When Education Fails

Capitalism will be there to help - at the expense of the taxpayer.

I'm sure this isn't unique to Omaha and Douglas County; I know that just about every city and school district in America experiences the horror that is door-to-door fund raising. You know the routine - it's springtime and the streets are literally teeming with hordes of children selling overpriced candy and two year old magazine subscriptions, straight from publisher's clearing house back catalog.

In some ways I prefer the occasional Mormon or Jehovah's Witness. At least the Bible-Thumpers are adults and you can tell them to go fuck a baboon when they show up at your doorstep. While not impossible, it is much harder to say that to a nine year old and the last thing anyone needs is some irate parent threatening to firebomb your house because you called their precious little Suzie a cuntrag.

But I digress.

I suppose what's more disturbing to me than the actual fund-raising is the state of affairs our educational system is in that necessitates the need for this sort of capitalist nightmare.

Stay with me on this.

So... The government collects taxes, a portion of which is supposed to be used to fund the public school system, but because my political representatives are such scumbag cocksuckers they have bankrupt the system (both morally and financially) to the point where they are sending our children out to sell us something that was donated by some oppressive corporate entity (usually accompanied by a nice kick-back to the school district or its administrators) in order to make up for the failings of the government to manage our money.

What they're saying is: we can't raise taxes because if we do that we won't get re-elected to our ineffectual legislative gravy train so we'll just figure out some other way to make you (me), the American Taxpayer, pony up for my new BMW...

I mean for a better educational system.

No child left behind right?