Bonuses for Billionaires

by Nicolas D. Kristof / The New York Times

“Republicans have been working to end Medicare as we know it but need to examine other reckless entitlements, such as our socialized education system, in which public school fritter resources on classes like economics and foreign languages. As a former Texas governor, Miriam “Ma” Ferguson, is said to have declared when she opposed the teaching of foreign languages: ‘If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it’s good enough for us.’“