There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

I have nothing against rich people. In fact, I've been struggling most of my life to join them.

The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

Government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what's the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It's nearly impossible to fire the incompetents. And, taxpayers, who support the service, are given higher tax bills.

It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.

Students who are alien and hostile to the education process ought to be removed. You say, "What will we do with them?" I say that's a secondary issue. The first priority is to stop thugs from making education impossible for everyone else.

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.