The Capitalism Of MMOs: Uncharted demographic numbers that spell doom for socialists

For those who have read the novel Atlas Shrugged and have an appreciation for it, let me share with you my own private Galt’s Gulch—the Atlantis found in the novel where an intrusive government gave the best minds in the world little choice but to simply go on strike and let the parasites of society rot on the vine. My paradise does not exist somewhere in the real world. I know many people, some with considerable amounts of money who are making arrangements in the wake of the Obama administration to re-establish themselves in places like Belize and Argentina to run from the encroaching governments that exist in the world. That is not my plan, as I see it as pointless, because eventually, the scum bags will be knocking on my door there as well. So for me—physically, I will stay in the real world and fight them, I’ll fight them in court, I’ll fight them in politics, or I’ll fight them with fists and guns—but one way or the other, I will not comply with governments hell-bent on individual destruction in the name of socialism. The distinction is a simple one; I support unhampered capitalism while my political enemies support degrees of socialism—through Social Security, health care, and various proposals of wealth redistribution. Most politicians alive in America today are some variation of a socialist because they seek to advance their power and influence artificially with looted money consumed by taxes—and they create more laws and policies as ways to extract more of my money.

With such a social position, it makes for awkward dinner conversations. Even though I appreciate that some of my well-to-do friends continue to invite me to all the big events around town, the charity extravaganzas where all the powerful minds of media, business and politics gather to stroke each other and feel important. I despise many of those people because of what they represent as entities openly advocating altruism not for what it does for the unfortunate, but for their own power base–and don’t make an effort to disguise it leaving such evenings fruitless. Taxation is often advanced through altruist schemes, and it disgusts me. I’d rather spend my time in my personal Galt’s Gulch where pure capitalism is alive and well, where I can do pretty much what I want when I want to do it, and I can fly around from point A to point B without the stupid FFA getting in my way, or the FCC trying to regulate everything I say and do, or the TSA trying to frisk me just because I want to make a regional flight to a city two states away. Or nearly half of everything I earn going to the IRS forcing me to run faster and faster on a treadmill that the government controls so they can take my money and give it to some slug who grew up doing drugs, slutting themselves around having babies out of wed-lock, or genuinely abusing themselves physically and mentally. In my leisure time I look for ways to be away from all those elements, and I have found it in the video game The Old Republic—and my current excitement is that they have just created a new expansion seemingly just for people like me who love to fly, but don’t want the extra cost of housing an actual airplane at a hanger that is marred down in more rules and regulations. The enjoyment of real-world flying is buried in paperwork, fees and taxes. When the new combat space simulator opens in December, I may never see anybody in the real world again, because I simply love such things, and will likely never leave the virtual world of The Old Republic again. I’ve flown in real life, and over the years I’ve played hundreds of thousands of hours of flight simulators and aerial combat games—and the brain really doesn’t know the difference. So I am very much looking forward to this new element in my current favorite game Star Wars: The Old Republic.

On that game my wife has over 2 million credits and I have about half that. She is very rich in that virtual world, because we spend a lot of time in The Old Republic doing things that earn credits—which is the money system exchanged. I also spend a fair amount of time on the Bioware website following the complaints of other gamers playing the game. I find their reasons for paying a monthly fee to play the game to be fascinating as many of them are raised by public education to believe in altruistic practices—so many expect Bioware to give away things for free, but many of the hardest core gamers are very much capitalists—people who are very innovative and expect to keep what they earn as they play. This leaves Bioware always looking to create incentives to keep game players pushing to do more things and stay interested enough that they pay their subscriptions and spend hundreds of hours a month playing. The incentives are credits and other rewards such as leveling up, earning certain titles, and acquiring unique items.

The Old Republic is what they call an MMO, a Massive Multiplayer Online game. As you play the game online, thousands of other people are playing with you in the same environment. It is similar to popular games like World of Warcraft in that the big distinction is that the worlds within the game are truly massive inspiring people to play together or against each other on a truly epic scale. Something that everyone who plays these games understands is that they expect to keep what they earn—and they get very angry at game developers who short change them with restrictions. If in The Old Republic Bioware taxed some of the credits my wife and I have earned at the same rate that occurs in real life, and gave those credits to new gamers who only played a fraction of the time that we do, most people playing The Old Republic would find that imposition absurd—unfathomable even. If Bioware did something like that, they would lose players by the hundreds. The players would leave to play another game where rewards were not consumed and distributed to those who don’t have the same level of commitment. Most people understand that it is unfair to tax in-game credits and give them to players who didn’t earn them.

Gamers who play these kinds of MMO products universally are raw capitalists. They totally get it and when it’s asked why they play so many games so often, the reason is similar to mine—because it is their own Galt’s Gulch. They know they don’t have the same opportunity in the real world to be successful because they either don’t have the political connections or access to capital because it’s been stolen from them by government. So they play video games because at least there, they can keep what they earn. I know this culture very well. Both of my daughters worked for Gamestop for a while, my oldest was actually a manager at several stores all over Cincinnati. When I’d go to see her for lunch I would get the opportunity to study these people and explore what motivated them. They are a relatively new market demographic that nobody in government knows what to do with. They as a generation from age 40 down to age 10 have pretty much dropped out of life. They don’t care to join country clubs to socialize, they don’t waste their time trying to get rich in the real world because it’s nearly impossible with all the government looting, and they don’t trust the media or their education institutions because they’ve been lied to and are disappointed. They don’t typically vote, they eat a lot of pizza, and they are happy to drive a piece of crap car because they don’t care if they meet a spouse. Most of those things take them away from their game environments, so they don’t participate. The game awards mean more to them, even though they are virtual. I was seldom ever at Gamestop with my daughter where she wasn’t slammed with business. It’s a gigantic industry. For instance, the new Call of Duty video game just released made a BILLION dollars in just a 24 hour span of time. A billion with a “B” which is a tremendous amount of money spent on a product of any kind in just one day.

The Old Republic video game I play with my wife cost $240 million just to produce the original content which launched with the game two years ago. If I had to guess, I would say they’ve invested at least that much more in the game since the release, and they are of course expecting to make the game profitable which means they have to make enough revenue off subscriptions and other revenue streams to justify the expense. With a half a billion dollar front loaded investment, Bioware understands that more than a few overweight geeks playing the game in their basement are needed. It has to be somewhat mainstream to have financial viability at that level of investment.

What all those MMO games have in common is capitalism as the primary driver. Game developers understand that it is incentive that drives game participation and the more restrictions placed, the lower the game sales. The reason that online gaming is such a current phenomena is because it is a refuge for people who love capitalism, and most young people do. Socially through their educations they have been taught socialism, which they find unattractive—but are intellectually unarmed as to how to deal with it. So they go to the online world of their choice and invest their time and energy into virtual capital instead of the kind based in reality because the virtual stuff is more real to them. (Think about that.) Most modern gamers find the fantasy world of World of Warcraft and The Old Republic to be more real than the REAL world. What does that say about our society?

The FCC would if they could regulate this gaming industry. After all, the NSA probably knows everywhere I’ve been and what I have done within The Old Republic just as they are tracking everyone playing all games online. And that is what scares them, because in their giant mega computer that comprises all that data and studies the behavior patterns of the modern America—or global video game players as there are people from all over the world playing The Old Republic they know what I just professed, and they are terrified to name it publicly. They cannot turn off such games through regulation as much as they’d love to because of the riot of anger that would ensue. People have found refuge from the statist world within video games, and once that is gone, there is no place left to run. The Obama statist types had hoped by now through education, taxation, and government employment to have “changed” the nature of the human being to more of an altruist and less of a capitalist. But it hasn’t worked and all that they achieved is they pushed people into a form of activity that doesn’t generate any taxes for them. The government can’t tax the millions of credits my wife and I have earned in The Old Republic. The IRS has no power there. I can’t use that money to buy a new condo, an airplane, or a car either. But who cares, because all those things force me further entangled with a government that simply wants to steal from me at every opportunity. So I gladly give up those material objects in trade for virtual ones that actually have more value—because within the world of The Old Republic, I earned them and can keep them.

The video game industry is about raw capitalism in its purest form. The economic theory of Keynesian thought would not work in The Old Republic or any other video game, just like it doesn’t work in real life. Wealth redistribution doesn’t work in a gaming world, so why would government statist types believe it would work in the real world? The answer is that they are in denial of what motivates and makes human beings viably functional. Governments have instead hoped to nudge and shape the world into artificial yearnings that have no basis in reality—and they’ve done it at great expense to human development. The test bed to these theories have been in the explosion of online gaming—particularly the MMO. It is also why I’d rather spend my time in The Old Republic than anywhere else because there at least I am free of the types who expect to mooch off my energy and effort because they are too lazy to do for themselves. And if that sounds like a harsh statement consider that I’m not alone—and it is that trait which drives an entire video game industry offering a kind of freedom that no longer exists in the real world—the freedom offered through capitalism.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

Darryl Parks Earns the Uber Man Card: Standing up to the FCC in a big way

Here is the official explanation from 700 WLW as to why Darryl Parks is no longer employed by Clear Channel, or hosting his Saturday radio show.

Darryl Parks has stood by me in tough times, especially when saying controversial things were needed. When 700 WLW desperate to separate themselves from the memory of Doc Thompson supported the antics of a bunch of Lakota Levy supporters to assassinate my name, Darryl was there to stop it. Darryl Parks built the modern-day 700 WLW and he was a much respected executive at Clear Channel. Darryl made Clear Channel a lot of money. So it meant a lot to me that he put an end to the hit pieces against me from his employees on the radio following things I wrote which took an uber-man card to write. Darryl is one of the few people still working in the media that appreciates, and gives out man-cards when a man stands for something he believes in. So it’s my turn to support him for standing up for himself, and his radio industry in the face of an imperialistic FCC imposition that is being launched against AM stations in 2014. Darryl after a series of executive meetings wrote a blog posting that took an uber-man card to write because not a single other soul working in the radio industry had the guts to call out the FCC for what they are trying to do—which is another topic that we will explore in much more detail in subsequent articles. Not long after that blog posting, Darryl Parks was fired from not only 700 WLW, but from Clear Channel.

Below is the blog posting Darryl had written, as he wrote it. Knowing a bit about Darryl, I have a pretty good idea what he was thinking. The radio industry is under attack by the federal government through the FCC. Darryl likely rationalized that he could end his career quickly like a man, or quietly like a mouse—slowly over time the way the other people in his industry have chosen. The FCC is making dumb decisions based on the opinions of a very successful radio man—and he wanted to make sure they knew what a bunch of idiots they were. So he told them in a way that only Darryl Parks could. It took serious balls to do what he did—it took an uber-man card, which is very rare in this modern world of sell-outs, pussies, beta men, and back-stabbing social climbers. Most people attending these meetings with Darryl would likely agree with him, but all of them lacked the courage to say anything about it—because it might cost them their career. This is how evil spreads, when good men do nothing—especially when they know better.

I will miss Darryl on the radio at 700 WLW. But he knows what Doc Thompson already is doing, and my friend Matt Clark at WAAM, that the future of radio is not in FCC controlled stations. Popular media personalities like Parks, Thompson, and even Ben Swann from Fox 19, have all had to make personal decisions in the face of comfortable careers where good pay and security might otherwise shut their mouths. Swann left television in Cincinnati by his own decision. Thompson was fired from 700 WLW as one of the last hires of Darryl Parks before Darryl was promoted to an executive job that was a nationwide deal. And Darryl probably didn’t think that Clear Channel would fire him for what he said, but he likely didn’t care either because his industry under the current FCC policies will end anyway. He was simply meeting the tragedy head on. So read what Darryl said and consider the implication of his termination. The posting which appeared on his 700 WLW blog site is shown below. It is well written and full of interesting facts. The worst thing he said about the FCC was that they were a bunch of “circle jerks,” which they are. Darryl made an observed fact metaphorically speaking. Should that cost him his job? Of course not, especially when members of The White House have openly lied, cheated, and in some cases allegedly killed others to advance their agenda. But when the FCC controls things and don’t like the views of those who refuse to “play along nicely” terminations will occur in a New York minute because the goal is not justice, but compliance, and the best way to hurt a person like Darryl Parks is in the check book and take away his voice. It’s not like it was a conspiracy theory against Parks where the Obama White House or anybody else declared that Darryl had to go. Rather the infestation of the FCC by Obama type federal employees is going after certain types of characters the way the IRS went after conservative groups. In a publicly traded company that is very concerned about perception, the safe money is to keep your mouth shut and put up with the intrusion of know-nothing FCC “circle jerks.” Well, not Darryl, he is a man who loves his man card, and won’t give it up in trade for a corporate suit, and the security of a “circle jerk.” That is why I will always like Darryl Parks even if I can’t hear him every Saturday morning on 700 WLW.

Last Blog Entry by Darryl Parks at 700 WLW:

If you would allow me the indulgence of being the radio suit that I am in real life for just one blog, because something has me irritated in a major way.

There is finally a call, as the Federal Communications Commission put it recently, to revitalize the AM band. You know create and ease rules to allow station owners to be relieved of horrible burdens. You may have read about this in the press or online. If you’re in the broadcast industry you may have read about it in one of the industry rags.

You think just one of these industry rags would speak the truth about the FCC’s ideas, suggestions and concepts? Nope. As Kevin Bacon’s character in Animal House said, “Remain calm. All is well.” What a joke the FCC is. And sadly, what a joke the people in the radio industry are who are nodding along without thought or the ability to intelligently reason the basic concepts of physics.

While AM radio may suffer from numerous other issues, this will focus on technical limitations of the broadcast band and the ideas the FCC has moving forward.

AM radio or “amplitude modulation” was first. Even back in the 1920’s and 1930’s companies like RCA which sold radios, owned stations and had the NBC Radio Networks knew of limitations on the band, limitations such as “static.” RCA was so concerned about static they, through a really smart guy they employed, invented FM or “frequency modulation” and then buried the FM technology because they had too much money invested in AM stations. The “static” you hear on AM radio is interference.

The AM signal travels farther at night than during the day. Most AM radio stations change their signal patterns and/or reduce power at night to keep from interfering with other stations on the same frequency or adjacent frequencies. Stations like 700WLW are considered a “clear channel” station, meaning the station’s signal is broadcast in a non-directional pattern and is the only station on that frequency at night. The power is a booming 50,000 watts. Stations such as WSM-AM, WGN-AM, WLS-AM and WCBS-AM are also “clear channel” stations.

Today, besides interference from other stations, the AM band is also being interfered with by computers, cell phones, even those new energy savings light bulbs. This is why it may be more difficult for you to receive a good signal from an AM station these days.

Just last week at the yearly “circle jerk” gathering of broadcasters called the NAB/RAB Radio Show, FCC Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn announced a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” with 6…count ‘em…6 ideas to rid station owners of horrible burdens. What do these 6 ideas do? Increase interference! And no one. Not one freaking person in the industry press will talk about this. Obviously, they’re too busy copying press releases for their publications and pretending to be Kevin Bacon’s ROTC character.

Here are the 6 ideas proposed by the FCC.

Opening a one-time filing window, limited to current AM licensees and permittees, which will allow each to apply for one new FM translator station to fill in its service area.

An FM translator is a very low power FM signal, normally about 99 watts. The FCC figures there’s so much interference today on the AM band, as stations interfere with each other, why not spread the pain and cause more interference on the FM band. BRILLIANT!

Relaxing the AM daytime community coverage rule to allow existing AM broadcasters more flexibility to propose antenna site changes.

Translation: Stations that are non-viable can change their tower locations. (1) Non-viable stations probably don’t have the money to move a tower site, which will cost in the millions. (2) If a non-viable station does change its tower site, rules would be relaxed on these stations allowing for more interference with other stations. (3) If a non-viable station simply changes its daytime pattern at its current site it will cause more interference with other stations. BRILLIANT!

Relaxing the AM nighttime community coverage standards, which will also provide broadcasters, who may have difficulty finding suitable sites, relief for towers and directional arrays.

Remember what I said about the AM signal traveling farther at night? More AM band interference and more difficulty for the consumer to receive and hear programming. BRILLIANT!

Also, does the FCC really think a non-viable AM station will be moving its tower site? 700WLW’s tower site is 40 acres. Two towers, one almost 900 feet tall. What do you think this would cost to build? This is a non-starter.

Eliminating the AM “ratchet rule,” which requires an AM station to “ratchet back” its nighttime signal to reduce interference to certain other AM stations.

Here’s where I worry about the FCC and attendees at the recent NAB/RAB “circle jerk.” Really? You applauded this idea? They are saying they are in favor of increasing interference on the AM band and making it more difficult for listeners to listen to stations. WOW!

Permitting wider implementation of Modulation Dependent Carrier Level or MDCL control technologies, which allow broadcasters to reduce power consumption.

I know. What the f*** does this mean? Basically, by controlling the algorithms of modulation with the main carrier and the side-bands of the signal the station can reduce its electric bill. But, as with every immutable law in physics there is give and take. (1) By reducing the power and use of electricity needed, it makes the signal weaker and creates more interference on the listener’s end. (2) The FCC has noted that a reduction in signal power at certain modulation levels “inevitably exacts some penalty in audio quality.” This means if an AM station uses the MDCL control technology audio distortion is created on the signal. You guessed it. More interference.

Modifying AM antenna efficiency standards by reducing minimum effective field strength values by approximately 25%, thus allowing the use of shorter towers.

“Reducing minimum effective field strength values” means a weaker signal. 700WLW’s main tower is what is called a “half-wave tower.” That’s why it’s so big. Stations that have shorter towers have what are called “quarter-wave towers.” A half-wave tower creates a better and stronger signal. The shorter towers proposed mean? Yep. More interference.

Hey FCC. The answer is not MORE interference. The answer is LESS interference. And you do that by turning off non-viable stations. And before station owners start crying poverty, many of these non-viable AM stations have one thing that is worth a ton of money. The land their towers sit on.

What do you think those 40 acres in Mason, Ohio are worth?

http://www.jacobsmedia.com/parks.htm

Darryl doesn’t have to worry about his man card. They can take his job, but not his uber manhood! He can get another job with all his talent, but manhood can’t be earned back once lost. The blog posting was captured and posted with derogatory comments about Darryl by Fred Jacobs, CLICK THE LINKS ABOVE AND BELOW. Jacobs was one of the speakers at the “circle jerk.” It seems he didn’t like Darryl’s opinion of his performance. Click here to review. It took a month for the “circle jerks” to read the blog posting and figure out what it meant. Just like they don’t understand that more quarter-wave towers mean a message gets to fewer people because of the cluttered noise–yet that is just what the FCC intended all along because conservative political values are primarily communicated over AM radio, specifically large half-wave towers like 700 WLW. Bravo Darryl Parks, for voicing your opinion against the FCC. Fred Jacobs lost his man card a long time ago.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

Mark Welch Wins In West Chester: A bright spot in the November 2013 elections

Elections for me are often not happy moments. My opinions are in the silent majority, and that silent majority doesn’t always stand up for themselves and vote. After the Issue 2 defeat a few years ago, it was sad to see the labor unions get their way once again. After Obama was elected last year to a second term, it was sad to see that bad guys win—and Obama is a BAD guy. He’s bad not because of the color of his skin, or the fact that he’s a communist by definition, but because of the conduct of his life and the imposition he creates against individual lives. Then there is this last election with Lakota. It’s close, too close, and will go to a recount, but for me just having a close vote is not enough. No Voters took if for granted that everyone else would vote on their behalf—and that is a major let down. Most of the time I am terribly disappointed after elections because it shows how little thought human beings care to put into the operation of their lives. They are quick to let other people—often corrupt—rule them through law, and taxes, and it disgusts me.

But every now and then something good does happen, and in this 2013 election Mark Welch knocked out Cathy Stoker as West Chester Township Trustee. Mark was my guy. I liked Matt too—quite a bit, but my money was on Mark. I suppose it’s no longer a secret that I think a lot of George Lang—in fact, I’ll go so far to say that he’s a friend of mine. And it delights me greatly to see that George now has a pro-business trustee working with him as a West Chester Trustee. With those two now having two votes to one against Wong—who I think is a socialist—literally—the gridlock against West Chester business imposed largely by the democratic leanings of Stoker is over. Thank God!

I don’t live in West Chester, I live in Liberty Twp, and cared much less about that race than the one in West Chester primarily because the politics in Liberty is still too entrenched in traditional Republican politics—which I like more than a damn Democrat, but even they are too far to the political left for me. Christine Matacic lives in the house my grandmother grew up in when England gave my ancestors a land grant to settle the “wild west” ahead of the French who were fighting for Indian loyalty during the French and Indian War. At least Matacic is a pro business politician even though I don’t like all the deals and government intrusion she tends to support through zoning tyranny. There’s too much Agenda 21 in Liberty Twp and the trustees there have drunk the Kool-Aid, so I turned my attention toward West Chester. It has been my plan for a number of years to help Lang gain a majority so that he can force Liberty to stay on the up and up with straight-up competition. I know where Lang stands on things, and the best way to keep Liberty Township honest is to force them to compete with West Chester. The politics in Liberty are too controlled by the Republican Party, so stalemates are the norm when it comes to reform. But the language everyone speaks is money, and who will get what from whom. For that, business should drive development, not government through zoning regulations.

Now that West Chester has the ability to drop the stupid bike paths and sidewalks and other Agenda 21 United Nations issues, businesses will want to deal with Lang and Welch forcing Matacic and the gang in Liberty to match their efforts, or lose out on opportunities. So with the election of Welch I see that Liberty will benefit more than if the trustees had changed seats in my home district. And that makes me happy.

Liberty Township is different from West Chester—it is still a community about vast open land and green space—aside from the latte sipping prostitutes who support school levies moving in with new money from transfer jobs originally stationed in New England. Those types of people do not represent what Liberty Township is—which as I stated, I have a long vested interest in protecting. But Liberty does have the Carriage Hill deal which is being built by the guys I used to play with as kids running motorcycles and shooting guns in their back yard off Princeton Rd. I don’t like the loss of green space and potential ugliness of apartment buildings coming with their Carriage Hill project, but I am rooting for them to have success by bringing in high quality Indian Hill style homes to Liberty Township. I’ve made parallels between Liberty Township and Indian Hill for years, and the Carriage Hill development moves everything in that direction. I am also excited about the Liberty Center project. That will be magnificent, and will give Liberty Township a unique opportunity to be something truly special, if it can manage to maintain its original character. It will be a tough balancing act.

However, down in West Chester, there are huge opportunities for business development that will directly feed the viability of Liberty Center. The Streets of West Chester has a potential under Welch and Lang to explode, especially with the announcement of Bass Pro Shops moving into a free-standing store near that location. That is tremendously exciting. My wife and I love to dine at Mitchells, and buy books at that particular Barnes and Noble, and more business in the area helps that book store stay viable, which is very important to me. When I go out into town there is typically only one destination that I routinely visit, and that is book stores.

All this development is going to explode the amount of revenue Lakota schools will obtain in the next four years. The dumb asses who run the district were so short-sighted that they only could see the money they wanted to throw at the teacher’s union in 2014 so they pushed their tax agenda through in spite of the wonderful opportunities that are coming, which takes money right out of the pockets of local residents to help support those businesses, and that is just flat-out stupid! History can thank Joan Powell who wanted to pass one more levy before she left office, and Superintendent Mantia who was in the pocket of Cathy Stoker—the exiting West Chester Trustee. They all think alike, which is why they couldn’t see the forest for the trees, and these are the idiots we trust to educate the next generation? There will be HUGE surpluses at Lakota in 2015 which the union will see and will seek to grab every last penny, and there will be a levy request again in 2017 because nobody is managing the money—even though there will be a lot of it.

More than anything I was happy to see Cathy Stoker leave office because of the Enquire article she did against me in 2012. I have held it against her since then and I always will. Once I get a grudge against someone it lasts forever. I expected Lee Wong to be voted out and Cathy to keep her seat but it worked out the opposite way which is better. I hoped that both would be rejected, but Lang only needed one trustee to work with him. The fact that it was Cathy made a bad night a bit better. As angry as I am over Lakota and their stupid tax increase, Lang and Welch will show Lakota, Liberty Township and Cincinnati in general what happens when two very pro capitalist trustees control the purse strings of a community—and ultimately it will force those entities to move more toward capitalism and away from European socialism. The people of West Chester will benefit immensely by the paring—and everyone forced to compete with them will also benefit indirectly—which will make the world a better place for a lot of people. So one thing did work out on Election Night, Mark Welch gained a trustee seat.

Now, as my friend, George Lang is referred by many of his political enemies as being corrupt—a stooge for big business, consider the source before believing a word of it. Those same political enemies call me a sexist because I have referred to levy supporters as prostitutes with asses the size of car tires. The name calling comes from people who are by every definition of political theory communists—people who hate business and support wealth redistribution through higher taxation. Whenever it is said that George Lang is corrupt examine the political beliefs of the accuser and you will find they support communism, socialism, progressivism, or overall statism. Those same people have no idea how two pennies add up to make two cents. They are functionally illiterate when it comes to economic theory, like the idiots who have run Lakota, and they should be discarded with the kind of garbage that is thrown away after a fast food meal—because their opinions are worth about as much. I’ve known Lang for quite a while, and through some very perilous times, and he is far from corrupt. He does love business, and money—which is something everyone who supports capitalism should support. And now he has a buddy sitting with him as a trustee and good things will follow for everyone—except the socialists.

Lee Wong will enjoy finding himself out-voted and ganged up on the way he and Cathy did to George for a number of years. It should give him more time to visit his favorite haunts in Hamilton, because due to the election of 2013, his relevancy is finally out-voted for the good of West Chester. That alone made Election Night 2013 a wonderful evening.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

Why I Want A Divorce From Lakota: The abusive spouse of government run education

It’s not like Lakota won by a large margin in the election of 2013. With the narrow margin of just a few hundred votes out of 26,000 cast, the begging needy levy supporters of Lakota earned through government force the legal ability to steal more money from the pockets of property owners. Leading up to the election Lakota had spent over $100,000 to create reports they used for their campaign, Delphi Technique community conversations by Jeffery Stec, and funneled money through PTA groups to fund a fourth levy attempt. They captured the media having virtually everyone in town eating out of their hand. CLICK HERE FOR AN EXAMPLE, AND BE SURE TO WATCH THE VIDEO. Scott Sloan and Bill Cunningham from 700 WLW helped Lakota with a ridiculous argument about property values, which we will deal with in greater detail in the coming days. Rick Jones, the Butler County Sheriff came out in favor of the levy, and all the television news outlets carried the story framed exactly as Lakota framed it, “the school hadn’t passed a levy since 2005.” Reporters didn’t consider if the money was needed at Lakota, they didn’t explore the graphs shown by No Lakota Levy as to why; they simply formed their reports based on the press releases given by Lakota.

Cunningham and Jones are both either married or directly employed by government so their defense of Lakota’s government employees wasn’t unforeseen. But Scott Sloan had shifted his view of support for No Lakota Levy from before in an obvious attempt to give his wife some business as a Realtor. Sloan wouldn’t be the first guy to form his political beliefs around peace in the bedroom, based on the last interview I did with him back in 2012, its obvious something along those lines is going on, even though he would probably never admit it. He called me a sexist several times after our interview and certainly turned on me when he knew damn well that what was going on was a hit piece by Lakota. Sloan played along willingly. I didn’t understand what happened between Scott and me until I spoke to Doc Thompson about the inner politics of Clear Channel, and learned things about Scott personally. I left it alone and we pretty much parted ways after that—which is what Lakota was after anyway. Part of the rush to place this latest levy attempt on the ballot was to have the election during an off-year election, where there were no congressional or presidential races. The ballot was primarily all regional issues, which typically have a low voter turnout. The media ignored the multiple sex scandals at Lakota over the last couple of weeks and the many other negatives which were covered only at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom. Everything was slanted toward Lakota and they still only won the election by a few hundred votes. It was hardly a landslide victory provoking a pompous celebration lap on their behalf. Lakota’s victory was executed with deceit, manipulation, and elements of terrorism performed to use the mob of democracy to steal more money from the entire community. Listen to Scott Sloan the day before the election:

When Sloan asked me nearly two years ago why I was churning up the “angry vote” I couldn’t answer it at the time because I couldn’t give away our strategy. But now it doesn’t matter, the reason was to keep voters focused on the upcoming Lakota strategy to hold an election in an off-season attempt. At the time it was a summer 2012 attempt, but the school wanted to make a deal to let everything cool off so they could rebuild their image, so we let them.

Letting Lakota off the ropes had more value than putting the community through another levy request, so I agreed. I avoided telling stories about specific employees like the high school chemistry teacher who had a student texting his mother at home to help with his in-class assignment because the teacher was too busy playing Minecraft on the school computer. I avoided those kinds of stories so not to further embarrass Lakota as part of our agreement. Once they announced the levy, that deal was off. In 2013 Lakota came out in their new campaign with a strategy of kindness and avoided the mud slinging because they knew their numbers would show up on Election Day with poor voter turn-out from the other side, and they didn’t want the enraged voters into showing up against them. For the No Levy side, voter turn out was always the challenge, and the best way to get it was to get people motivated up off the couch and vote when the only issue in front of them was a school levy and a few trustees. Most people feel that elections do not represent them, so they don’t participate—much to everyone’s peril.

When I first started all this levy business I didn’t hate public education or the system of government schools. I didn’t like it, I didn’t think it was effective, and I wanted to see competitive options, but I didn’t despise the people involved. When I went to school board meetings, I sort of liked the people involved. But the more I learned about the levy passage process, the angrier I became. I’m not an angry person by nature. I like to live well and leave others to live as they see fit. I don’t impose myself on others, and I don’t expect them to impose upon me. But the more I learned about public education the more I learned that the whole system was a terrible scam against innocent people, so it wasn’t hard to get angry. What started as a bit of political theater in the beginning turned out for me to be very real resulting in the present day where the very word public education disgusts me.

After the election I couldn’t help but think of Lakota as a typical relationship that begins between a man and a woman–or a man and a man if you’re an Obama supporter—that starts with nice dinners and genuine joy and ends in a violent divorce where both parties hate each other and can’t wait to be legally separated. Lakota like a typical jealous spouse demands that nobody else be in our children’s life—they have a government guaranteed monopoly of our attention as there isn’t any other choice. Property owners must through government coercion support the public school planted in their community whether they want to or not. They do not have a choice and behave in the same way as the spouse who questions their partners as to everywhere they’ve been and everyone they’ve spoken to. When it becomes obvious that the relationship is corrosive to a healthy dialogue, the guilt driving spouse then tells their partner “we must stay together for our children” using their kids as a bargaining chip to maintain the monopoly status of an unhealthy marriage. Lakota is in an unhealthy marriage with roughly 50% of the community, and they were only able to keep the unity together through manipulation, lies, and open extortion. Like a spouse that knows their partner wants a divorce Lakota was kind during this campaign so to hopefully appease the tempers and keep the discussion of community divorce off the table.

Sheriff Jones, Bill Cunningham, Scott Sloan, Michael Clark, and dozens of other reporters covering the Lakota levy behaved like intrusive family members who were seeking to keep a family marriage together by ignoring the complaints of the abused spouse and taking the side of the school. But the day after the election, all that really occurred was that Lakota managed to entangle more money out of those who want a divorce and kept the tax payers coming back home to maintain the illusion of harmony one more day. Lakota only was able to maintain this illusion of a marriage by playing every trick of coercion known, taking away all options and hoping that enough people voted in favor of keeping a marriage together. What they did was the same as tying up a spouse bound and gagged to a dinner table against their will then sitting across from them declaring how much they are loved. The tied up spouse having no other option must sit there and listen, and they are obligated by law to continue paying Lakota more money, even though all they want is to be free of the coercion, the dysfunction, and the imposition of a government school.

I love every day of my life. I care deeply about a number of people in my life—so many in fact that I often do not have time for everyone. But I hate Lakota, and I want a divorce from them forever. I can’t stand them. I think they are an unhealthy entity that I want no relationship with, and I can’t stand that I am forced to pay them my hard earned money for causes I do not support. I dread my interaction with them the way one might dread having to speak to a person they know they want to end a relationship with. Once it’s over in their mind—it’s over, and for me, and Lakota……..it’s over. I am not proud that I attended there as a kid. I am not proud that my children attended there. I don’t give a damn about their stupid sports scores, their band awards, or their buildings. I hate virtually everything about them the way I’d hate an attractive spouse who looks good from a distance until they open their mouth, because now I have gotten to know them—and have determined that I want them out of my life.

The day after the election they are patting themselves on the back and breathing a sigh of relief because they have the No Voters chained up in their bedroom and the door and windows are locked up tight. They own us through the chains of marriage arranged through politics as match makers of spouses who have no business being in the same room, let alone in a relationship. The tears the levy supporters shed at BW3’s once the votes were counted are equivalent to the spouse in denial of the condition of their marriage knows that they have their marriage partner safely in chains once again, but yet they also fear what might happen if they forget to lock the door, or leave the chains too loose.

Immediately I could feel the shackles of Lakota reaching into my pocket to steal away roughly $40 dollars a month the way a pick pocket might rob an innocent on a lonely sidewalk. Being in a forced marriage the looter Lakota can steal my money while I am chained to them, because government has placed us together. The relationship is good for Lakota, because they need me. The relationship is bad for me, because Lakota sucks as a spouse. They don’t have my values, they don’t have my passion, and they don’t have my love of life. Lakota can steal my money because labor unions in bed with politicians gave the school that right against my will. But Lakota can’t make me love them no matter how many chains and games they wish to play. The right to hate them is the one freedom I truly have, and I will feel that way till the marriage is ended and I am successfully divorced from them forever.

If I am forced into a relationship with Lakota, make note that I will be a royal pain in the ass. When they give themselves raises next year, I will be there two and three years down the road to show on graphs what Lakota has done. I will be there to point out every lie told even ten years from now, and I will name the names of the advocates, and I will make their life a royal hell. I will not move from the community under any circumstances and I have a long memory, and I have a worse temper than any collection of levy advocates, and I will be there with each mistake, lie, and deception they make to chronicle my case for divorce, and eventual freedom from Lakota and the money they seek to steal from me and many others for their own cause. Because the only real freedom we have in these arrangements is the right to hate the advocates, and to that extent, I reserve that right with glorious indignation, and the inner joy of a rebellion that only an abused spouse understands. What Lakota won in the election of 2013 was not for children, or the community—but for their own façade of maintaining a forced marriage with those who despise them, and wanted freedom from the theft of money that can only be obtained in a legal union. And they did it with only 214 votes–less than 1% of the vote. For Lakota, they are breathing a sigh of relief because it gives them the illusion of a sustained marriage. But they better beware of the unlocked doors, and loose chains, because the minute they let their guard down, they will find themselves single and very lonely.

Rich Hoffman

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Doc Thompson From Topeka, Kansas: A new day for conservative values

As I listened to the pre-election rabble, particularly from 700 WLW where Scott Sloan and Bill Cunningham have shown they are willing to form their beliefs around program management and not core ideals, I thought of my friend Doc Thompson who had to leave the station shortly after the 2011 election. I’ve talked to Doc about his last days at Clear Channel and found it surprising to learn that Cunningham for all his support of teachers in public schools did not support collective bargaining agreements at 700 WLW when it came to Doc. Willie took up a lot of payroll and the station couldn’t afford another guy at the station with a conservative slant, which would be the next star of tomorrow, so they picked Willie and sent Doc off to fulfill his career elsewhere. If Clear Channel operated the way public schools did, even Scott Sloan would be approaching the kind of money that Cunningham makes not off performance, ratings, or even years of service, but because a collective bargaining agreement said so. So it was surprising to hear Cunningham and Sloan make the observations they did prior to the election, which will be covered extensively in the days to come.

As the 2013 Election came and went, Doc was on the road with his producer Skip in Topeka, Kansas on a tour with The Blaze Radio Network that had the new radio celebrities broadcasting in a different city each day and giving public appearances along the way. Doc’s career has exploded during 2013 since joining The Blaze employed directly by Glenn Beck. His current job and role is everything that he dreamed of working for several stations all over America before an exit from Clear Channel in Cincinnati, Ohio and Richmond, Virginia that might have otherwise ended his days on the radio. Doc isn’t squandering the opportunity.

Doc Thompson is a conservative libertarian American radio host and political commentator. He hosts The Morning Blaze with Doc Thompson, a radio show on The Blaze Radio Network, which debuted January 21^st, 2013. The show airs weekdays from 6am to 9am before the Glenn Beck Radio Program, where he has been a regular guest host since 2008. Doc also provides political analysis, appearing on various television shows such as CNBC’s The Kudlow Report, The Blaze’s Real News, The Glenn Beck Program, The Pat and Stu Show, and special election coverage from Virginia for CNN and Fox News. Doc has been honored to be a part of several teams, receiving a total of 7 Marconi Radio Awards from the National Association of Broadcasters.

Thompson’s broadcast style mixes reporting, commentary, and humor to reflect a conservative libertarian political philosophy with economic views supportive of the free market. Showcasing Doc’s passion and insight, his beliefs and comments are consistent as he discusses personal freedom, personal responsibility, and Constitutional principles.

Born and raised in Ohio, Doc’s career in radio has led him to work in the great states of Alabama, Virginia, Nevada, New Mexico, Nebraska, West Virginia, and Michigan. These years of traveling across America have proved priceless to Doc, as they have allowed him to meet fellow citizens from all walks of life and experience the differing cultures throughout our nation. His entertaining program of political badinage, mixed with daily topical events, is fun, fresh, and different. With a precise blend of candor, news, and humor, Doc’s show is enlightening and informative. He exposes absurdity by lampooning those who deserve it and is driven by exposing the truth. Doc regularly attends rallies, guest hosts radio and television programs, and performs speaking events all over the country. In addition to Doc’s talent in broadcasting, he considers himself a “foodie” because he loves to eat, cook, and try new cuisine while traveling. A self-admitted “pizza-snob”, Doc also enjoys cheap wine and expensive beer!

To truly understand Doc’s beliefs, here are just a few of his favorite quotes:

“Is life so dear, is peace so sweet…” – Patrick Henry

“I have sworn upon the alter of God, eternal hostility…” – Thomas Jefferson

“Doc, I want to hire you for the BRN!” – Glenn Beck

When asked to describe himself, Doc said…

“I’m just like John Stewart, except with very different views, and I host a radio show not TV, and I’m not rich, nor from New York. Okay, that was a really bad comparison! Don’t print that!”

I grew up listening to 700 WLW and during the 1990’s enjoyed the Bill Cunningham Show. I thought the guy was a real conservative, but as it turned out, it was all just an act, and 700 WLW have attached themselves to a sinking ship. Cunningham is nothing but the next generation Jerry Springer and the station has bent their entire programming schedule around his temperament which will prove costly in the years to come. Meanwhile, the one they let get away is more successful than ever and is steadily climbing into popularity. The Blaze Radio Network is gaining traction by the thousands as listeners discover the benefit of good conservative radio that is not limited by a FCC license or controlled by salary hounds perpetually concerned about renewing their contract at the expense of others. Doc no longer has to worry about those kinds of things. He is as free as a radio talk jock can get, and it is so refreshing to hear someone like him on the radio—especially after a grueling election where the system staked against reason is ever-present and ominous. Doc is a reminder that no matter how bad things look today, that tomorrow is a new opportunity to make things right, and within those opportunities are improvements that would not have been seen any other way.

Rich Hoffman

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Lakota Thugs Get Their Looted Money: Now raises for all the employees in the labor union

The thugs are going to get their stolen money from the community because 13488 people were stupid, and passed the Lakota school levy, on the fourth attempt. Voter turn-out was the key. Too many people stayed home while the pro people voted. There were over 18,000 NO voters in the last election, and they obviously thought their vote wouldn’t matter, and stayed home. As a result, they will now have to pay higher taxes because of their lack of participation.

LAKOTA SCHOOLS ISSUE 7
	Total
Number of Precincts	70
Precincts Reporting	70	100.0%
Times Counted	26804/64844	41.3%
Total Votes	26735

FOR THE TAX LEVY	13488	50.45%
AGAINST THE TAX LEVY	13247	49.55%

Now it is time to begin campaigning against their 2017 levy attempt, because it’s coming.

Everything they do at Lakota, every dollar wasted, every scandal they are involved in will be reported—because if I have to blow more money on these idiots with higher taxes, I’m going to get my money’s worth.

Rich Hoffman

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Positivism: The driver of government corruption

It’s Election Night and likely there are issues that you dear reader are rejoicing about, and others that are making your stomach churn in knots. There were a lot of school levies on the ballot, many from districts that just passed tax increases a couple of years ago, like Fairfield, and Lebanon. Others like Lakota are trying yet again as nearby Mason watches closely with their foot in the water to see if it’s safe for them to try again. Regardless of the ones that pass or fail, the basic concept is flawed and needs to be addressed. All public schools are government-run and are grossly inefficient. They are dominated by government unions that need to be dismantled in favor of competition because they are functional monopolies. Public education is what many fear Health Care is becoming, a government monopoly full of inefficiencies, high costs, and lack of choices. Even worse is the feeling of doom one has when dealing with any government institution. In the case of school levies, the ones that fail will be put right back on the ballot as the administrations will not respect the will of the voters. The ones that pass will be back on the ballot in about four years. I often refer to this ridiculous system as a communist plot, which it was—but the philosophy of this folly deserves deeper analysis.

Most of America is shaking its head right now at the audacity of Barack Obama and the trail of lies that extend behind him for as far as the eye can see. Americans just don’t understand what is going on; they don’t see how a president can lie so much, so often and get away with it. Yet they participate in the process of allowing him to do it by their silent endorsement. Obama is an educator; he is a former instructor at the University of Chicago and a member of the academic elite. Vice President Biden’s wife is a former teacher as many within the president’s inner circle are big government statists who believe that it is their intellectual majority which rules the world tomorrow. But this still doesn’t explain how they can lie so adamantly to the cameras of the press and speak in front of millions openly advocating ideals they know are false.

The key to the beliefs of Barack Obama and every government school in America is that they all subscribe to a political theory debated for centuries called Positivism as the root of human freedom. Positivism is the law that states reality is anything that the government says it is. Positivism requires that all laws be written down and that there are no theoretical or artificial restraints on the ability of a popularly elected government to enact whatever laws it wishes. Positivism postulates that literally, the majority always rules, and always gets its way. Positivism is the primary driver of a democracy. If a majority of the people want it, then law is built around that belief.

For secular progressives this is why they wish to remove God as any kind of reference of belief. In order for Positivism to work, the collective will of the masses must be held in reverence, not an individual God promoting Natural Law. Positivists must always focus on gaining control of the masses in order to bend the collective will of all human beings toward their desire. This is why The White House believes that Benghazi is no longer relevant, because their public relations machine has turned public sentiment against the investigation of American deaths there. Yet under the same effort, they deny that Americans are against Obamacare, so they continually search for ways to gain majority opinion so that they can use Positivism to override any pending legal questions arising from forcing every human being in America into purchasing a product whether they wish to or not. Democrats in this case can obtain the majority rule by giving away enough free healthcare to put those in opposition into the minority—so they are refusing to look at reality stalling long enough to get a majority of the country signed up on the exchanges. Once that is done statists like Obama can ignore the Natural Law violations of Obamacare in favor of the Positivism of the masses, and their desire for free healthcare from the minority. This is how Obama in good conscience can lie, cheat and deceive so easily, because to him, Natural Law—those given to every human being by God is meaningless in the face of Positivism provided by government through democratic rule—rule by the majority. If the majority is ignorant, and recklessly foolish, that does not matter to the positivists, because the masses always rule. This whole concept of the needs of the many outweighing the needs of the few goes back further than Karl Marx, but it was communism that most aggressively embraced the implementation of democracy. Positivism is the law of thinking that drives the desire for communism, socialism or any form of collective society.

For the same reasons, public schools functioning from the same generally philosophy of Positivism will ignore the results of the school levies if they do not go their way because the collective will of their school boards, the state education boards, and the teachers unions do not support the Natural Law which individual votes cast toward their cause. They, as an education institution have a collectively held desire to obtain higher taxes, and “THEY” will not stop asking until they get it. They think this way because they are functioning from Positivism and believe they are owed something just because they desire it as a mass whole. It does not matter to them that their need is only one of many demographic factors because as an institution they have majority rule within the context of their social structure. This means they will ignore election results until their reality is validated by a majority of the public who tires under constant levy requests.

America was founded on the ideal of Natural Law, meaning that law extends from human nature, which is created by God—whatever form one holds God to be. Natural Law states that all human beings desire freedom from artificial restraint. Because all human beings desire freedom from artificial restraint and because all human beings yearn to be free, our freedoms stem from our nature—from our very humanity. For those who wish to believe that government is the center of the universe, Natural Law is dangerous because it prohibits the majority rule they desire—it muddies up the water keeping a society from functioning as a collective whole. This is why Obama thinks the Tea Party is more dangerous apparently than the Taliban. The Taliban at least is an organization functioning from Positivism while the Tea Party is insisting on Natural Rights.

Regardless of how the election goes, the real battle is not between who wins or loses at the ballot box on November 5^th 2013. The real fight is between Natural Law and Positivism. Until a majority of Americans recognize Natural Law as the primary driver of prosperity in their lives, the school levies will not stop, government statists like Obama will continue to lie and deceive, and America will continue on a path toward socialism as opposed to capitalism. The key to solving the problem is in rejecting Positivism and politicians who believe that government is the giver of rights, and embracing Natural Law. Until that happens, every election will be a fight for life or death of not only lives, but entire economies, those at the local level, and of course those flowing out of Washington D.C.

Rich Hoffman

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Meet A Thief Stealing No Lakota Levy Signs: Doing the work of police for them

I know the Butler County Sheriff’s department is hard at work trying to figure out who put the shooting spree threat in the girl’s bathroom at Lakota East Freshman School, so I like to do their job for them whenever possible—you know—just to help out. I really want to see an arrest in that shooting threat at Lakota so I wouldn’t want to take the police away from their “important” investigation. I’m sure an arrest will be made any moment……………………………………………………(crickets)? As Michael Clark noticed in his recent Enquirer article he stated that For Lakota had put out more campaign signs than No Lakota Levy. Well the reason fewer signs have been seen from the popular tax fighting group is because so many of them have been stolen. Often however, the thefts occur without any documentation and the police are often too busy sitting on the side of the road giving people tickets, or eating doughnuts and flirting with a cashier. So they don’t always see the thefts when they happen.

Well, never fear, No Lakota Levy has caught one of the thieves with pictures, and can be seen below. The man is holding in his hand a No Lakota Levy sign ripped off its frame by him and he is on the phone obviously happy with himself for the action. He even did a favor and looked squarely at the camera so his facial features can be clearly seen. Wasn’t that nice of him?

For the police, the license plate number of the guy is clearly displayed, so just run his plates and go over and arrest him for damage to property and interference of a campaign. It won’t take more than a few moments, and then you can go back to your doughnuts, your Playboy magazines, and texting everyone on your phones while you pretend to be busy pursuing justice. It shouldn’t interrupt the Lakota investigation of the teacher………….I mean student who left behind the shooting spree warning. Justice waits for nobody, so now the Sheriff’s department can resume its man hunt for the would-be terrorist. Just call up a deputy, give them the plate number of the man shown above, and take care of business on behalf of No Lakota Levy who has had their property and message destroyed with the endorsement of the government school of Lakota. If Lakota doesn’t condemn the behavior seen in the picture clearly, they obviously support it. They guy walked by a For Lakota sign, so he obviously is from that political faction.

Because of those pictures the proof of theft is provided, and nobody can say that they don’t know whose doing it. The information has been provided and now all that is required is action on behalf of the authorities.

I can’t wait to see justice served to that levy supporter who is driving one of those stupid little hippie cars which proves that if you vote for a school levy………………YOU’RE STUPID!

As a side note, if the police need help with the shooting threat, just let me know. I can help you with that one too. If you’re looking for a little freshman girl, you’re probably looking in the wrong place.

Rich Hoffman

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Why Voting For The Lakota Levy Is Stupid: Darryl Parks talks about the 2013 school levy on 700 WLW

It was good to hear Darryl Parks maintain his position on school levies, and specifically, the Lakota school levy. I have purposely avoided doing talk radio during this latest campaign primarily because the levy fighting going into the future needs to grow and more people must to be involved—and for some talk radio can be an intimidating forum to utilize. Aside from that, there is already a large collection of talk radio interviews that have been done in the past, which are still relevant online. More broadcasts talking about the same topics tend to become counterproductive, so they were avoided strategically. Also involved was the issue that No Lakota Levy wished to maintain their message of fiscal responsibility within the Lakota district where I have evolved into questioning the basic premise of public education and believe that it should be abandoned all together in its current form. Darryl’s position is closer to the No Lakota Levy view, where mine isn’t something that many people are ready to hear, because the answer requires difficult choices—and admissions. Yet Darryl is well aware what is driving the Lakota levy and he talked about it on his Saturday, November 2^nd show which can be heard below. The Lakota levy is about wealth redistribution, it is a socialist concept created by progressives, and it’s unconstitutional. It is all about taking from the rich and giving to the poor which is the ugly underbelly of all school levies—but one that gets avoided because of the implications pointing to communist roots. Nobody wants to admit that their school where their children are attending is a socialist concept. Nobody wants to face that the educations they received when they were young was a communist creation, but if they think hard enough, the admission becomes easier once they understand the meanings. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. Darryl smartly stays off that topic, but discusses the result—the cost of the Lakota levy for people with $300K to $400K homes will be an additional $600.00 to $800.00 a year and that will likely mean no summer vacations, no big purchases of new furniture, televisions, or even air travel to an overseas destination. If the Lakota levy were to pass, the people with the most money would have to make sacrifices that those without so much money would otherwise have to make.

Most of the supporters of the Lakota levy are either people who have ridden the coat-tails of those who do have money yet don’t understand the real value—so they are quick to give it away, or they are simply new parents who want what’s best for their children and they believe that public education complete with busing services is the best way to give it to them. These types make up the vast majority of the levy supporters, and they believe that a “rich man” or a well to do household can afford an extra $800 dollars in taxes a year because they have a $400,000 house. They believe that if a business can afford to carry payroll, or the owners have a net worth of over a million dollars that they are required to pay more in taxes so that the child of a family not so fortunate can have an education. Well—anybody who thinks that way is wrong. That belief is a communist sentiment brought to America through the labor union movement, and it is at the heart of every single school levy.

Just before the Lakota levy vote, superintendent Mantia sent out the following letter to business owners all across West Chester and Liberty Twp. She likely broke the law sending it because it is campaign literature for levy passage created during her contract hours of work which is technically against Ohio Revised Code 3315.07, which states in part “no board of education shall use public funds to support or oppose the passage of a school levy or bond issue or to compensate any school district employee for time spent on any activity intended to influence the outcome of a school levy or bond issue.” But whose going to prosecute her………..Sheriff Jones? He has a deal with Mantia if the levy passes, so he’ll gladly look the other way and so will all the state prosecutors. The letter from Mantia is a thinly disguised reminder that the business community must pay their “fair share” as determined by the needs of the many. Mantia means to strong-arm the business community into supporting higher taxes so to avoid the public disgrace of refusing. I know quite a few business owners in and around Lakota and not a single one of them believe the arguments Mantia presented on the document. They know that less than 5% of the proposed levy revenue is going to the kind of things she addressed. The rest of the money is going to Lakota employee raises. Yet they have felt compelled in the past to just go along to get along. If the school raised taxes, they’d just raise their prices of service. This worked for decades until the present time when consumers have proven that they have had enough, and won’t purchase items at a higher price. So businesses are no longer willing to pass off those higher costs as they are between a rock and a hard place. If they chose not to support a levy they get called names like selfish, mean-spirited, and have the PTA organizations threaten boycotts against their businesses, such as what happened after the last election. CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW. If they pass the tax increase off onto their customers, they will lose business.

The levy advocates have a bottomless pit of need and they believe that because a homeowner owns a Mercedes, spends $800 on a meal for business clients, and has a home valued over $500K that they have an obligation toward higher taxes—and they are dead wrong. Because the taxes never stop, one of those wealthy tax payers today might pay taxes at $600 to $800 more a year every four years for the life of their businesses and will find that they will either have to move to a district with less taxes, or let the value of their assets decrease so that there will be nothing left once their children inherit their lifetime of hard work. Lakota business owners and residents have been relatively smart in voting down continued school levies—not passing one since 2005. West Chester and Liberty Township are thriving economic communities where other places like Fairfield, Finneytown, and Evendale are struggling because they are yesterday’s has-beens. They said yes to similar letters from school superintendents in the past and it cost them their livelihoods.

Butler County in general was built on a foundation of lower taxes. Why does anybody believe that Bass Pro Shops is leaving Forest Park and moving to West Chester—or here is a better question—why is the economy at Forest Park so bad that the mall there is a virtual ghost town? One, it is taxes, two it is too much government housing and a demographic population that lives off government money. The people of Forest Park have less value for money because the government sends them a check in the mail. Therefore, they do not enjoy the kind of things that Forest Fair Mall tried to offer them over the years as far as retail shopping. So companies moved out or went out of business. They went to West Chester where the taxes are less, and people appreciate nice things. West Chester is still driven by capitalism where Forest Park is drowning in socialism—a string of unfortunate and unintended consequences. I know this first hand, about twenty years ago I was a personal driver for a Bengal player. It was my job to drive him around and make sure he got home safely while he jumped from bar to bar. If people got too close, it was my job to make sure he was covered. I’d drive this guy all over the city to every hot night spot in town. Since I didn’t drink or do drugs, I was a good candidate for this kind of thing and wasn’t tempted to play along. At the end of the day, around 4 AM I’d take him home to his wife. They lived in a nice part of town full of promise. They lived in Forest Park, and thought of it as a land of luxury. Today, that same home is surrounded by Section 8 housing and a welfare demographic that has very few people officially employed. That is why Forest Fair Mall has failed, and the former Bengal player is no longer married to that woman. Bad investments lead to bad lifestyles. Bad lifestyles lead to failed businesses. Failed businesses lead to empty malls like the one at Forest Fair Mall.

Every resident in the Lakota school district has an obligation to defend their homes and property from the clutches of big government spenders like superintendent Mantia. Failure to say no to them will result in the same kind of declining community as seen in present day Forest Park, Fairfield and many other places where high taxes and demographic changes have destroyed their communities. In Lakota, it is the targets of Mantia’s letter that make the community such a nice place, the restaurant owners, the developers, and the financiers. If they get frustrated with the tax rates and pick up to move, they will leave behind in Lakota a community with crushing tax rates yet no businesses to pay them, because nobody takes the risk of owning something without expected to earn money from it. The value of any money earned goes down with every tax increase. Communists, or those trained in the ways of communism have no value for money—they find themselves seeking government employment because that is the only place they can earn a decent living thinking the way they do. Superintendent Mantia does not understand business. She thinks because she gets a hand shake and a bit of idle chatter at a charity event from many of the people she sent that letter to, she is on good terms with them. But she’s not. What she gets is appeasement the way a person who gets pulled over by a cop tries to appease the cop so that they don’t end up in jail. Business owners want to keep the peace and the looters out of their pockets. Taxes like the one proposed for this November levy permanently change wealth, and gives business owners less money to invest in the community, and that is not a good thing.

The communists who devised this ridiculous plan knew what they were doing. They hated the rich, and sought to level the playing field in every endeavor. Most levy supporters when asked enough question will reflect the communist roots of their belief when they state that everyone could afford to pay just a bit more for the good of the children. Many of them will only pay $30 dollars more a month, and since they have kids in the school, it’s no big deal to them. It’s cheaper than driving their children to school if they are lucky enough to get busing back. They may cut one trip out to eat with their family a month, and pay their higher tax without further complaint. But for business owners with millions of dollars in assessed property value, they will be taxed much higher, and the levy supporters with much less personal value will directly benefit. It’s called confiscation of wealth by the needy majority, and it is a communist concept—and a sickening enterprise.

The school levy at Lakota and every other school district is simply a redistribution of wealth scam that uses children to fulfill a political agenda that as Darryl Parks stated, is unconstitutional. For the same reasons that superintendents like Lakota’s Mantia ignore Ohio Revised Code 3315.07, authorities under state control ignore the unconstitutional nature of the school levy system because they have allowed the monopoly of public education to dominate the political arena with a communist sentiment that belongs in Kazakhstan, not West Chester, Ohio. There is nothing good that comes out of tax increases, but everything bad—an element missing from Mantia’s letter. She likely has no idea what the people who she sent that letter to really think of her, and probably thinks they believe what she is saying as much as she does. But the difference between her and them is that they actually produce things, while she is just another government parasite, a worker living off the tax payers and again advocating more taxes so her ilk can sustain their unsustainable wages for a few more years. If there is no other reason to vote against a school levy anywhere in Ohio, it is because the concept is a flawed one that goes against everything America is supposed to stand for—capitalism. School levies are wealth redistribution attempts by progressive minds for aims that are not beneficial to thriving economies. And every one of them should be voted down because they won’t end in 2013. They will continue well into the future until there is no money left to loot and people finally say no because they have nothing left to give. For the sake of Lakota, and the community that feeds it, the NO VOTES need to come now, while there is still money being produced in an economy that is the envy of Ohio. Voting NO on the Lakota levy goes a long way to keeping that status.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

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The NO Lakota Levy Facts: Managing a district through responsible voting

Since 2010 I have given many reasons why a voter should turn away the Lakota levy of 2013 with a NO VOTE. It should be as obvious as rain during a hurricane, higher taxes do not make a better school district, help with property values, or even make children smarter. All those claims are manipulative statements designed to trick voters into imposing higher taxes on themselves with the same audacity that it is generally reported taxes will only be $16 dollars a month. Most people who don’t pay close attention will believe that the cost is small, because they will miss that the media generally only reports the lazy $100,000 of property assessment, but the reality is in the Lakota district almost nobody has a home valued that low. Generally, the cost of the Lakota tax increase will be about $30 dollars a month adding up to around $360.00 per year, which is a sizable amount of money considering the taxes are already high.

Most people who read here every day are already Voting NO. But to make it easier to spread the message, here is the NO LAKOTA LEVY ad which appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer with a full-page placement, which was obviously extremely expensive. It contains most of the information of why voters should VOTE NO on the Lakota levy. So send it around to your friends, family and social networks to ensure that they show up and vote against the levy to protect their homes from the villainy of Lakota’s terrible management.

I can think of a lot of things my $30 dollars a month will go to besides another tax. Likely for me, it will be consumed in the increases I will see resulting in Obamacare. But my cable bill, various subscriptions, and even fuel costs could all use that $30. I don’t want to throw away nearly $400 more a year on a stupid teacher’s union. For $400 dollars a year I could buy my children Season Passes to Kings Island for Christmas, or a flat screen television to watch football games in my garage. I could book air travel to Florida, or pay for my family to attend Disney World each year. There are a lot of things that my money could be spent on other than a tax increase for the Lakota levy.

Even for people who also read here who aren’t in Lakota, pass this flyer around anyway. There are a lot of school levies on the ballot and pretty much all of them are driven by the same insanity. The cause of the tax increase is the collective bargaining agreements imposed upon tax payers by the teachers unions, and what they expect in wages and benefits is simply disgusting. Even worse, they hide their mechanisms behind the next generation of youth, and they have to be stopped. It’s currently ridiculous and getting worse.

As for the work done by No Lakota Levy, I am very proud of what they have accomplished this time around. The organization has grown into a legitimate political force of some wonderful minds who are defending the way of life we love in West Chester and Liberty Township from truly corrosive parasites, and every homeowner and business investor should thank God that they see those familiar signs on the side of the road standing against the Lakota Levy. Back in the winter of 2012 there were discussions about how much I hated the people who ran the Lakota administration and I wanted to do my own thing letting new faces step in and freshen up No Lakota Levy. I am very happy to see the results. More people have participated this time around, and there has been some fantastic work done. The website is very good, the ads, the media comments, the amount of signs on the streets has been top-notch, and this campaign was the best one yet as far as logistics. The tireless efforts of the usual cast of characters are evident, and it has been good to see. Their work has been noticed, and the message has gotten out.

But reading a message and acting on it are different things. Voters still must show up in spite of what they might hear about a blow-out at the polls against Lakota. As an organization, Lakota is a progressive institution that will do anything to win, so those considerations must be taken into account. They have spent over $100,000 dollars promoting this levy and two years of preparation to reload after the last three defeats and they are desperate. Padded ballot boxes are not out of the question just as the planted letter from last week was designed to bring fear to voters hoping to disguise the facts shown in the No Lakota Levy ad above. They will stop at nothing to win, and if they lose this time, they will try again, and again, and again until they get their money, because like the mob, they are about coercion, not rationality, and the only thing there is to really stop them is No Lakota Levy.

So send this article to a family member or friend so that they will have the facts on Election Day, and be sure to encourage them to vote, because in an election, every vote matters, and nothing should be taken for granted.

Rich Hoffman

www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

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