Today Mitt Romney spoke to a group of Latino small business owners. Among the topics he discussed with them was education. Romney said that some U.S. students receive a third world education, and that minority students were the most likely to be under educated.
I have to give the Romney camp credit for stating an actual point of fact. Fact are hard for this candidate to grasp so, good job.
Romney said that the solution to this problem was to allow federal dollars to follow each student rather than be given to states to allocate. The logistics of this plan are a nightmare, but that is not why I am writing about this. A few months ago Romney was overheard at a campaign event telling rich donors that if elected to office he would eliminate the department of education. He said that each state should handle its own education needs, and that the federal government had no place in education. Yet today he told prospective supporters that poor, and disabled children should be given a chance to go to any school they want, funded by the department of education.
It is easy for Romney to talk up the uses of education spending to people who use the public school system, and then tell rich donors that he will get rid of such spending, because he is a wind sock candidate. Romney will pander to each audience and will in the end lean to the side with the most money.
Please vote wisely.
