To the "N"th degree

I recently had the opportunity (afforded me by my best friend) to peruse an article about public school students in Maryland taking a lesson from a prison warden in the Baltimore area. Dan Rodricks, the article writer for The Baltimore Sun, follows a teacher, Ed Morman, who taught for only a brief time, and his perspective through this educational moment with law enforcement. I will summarize the article so that I may get straight to the point. The warden asks if any of these inner city children knew someone in prison; all hands raise. The warden then asks if any of these kids had ever visited a prison; all hands raise. In the remainder of the article the writer lauds inner city teachers while this former-teacher-now-librarian expresses his discontent with inner city schools. One specific caustic statement by Morman troubles me to the point of blogging. Morman stated that he detests politicians who say that we Americans know best how to spend our money. He adds that he believes that this statement by politicians is junk. He enforces his belief by uttering that "taxes are the price we pay for civilization" quoting something he had heard in the past. I must now end story time and move toward education time.
Allowing inner city school children, who we know are more likely to end up in prison, to be an audience for a prison warden is an excellent educational move by the Baltimore area school districts. I would like to say that I wish all school systems all over this wonderful land would give children a chance to view a prison cell, eat prison food, and watch some videos of how unruly prisoners are treated. Education is king in the land of knowledge, and, when we call upon this king to knight us with his sword of truth, all we receive is power and understanding. Hands-on in-your-face education works for a certain portion of our public educated children, so incorporating this methodology into educational vernacular is imperative. I have elaborated on my respect for the decision of the school about which this article is written so that you, the reader, don't misconstrue my true meaning when I say what I am about to say.
You and I, regardless of education, responsibility, or practical knowledge know better how to spend our money than our corrupt, overbearing, immature, irresponsible government. Morman is wrong is all respects when he agrees that tax is the price we pay for civilization. Morman errs in his diction by daring to misuse his free speech by stating that politicians, or anyone for that matter, who state that we know better how to spend our money than the government are wrong. Morman says he detests politicians who make this statement. Webster's dictionary lists detest and hate as synonyms. For those of you liberals out there, synonyms are two words that have the same, or nearly the same, definition. Morman has some inherently liberal beliefs about government and education, yet he also hates politicians. The first mistake he has made as a liberal is performing an act of intolerance, yet tolerance is the very essence of liberal politics. The second mistake that Morman makes is hating politicians, who are the backbone of liberal politics. In one statement, Morman has lauded liberal politics while cursing liberal politics. This is a clamoring and suppurate example of the stark contradiction in liberal politics. If liberals are so self contradictory in such subtle manners, what makes us think that they will not act in these manners in high offices of power. I seem to recall a recent liberal president, which is the highest office in this country, committing perjury, which is lying under oath. To lie under oath is to contradict oneself. Therefore, a liberal, holding the highest office in this country committed the greatest single act of contraction. I think the facts speak for themselves.