HomeMy WebLinkAboutC.054.93009_1188order to provide additional school facilities in the
Iredell-Statesville School Administrative Unit
($18,000,000) and the Mooresville Graded School Adminis-
trative Unit ($4,180,000), and authorising the levy of
tazes in an amount sufficient to pay the principal of
and the interest on said bonds.
FOR AGAINST
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Section 5. The Clerk to the Board of Commissioners is
hereby directed to mail or deliver a certified copy of this
resolution to the Iredell County Board of Elections within three
days after the adoption hereof.
Section 6. This resolution shall take effect upon its
passage.
Thereupon, upon motion of Chairman Haire, seconded by
Commissioner Johnson, the foregoing resolution entitled:
"RESOLUTION CALLING A SPECIAL BOND REFERENDUM" was passed by the
following vote:
Ayes: (4) Commissioners Haire, Boone, Johnson, & Stewart
Noes: (1) Commissioner Madison
Commissioner Johnson stated he would like to make a few
comments. "There are many misconceptions about education and there
is one thing I want you to be aware of. It is my humble opinion
and the humble opinion of a whole lot of other folks, and this
opinion is growing every day, that you don't have public schools in
this country anymore. You have government schools. If you think
you own the schools, then go to the next PTA meeting and try to
change the curriculum in your child's school. You won't have much
luck, because the government owns it. The government is going to
decide for you how to educate your children. You'don't have much
say so about it. You can fool yourself in believing you do, but,
increasingly, in the last generation, control of the schools has
steadily shifted away from the local level to Raleigh. With the
advent of a buffoon like Jimmy Carter it finally got a cabinet
level position. So they moved it further away so that you'll be
sure not to have any say so. What has this got for you? There's
two ways to distribute resources: the most efficient way is through
the free market, the most inefficient way is through government
monopoly. In public education, folks, you have a government owned
monopoly. How many of you would buy an automobile if the
government told you what kind of car you were going to buy? What
options you were going to have. How much you were going to pay for
the car. Where the car would be worked on and how much it would
cost to get it fixed. You would be in Raleigh or Washington
raising cain. You'd be upset. But, folks, everyday you send your
children into an educational system that does just that to your
children. You have very little, or no control over it. This is
called government monopoly. People like me are constantly
supporting education. I support education. I pay thousands of
dollars per year in property tax. In addition to that, I pay for
my daughter's education twice, but I am not complaining about this.
I will continue to do this as long as God gives me the strength and
opportunity to pay for it twice. If anybody has a beef, it ought
to be me because I am paying for it twice. I think that people
less fortunate than myself ought to be afforded the opportunity to
send their children to the place they want to send them. Rather
than some high priced government bureaucrat telling them where they
should send them. If you want to trust big government to educate
your children you can go right ahead. Give me one successful
episode of a government monoply, other than the military. It
works, but you pay too much for it. This is the short and long of
it. The people who are conservative like me are constantly
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