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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

It is a slope we've created.  We being the public schools and the 
government.  There is slim or little need for about 99.9% of what the 
government does.  They have created a need and they fill it.

People aren't generally that naive or that dense.  They have been trained to 
be sheople and to sit quietly and the government will take care of it for 
them.

What we must do better is making people take responsibility for their own 
actions!  The nanny state needs to go the way of the dandy, the corset and 
other nonsense of the past!  We don't need more government, we need more 
personal responsibility!

I'm sure you don't want to hear it again, but, ya know, the amazing thing 
about homeschooling, and unschooling in particular, is that it succeeds 
without Big Brother sitting and looking over someone's shoulder telling them 
what to do, when to do it and how to do it.

And what is failing?  No matter how much money and regulation you throw at 
it?

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> That's fair. It is also a slope down which those more naive than you
> and I will fall. Speaking from personal experience I can tell you that
> there is an appalling number of people, not just the young, who are
> very limited in their decision making ability. I do not like it as an
> argument for regulation but, truth be told, the shysters of the world
> would have a heyday if given free rein. The poor, who are often in
> that state because of limited intelligence and lack of real world
> conditioning, would become even poorer. Comes to mind the payday
> lenders who charge outrageous interest on very short-term loans. Free
> and unfettered capitalism. But those who fall prey are lost, even
> faster lost than those who mire themselves in credit card debt.
> Somehow we must do better.