Faith NOT Freedom News

Well it seems that whenever conservatives come-up with common sense approaches to shrinking the size of government, liberals just have to trash it:

As states around the country face budget crises, “deficit peacocks” continue to demand cutting social spending whileruling out tax increases on those who have benefited immensely from years of conservative policies. In Utah, deficit peacocks are suggesting eliminating mandatory 12th grade to help close the state’s $700 million budget gap.

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During a hearing of the state’s Public Education Appropriations Subcommittee earlier this month, Buttars suggested that funding 12th grade amounts to “spending a whole lot of money for a whole bunch of kids who aren’t getting anything out of that grade.”

I don’t doubt it, as these are the same kids who annoy me when I am at the metroplex movie theaters trying to warn people about the paganism in Avatar and Percy Jackson.

So I join Mr. Buttars in his assessment that little value comes out of the 12th grade.  But I do hope that if he cannot shrink the size of the government takeover of education, he could at least consider putting the money into education on Sundays at local churches, and maybe fund a Hell House or two.

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