Taxes Pay For School Desks

I just watched Mike Huckabee's RNC speech in which he repeatedly stated that John McCain has real plans to change things yet never once even suggested how.

He called for lots of change, which must mean that things are seriously broken (a concept that Fred Thompson and Phil Gramm, amongst many other conservatives, have mocked). The conservative Republicans and their policies have been in charge for most of the last 30 years, and for most of this decade they were in complete control (Executive, Legislative, and it could be argued even Judicial branches) of government -- how can it not be clear that conservative Republicans are responsible for our sad state of affairs?

Anyway, Huckabee blathered on with a narrative for the last 3 minutes of his 15 minute speech, a moralistic story about an Arkansas high school teacher who tried to teach her students that the reason that they didn't have to pay for their school desks is because U.S. military veterans paid for them with their sacrifices. While I understand the moral of the story, morals don't obscure facts, andthe fact is that tax dollars actually paid for those desks. The same tax dollars that Huckabee and the rest of the speakers at the RNC liken to a plague. The same taxes the paid for the roads that the students traveled to get to class. And the books on the shelves. And the reconstruction of that bridge in Minnesota not far from where Huckabee gave his speech.

Why can't our side create a compelling narrative about that?