Barney Frank Addresses Convention, Refers to "Myth Romney": Some Speculations

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Permalink Reply by Chrissie Farthing on September 8, 2012 at 4:33pm

It amazes me how like Charles Emerson Winchester III of MASH is so like Mitt Romney.  That was a laughing matter but this time it aint no joke.  He knows all about working people, he's watched them from Pater's Office when he visited the factory. Another point, Lets face it. our Evangellicals are Americas version of the Teleban.  I guess the next thing will be think of how much money we could save if we stopped educating the girls.  I get the feeling that we are going backwards to the Dark Ages.

Permalink Reply by James M. Martin on September 8, 2012 at 5:01pm

I don't know if educational discrimination against women is such a threat as discrimination against the poor.  It is already telling that going to a private grade school "preps" you for admission into the university of your choice, and few can afford better private schools.  (Why is it that Catholic and Episcopal schools here appear to send more of their graduates to college than the private schools?)  One of the Catholic high schools actually posts on its electric bulletin board prominently placed next to a major thoroughfare the collective monetary value of their students' scholarships, always in the seven figures. There is only so much money for education, and if it is siphoned off for rich kids' vouchers, the reason for even having public schools looks more and more questionable.  Why educate the poor?  They would only get delusions of grandeur and go after college degrees and such.