Regarding the mid term elections, the prevailing opinion in conservative circles is to shun third party and Libertarian candidates. "This is too important," says syndicated radio talk show host Neil Boortz. "We MUST take back the House."
Boortz, a member of the United States Libertarian Party, encourages no such restraint when voting for local candidates. Boortz encourages voters to support third party candidates for the thousands of elected positions at the local, municipal, and state levels.
Meet Arvin Vohra, Libertarian Party candidate for the Maryland State House of Delegates, District 15, which resides inside Montgomery County. Vohra graduated Brown University, with a concentration in Mathematics and Economics. Vohra founded his own Educational company, Arvin Vohra Education, and authored a book, Equation for Excellence: How to Make Your Child Excel at Math. Vohra, age 30, seeks public state office out of passion from his career in education.
"Proper educational reforms are not something that can be done at the school board level," said Vohra. "We need a voucher program, because our government system is failing to make us globally competitive."
Vohra rejects the term "Pell Grant" for K-12. "Pell Grants" are means-tested and only serve the poorest education consumers. "But a voucher system serves everyone."
Vohra believes the best way to achieve excellence in education is through an open market system. "I'm not smart enough to make decisions on a school board. In fact I don't believe anyone is," said Vohra. "The only system I know of to gain excellence in education is through collective decision making of the open marketplace. These are the thousands of parents who make market decisions based on the individual needs of their own particular child. Some children require high structure; other children thrive in environments of very little structure. A one-size-fits-all government system can't in any way serve needs of every parent or every student."
Vohra asks us to imagine a world of a government monopoly of restaurants. The free market offers us a choice of cuisines from around the world. If a government bureaucracy built all of the restaurants, Vohra submits, our choices to eat out would be mired in a system of mediocrity.
Further, Vohra believes parents must have the choice to remove their children from schools in which they object to forced curriculum, such as allegations of teachers rewriting history, teachers leading children in song celebrating the cult of Obama, sex education that promotes promiscuity, and class instruction that normalizes homosexual lifestyles. Vohra passes no moral judgement on any of these controversies, and even refuses to take sides. Vohra emphasizes that simply by empowering parents with choice on where to send their child--with the taxpayer dollars that follow--solves the entire problem for all parties involved.
Vohra has a higher vision for America. He believes Americans must vote for the betterment of society, and rather not out of immediate personal gain. "For example," says Vohra, "I support the Second Amendment, yet I don't own a gun." Vohra cites another example, and claims that union leaders sometime lobby in the political arena for an unfair advantage that they could not obtain in the free market otherwise. "We need to vote for what's best and fair for our country."
