Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Education and Jobs - Obama Changes Costumes

Obama's "agenda" needs to be reset.
Is the anticipated turn toward education and jobs a camouflage for his core beliefs in socialism?

If support of education means more government control of education and less private education, fewer Charter Schools, and making sure that everyone is guaranteed a higher education no matter how qualified or past performance in school, then this is a cover for part of the socialist agenda.
Control of education, health and energy are at the core of socialism.
Will Obama encourage competition among students, reward effort, recognize individual abilities of students? Will standards and variation in teachers' knowledge and ability be rewarded appropriately or will teacher unions dominate the system with seniority the number one metric?
Is Obama in favor of federal government run education with educational materials influenced by the government and students having financial indebtedness to the government?

In jobs, will Obama and the Democrats take the steps to build private sector jobs with a wide range of tax incentives for businesses and individuals (like maintaining the Bush tax rates and a high inheritance tax deduction), abandon the economically unsound "green jobs" agenda and encourage the R&D and implementation of cost competitive domestic energy sources?
Or will the "jobs" be dominated by expanding the public sector which is a drain on the economy not growth, payoffs with earmarks for jobs in certain districts, states and unions and staying on an unsound energy policy that requires huge government subsidies to prop up uncompetitive green energy technologies?

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