Republican Educational Stand - Making the Rich Richer

Republicans have long espoussed that government is bad and private business (that is, their rich friends) are good. So it goes that most of them support educational vouchers - the process of taking tax dollars designed for public schools and placing that money in the pockets of their friends who run the private schools.

The following is from Crooks and Liars - click the link for the video of the discussion...

When asked what each would do to improve the primary educational system here in the US, the solution for candidates John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson? Choice–vouchers (naturally), charters, home-schooling, etc. Essentially, anything rather than looking at the actual problem and finding solutions.

Only problem, gentlemen, conservative think tanks can tell you, “vouchers don’t work” and won’t address the underlying problems.