The War on Poor Children by Religious Bigots in New Hampshire
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 04:56PM 
There is an excellent article over at Math Wizards, on the effort by some in New Hampshire to repeal a scholarship program for poor kids titled “HB370: A WAR ON POOR CHILDREN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE by RELIGIOUS BIGOTS?”
The article observes that opponents are pointing to the NH State constitution as a reason for repeal, but then walks you through a) how the Blaine Law that was the source for Article 83 is religious bigotry, b) how the constraints of article 83 don’t even apply to the program they seek to repeal, and c) that local districts (and this is something I have pointed out repeatedly) still end up with all kinds of local tax money and no student to spend it on.
So the real problem is that the people who object to poor kids getting private scholarship money from New Hampshire business owners either have the constitutional agility of a small soap dish, are paid hacks of some monolithic special interest who are clinging to power, or they hate poor kids.
I’m not averse to the presumption that opponents have internalized all three.
Check out the article. It is well worth your time, and your brain will thank you for making it smarter.
You are reading "The War on Poor Children by Religious Bigots in New Hampshire" by Steve Mac Donald originally posted at GraniteGrok.com (Home)
Steve has been recognized as the Americans For Prosperity Blogger of the month for December 2012
Reader Comments (14)
"Once people can be assured this kind of stuff is not going on, I bet you will have a lot less resisteance to school voucher programs.
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Until that happens, I don't want my money going to make people more stupid than they start out."
If your school teaches kids that man walked with the dinosaurs and that "Gay people have no more claims to special rights than child molesters or rapists.", I don't think that is going to help them once they enter the real world. Indoctrinate them in whatever cult (Scientology, Branch Davidian, Catholicism) you are comfortable with but don't ask me to pay to make them stupid intentionally. I will not ever support that.
If a corporation or businessperson, or individuals, want to pay for profit-making schools, that's their right, certainly. But not through a "tax credit" scheme designed to skirt our Constitution. These anti-constitutionalists should be ashamed coming up with such a gimmick to take money away from our kids.
– C. dog skoolin' libs on A,B,C's of coercion
– C. dog
You can't really compare the two. While you may not like the "government training centers" attempts to be everything to everyone (which I agree is the wrong approach), teaching kids "scientific facts" like the earth is 6000 years old and the KKK was a force for good is in a whole different category of stupid. Check out some of the textbooks from A Beka books and Bob Jones University Press and then tell me how they are just like public education because if you can say it with a straight face then you, my friend, are completely nuts.
I don't disparage your assessment of some of the whackier private institutes of inanity either.
Since when did it become fashionable to force others to raise village idiots anyway? As I've stated previously, those who can afford to pay for their own spawn's edification should do so, those who can't would borrow from those who can spare a little extra, with a promissory note to pay it back should their fortunes change down the road. That way, you and I are spared the rod to spoilt the chilt'ren with all manner of idiocy, whether ordained by the Government Union folk, or some whack-a-doodle in southern Appalachia charming snakes.
– C. dog, only half nuts
We educate our young, even if we don't have any and even when ours have grown and moved away, because by having an educated population we're all stronger. And if a lot of us believe in or are taught "creationism" and therefore that the Earth is 6,000 years old and evolution is phooey, or that science is useless, that is ignorance to be feared.
The Caveperson Mentality disappeared when people realized that caves aren't all that much fun to have to live in.
Here's an alternative interpretation of reality called reality: if you spawn it, you "own" it till your lil' Jimmy or darlin' Suzy-Q reaches the ripe old age of consent to play in the Big Boy Sandbox with the dog and fellow mongrels. Apparently, you never made the cut and still play in the kindergarten box where magical fairies sprinkle pixie dust social contracts whose terms and conditions are conjured by perv priestesses in black robes, and signatures to such contracts signed with invisible ink.
So Troll, civilization = indentured servitude in your world of chatteled Kumbaya? See, in my sandbox, where the big kids play in the field of mutual consent, things like libraries, parks, senior senility detention camps, etc. are built or not built based on the consent of participants – you know, that state of being where people don't have steroid infused muscle enforce the will of the apparatchik with pointy guns and shiny boots? Or doG forbid, you have the temerity and sufficient physique to muscle through the process all by your onesies.
By the way, I have plenty of "fun" in my bunker, and have been doing so since I discovered three is much better company.
– C. dog livin' la vida loca from nye on the side of the White Mtns out of the Troll's reach
I suggest you read an excellent book with that title written by a great woman, Hillary Clinton, who may well be President someday!
Ohhh, forgot. Someone will have to read it to you. Better yet, I believe it's also on CD. "CD" is the name of some modern technology called "Compact Disk." So you can just listen and not have to read.
Enjoy!
With all the genuflecting you do before Party Pols, do your knees ever wear out? Regarding selfish, if one is forced to do something is that selfish of those doing the forcing? And Hil-Rod, is she selfish for making all the shellfish do her bidding? And how about not protect her poor "chilt'ren" in Benghazi? I guess they didn't rise to sufficient worthiness 'cuz it'a all about makin' friends with the rite brotherhood?
By the way, Jimbo Baggins, I here the constitutions are now out in coloring book format. Enjoy!
– C. dog tired of Libtards broken recordings
You need to spit your venom at Jim Splaine, not me. I haven't had time to respond to you yet. I'm still trying to have a reasonable conversation so ease up, dude.
By the way, most of my vintage snark-raving mad stuff I reserve for wayward RINO's, which have become quite prevalent with the recent NH House approval for almost doubling the gas tax on the backs of plebes. See, I can attack from both sides of the fence to remain annoyingly consistent ... and thrifty.
– C. dog throwing olive branches at doves
I just realized my error of not realizing Jimbo Baggins double posted, and errantly thought that inanity about parks and libraries was submitted by you. Unfortunately, I don't have the ability to edit my prior comment to change names. I should have realized you would not have submitted such saccharin pablum as you are a much higher-order Lib. May I go so far as to infer you have principles of a sort? Why, I bet you may even be internally consistent at least half the time on major issues like increasing taxes by 83% on the working poor or flying drones to kill Americans. 'Course, I could be wrong again.
– C. dog