I'm happy to first.
Listen, I just think that um the reality is that
the free markets solve problems better than government does.
Oh, why is that?
And I'm not saying that we need to totally do
away with public schools, I think that would be coolish.
We have a constitutional obligation to educate our children.
Okay, so what you're doing right there is you didn't
say why you believe that the free market should take
priority.
Uh, but he knows the next thing that's gonna come
up.
Obviously, the Democrats are gonna say, hey, look, you're about
to defund our public education system entirely because it's already
defunded.
What he's doing right now is trying to protect himself
from that next move.
I think there's lots of ways we can do that
a lot better, and I'm for a lot of those.
Pay teachers more, maybe have a few fewer administrators.
But the competition of the Okay, so he's saying have
more school teachers and less administrators.
Again, he's trying to rehearse the concept of the defense
saying, oh well, I don't want to completely do away
with public schools.
The problem is this though.
The school of voucher scam he's pushing for the funds
our public schools in its entirety, and they're already underfunded
as it is.
We can't get more teachers.
We can't we've lost 40% of our school staff in
the past two years due to underfunding.
So it's completely nonsensical to think, oh, we can uh
do do better with our public schools as we have
it right now.
No, they're underfunded.
That's that's the whole problem right now with our public
education system.
But anyways, let's uh let let's let's move on.
But the competition of a free market system will help
push that all in the right direction.
No, well, will he explain why?
And so I think by giving if you're paying taxes,
you're and your kids are going to school, you're essentially
paying for that school and you should demand better schools.
Two points there.
Um it's not as if you have kids in school,
you pay taxes.
We all pay taxes to it.
Right now, I don't have uh a children.
Uh I have no children, but I pay money into
our public local public schools.
It's because we as a community and invest in our
future.
And our children are the future of this country.
Which is why if you don't even have children, you
still still pay taxes into your local public schools.
That's that's how it's always worked.
That is that is how it has always worked since
the dawn of time here. in the United States of
America
Now, to say that we should demand better of our
public schools, you can do that, but only for our
public schools, because in our public schools, the school boards
are elected officials.
So you can take charge of the situation and make
sure that you have the best ISD uh board members
that you could possibly get by participating in elections.
You can't do that with a private school.
You can only do that with a public school.
So his program, there's lots of different uh ways out
there that um school choice programs are being talked about,
and the legislature will come up with you know what
they think is the best uh version of that.
Um, no, let me stop it right there.
There's only been one type of voucher program being offered.
It's one that sacrifices public education funding.
If they were serious about seriously wanting to protect our
public schools and implement a voucher program in Texas, here
in Texas, the eighth largest economy in the world, we
would use our massive surplus, which we do have.
We got money in the bank to pay for our
public roads, our infrastructure, our schools, or even a school
voucher program if you wanted to use the surplus, but
they're not doing that.
There's only one type of voucher scam offered, just one,
and it specifically takes money away from the public schools.
That is by design, and that's the only type of
voucher program being offered in the legislature.
I can't consider and say that there's one version better
than another, but uh that'll be on the board of
the Texas House.
But my opinion is generally speaking, is that when you
have a free market system, that innovation drives a better
end product, and that's going to benefit your kids.
Okay, and again, but is it he doesn't say why?
He's not saying why is it that the capitalistic structure
would work better than this socialist-based structure, which is what
it is.
So we've got public roads, that's a form of socialism.
We have public schooling, it's a form of socialism.
The reason we do that, the reason we have public
utilities is because for those certain parents out there who
have uh you know kids with special needs, they're going
to be able to get the attention they need to
a public education system.
The private school system completely will throw away kids like
that away because all these private schools they don't have
to accept your kids in if they don't want to.
There's an entry exam for all of them.
If you have a kid with special needs, you're completely
shafted.
So the reality is that it public schools is a
public utility that is offered to our communities, paid for
by the public as a public way for you to
use and to utilize, and again, that you can elect
your elected school board officials too.
This guy right here, he's just blatantly stating that he
thinks the free market will magically make everything better, but
he's not telling you why.
He's just trying to scam you, folks.
He's just trying to scam you, he's trying to take
away your public schools, a school voucher program, and Texas
will be the final nail on the coffin for our
public education if it passes.