The Raleigh News and Observer claims we can "raise" $1.4 billion for the state without raising taxes. How? By not allowing students to drop out of school. And I think it's a serious piece, not a parady or satire, unfortunately.

The "logic" claims that each dollar spend to reduce dropout rates "nets" $2.50 in "public benefit." So the more we spend, the more we earn, somehow. Geez, can't we just spend a billion dollars and quickly have an extra $2.5 billion to give away? Why stop there? Why not spend $10 billion on "education" so we'll have a $25 billion surplus!

What lunacy.

How about allowing freedom instead? I know it's a radical idea and a radical concept in today's world. But it sure would be nice to be free instead of having the state tell us what to do, wouldn't it? I know liberals hate to admit this, but not everyone in the state is smart. There's people that simply are not mentally or physically capable of learning. I'm very sorry, but that's the way it is. No matter how much you dumb down the education system so you're giving away diplomas to idiots, it won't change that fact.

How about we allow people to be free and instead, save even more than this fantasy, "public benefit" money? How about we stop supporting people who won't or can't learn? How about we stop giving away free medical care, housing, and food to anyone who doesn't want to work or get an education? That will not only save more money, it will save REAL, actual money that people earn -- instead of "pubic benefit" money -- which is really another way to say that government will have more cash to spend on their projects.

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