Cons. Do you want to eliminate public education including state owned and controlled subsidized universities,?

Question

student grants, subsidized student loans, and GI Bills?

All these are forms of social spending from the haves (rich people are taxed at a higher pecentage) to the have less (students).

Do you want to live in a country where the only people who get educated are people who can afford it?

Answer 1

Yes, public education is the biggest waste of taxpayer money there is, and don't forget to eliminate Social Security, Welfare, and Unemployment.

Answer 2

All public funding for education should be eliminated.
The GI Bill is not public funding, it is a payment for services (military service).

All education should look like our college system. It is available to everyone, but only the people that want to attend pay for it. I have no problem with the government offering student loans, as long as it is run like a business. It must show a profit or break even, not be subsidized by the tax payers.
If you want an education, pay for it. So what if it is expensive? So is a house. We mitigate that by paying for it over 30 years. Why not do the same thing for education?

The current system is a monopoly. I have to pay for a public education, no matter how bad it is. The only way to get a good education is to go to private school. But if I do that, then I am paying twice for the same education. That is inefficient and immoral.

Answer 3

If you want a stupid, uneducated population that is unable to compete in the global marketplace with people from Europe or Asia, than sure lets eliminate public education. Education is the best way to give people the opportunity to succeed in this world. It is really quite simple, those that are poor, in prison, unsuccessful, single parents, drug users, etc are likely to be uneducated. Since education leads to success, it is only reasonable that our government fund the education of our children. Personally, I think K-12 education is the MOST important thing our government should do to better the lives of it people and protect the American dream. However, I would definitely favor a voucher system that would allow parents to choose which school their children would go to and use federal or state money to either pay for that schooling or offset some of the cost of that schooling. Competition can only make our education system perform better. For the record, I consider myself a conservative.

Answer 4

No! I value the public education system, because I went through it. I think we need to spend more money on education and less on some of the needless pork barrel promises. However, I am against affirmative action, for it is outdated and makes the system that much more unfair.

Answer 5

I think most cons want public education revamped and repaired, not eliminated. The department of education should go, of course, as it's nothing more than a money pit bureaucracy. States could do a much better job. Next, get rid of unions and tenure so good teachers can be rewarded and bad ones can be canned. As far as soaking "the rich", class warfare only works to get Dems votes; it never really accomplishes anything positive in our society!

Answer 6

No, not at all. I would prefer that everyone get an education of the highest level. If there is one place we should be spending money as a society, it is on education first!

Answer 7

No, but something needs to be done to fix our public schools besides throwing money at the problems.

Maybe some competition with private/charter schools will do some good.

Answer 8

No, but if you look at the realities, those student grants, student loans, etc. are going to the haves as well as the have nots. I, along with many of my colleagues, have children in college. We are part of the "haves". Our children get aid along with the rest. And that is the way it should be.

Answer 9

I grew up in that country- Louisiana.

Why should I pay for your kids to act like idiots, text their friends, and have food fights in the cafeteria?

Maybe if you had to pay for their education, you'd make sure they did their homework and learned something instead of using the school system as free day care, and bitching ou the teachers for giving them poor grades for doing poor work.

Answer 10

no. i want to see all the ones that cant read or write and are given a diploma to get rid of them, be taken in by the liberals and given money, home and a car. liberalism is pure socialism.

Answer 11

There is a difference between educating people so they can help themselves and just giving people money & food stamps while they jusy sit on their butts and make no attempt to help themselves.