James Rogan: “even the hard-core liberals generally do not think people are better served by monopolies when it comes to making…”

“even the hard-core liberals generally do not think people are better served by monopolies when it comes to making computers, televisions, or automobiles. Yet they prefer a government monopoly over parental choice when it comes to education in the public schools. No floor speech will convince them that parental choice is morally superior to the education monopoly, even when children suffer, and when the so-called reforms that bureaucrats embark on year after year are proven to be utter failures. No, Mr. Speaker, neither a speech nor the anguished cries of parents desperate to give their kids a real chance in life will change their minds--because the liberal mind-set does not admit the failures of government monopolies on this subject. But to those Democrats on the other side of the aisle who stand with the Republican majority in trying to give kids a chance in the poorest schools, I salute their courage and I urge them to stand fast, because what we will accomplish in a bipartisan fashion is greater than any loyalty to a party. It is giving children in the poorest neighborhoods a chance for a world-class education. That is our supreme obligation as Members of this body.”