Web correspondent Jenny Wilson stopped by a Rosa DeLauro campaign event at West Haven High School Thursday afternoon:
From Obama in Ohio to DeLauro in District 3, Democrats across the country have been looking to win votes by highlighting the education cuts in the Romney-Ryan plan. DeLauro, who consistently fights to keep education spending off the chopping block, hosted a roundtable at West Haven High School Thursday to explain to students and teachers what these cuts would mean for them on a personal level. Her own seat might be secure but she used the forum to campaign for her party, emphasizing the importance of a Democrat-controlled Congress to prevent these cuts from taking shape:
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The Democrats can only suck up to the unions while our kids are dumbing down.
Rosa DeLauro, that too-many-termed congresswoman is running again…..she’s been part of the problem for as long as she been in Congress and she’s running again…..New Haven, have some guts and run this twit out of town..
Yesterday Rosa DeLauro announced an education grant to New Haven public schools. Interesting to note that New York City, which has FIFTY TIMES the number of students as New Haven, scored only a $53 million grant, while New Haven received $53.4 million. DeLauro stated that New Haven’s education reform effort has been lauded as a “national model”. National model? With a high school dropout rate of over 25%? TRANSLATION: government is all about cronyism—with Rosa DeLauro being one of the most egregious examples. The only time DeLauro appears in the media is when the government has awarded yet another budget-busting grant. But hey, with a national debt of c. $17 Trillion, who cares? Connecticut’s students—not current voters—are the generation that will be crushed by this debt. So, thanks to Rosa “DeSpenda” DeLauro, another $53.4 million of YOUR tax dollars will be swallowed up by New Haven’s flunk-ucation bureaucracy. Now, just imagine if that $53.4 million—that YOU paid with your taxes—was given back to each parent/guardian to spend on the school of their choice. Schools would HAVE to improve—or they would lose students, and ultimately fold. A company that produces an inferior product goes out of business, because consumers don’t buy the inferior product or because they can purchase the same quality for a better price. When government monopolizes a “product”—e.g. education—there is no true, underlying incentive to improve. Because, no matter how dysfunctional a school or school district is, it will never go out of business. Unfortunately for students and taxpayers, this is one monopoly that will never change—unless crony careerist vote-pandering politicians like DeLauro get dumped.