Todd Akin Declares Literacy a Soviet Menace
On the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday, Representative Todd Akin of Missouri declared public schools a menace to society. And teaching children to read? According to Akin, that’s downright Soviet:
The thing that strikes me the most, and I don’t want to overuse the welcome that you’ve extended to me, is this. There was a country not so many years ago, and this is how their thinking worked: They said, look, if you’ve got somebody and they don’t have a house to stay in and it gets cold in the winter, they’re going to freeze to death…. And if they haven’t had an education and they can’t read, they ought to have a right to know how to read and to study and be educated. So that government created those rights for its citizens, and they marched forward boldly into the future until they became bankrupt and were disbanded. And it was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. We call it the USSR.
You’ve got to watch out for those public school teachers and especially those literacy volunteers. If you look behind their backs, you can find the red berets.
