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As I read the post on this BB, I am truly amazed at how some people are on the edge of insanity. Sammyg2 and Rick Lee are advocating for not funding PLs. PLs should COMPETE in the free market?????!!!!
Even the crazies that want to ban books havent jumped on that bandwagon. YET. Then again I know it gives some people great pleasure in arguing any/all POVs with someone on the web. |
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Like I said earlier if you are a book junky. By that I mean read 2-3 books a week why bother buying and then trading books in when you can read them for free? I gave books away for years now I don't have to.
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This isn't about what you think, Rick. Thankfully at that because your "thinking" represents a small number of the American population...
...you, having gone to prep school. ...you having gone to college. ...you having well-stocked libraries in both institutions. So how about those who have not the funds or other means necessary to be so...literate? Are they worthless in your opinion, or somehow aren't needful of what can be read in books or online? And as Todd states, those of higher intellectual positions in our society also realize the value of libraries. It's not just punks and homeless. And last, as public-funded institutions which have historically empowered people far beyond "reading habits" or surfing the Internet, which should, according to you, have their funding yanked, libraries obviously serve no purpose, again to you, because you realize public funding is how they keep their doors open. "The land could be made for better use," you earlier said. But again, thankfully, this isn't a matter of what you think. |
Anyone who is in a public school has access to that school's library. Anyone who's out of school should be responsible for themselves. Why is that so difficult? In between are the Internet, half.com, flea markets and used book stores.
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I'm not advocating libraries closed to the public, just pointing out the fact that stolen tax loot isn't needed to fund libraries. |
As for stolen tax loot, no other country spends close to what we do on education and gets less for it. More money will never fix the educmacation problem here. But DD74 and Nostatic, don't worry. When I am king, the list of public funding cuts I'd mae is so long, I don't think we'd live long enough to get to public libraries.
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Try *that* in a privately funded library... |
Ya got me Nostatic. I hadn't thought of that one and it would be impossible anywhere BUT a taxpayer-funded public library. Right?
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You guys seem to assume that everyone in this country is like you, and has access to the same things that you do. So you're right. People shouldn't use public libraries. They should buy their own computer, get their own internet connection, and buy their own books. Forget all these free handouts to ungrateful citizens. It is a travesty! They can find information, knowledge and cuture on their own dime. I do it. They can too. And if they can't afford it, screw them. They should just work harder. We don't want to advocate literacy anyway....
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My cost: DSL several hundred per year, Macintosh computer $1500+, DSL router plus cards and so forth $200.00. No, they're not like me, they expenses are one hell of a lot less, by my choice, and it's really less than a $7.00 per day cigarette pack habit. Virtually anyone that wants computer access to the internet can buy it. Access via the public library system is not only not supplying a need, it's causing many more problems than it has solved. |
People on this board get to say what they think, but I don't think they'd actually try and implement 1% of what they say.
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QUOTE: "People shouldn't use public libraries. They should buy their own computer, get their own internet connection, and buy their own books. Forget all these free handouts to ungrateful citizens. It is a travesty! They can find information, knowledge and cuture on their own dime. I do it. They can too. And if they can't afford it, screw them. They should just work harder."
Finally some sense. Nostatic gets it, why don't the rest of you? |
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I'm glad this thread is just a microcosm of myopic, self-centeredness. Still, after reading some of these posts, I have to wonder how the U.S. remains the most charitable nation on Earth. |
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Ultimately, the people have influence into endeavors such as publicly-funded libraries as they do police forces, schools, etc. You've just been so at odds with Democracy that you forget it can still work. |
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Here's the theory in layman's terms. If I stop you on the sidewalk and hold you at gun point demanding $100.00 with the explanation that I'm giving $90.00 to charity and only keeping the $10.00 to pay for my lunch and for ammunition; you'd still call that armed robbery. At what point does it become democracy? When 10,000 people agree to get what they want via that method? One million people? In point of fact, the majority voting to take this money to do something that they want, but don't want to fund with their own money, is theft no matter how many agree to it. |
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That reminds me of a librarian at one of my schools. He was a huge, hairy, sasquatch-looking guy. We called him Conan the Librarian.
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