"[A]ny provider that commands 90 percent of the market -- whether we're talking about software, phone service, or heating oil -- is, by definition, a monopoly. Our government employs thousands of bureaucrats to track down and break up monopolies on the grounds that monopolies stifle competition and thereby produce bad products at high prices. Doesn't it strike anyone as strange that the same government protects its own monopoly in education? And stranger still, that nearly everyone accepts this state of affairs as normal -- as something that has always been and must always be? ... [C]ompetition forces public schools into making long-overdue repairs. And it offers poor parents the choices they desperately desire." -- Jennifer A. Grossman
Give them another reason why Obama has GOT to go.
His speeches are SO boring. Remember all that pre-election propaganda about him being the greatest presidential orator since Abraham Lincoln? Yeah, right. Maybe on the first few listens that gravelly, ponderous, measured style might have fooled us into thinking he had something to say. But he doesn't. Just airy platitudes, colossal egoism, and fake profundity such as, "We do not have to think that human nature is perfect for us to still believe that the human condition can be perfected." Yeah, whatever, Barack. Zzzzzz.
Quick Hits from Heritage:
- The Wisconsin Assembly approved Gov. Walker’s plan to curb union power last night, but Senate Democrats are still on the run.
- The Wisconsin Education Association was the highest spending lobby organization in Wisconsin in 2009, spending more than double their nearest competitor did.
- The United Federation of Teachers spent millions on dinners, parties, parking, and coffee as thousands of teachers were laid off.
- Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae requested another $3.1 billion bailout yesterday.
- According to the Congressional Budget Office President Obama’s failed stimulus spent a minimum an average of $228,055 for each job it saved or created.
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