Initiatives for providing early education and support systems for children = socialism?!? Nonsense!!
Yes, the feds and the states getting involved in the education of 0 to 5 year olds is Socialism. Education is first and foremost the obligation and duty of parents, the state, local and municipals governments are there to assist, if the parents want assistance. Obama's plan would have government invasion in the lives of families from the getgo. His plan starts by giving ten billion dollars per year would go toward getting 4 year olds in school.
If you want to put country first, especially in education, there needs to be a federal level of involvement while providing money and resources.
And this says you don't understand the fundamentals of what the US Constitution authorizes. As president, putting country first means running the country according to the Constitution. Get it through your head, Kurtin, education is NOT a constitutional issue. Unless the Constitution is amended, federal guidelines should only be advisory. DrGuy has put it very well.
The US Constitution says nothing about job creation, public education, medicare, government run retirement schemes, but it expressly charges the federal government with the defense of the nation foreign and domestic. The present domestic crisis caused by the Carter and Clinton Administrations, together with the Dems in Congress, namely guys like Dodd, Schumer, and Barney Frank, along with their greedy bum friends in Wall Street must be defended against. We'll see how they do. I'm not impressed with the Senate...expect if of Obama but am very disappointed in McCain. They passed the bailout at something like 820 billion adding on over one billion in pork. He said he would name names of those who spend in pork and here was his chance, but guess what....he'd rather not be partisan.... so, evidently he doesn't mean what he said.
