By Charlie Meadows

Rubbing salt into the wounds of the Oklahoma tax payers, those bright Republicans at the Capitol bowed their little heads to University of Oklahoma president, David Boren and The Oklahoman to restructure the $100 million dollar bond issue they floated two years ago. The bonds were used to match donations for endowed chairs. It seems they don't have the money to make the payments on the bonded indebtedness unless they restructure and extend the time, thus lowering the amount needed to make the bond payments. Of course anytime you extend a loan it costs (in this case the tax payers) more in interest to pay it back.

When private universities want to expand, improve their facilities or for endow chairs, they have to get the funds from alumni, donors or increased tuition. I believe it should be the same way with the government owned and operated universities. It personally offends me to no end that we the taxpayers have to pay ever more of our hard earned dollars to hire or retain liberal elitist professors such as the ones that fill the ranks of our government schools. The professors do little more than incubate young liberals to come out of these institutions and be Oklahoma"s future leftists.

Recently, on the opinion page of The Oklahoman, David Boren, Oklahoma's leftist in chief had a column titled: Fighting for Our Future. While Boren extols the virtues of the U.S. having 80 to 90 percent of the world's greatest universities -- in the past five years we have produced 30 Nobel Prizes in science and technology to China's only one -- he also says something that shows the foolishness of his desire to throw ever more money down the rat hole of government schools. He says that "China's and India's economies may soon equal our own and they have 10 times our population." He goes on to say that: "Our share of the world's wealth has declined by a record-breaking 8 percent in less than 10 years!" So of course Boren's desire is for us to throw more money into higher, as well as primary and secondary education

Hum, let me see, we already have the great universities and almost all the Nobel Prize winners, but we are losing to our competitors 8% of the world's wealth? How did that happen with our great universities and all the educated brain power we have here? Could it be that our great institutions of education are not saving us, not making us competitive? Could America's educational system be the problem today and not the solution to the problem? Could it be that there are others issues that are far more important to turn our decline around than getting the old sheep's skin?

Boren thinks the key is a major investment in education. I must respectfully disagree and suggest we instead turn our backs upon the economic ideas of socialism and fascism and return to an effective free enterprise form of capitalism. We should not be taxing our corporations and small businesses, we should institute the Fair Tax and reduce every possible regulation on businesses. We would then see the cost of producing goods and services in Oklahoma and America drop dramatically and thus make everything produced here become more competitive. That would give us a better chance to reverse the wealth drain out of America.

Just think, those bright lights in the Republican party at the Capitol are funding the next generation of liberals who will vote to throw them out of office. God deliver us from such thoughtless Republicans and help us elect real conservatives.

Charlie Meadows is chairman of the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee (OCPAC). You may contact him at: Charliemeadows7@gmail.com