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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 07:17 PM
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John Adams on education.
"Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this
purpose would be thought extravagant." John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

Bake sale anyone?

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muntrv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 07:19 PM
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1. Tea baggers: "John Adams is a pinko-commie-libruhl!"
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 07:50 PM
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2. Right, anything good about America is unamerican. nt
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hvn_nbr_2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 08:10 PM
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3. John Adams didn't have to fight multiple wars, keep troops in 80 countries,...
give billions to gigantic corporations, fight a war on hemp, overthrow democracies around the world and replace them with dictators, and then have to prop up the chosen dictators.

If John Adams had had anything important for government to do, he wouldn't have wasted his time extolling education.

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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 08:23 PM
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4. Reagan wanted to eliminate the Department of Education
Proud of it, too. A truly sick mind.
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