In many cases I opposed all of the available candidates. I hope you voted for EVERYBODY I opposed and got yourself disqualified on several ballot items.

Thank you for reading and commenting. The thing about the Lt. Governor’s race is that Rhodes is better than Pittenger on about 90% of the issues. He is significantly worse on abortion. While abortion is one issue where the candidate’s position can keep me from voting for him when he is otherwise a very strong candidate (Rhodes), it is not the case that I will vote for an otherwise average candidate just because he is really good on the abortion issue. I’d just as soon not vote in a situation like that.

But I think that what they are saying in this case is not “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.” What they are saying is “There is a free lunch for some, and others have to pay for it.”

Much of our government basically devloves to this:

- A good or service is desired, either by the beneficiary or by someone who feels that they know better than everyone else.
- The people who benefit from it or feel that they need to provide it to others can’t or won’t pay for it.
-Government then has to find somebody to pay the bill.

Best that we get government out of the equation altogether, in my opinion.

Glad to be of service.

For one thing, the North Carolina Constitution states, “The General Assembly shall provide by taxation and otherwise for a general and uniform system of free public schools…”

As a person who strenuously believes in following the law of the land (The US and NC Constitutions,) I would have to abide by this. That does NOT mean that it cannot be changed, just that amendment of the Constitution would have to be voted on by the people. If you look at Article XIII, the bar to doing this is VERY difficult by design. basically, we would need to have the votes of 3/5th of the NC House and the NC Senate to even allow the people to vote on an amendment.

Not that it is not doable, but it is likely beyond the scope of the two-year term I am seeking!

That being said, I think that we need to be able to have a citizen-initiated ballot initiative process to keep the General Assembly from having such a stranglehold on the process of constitutional amendment and of the creation of other good and desirable laws (or repeal of bad and undesirable laws.)

So, anyway, my short term goals involve increasing charter schools and firing everyone in the Department of Public Instruction unless they can actually show how they are useful to education, since they do not actually teach anybody anything.