Joe Scarborough: “despite all the heated rhetoric today, there are some stubborn facts that cannot be denied. First of all, Dollars to the…”

“despite all the heated rhetoric today, there are some stubborn facts that cannot be denied. First of all, Dollars to the Classroom requires that 95 percent of the funds go into the classrooms where my two boys attend public school in Florida. Passage of this bill will mean an additional $800 million to local schools, $9,300 per school for my two boys and $425 per classroom for my two boys in public schools. This class warfare argument that we are hearing today really hides a simple elementary fact and that is that the state of modern American liberalism in 1998 believes that local communities, that parents, that my boys' teachers, that my boys' principals, are too stupid or corrupt to educate my children. That is an offensive fact, and yet that is a fact that has lain at the heart of liberals' arguments in this country for the past 60 years. It is time we get past this and ask a simple question, and that is: How do we get the most money to teachers? How do we get the most money to local school boards? How do we get the best education to not only my boys, but to those people that come from inner cities? If these liberals were so interested in helping students in inner cities, then why would they continue to fight choice when the majority of people in inner cities want to be able to choose what schools their children go to?”