Un-Liberaled Woman

I’ve got this friend and she’s always worked in education with the inner-city and lower-economic schools. She did that “voluntary” Teach for America (TFA) first and has worked her way up through the charter school programs. (I put quotes around voluntary because TFA teachers actually earn public school teaching salaries commensurate with the salaries of non-TFA-recruited teachers; Somehow getting paid to do something doesn’t mesh with my definition of volunteering).

Anyways, as my liberal friend has progressed up the professional public education ladder, she’s taken on opportunities focused on getting kids from lower-economic areas the best education possible. So, if you asked such a person “Hey, you’ve got two candidates to choose from Candidate 1). Who supports a voucher program to give parents and kids the choice – not the government – where they are going to school and pressures public schools to be more competitive and accountable for kids educations or Candidate 2). Who doesn’t support a voucher program but believes there should be bureaucratic federal funding that is the answer. So who are you going to choose?”

Gee, I bet you wonder where I’m going with this. Thaaaaaaaaaaat’s right, this at one point self-proclaimed-libertarian (does she even know what a libertarian is???) voted for……..

Barack “I don’t support voucher programs” Obama.

Her reasoning, no joke, to me was – but if you would have seen the look on my kids’ faces this morning you’d understand my vote. Gee, thanks for voting with your emotions and not with any logic whatsoever. Here’s what I don’t understand – why did you vote for a candidate who’s expressed position during the campaign (and now carried throughout his presidency) does more to damage educational opportunity for the lower economic classes? Why did you vote for a candidate who openly opposes voucher programs which have been PROVEN via facts and statistics to help those kids from lower-economic backgrounds?

You’ve literally just voted for someone who’s position is to continue a failing policy of federally-funded government schools that hurts kids in lower-economic areas. So while you’re kids’ faces may be all smiles, guess what, you just f**ked them over royally by continuing to elect Democratic leaderfailureship that perpetually cares more about teachers unions than the education of kids. WAY. TO. GO.

VoteFAAAAAAAAAAAAIL!

Now that as the reality of Obama’s policies are starting to take affect, hmmmm some former Obamabots are breaking free of being deprogrammed and are pissed about what they are seeing. Am I surprised? A bit. Do I feel sorry for them and their regret? Not one bit. That’s because I took the time to educate myself on the issues and not get swept up in the DNC’s game of guilt/identity politics.

Here’s the latest from ReasonTV reporting on how some people are turning on Obama because of his stance against the voucher program. (via Hot Air). Keep in mind this is an $18 million program that Obama couldn’t find any money for whatsoever to support it in neither his $3.6 billion budget OR his $1 billion porkulus bill.

The one lady is interesting at the beginning when she asks WHY? Yeah, instead of asking Obama I’d say hold a big mirror up to your face and ask yourself WHY you didn’t pay attention during the campaign when Obama said during the presidential debates:

“But the — but here’s the thing, is that, even if Senator McCain were to say that vouchers were the way to go — I disagree with him on this, because the data doesn’t show that it actually solves the problem — the centerpiece of Senator McCain’s education policy is to increase the voucher program in D.C. by 2,000 slots.”

And cue McCain who countered with:

“And I will support those reforms, and I will fund the ones that are reformed. But I’m not going to continue to throw money at a problem. And I’ve got to tell you that vouchers, where they are requested and where they are agreed to, are a good and workable system. And it’s been proven.”

Oh, and it gets better. Not only is the “People’s President” decreasing the funding of the successful education reform program, Obama is cutting the voucher program in DC all together for the future. (via HotAir)

President Obama will seek to extend the controversial D.C. school voucher program until all 1,716 participants have graduated from high school, although no new students will be accepted, according to an administration official who has reviewed budget details scheduled for release tomorrow…

And people wonder why kids in other countries are gaining speed or are light years ahead of our own kids in terms of education levels.

Is Hope n’ Change fever finally dying out thanks to a good dose of reality? One can only hope (pun intended!)