I had to laugh when I saw this. Ben Cohen, the leftist co-founder of Ben and Jerry's has some silly ideas- silly at best, I should say. He talks about how we should cut defense spending by $5 billion to give more to k-12 education. He claims college scholarship money is drying up (sure could have fooled me!), then mentions merely K-12 education, which has no bearing on college spending...The US education system has TONS of money- of course it has less than defense spending by the pentagon...the nature of defense is- things cost a lot more than what education costs. That doesn't mean the answer is more money. Liberals always think- hey, this isn't working well enough, lets throw even MORE of your hard earned money at it (it's easy for a mutli-millionaire like Cohen to urge the govt. to spend more of the common taxpayer's money!) More money for education is NOT the answer. Education run by the govt is poorly managed. The government rarely does anything besides defense WELL. Government run schools are a joke compared to private schools. The answer isn't more money, because we spend tons of money per student already. To help prove Cohen wrong on education- the US spends more than any other industrialized nation on education. (SOURCE)
He goes on to talk about how Russia spends so much less than the US in regards to defense. Hello! This is EXACTLY why we crushed the USSR- by outspending them, causing their economy to collapse, freeing millions of people from harsh communist rule. He mentions China spends less than we do as well- yet neglects to mention that nation has, oh a billion man army, which comes into play when we discuss this subject! Not to mention, they are also a brutal communist dictatorship, which also has to come into all of this. His logic is completely insane.
He also talks about spending more money (taken from the pentagon budget) for energy purposes...to help us get off the need for mideast oil. More money isn't needed for that. I have a simple answer...let's drill in the tiny area of ANWAR. Liberals oppose us drilling for what could be TONS of oil we could use, simply to save a few frogs and a bird or two. Let's get our priorities straight- do we want to lessen the need for middle east oil, or do we want to protect the cute little animals? Liberals like Cohen have chosen- yet, their answer, as always, is to throw gobs of money at the problem. Money doesn't solve problems like this, it never has, and it never will. Cohen has tens of millions of dollars- of course he has the mindset that money money money is the answer.
He also talks about using defense spending to feed every hungry child on earth. Ya know what, Ben? Every child on earth is not my responsibility...defense spending to oust brutal regimes that CAUSE the hunger to begin with might be an snwer, but your plan is to cut that by $5 billion.
Makes no sense at all.
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This is what Cohen said about President Bush. Funny that all the reports out on the issue made it clear that NO ONE lied...just another leftist looney calling the president a liar, simply to promote their own backwards agenda. I should also mention that Cohen travels around the country with a 12 foot tall effigy of the president with flames shooting out of his pants, claiming the president is a liar. (SOURCE)
And, finally, more on Cohen
NOTE:(I believe Cohen actually might be a billionaire, not a millionaire. Makes it even easier to support throwing money at problems when you have more money than a thousand schools spend in a year!)
Posted by Josh at August 11, 2004 08:16 PM | TrackBack