought, and still don’t buy, the notion that by eliminating the need to lift the pen, it somehow sped up the process. Both my printing and my cursive are illegible to anyone but me, but printing goes faster, because I don’t have to spend time worrying about the loops and flourishes. I’m sure I’ve told this story before, but when I took my GRE, it said that I had to write (not print) a pledge on the cover. It had been so long since I’d written cursive that it took me a couple minutes to slowly remember how to form the letters in the single sentence required.
I do think that being able to write down thoughts, old school, traditional tech, will always be a valuable skill.... But there’s no reason for most kids to learn cursive these days..... That could just be a hobby or art, like calligraphy. Typing is a much more important skill....Imo of course.

 

[dogtowner]

Yes they can..but only if you can afford it..Now back to your post.. cursive script, which I learned as a child, but abandoned for just printing around junior high, because I found it too time consuming. I never bought, and still don’t buy, the notion that by eliminating the need to lift the pen, it somehow sped up the process. Both my printing and my cursive are illegible to anyone but me, but printing goes faster, because I don’t have to spend time worrying about the loops and flourishes. I’m sure I’ve told this story before, but when I took my GRE, it said that I had to write (not print) a pledge on the cover. It had been so long since I’d written cursive that it took me a couple minutes to slowly remember how to form the letters in the single sentence required.
I do think that being able to write down thoughts, old school, traditional tech, will always be a valuable skill.... But there’s no reason for most kids to learn cursive these days..... That could just be a hobby or art, like calligraphy. Typing is a much more important skill....Imo of course.

cursive never made sense to me

 

[Cruella]

I can write cursive a whole lot faster than I can print.

My son had terrible printing and writing. He couldn't even read his own notes. I had him take a typing class in middle school and he was not a happy camper about it, but it payed off when he got into high school and college.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

I know your being sarcastic....and I enjoyed it..AND I love Libraries..BUT WHAT THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO DO IS...Let us, the people, create a system where we can send our kids to the schools of our choosing...even the poor..

ok can I just send my kids to Harvard then? I want to just pick what ever I want.

what the school of our choice means is, rich people can send kids to rich kid schools while the poor get the left overs. You know where all the poor studends parents in the city wanted to send there kids? the Rich suburb schools...Of course you know then all the rich whites would move there kids out of the schools and to some private school and take the good programs and schools with them...Leaving the poor with the same thing, just a longer drive.

 

[cashmcall]

ok can I just send my kids to Harvard then? I want to just pick what ever I want.

what the school of our choice means is, rich people can send kids to rich kid schools while the poor get the left overs. You know where all the poor studends parents in the city wanted to send there kids? the Rich suburb schools...Of course you know then all the rich whites would move there kids out of the schools and to some private school and take the good programs and schools with them...Leaving the poor with the same thing, just a longer drive.

I am talking about public verses private...

 

[bobbyjimmy]

So let me understand... you want the government to stay out of your way, you don't like the idea of it taking your money and using it for its own purposes without your consent, and you hate public schools.... but on the flip side, you want the government to somehow magically make it so that you can afford private schools, even though it's not allowed to intervene in any way. Am I missing something here?

I agree, private schools are insanely expensive, but this is a direct result of a capitalist-minded society that has placed profits over learning. Private schools did not used to be so expensive, back when nothing used to be so expensive, before the Reagan-era. My parents sent me to a private school for a few years because it only charged $100 a year, and this was the 1980's. You look at private schools now, they are full of extra administrators and bloated expenses which have sent tuition prices higher (this is much more true in college, even state colleges- I'm not as sure about primary schools.) I just don't understand what you guys are complaining about, since you guys seem to be asking the government to do something about this, while at the same time demanding that it get out of the way.

 

[dogtowner]

$100 a year ? not buying that unless you grew up in the third world.

as the government collects taxes to fund this monopoly attempt why should citizens just shut up and accept less instead of being able to choose better (by way of voucher) ?

yes many privates are pricy but there are those that are not (nyc) has several. if you do not seek to be.a.prep school it need not be expensive.

so yes quit taking the.taxes or get out of the way of choice.

 

[cashmcall]

So let me understand... you want the government to stay out of your way, you don't like the idea of it taking your money and using it for its own purposes without your consent, and you hate public schools.... but on the flip side, you want the government to somehow magically make it so that you can afford private schools, even though it's not allowed to intervene in any way. Am I missing something here?

I agree, private schools are insanely expensive, but this is a direct result of a capitalist-minded society that has placed profits over learning. Private schools did not used to be so expensive, back when nothing used to be so expensive, before the Reagan-era. My parents sent me to a private school for a few years because it only charged $100 a year, and this was the 1980's. You look at private schools now, they are full of extra administrators and bloated expenses which have sent tuition prices higher (this is much more true in college, even state colleges- I'm not as sure about primary schools.) I just don't understand what you guys are complaining about, since you guys seem to be asking the government to do something about this, while at the same time demanding that it get out of the way.

I was going to respond, But dogs answer sums it up...Oh yea I liked the part where things got expensive under Reagan..Your a smart guy..But Math and numbers is my game...

 

[Cruella]

If you count what both the state and the feds pump into education, I don't think you can say that public education doesn't cost money. Private education doesn't have to be for profit either. Religious schools have done quite well with education at half the cost of public.

My kids went to a religious school. They had a 98% graduation rate with more than 75% going on to higher education. Your not getting that from public education.

 

[bobbyjimmy]

Yes, my parents paid $100. I don't know who subsidized the rest, probably the catholic church. If Massachusetts is a third world to you, what with all the liberal socialists crawling around, then I guess it was in the third world.

Some public schools work very well, others terribly, but this is all besides the point. You guys are illustrating the point of this post with your fears of pubic schools. No one is stopping anyone from creating an inexpensive private school, but in the meantime, society prefers to spread the cost around. I have a million criticisms of school in general but I'm certainly not whining about the fact that my tax dollars are going to educate little people. I know, I know, how dare anyone tell you where to spend your money. It's your right to complain about it using a public forum that is a perfect example of what governments can accomplish with your tax dollars. Gotta love the irony!

 

[dogtowner]

Of course the privates perform better as it demonstrates involved parents who insist their children work at their studies. now why should parents who cannot afford to pay for two tuition's have to settle for an education in a school with a propensity of kids whose parents dont care and drag the whole process down as a result when they cold get a voucher to chose better ?

those tax dollars that we're all stuck with and wont go away go to pjurchase a product. why buy an inferior product ? approve vouchers and just watch privates mushroom. its happened before and can happen everywhere.