The best anti-poverty program around is a world class education.
--Barack Obama, in his 2010 State of the Union address.
According to Rep. Ed Clere’s recently published poll results, New Albanians care little for the notion of education as corrective for their squalor.
CLERE: I asked and you answered
In the future, if the state’s frugal spending and money management creates a reserve that reaches a certain threshold level, should any money above that level be returned to taxpayers through income tax credits or should the reserve be used for education spending?
Sixty-seven percent of respondents favor tax credits, and 33 percent want excess revenue to go to education.
What should the General Assembly’s top priority be?
The response to this question reflects concern over the economy. There were five response options. Job creation, retention and training programs is the top concern for 51 percent of respondents, followed by 27 percent who favor expanded tax relief as their top priority. Sixteen percent rank K-12 education first. Higher education and welfare programs for family and child services each receive 3 percent support as a top priority.
Lesson #765, subsection A1, which tells us too much about life in the Open Air Museum, and leaves us seeking strong drink:
"Give us more fish. Don't you dare teach us how to fish."
We live in a state whose ideology is so strong that a majority view the governor's privatization schemes, which by design export additional Hoosier tax dollars (and the jobs and revenue that accompany them) out of state every time someone is added to the unemployment or welfare rolls, as a victory. Locally, we elected a state representative to provide additional support for that governor's "reforms".
ReplyDeleteWe are, at times, too incapacitated to even realize we're incapacitating ourselves.