Long Tuesday.
Jul. 27th, 2004 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdSo, I got my challenge vid finished up.
It's adorable, funny and slashier than expected.
Got some good advice on the sound idea. Since I have 3 of those Big Mac downloads around, I know what I'm doing tonight.
Tomorrow, I'm off to the doctor. I have the bad feeling my insurance card is in Ohio.
Why do I even try to argue with anarchists?
They may call themselves Constitutionalists, but they are anarchists. They want all social services destroyed. I'll be the first to admit public schools have problems, but I think eliminating them is huge mistake. We already have a gang problem here, and you want to dump thousands of idle, unemployed youth onto the the streets? That's bloody brilliant.
I've even come to see vouchers as a placebo. I used to be for them, until I started thinking things through. Vouchers work when there are school options, transportation options and the parents understand them. There is no competition if it's the only school for a 50 mile radius. Private schools will just jack their tuition by the amounts of the vouchers, so no gain there.
And not everyone pays taxes that support the schools. Renters don't. Squatters don't. Drifters/couch-surfers don't. Down here no one says "where do you live?" The question is "Where do you stay?" It implies an impermanence.
Sure, strangle the social services. Close the schools. But don't come crying to me when a band of unemployed, starving people beat in your door and steal everything you have.
I can see a world like that. It's a staple of dystopian fiction. Cities run by gangs of thugs, decent folk afraid to go out, those who can afford it living in fortresses, constant hunger, disease and death.
Quite frankly, I don't want to live in a Cyberpunk milieu. And Soylent Green is still people.
Don't argue with me, kids. I can beat you with half my brain tied behind me.
It's adorable, funny and slashier than expected.
Got some good advice on the sound idea. Since I have 3 of those Big Mac downloads around, I know what I'm doing tonight.
Tomorrow, I'm off to the doctor. I have the bad feeling my insurance card is in Ohio.
Why do I even try to argue with anarchists?
They may call themselves Constitutionalists, but they are anarchists. They want all social services destroyed. I'll be the first to admit public schools have problems, but I think eliminating them is huge mistake. We already have a gang problem here, and you want to dump thousands of idle, unemployed youth onto the the streets? That's bloody brilliant.
I've even come to see vouchers as a placebo. I used to be for them, until I started thinking things through. Vouchers work when there are school options, transportation options and the parents understand them. There is no competition if it's the only school for a 50 mile radius. Private schools will just jack their tuition by the amounts of the vouchers, so no gain there.
And not everyone pays taxes that support the schools. Renters don't. Squatters don't. Drifters/couch-surfers don't. Down here no one says "where do you live?" The question is "Where do you stay?" It implies an impermanence.
Sure, strangle the social services. Close the schools. But don't come crying to me when a band of unemployed, starving people beat in your door and steal everything you have.
I can see a world like that. It's a staple of dystopian fiction. Cities run by gangs of thugs, decent folk afraid to go out, those who can afford it living in fortresses, constant hunger, disease and death.
Quite frankly, I don't want to live in a Cyberpunk milieu. And Soylent Green is still people.
Don't argue with me, kids. I can beat you with half my brain tied behind me.
