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Public education — where all is supposedly “for the children” — has a dirty secret: Its real organizing principle is jobs for adults.
After American taxpayers spent a dismal 2009 teetering on the brink of fiscal disaster, leave it to this Congress to give the country’s most productive citizens an incentive to drop dead in the new year.
It seems like only yesterday that we were recapping the follies of 2008. Who could have predicted that as we say goodbye to 2009, we would have even more fertile ground to till? With apologies to humor writer Dave Barry, we are not making any of this stuff up: