[Vision2020] The 'Value' of Public Schooling

[Chasuk]

On 2/22/07, heirdoug at netscape.net <heirdoug at netscape.net> wrote:

> The 'Value' of Public Schooling
> by Jacob G. Hornberger

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   1.  The drug war is an immoral sham that has accomplished nothing
more than enriching government officials and drug dealers. Drugs should
be decriminalized.

True.

   2.  Public schooling is nothing more than a system of socialism
applied to education. It should be abolished, leaving education to the
free market.

Too many nuances here to be dismissed or approved in a single sentence.

   3.  Abraham Lincoln waged war on the Confederacy for the purpose not
of freeing the slaves but of preserving the Union.

True.

   4.  U.S. intervention in World War I constituted a horrible waste of
American life. It did not accomplish its purported goal of making the
world safe for democracy and ending all future wars and actually
contributed to the rise of N. Lenin and Adolf Hitler.

I don't possess enough information to agree or disagree with any force.

   5.  The federal government, not free enterprise, caused the 1929
stock-market crash and the Great Depression.

Probably true.

   6.  Franklin Roosevelt intentionally lied to the American people when
he said that he was doing his best to keep America out of World War II.

Probably true.

   7.  U.S. officials during World War II intentionally delivered East
Germany and Eastern Europe into the clutches of the Soviet communists.

Probably true.

   8.  Lyndon Johnson won his 1948 U.S. Senate race by stuffing the
ballot box with fake ballots and later, as president, he intentionally
lied about the supposed attack on U.S. forces in the Gulf of Tonkin.

True, at least the latter half.

   9.  The U.S. government's interventionist foreign policy in the
Middle East gave rise to the 9/11 attacks.

TRUE.

  10.  Given that Iraq never attacked the United States, President
Bush's war on Iraq constitutes a "war of aggression," a type of war
that was punished as a war crime by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.

TRUE.

 11.   Minimum-wage laws hurt the poor and should be repealed.

Undecided due to lack of knowledge.

  12.  Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are immoral, socialist
programs that should be abolished immediately, along with the taxes
that fund them.

I agree and disagree simultaneously.

Am I half libertarian?