Hypocrisy

This time: a return to political posting!

So we all know that a repudlickan party cornerstone is the pro-life agenda. This obviously means that they would prefer unwanted children to just be born and then (more than likely) be placed into a state run foster care system, many of whom would be there for indefinite amounts of time. Right?
Meanwhile, just a day or two ago I read an opinion piece by some conservative wacko (is there any other kind of conservative in this country? Didn't think so) blasting the public schools in New Orleans, partially blaming the Katrina disaster on them, but as anyone who pays any attention knows, public schools anywhere are a popular target for repudlickans. So of course, he was gung ho for a bushler proposal to provide $500 million in private school vouchers to Katrina victims. Of course, this short sighted view fails to take into account the massive amounts of good that $500 million could do for the PUBLIC (public: accessible to or shared by all members of the community) schools in the area, you know, the ones who don't collect tuition and actually NEED the money. Then maybe the private schools wouldn't even be needed since the public schools would be so good! But I digress.
So what exactly is the correllation here? Well, I'm glad you asked. Let's see-the repudlickans seem to think that gov't sponsored public schools are inept at best (which if they are, they can often blame themselves due to their policies that range from underfunding-see Utah's underfunded public education system-to just plain useless, wasteful, and expensive programs like No Child (unless he, you know, is) Left Behind). So if government programs cannot be counted on to educate our children, why can they count on them to not only educate but to RAISE them as well? Short answer: THEY CAN'T.