You asked what is stopping companies from donating to schools now. Nothing is stopping them and they donate quite a bit. I am of the understanding you are an attorney in a small town in Oklahoma. Do you not support your local schools in any way? Surely the company that is the main industry in your town donates to your schools. Probably more than you can imagine. It's been 20 years since my kids have been in Ponca City's schools. But when they were in school the major industry (CONOCO) donated thousands and thousands of dollars and equipment to our school system every year. In addition smaller corporations pitched in. Local lawyers, doctors, insurance agencies, real estate companies, contractors - the list is very long - of companies and people that donated time, money and equipment to Ponca's school system. I would bet that is true in your town as well.
I remember watching a show a few years back about a super rich man in New York that visited a school filled with poor kids. Junior high age as I recall. He told them that any for kid that graduated from high school he would pay for their college. Years later he ponied up for several students that had taken him at his word. Things like that go on all the time. I suppose I have greater confidence in the generosity of our fellow man than you.
As regards the young aspiring entrepreneurs: you have honed in on the cost of all the certifications, registrations, regulations, and have decided they are snowflakes because they didn't want to pay the money, which you decided would be about $100. I don't know how much money they would have had to pay, but I'm quite sure it far exceeds $100. They both consulted with lawyers. I don't know how much you would have charged them, but I do know the lawyer I use in my business is $200/hour, or any portion of an hour, and many of my fellow businessmen tell me he is cheap compared to the ones they use. But to focus on the money is to miss the point entirely. The point is the government has insinuated itself into a situation it has no business being involved in. Those kids spent months dealing the local, county, state and federal bureaucrats, paid lawyers and other consultants, and finally threw in the towel. As the link in question pointed out, their inability to pursue their passion because of government interference is something that "is not seen."
I'll talk about JD one more time, and then I'm done talking about him. I know that JD fancies himself to be the smartest man on this board, and he works very hard to persuade the rest of you that is so. Frankly, I rarely see any overwhelmingly intellectual insight in his comments. JD likes to make arguments against other people by belittling and insulting. He calls someone a name and expects the rest of us to believe that because he said it, it must be true. I learned a great lesson about JD thanks to NZ. Some time back JD decided to call out NZ for being anti-Semitic. He threw that language at NZ in response to everything NZ posted. What I noticed is that NZ almost never responded to JD's blather. It actually became quite funny as JD became increasingly hysterical toward NZ, trying so hard to get NZ to respond, becoming increasingly frustrated until he finally announced he was putting him on ignore! I never knew whether NZ had put JD on ignore, and that's why he almost never responded to the insults, but it occurred to me that l could ignore him and still enjoy this board. I'm not asking anybody else to do what I did. I don't care what JD has to say, or what other people think of him. I'm content to go my way and let him go his. Now, I'm done with talking about JD. You think what you want. If you think I shrink away from his "undeniable intellectual power" you're wrong. But please feel free to think what you want.
