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critized that we don't have a vision for education. I have a
vi ion for education. It's a young boy or girl going in and
sitting down at a computer, in front of the Internet, funded by
private money, which will do it a whole lot cheaper and a whole lot
quicker than some bubblehead bureaucrat down in Raleigh or
Washington. They'll do it better and cheaper. That child will
have at their fingertips, in a matter of seconds, information that
took you and me weeks when we were in school together. It will be
a long time coming if you continue to trust the government. I have
a vision for education. You know what it is? It's young people
who study the virtues of Western Civilization rather than
multiculturalism. our civilization is far superior, you heard
that! Far superior to any civilization in the history of this
world largely because it was founded upon Christian principles. If
you abandon these principles, you are relegating yourself to
continued decadence and continued decline. Not only in education,
but through out your whole society. I have a vision for education.
It's a system where people read James Madison rather than Malcolm
X. I went to the school facility committee meetings. They have a
dozen books on Malcolm X. A man who first of all advocated the
violent overthrow of the U.S. government. He should have been hung
as a traitor. He thought he was going to be beamed to the United
States if he lived good enough and come back and kill white people.
That's a great American isn't it? What did James Madison do? He
just happened to write the U.S. Constitution. You know how many
books they had on him? Onel One book! I didn't come here tonight
to anger anybody. I have a vision where children sit down and
read John Jay and the Committees of Correspondence. The people who
were bold enough in 1769 to write the King of England that they
would serve no king but King Jesus Christ. Those are the people
who founded your republic. It wasn't the educational
establishment. It was men like that through legislative action.
Now, through bureaucratic bumbling, and through political cowardice,
we have relegated our children to an education that's not fit for
a Third World country and it's getting worse every day. I gave you
the requirements earlier that this bond will have to meet. I want
to tell you folks that public education has both feet firmly
planted in mid-air. The people who run it subscribe to moral
relativism. They do not believe in absolute truth that has been a
tradition of our society since its foundation. Those people aren't
fit to run anything. I think the only way to do it -- well I don't
think you can reform it. A bureaucracy never reforms itself, it
only perpetuates itself. I want to see that power and authority
are put back in the hands of the customer. The way you do that is
give him his money back. You let them send their children where
ever they want to go. Whether it's public, private, parochial, or
whatever. Who is better to decide how to educate your children
than you? Is the government? Ask yourself that. Despite the fact
that billions and billions of dollars have been pumped into this
government monopoly is education getting better? You've had
educators telling you for a generation if you gave them more money
they would give you better education. You have and they haven't.
Are you going to trust them with more money?"
Chairman Haire declared the meeting to be in public hearing.
REFINANCING OF INSTALLMENT PURCHASE CONTRACT FOR THE IRBDBLL
COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUILDING: Mrs. Blumenstein said the
County had received a bid from First Union National Bank to
refinance the existing debt that is in place due to the financing
for the purchase/renovations of the health building. The
refinancing will be at 4.498 interest compared to existing interest
of 6.71%. The same collateral will remain in effect.
Approximately $587,000 will be saved. The number of years of debt
retirement will be reduced to about 7.25 from 10 years. Closing is
scheduled for April 10, 1996.
No one spoke in favor or in opposition to the refinancing.