Liberal Compassion

Liberals love to claim the moral high ground when it comes to caring for the poor, minorities, stray animals and tortured terrorists. But when push comes to shove the money flows back to the people who financed their political victories. Many examples could be given such as bailouts for AIG (check out campaign contributions to Chris Dodd and Barack Obama) and car manufacturers (the UAW has the Democrats in their pocket). So what happens when they have a chance to help poor minorities in Washington, D.C. receive a better education? The plan gets scrapped under pressure from teachers' unions. To summarize, there was a federally funded scholarship for low income children in D.C. where they could apply for vouchers to attend the private school of their choice. Almost 2,000 children were chosen out of 7,000 applications. The research (which the Dept of Education kept under wraps until the stimulus bill with this oblation to teachers was passed) has shown that children in the program were averaging an increase of one to two years of reading ability compared to the children who did not get the scholarship. In an education system where minority test scores have brought the average US grade well below other developed countries, it would seem like any program with proven effectiveness would be worth keeping. That is where the teachers, who have obviously not been too terribly successfull with minorities in D.C., have put their foot down. All of the money they have given Democratic politicians must be good for something as they got this scholarship cut, which if taken nationally would threaten their jobs in the public school system. So despite all of the rhetoric about standing up for the poor minorities who have been victimized by a racist America, Democrats simply help out the groups who are paying their bills.

Check out this site and decide what the compassionate choice would be:

VoicesOfSchoolChoice.org