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Wayne Allyn Root Speaks about Scott Walker: Diana Fray goes to jail

I would have loved to hear from the Bill Cunningham speaking with Wayne Allyn Root on the day after the historic Wisconsin recall election of Governor Scott Walker, as opposed to the same Bill Cunningham who campaigned against Issue 2 in Ohio working against his friend, Governor Kasich who faced a similar battle in Ohio. The good Bill Cunningham had a wonderful conversation with Root on 700 WLW relishing the first major victory against the mobs of public sector unions and the tyranny those groups have inflicted upon America, as Walker emerged victorious with a 53-47 victory.

The big difference between the Scott Walker situation in Wisconsin and the John Kasich situation in Ohio is that Kasich had a law to defend, Walker had to defend himself. The unions targeted the Republican reforms on collective-bargaining in Ohio by seeking to repeal the entire law. The unions spent millions of dollars and collected more than enough signatures to attack the collective bargaining reform law to keep it out of their lives. The cost has been just as predicted, many schools, police, and fire departments have had to layoff workers to meet their budgets, because Issue 2 was repealed in Ohio during the November 2011 election. The unions were fighting on two fronts, as they also had to spend their national time and money fighting in Wisconsin gathering signatures to recall the governorship of Scott Walker removing him from office entirely, just because the unions didn’t like him.

The audacity of this attempt says everything about what union politics represents. Their attempt to remove a sitting governor not for corruption, or unethical violations against the state constitution, but for reforming collective-bargaining and being too aggressive for their liking was the primary motive. The public unions tried to do against Scott Walker what they have done to every governing body for more than 80 years, and that is impose their collective will upon politics to shape legislation to their liking. But Walker stood strong during the entire attempt to remove him from office, and the Republican Party stood with him firmly, which led to the first major victory against the union mob in union history.

Kasich was not so lucky. Republicans did not stand behind Governor Kasich the way they did with Scott Walker because too many Republicans had climbed into bed with the unions over the years, and could not pick a side in the modern civil war going on between public and private sector jobs. When Issue 2 was defeated, it was a sign that the labor unions advocating open communism could not be beat, so the situation looked grim for Scott Walker.

When Bill Cunningham was growing up, unions seemed to be an unstoppable force. My own dad is about the same age as Cunningham and told me before the first time I went on WLW to speak with Scott Sloan about the tyranny of the teachers unions, “The unions will get you. You have to watch what you say.” My dad, like Cunningham saw firsthand all through the 60’s and 70’s how labor unions driven by communist leaders would destroy the lives of people who stood in their way. To speak out against the unions meant conflict, and many people wish to avoid conflict, so they yielded to the unions for many years which resulted in disproportionate budgets favoring the public unions. Politicians seeking to hide their part in the scam promoted tax increases to hide their fear of the unions.

All public unions function in virtually the same way. Whenever a union president faced a city council, township trustees, or a school board, the standard behavior is to use their union members to protest ANY wage reductions, or insurance premium increases with radical displays and public threats. Most recently, it was Diana Fray who just received 51 months in prison for her theft of a quarter million dollars from her union to take vacations and purchase real estate. She went from being a crusader for the collective mob of her union to a criminal within only weeks of being discovered for her crimes. The only thing that changed was a slight shift in public acceptance. Labor union presidents steal money all the time from their employers with the threat of force. They do not earn pay increases based on merit, but upon coercion. This is how unions have managed to extort so much money from the companies they work for, and from the tax payers, is through threats and intimidation. The only difference for Diana Fray is she didn’t just steal the money from the tax payers, but from her own union too, which in a world of twisted reality, finally crossed the line.

The unions threatened Scott Walker with even death during his first year and a half of office, attempting every trick of thug manipulation used since unions began. They chanted, they attempted violence, the issued death threats, they attempted public humiliation and finally they attempted to use the force of law to batter Walker out of office.

But what Walker has been the first to do on a large-scale is to show the formula for beating these collectivists which every state and local government can now see for their own eyes, and that is to show that the power of the individual is more powerful than the collective mob if the individual simply does not care what the mob thinks, feels, or considers. Walker like Kasich was hired to do a job through an election and if people didn’t like the results of that job, they can vote him out in the next election. Kasich had his efforts cut out from under him as a result of the union referendum. Many voters simply did not vote in favor of keeping Issue 2 because they lacked the courage to show up at the polls, which yielded Ohio to the power of collective force represented by the unions. The unions attempted to remove Walker from office because they wanted to stop the reforms he initiated, and did not allow him to run his full term because they knew that Walker’s reforms would solve many budget problems. They knew if people saw this secret for themselves, they would no longer support public labor unions. So the unions attempted to do what they know best and that’s force a man from office because he went against their wishes.

Scott Walker showed as Hank Rearden did in the book Atlas Shrugged, that the coercion of the labor unions, like the coercion of the law, did not have any real power that they did not steal from someone else. The unions do not have better ideas, they are not the best employees, they are not the most efficient–they fail in every conceivable way. They only succeed when they can force others to act against themselves by coercion. Scott Walker did not yield, and because of it, the unions have been exposed for not having any legitimate power or claim to greater portions of the public treasury. All the unions have is the threat of force, of being a potential menace to those who are in love with peace. This has been a profitable formula against conservatives who would rather make money than fight, and would rather appease than argue. In the mind of the conservative, they can always make more money, so they give away their treasures hoping the looting mobs of the public unions will leave them alone, but it only made the situation worse. Each time the mob came, they asked for more and more money until the public had simply had enough.

Now that it has been seen, this resistance to the mob rule of the labor unions will begin to escalate, and organized labor will continue to fail in pockets all over the country, and it should. Taken as individuals, the union members are just the same as the rest of society. They are not evil incarnate. But in the collective body of a public sector union, the mob becomes the most evil entity on the face of the earth. They exist only to rob, and pillage anyone they can so they can secure wonderful communist lifestyles for themselves exhibited so well by Wayne Allyn Root in the broadcast above. The life of the union member requires the looting of others to survive, which is why they are one of the most corrosive forces in politics today. Finally, people are starting to stand up to them, and have realized that the greatest power there is in the entire world that is more powerful than any gun, any protest, any public display against the mob is to simply learn to say “NO.” Saying “no” takes away the power of the union and everything they represent. It stops the ability of the collectivist parasites from further extracting from the taxpayers any more money without revealing that they are actually functioning as a gang of thugs with one purpose, to loot and destroy everything until there is nothing left—and thus fulfill the life of a treacherous parasite.

Yes, it has been a good week, Scott Walker will remain governor of Wisconsin, and Diana Fray will go to jail for several years to live with the other criminals of existence, which is where she and every union member deserves to go who attempts to live off the work of others without a care to the lives they destroy in the process. The only sadness I have is that Ohio had a chance to be the first, but in the final hour, they blinked and the unions prolonged the inevitable for just a few more months until Walker finally beat them. Most of the time the only difference between victory and loss is in the courage of other individuals to rally to the cause of courage. In Wisconsin, there was courage—but in Ohio, there was not—and because of that, many people will lose their jobs in the long run and the misery will be extended because people did not have the guts to make the right call at the right time and instead played politics at the expense of honor.

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Lakota Mismanages Taxpayer Money: The reason behind pay-for-play sports

Listen to this teacher from Wisconsin in the clip below right before the recall election of Governor Scott Walker. It is these kinds of public employees that have driven up the cost of education at every school in the United States and is what they more often than not seek to teach our youth.

It is those kinds of employees who have created a situation in my home school district of Lakota that are devastating for the parents sending their children to the school. At Lakota over $160 million dollars of tax payer money is already allocated toward educating the students of the community, however, according to the teachers union, that’s not enough. The average wage per employee at Lakota is $63K per year and makes up approximately 80% of the total budget. Yet the Lakota School Board along with superintendent Mantia has said that they don’t have enough money, so they seek to twist the arm of the tax payers in a hope to pass a school levy. They do so at Lakota by cutting busing for students, and have been charging to participate in sports programs. This has enraged many in the community who expect participation in sports to be part of the public education experience. The fees at Lakota during the school year of 2012 will be the highest in the State of Ohio at $550 per student per sport with no cap for families. You can read in more detail the article from the Cincinnati Enquirer about this issue in case you missed it.

http://westchesterbuzz.com/2012/06/01/the-price-of-pay-to-play-lakota-to-have-highest-fees-in-region-next-school-year/

I have spoke with many parents in Lakota, many of them upset that the cost of passing a school levy for them individually is far less than paying $550 per sport for their child. If the parents have 2 children in school and each of them play two sports, that particular family is out over $2000 a year, so they have said to me that they will vote in favor of a school levy so they can save money, even though they don’t agree with the politics.

I have told these parents that the system is rigged this way by the OSBA to push school boards like the one at Lakota to place the financial pain back on the parents so that union contracts can be satisfied without interruption. I told them that if they allow themselves to vote yes for a school levy because they want to save the $2000 in fees, then they are simply tools of organized labor.

The cause of the school fees is not lack of money; it is mismanagement of the money given to the districts by the tax payers. Cutting sports is proportional to the cuts of busing in that sports costs are somewhere between 1% and 2% of the total budget. When a school board cuts their support of funding sports, they do so in order to cover the expense of heavily padded labor contracts, and they hope the imposition on parents will force tax increases on the community to cover the labor demands.

In Southwest Ohio 82 percent of the 49 school districts are charging pay-to-play fees for high school sports yet just across the river in Kentucky such fees are rare. The strategy is designed by the Ohio School Board Association to extort money through financial hardship to force tax increases. In Kentucky union membership is not required, but in Ohio it is. Public schools in Ohio are a closed shop, and this forces labor costs up through collective bargaining who seeks to gobble up all the tax dollars for their union interests. This leaves no money left for sports, leaving children struggling to pay for their fees. It’s a dirty trick organized by teacher unions to manipulate taxpayers, and it’s rather disgusting.

The public sector unions at their heart are socialist organizations intent on open communism. That is why so many of the radical teachers who advocate leftist policies are drawn to big labor public sector jobs, because it keeps them out of competitive work environments which is the only place that communism works– in theory—in the minds of the extreme liberal, in their utmost fantasies. Communism in real life does not work, and it never works—and that is what the cause of the sports fees are. Parents are forced to accept small bits of communism from radical teachers because they don’t want to pay the extraordinary fees to play sports. The extortion tactic forces upon the family trying to give their children the best of everything, higher taxes that go on forever, so to avoid the school fees they must accept the taxes. It’s a dishonest practice that should be viewed with the same anger that the theft by a common criminal is viewed, because the intentions are the same—theft, extortion, and coercion through financial torture. What else is it?

Personally, I do not want to pay for teachers who think the way that educators shown in the video above think. I would seek to terminate their employment from my district because they are just creating trouble for our nation to solve later with incorrectly educated students. Many political looters speak of the need for education, but they always leave out the most important part of education, and that is getting a “quality” education. A district that does not manage the extraordinary taxes that the Lakota district already pays is yielding to the radicals of the unions at the expense of parents and children. School boards are not in pursuit of quality, but simply a lottery ticket of hope that if the district pays for a teacher that they are going to get the desired results. Most often, they do not. All too often the money buys a left-winged radical intent on bringing communism to the minds of our children and teaching them failed economic policies, and that is not acceptable.

The proper reaction to the extortion measure of school fees is to force the district to pay the money where the district desires it. If the voters wish for their money to be spent on busing, then the school board should do that. If the desire of voters is to have their money spent on sports, then the school board has an obligation to do so. But what has happened at Lakota, and 82% of all schools in Southern Ohio is they take direction from the OSBA to protect the labor contracts of teachers with gold plated benefits that the tax payers do not enjoy themselves, and that is why the children and their families are made to suffer. There is no other reason, and the public reaction to these extortion methods are the task of our day to define for generations to come. Appeasement today only leads to tyranny tomorrow, and for the parents who would rather pay the tax than the fee, that is exactly what they are choosing, which their children are watching—and learning.

The solution is not to yield and allow the mismanagement to occur, because it does not solve the problem. Letting it go, only delays the problem for some future time for a future family, which is how we arrived at this situation in the first place.

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Scott Walker WINS!: Standing up to the communists of the labor movement

I did a rather extensive article that will follow this one on Karl Marx for one primary reason, to show why the battle between Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin and the labor unions is the battle of our age between communism and capitalism. What Bill Clinton and Walker’s rival are talking about below is disguised socialism. Labor unions are an invention of communism, and for every union member who professes otherwise, they do not know the roots of the movement or why it came to be. Labor unions are movements toward outright communism created in the mind of Karl Marx. The middle class talked about below is the code word in communist circles as the proletariat Marx attempted to push into the bourgeoisie class to knock them out of power. The attempt here is to paint Walker as a man of the rich, “the bourgeoisie” from The Communist Manifesto. The speech below is pure communism that Lenin might have made in the early days of The Soviet Union and this is what the fight in this country now is all about.

I know many people will think that calling the union labor movement a communist movement may sound extreme to many, but that’s what it is. Communism with softer versions of socialism disguised under the flag of progressive politics is what Bill Clinton and Barack Obama want for America and on the night before the recall election millions of labor union leaders and members are silent, because they know that this recall election is a fight for American idealism.

Scott Walker has been one of the few men in this country who has had the guts to stand up to the union thugs. In Ohio, where John Kasich appeared to have the same type of guts, he has now caved under the pressure and is now a defeated man. I saw it in his face the night before the Issue 2 election even though he spoke well. In the months that followed, he quietly attempted to reach across the political aisle and repair his party relationships. Personally in the local Tea Parties many took me aside and told me not to support anti union attempts during an election year, because Kasich had to carry the state for the Republican nominee. My response was to go my own way because I will not grant labor unions a seat at the table that demands my tax money. I do not support them, and that’s all there is to it. The labor unions and the communism they represent needs to be eradicated from the American dream. It needs to be pushed back to Europe where it belongs in the bankrupt countries there; because that’s where The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx leads countries. It is because of Karl Marx that Greece is failing and Spain is going to pieces economically. As of now it is Sweden, the only former socialist country of Europe that has made a complete reversal of political philosophy rejecting Marx and the Keynesian economics that followed in favor of capitalism–for proof, look at the marketing position of the store IKEA. They finally figured it out.

In Ohio the labor unions petitioned to remove collective bargaining reform from the law, and the unions won. Kasich now has the legacy of loss behind him without the courage to fight again. But in Wisconsin the labor unions have tried to completely remove Scott Walker as governor, because of his reforms on “collective bargaining.”

In Ohio, there were many Rhino Republicans who had without knowing it embraced socialism in America. Many of them were making great livings off it as attorneys, so when they realized the extent of “collective bargaining” reform and what it would do to a world they helped build on the foundations of communism, they did not back Kasich, and left him out to dry, which was a tragic mistake.

But in Wisconsin, the Republicans have held together, and Scott Walker has not backed down from the fight in any way. That’s why he’s going to win tomorrow, and that will be a wonderful thing. It will be a tremendous step for The United States to take a bold step away from socialism and move back toward an economic system that is dedicated to capitalism. Walker will win because the union is out of money, out of ideas and nationally at sites like this one and many others, people are starting to fight back against the communism of labor unions. Popular opinion is moving away from labor unions because people are finally starting to figure out what they’ve always been.

When a politician talks about the “working man” they are talking about the type of middle class peasant addressed in Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto. The labor unions in America are not American concepts at all. They are ideas of Karl Marx and for every firefighter, police officer and socialist leaning school teacher who attempts to fly the American flag to cover their European envy they deserve all the ridicule and tears that fall from losing a way of life they have forced on the American people with “FORCE.” The labor unions got where they are today not with peaceful exchange, or “working together” with politics from the other side. They did it with coercion, and mass numbers all serving the needs of the “collective,” and until Scott Walker came along, along with Chris Christie, nobody stood up to the organized labor who have operated like the mob of public sector employment for years.

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I have a lot of Wisconsin readers here at the OW. Walker will win, but do not take it for granted. The communist labor unions will all show up to vote, so you must also. You must show up and take your state and your country back from these maniacal bandits–these looters of the public treasury, and you must do it boldly. Tomorrow night, when the results come in, then celebrate that you were the first to do what nobody in America has had the guts to do, and that is to stand up to the big labor unions, and face everything they can throw, and still prevail. The Scott Walker victory tomorrow will be a tremendous win for The United States in a fight to preserve capitalism in a nation filled with the cockroaches of communism embodying the labor movement. But victory is not victory until the last vote is read, and the final numbers are released. Take nothing for granted until that moment, and prepare to pop off the head of the great beast called communism.

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The Twentieth Century Intellectual: Banning Bake Sales for Children

How do we know that public education and our colleges have been complete and utmost failures and do not deserve one more dime of tuition hikes or tax increases? How do we know our federal government staffed with generations of employees “taught” in these education institutions are abysmal in their ability to perform even basic tasks needed in a business/political economy and are treacherously deficient in their abilities? It’s easy just look at the results produced. Our society has arrived at a level of utmost chaos that defies common sense, and we have the educrats and government bureaucrats of our socialist leaning society to thank for it.

Glenn Beck in the video clip below from his Oval Office series discusses in great detail how the government has stepped in to ban “bake sales,” for the good of the nation. And it’s not adults, or even teenagers that are attracting attention from the long arm of government these days. No, the biggest threat of tax avoidance and those pesky permit fee evasion violators that pay the salaries of thousands of middle level bureaucrats are 9 to 10 year old children. That’s what the government is cracking down on now. Look for yourself!

Common sense isn’t even on the radar these days, and after watching that video, big changes are needed in our society immediately. A society has failed when it seeks out 9 year old children to loot off of, because the adults are picked dry and cannot alone carry the burden the government employee mandates on society to sustain their socialist, European lifestyle. A society has failed utterly when it is children who are made to suffer at the hands of a poorly conceived philosophy advocated by the twentieth century intellectual. When you see one, give them your thanks.

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Public Schools are not “SAFE”: Statistics on the dangers of tax payer funded educaton

Parents, did you know that your child is not “safe” in public school? Below you will see some very important and verifiable statistics that show 15% of all students in public education are and will be sexually abused by a member of their school staff during their careers. Even in excellent schools like Lakota, and Mason here in Southern Ohio, we have seen scandal after scandal from teachers who cannot keep their clothes on, or want to take the cloths off of their students.

Most taxpayers in my district will pay between $2000 to $6000 in property taxes per year to the Lakota School System, which is a lot of money, and the way the system is set up, those property owners must pay that price for every year they own property in the district–even once their children have grown up and left the home. That sum of money is equivalent to purchasing a big screen television or very high-end computer every year–forever. Yet if those purchased items misbehaved, or harmed our child in some way, we would expect the manufacturer to compensate us. However in public school, when a teacher misbehaves we usually just let it slide and let the administrators handle the situation as they see fit. We just flush the money we spend on education down the toilet and consider it a loss, even though the taxes are very high, and the quality of the product is very low. When we discover that teachers are harming our children, we just blow it off and let the school off the hook with some strongly worded letters and maybe a small rant at a school board meeting.

15% of students being harassed in some sexual way by employees of a school district is a very serious issue, and as reported here at the OW, it’s happening all over Cincinnati. The news received just in calendar year 2011 would confirm the statistics below. Have a look.

These days it would appear that homeschooling is the best method of teaching a child. Children learn better from homeschooling than any other method as proven by testing, even when the teachers are not qualified with master’s degrees and the hiring practices of a local school. Most parents however will say that they are too busy to teach their children at home, or they’ll say they are already paying the taxes, so they might as well use the service. Well—it is those types of parents who will likely discover that their child has been abused in some way at a public school, and deep down inside the child will resent the parent for placing them in a dangerous situation.

Public schools are not safe. The labor unions at these institutions have said for years that the ONLY option is their government school–but it is not. There are vouchers, and private schools, and if the parent cannot afford those education programs, homeschooling is the far more appropriate method, even if the parent is not scholastically minded—it is still better for a child to learn from their parents than any collective blob of public education teachers.

If you love your child, you should never send them to a public school of any kind. The statistics are against you. Chances are your child will become abused in some fashion or another while in school, and it will be the fault of the parent for placing their children in harm’s way. The warning has been given, the statistics show that public education facilities, “public schools,” are not safe environments, but are simply methods of government creating jobs and fulfilling a social agenda of their own making. They are not created to care for the individual needs of any child. They are created to establish a collective being that can be implemented into the blob of society for a lifetime of abuse and lack of self-esteem. And the fault is in the parent who sends their child to the public school knowing that they are playing a dangerous game in a minefield of statistics that are stacked against the child in order to enjoy the costs of a supposedly “free” public education.

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Communist China Honors Lakota: Dean Hume and baseball for the “Spark Magazine”

The reason I have very little respect for the modern educator, and specifically, the public education employee is because they have a tendency to support open communism even if they aren’t aware that they are.  Communism in America has gained a foothold through intellectual educator types, which Barack Obama, Lyndon Johnston, and Woodrow Wilson all advocated.  They called it progressivism so to make it appear that The United States was not following the path of their rival the Soviet Union, who was still considered an alley until the 1950’s.  During that entire time, communism seeped under the doors of our borders through our intellectuals’ infatuation with Europe and the concepts of socialism spreading there under the work of Karl Marx. 

I was reading through the West Chester Buzz the other day and I noticed a picture of the outgoing principal of Lakota East Keith Kline sitting at his desk with a flag display of the American flag with the Red Chinese flag and I had to check my eyes.  Then I read the article, which you can see for yourself here. 

http://westchesterbuzz.com/2012/05/22/chinese-students-to-learn-english-from-spark/

The article was about how Lakota participated in a principal exchange program in April where Kline went to China’s Jingman NO. 1 High School in the Hubei Provinceas the Chinese principal Yuan Ye came to Lakota East.  Yuan Ye was amazed at the creativity of the Lakota students and decided he wanted to take 100 copies of the Lakota East’s Spark Magazine back to China for students there to analyze and figure out how to emulate.  This had Dean Hume, Lakota East journalism teacher and Spark advisor elated saying, “I think it is a grand slam in the 9th inning with two outs for the English department.”  Apparently for Dean, it’s very important that a school in China wants 100 copies of the Spark Magazine.  You can see that magazine for yourself here:

http://www.lakotaeastspark.com/

I personally like some of the kids who work on that magazine quite a bit, both present and former.  They are intelligent kids full of ideas, and I thought about them as I let my feelings about what Dean Hume and Keith Kline said wash over me.  Last September I gave a 3 hour interview with one of the Spark reporters just prior to the election, and the story was pulled—it appears by Hume so not to give the side of the story of the No Lakota Levy, which sounded like censorship to me.  It made me very angry because I had granted a very detailed interview that was very personal, and the story was shelved because the school wanted to pass the levy.  Several students reported to me that Hume would spend entire classes talking about me to his students and what a right-winged nut job I am, so to discredit me.  One student was so upset that they went to see Keith Kline about the smear campaign.  When I became enraged about it, some of these Spark students wrote to me and told me I had it all wrong, that Hume was a very fair and balanced teacher and that he treated me fairly in his classes.  I felt that they were just covering for their very radical leftist journalism teacher, but I listened to their comments out of respect for them. 

Knowing now a bit more about what Hume, and Kline thinks is a successful endeavor their behavior during the last election makes a lot more sense. China, being a communist country participates in excessive amounts of censorship, and has built their entire society around the concept of collectivism.  The individual does not matter in China.  This is why students are required to begin at 6 a.m. and stay in school until 10 p.m. with only a 3 hour break at 11:30. China does not care about the well-being of their students, only that they serve Red China as cells in a great collective body.  This is precisely why principal Yuan Ye was so shocked that the American students exhibited so much creativity, because in America individuality is still valued, and creativity comes from the individual thoughts of a sovereign soul.  Yet Hume thinks it’s wonderful that communist China wants 100 copies of his magazine so they can study it in a vain attempt to mimic the creativity of the American students, which of course they will fail miserably. 

Kline stated in the West Chester Buzz article “If I could marry their work ethic with our instruction there would be no stopping us.”  That statement alone indicates what educators all across the country have thought for over 100 years looking toward communism as the solution to the worlds problems.  In education circles China is the shining example in the world as to how society should be governed because they are a communist society, and education officials are in love with communism termed in their language as progressivism.  In communist societies, the collective serves the institution, property is “shared,” and censorship is enforced to keep outside ideas from corrupting the communist culture with crazy thoughts of independence and individual sovereignty.

The reporter who interviewed me on that hot September day before the election of 2011 acted as an individual and as they walked me through the halls of Lakota East many teachers and administrators peered at me with anger, since I represented the realization of another failed tax levy and future pay increases for their greedy labor requirements.  Yet the reporter handled the situation with a lot of class, and even as I gave the interview, I suspected it would never see the light of day, because the institution itself at Lakota East is attempting to become more like Communist China in it’s methods.  Kline himself stated, “The Chinese are trying to focus more on critical thinking skills, creativity, and teamwork, and want to get away from their test-driven structure, which is huge for them.  It is interesting because our country seems to be going in the opposite direction.”  He’s right about that.  American educators have been chasing China as the shining example of how to conduct society, and they have been doing it for so long, they don’t even see that it is communism that they are teaching students, not capitalism—the life blood of the American economy. 

There is a reason that China does not produce great films that the world craves to see, or produces music that is on our top 40 music charts—it’s because they lack creativity because they are a communist society serving the needs of the collective.  That is why they will always fail when it comes to creativity.  Their work ethic is fantastic because they have no sense of self—as a culture.  They do not value individualism, and it shows. 

This is the path of even great schools like Lakota East, as the Chinese flag flies proudly on the desk of an American high school principal.  Educators and politicians want communism in America and they are teaching it to our youth.  The evidence is everywhere particularly among the attitudes that the educators exhibit.  For Dean, I’d be more proud if a school in Georgia wanted copies of the Spark to show their students in a world of competitive ideas, not a communist country where even a color photograph would impress them.  That’s the difference.  For an educator to be recognized by their idols in the education system of Communist China is a high honor indeed, and the focus of what they plan to spend our hard-earned tax money on—a path toward Communist America lead by the education elite and their censorship of those who oppose them.

It must be terrible to be so easily impressed.  For more info on China and how it got to where it is, CLICK HERE.  You will see our own future as it’s happening right now because of employees of public education. 

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Real Estate at Lakota: The Beauty of Captialism shown at Costco

I truly do feel sorry for the real estate agents who used to look at the school districts of Lakota, Mason and Fairfield, Ohio to help sell their homes. Because the housing bubble collapsed, and values have plummeted back to reality, it has forced many to look at other aspects of their communities for value beyond the schools, because communities are not just for young families just beginning their lives, but are for the adults who still remain long after the children have grown. And that reality has been difficult for many to grapple with as the changing economic situation has forced a re-evaluation of many values.

To the neurotic parent who believes that their child is somehow the responsibility of the community to raise and care for, or the real estate agent who wishes an easy home sale off such neurotic parents, your luck has run out, and you are learning that the world in fact did not revolve around you like many thought the sun once did around the earth, but that it is you who serve the community. You are not unwelcome. We do want you to sell homes, and we do want you to buy them. We also want you to enjoy the shopping, the restaurants, and the businesses that make up our community, but you must understand that it is the earth that revolves around the sun—and this is a devastating realization for the selfish school levy supporter.

I have never said once that Lakota could fail as a school during my fights against higher taxes. I have always expected Lakota to be among the best in the state even if at its very best it will fall well short of my personal standards since it thrives as an institution of collectivism, as all public schools do. But I have said that the cost of public education should be cheaper while the quality remains high. An example of what I expect from Lakota and Mason is for them to learn from the Costco business model where that wholesaler is able to offer all its products to customers at a 15% reduction on average, which is the job of its purchasing agents. Costco still offers excellent quality products, but at a much lower price than most anywhere else, and in public education this should be the goal.

I was thinking of Lakota while I was at Costco with my wife the other day, and I realized that if Lakota were to remain a great school in these changing economic times, it would have to find a way to lower its costs while still providing a superior product. That is the name of the game, and the success of how that game is played will dictate the future real estate value of our communities. High taxes just aren’t attractive to new buyers who may not see the kinds of value increases that took place in the Southern Ohio since the 1980’s.

I often wondered how long people thought real estate values would escalate as they have over the last 20 years. When I was in high school gas was under $1 per gallon and a $100,000 home was a mansion. These days $100K doesn’t buy you much of a home and gas is close to $4 dollars per gallon, all in just a very short time, which points to the mismanagement of the economy by the government in general. The home expectation in the Lakota School District is that the costs should be at least $250K to $500K and that simply isn’t sustainable. Home buyers are realizing that there just aren’t enough buyers to drive up the cost of their homes making the property ownership a good investment that outpaces the taxes with levy approvals. This means that once a buyer buys a home, they may not be able to sell it for more than their purchase price even if the school is excellent. So other aspects of the community must be made more appealing, such as lower tax costs, and a more business friendly community with less red tape from meddling trustees and zoning boards.

It’s not because I’m old that prices are so much different today. It’s all about inflation, not just at the Federal Reserve, but of the perception of what we get out of the investments. Many baby boomers have thrived with the low-interest rates and plentiful jobs America had through the 90’s when Bill Clinton and all his scandalous ways operated with a Republican house and senate to balance the budget and maintain that the era of big government was over. This was Clinton riding on the coat tails of Ronald Reagan’s economic policies of the 80’s and Alan Greenspan’s handling of the Federal Reserve.

During this time, there was a lot of money to be made, and baby boomers made it by selling properties and buying new properties with the equity of their investments building fortunes with foundations as stable as a house of cards. Greenspan was a very devote fan of Ayn Rand and was part of the Objectivism circle she had in New York, and even with the influences of a mixed economy, and a gradual push for more and more socialism in America, Greenspan held the economy pretty well together until his departure in 2006. That is when Ben Bernanke took over and by 2008, America slipped into a recession as a number of economic bubbles simply collapsed from years of pressure.

The criticism of Greenspan was that he was naive as to the sheer greed of individual investors and corporations who were prone to take the money and run instead of behaving like Reardon from the classic book Atlas Shrugged, or the principles of Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, both novels that Greenspan loved dearly. But such greed is due to other social factors and not the merits of capitalism, which are directly derived from weaknesses in a mixed economy, with a bit of capitalism sprinkled here and there for show and tell, with socialism making up the structure. As Greespan pushed for privatization of Social Security and other government programs, Democrats pushing socialism prevented those discussions, and the spending spree of the Bush Administration caused Greenspan to use every economic trick available to hold off the inevitable bubble from collapsing. But without Greenspan, Bernanke was no match, and the real estate bubble burst and the nation has plummeted into a depression.

The greed of the self-interested wither it be the Bilderberg group of world financial powerhouses using Bernanke to their ill intentions, or the desire of socialists like President Obama to collapse America under a George Soros plan to destroy America and give rise to a one world government headed by The United Nations where scoundrels and cut throat politicians like Bill Clinton is positioning himself for a key position within that new government, the rules have changed. It can no longer be taken for granted that just a few economic tweaks will solve all our problems, or a company can simply hire a lobbyist in Washington to fend off the political looters from stealing all their corporate profits.

Real solutions are needed in this modern age beyond just shuffling money from one place to another.  During the time of Greenspan residential real estate was sold almost exclusively on the school system it resided in, and now that has changed. Teachers unions not recognizing the changing economic factors continued to strike and make labor threats to drive up their wages, because they saw an opportunity to capitalize on the real estate trends. At Lakota the average teacher wage in 2001 was around $45K per year. Now just a decade later the wages are $63K per year yet nothing changed other than a strike attempt by the teachers in 2008. The service is the same, and the expectation of the community has not altered.

But those days are over. Now a community must actually work to keep itself solvent, and homes must improve on their actual value based on the merit of their competitive market circumstances, and not just the school systems they reside in. School districts themselves must do like the district governments, and that is keep their tax signature low so not to scare away investments. Local governments should not be naive on the opposite end of the political scale as Greenspan was toward private business and not properly accounting for the greed of a collective, which with all the protests members of the political left launched at Greenspan and President Reagan, they have shown to be just as greedy as the average Wall Street looter. The teachers, the fire fighter and the police officer have been just as ravenous as the executives of Enron or the Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff. The greed of the mob on both political sides has burst the bubble of the American economy, and now we must all survive.

Lucky for the districts of Lakota, Mason, and Fairfield, there is time to make adjustments before they end up like the have-beens of Sharonville, Princeton, and Reading. The schools could be removed from the economic equation and these areas would still be wonderful places to live because of their location and quality of living. The thing that would kill these areas in the future is in allowing themselves to be crushed by high taxes, which would then push those economies into Monroe, Trenton, and back to Middletown, which was devastated once before by the labor problems at A.K. Steel and the diminishing industry there. The solution for all these communities, particularly Monroe Schools, who is currently on an academic emergency is to take a page from the Costco playbook and find a way to offer the same product with the same quality or better, but with a 15% reduction in cost. If schools embraced that concept suddenly many economic factors would fix themselves with a fury. The only reason it hasn’t happened yet is a stubborn refusal to see the obvious—because greed stands in the way of reality in the minds of the public educrat.


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Rich Hoffman
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Lakota East Teacher Charged in Prom Ticket Theft: Report from FOX News

I published my story Saturday about the Lakota East teacher who stole the prom ticket money after the Cincinnati Enquirer decided to run it and Darryl Parks covered it on 700 WLW that morning.  You can read that  story by CLICKING HERE.  But I’d like to congratulate the Lakota administration and their fine staff of tax addicted advocates for making Fox News, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Post.  Bravo………very good.  You did a lot of my campaign work for me.  Now the entire nation knows what kind of employees Lakota spends the hard-earned tax payer’s money on.  Check the links below to see for yourself:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/15/ex-teacher-charged-with-stealing-ohio-prom-money/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/exteacher-charged-with-st_n_1517525.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ex-teacher-charged-with-theft-of-school-prom-money-in-cash-strapped-southwest-ohio-district/2012/05/15/gIQA9OwzQU_story.html

I wonder who tipped off the AP Wire to get that story out?  Can’t imagine how that happened………………..Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.  I wonder if any of the school board members will put this story on their Facebook pages?

If you want the latest and greatest of this story, Channel 9 has some great coverage of the details.  You can view that here:

http://www.wcpo.com/dpp/news/former-lakota-teacher-charged-with-theft-of-prom-money

More to come!

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This is what people are saying about my new book–Tail of the Dragon

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Rich Hoffman
https://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/ten-rules-to-live-by/
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www.overmanwarrior.com

Public Educators are “Co-Parents”: Teachers and administrators who built Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”

How do you know that your public school is a socialist institution and should be starved out of existence as a threat to the American way of life? Just listen below to the clip from a man who was strip searched because his daughter drew a picture of him shooting bad guys and monsters at school—which is actually a normal thing for a small child to do in idolizing a hero they might have in their life. Listen carefully to the superintendent of the school when he says the school is a “co-parent” to the children who attend public education.

If that does not piss you off then you need to check your pulse. I have personally seen this happen to people in public schools from Ohio to Florida where a nosy teacher pry’s into the life of children in their classrooms and decides to take it upon themselves to invoke a holy crusade against the parents if they deem there is abuse going on in the family. This is a frequent abuse in the tendency of socialism to disguise itself socially as altruism in public schools, and has successfully destroyed the authority of parents over their children preparing the minds of millions of hapless children to become processed meat in the worst possible rendition of Pink Floyd’s The Wall.

“Co-parent,” that’s what the superintendent of the school mentioned in the interview above actually stated. And to be angry with that one guy is pointless, because this is the attitude of many in education today, that we are all co-parents to each other’s kids and that we are all living in Hillary Clinton’s “it takes a village” mentality. It’s these same types of government worker altruists who recently attempted to eliminate from Massachusetts public schools bake sales that featured “junk food” because such food was deemed “improper” by Michelle Obama and her crusade against obesity using public education as her personal platform of tyranny–notice in this next clip, the radio guy loves that the schools are stepping in to override the desires of the parents by banning the bake sales. That’s because he is a functioning socialist trained to believe public education should trump parental influence.

There were so many angry parents over this Massachusetts proposal that the legislature reluctantly backed off. But the intent was clear. Public education believes they are co-parents with the actual parents, and this has undermined the leadership role in the family. In America we have socially been quite a bit behind the socialist tendencies of the rest of the world, such as in the Canadian example described in the Glenn Beck clip of the accosted parent. In Canada, as in most of Europe, this idea of co-parenting has already infected large sectors of their population, and parents just go along with sharing their custody with the co-parents of education.

Beck mentioned the book by Charles Murry which describes one of the most devastating modern trends our society is dealing with is divorce in the modern family. Many parents these days are single parents or on their second marriage and have already yielded some of their parental control over to a new spouse, or a spouse they have abandoned, so sharing parenting responsibilities with the public school is not as big of a deal to them as it used to be, because in some ways the parents are already defeated. Public schools filled with socialism advocates have taken advantage of the weakened state of parents and the roles they have traditionally given to their children, and exploited those parents with cheers from the progressive advocates of society. On the backs of this massive devastation of family structure has been the gay rights debate, and trend to support gay marriage. The current wish of progressive minded socialists are that a man and a man can raise a healthy child, or a woman and a woman, by eliminating the role of one gender or the other, and replacing them with public education.

The altruists of our modern age, the closet socialists of education wish that the strong hand of a father was not needed in a child’s life, and they find it reprehensible that a young student would worship the strength of her “daddy” in pictures reassuring the child of her safety in a dangerous world by idolizing her father. So they stick their nose into the life of “daddy” to demonstrate to the child that there is no superior in the student’s life but the authority of the school. The school even controls the police—that is the message! This child will then grow up to look not at themselves to show similar strength for their own children, but to the parent of government to care for their every need in the face of danger. Progressives have openly sought to destroy the role of the masculine man in the life of a child and the life of a grown woman to advocate the same end game, dependence on government.

Too many colleges have produced too many attorneys who need to promote too many divorces to survive, and this has destroyed the American family, which is a direct result of a country that has adopted socialism into its culture.

America because of mush minded politicians have followed countries like Canada and Europe in their public socialism policies so America now is not known as the country of innovation and independence, but of stagnation and social dependence, and it is public schools that are to blame. Public schools following the lead of superintendents like the one above who believes that schools are a “co-parent” to the children instead of just employees hired by the public, are completely off-their-rocker wrong! It is in the yearning for altruism that these sins are committed, in the desire to be redeemed for the worthless state of existence that public educators live every day where they know very little, take virtually no risk in living upon themselves, and seek the whole world as their safety blanket because they lack the courage to live their lives on their terms. Instead, they advocate socialism and seek to destroy the families of children with the selfish desire to provide for themselves a social safety net built on altruism disguising sinister forms of socialism. If you vote for a school levy, you are not just stupid– you are voting for evil and the destruction of the American Family along with the perpetuation of global socialism.

This is what democracy looks like–cool if you think socialism is hip, and these days, kids do. That is the result of two decades of socialism taught in public eduction. They know how to dance, party, and have sex, but they can’t vote or have a thought for themselves, which has always been the mission of progressive public education.


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While you wait for Tail of the Dragon, read my first book at Barnes and Nobel.com as they are now offering The Symposium of Justice at a discount which is the current lowest price available.

Rich Hoffman
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How to Beat the Bilderberg Group: Become a Modern Superhero with the power of “NO”

At a recent meeting I attended a deep dark controversial topic came up among the mainstream attendees, that of the Bilderberg group and to what extent they desired to subvert the American Constitution. The answer in fact is that the Bilderberg group, who is about to have their 2012 meeting in America is a serious threat to world-wide liberty as they plan to eliminate the American Constitution in favor of a global agreement. But their conspiracy is but one force that is working against us all. The real threat is actually ourselves, because the Bilderberg group, the communists, the global socialists, the bleeding heart greenie weenies, and every other subversive organization in existence can only take from free people what we give them willingly.

Alex Jones did an interview where the topic of re-education camp plans by the American military have been leaked and are quite official. So to my readers here from the newspapers, the television stations, the mainstream radio commentators who are curious, but wish the world would just concentrate on last night’s sports scores, this is a clear and present danger in American culture and it has happened right under our noses. While the topic of the Bilderberg group is considered by these mainstream reporters to be fringe right-winged conspiracy theory, the real threat has actually been our “compliant” culture willing to please others before ourselves by saying “YES” to every proposal placed before us by groups like the Bilderberg. This human tendency has paved the way for the enemies of America to conceive that re-education camps are a feasible option for population control. The re-education camps that have been speculated about for years are the natural next step after their horrendous power grab called the NDAA. (CLICK HERE FOR MORE)

Yes dear reader, the cat is out of the back officially. It is true that members of our own government wish to send Americans to these camps to pave the way for the deals they have made with the Bilderberg group, and dozens of other global organizations who are all maneuvering themselves to become the first rulers of the world. That is the endgame to these treacherous plots and should surprise nobody. These plots are as old as the human race.

But these advancements against the American people are not coming from gunpoint; they come from our weaknesses for “peace” and our naiveté toward “trust.” They come from the same forces that will lie to your face to get a school levy passed by telling voters that all the money is for the “kids,” and not the huge labor unions who funnel the money they rape from the taxpayers back to political control of their socialist party of choice called the Democrats. The same game has been used to virtually destroy our freedoms since 9/11 with the invention of the government jobs program called the TSA where slop witted thugs in baby blue outfits have become the ultimate mall cops of authority gaining the ability to molest Americans all in the pursuit of “safety” over “freedom.” And the current President of the United States openly lies and manipulates all of us by attempting to blame congress for everything that has happened when it was in fact a Democrat controlled house in the first two years that gave the President everything he wanted and rammed down the throats of the American people vast tyrannies in quantities that drown the average American intellect with subjects beyond comprehension. All these tyrannies count on the good faith, and desire to appease a puppet master with compliance to succeed.

Yes, the Bilderberg group is meeting in the United States to plan a gradual takeover of the American population so they can put down the last bastion of freedom loving beings on planet earth with a quest to resume the methods of European global conquest displayed in the Dark Ages. Many of the Bilderberg attendances are simply rich philanthropists participating in altruism masking their own psychological inadequacies with various forms of collectivism. And they hope to erase the sins of their power mongering with an infantile view of collective salvation which they require society to subscribe to in order to be successful.

Luckily for all Americans the solution to our problems does not require us to take up arms against these enemies, because we already have the ultimate weapon to use against them, and they know it. We do not have to attack any agents of collective law with violence, or harass the members of these silly Bilderberg punks with threats of violence. We simply have to learn to say “NO” when a politician asks us for something.

The most powerful weapon of the modern age is to learn to say, “NO.” It’s that easy. Say “NO” to your local school levy where your government school is programming your child to global socialism. Say “NO” to your police and fire levies because they are represented by labor unions with deep ties to communism (progressivism), and it will be those public servants who will come to arrest you under the NDAA Act. But they can’t arrest you if they don’t have a job to begin with. Say “NO” to their budgets because you still have the power to do so. Say “NO” to communism in America by voting out the most radical activist to ever sit in the White House, President Obama. And if you don’t like the Republican alternative to say “NO” to him as well, say “NO” to party politics completely. Say “NO” to all further tax increases even to the so-called rich. Force the idiots of government to live within a budget and let them die on the vine from starvation. Say “NO” to air travel when you can and drive instead. Don’t put up with the tyrannical TSA and their intrusive searches. Let them be all dressed up with no place to go, or nobody to “feel up.” Say “NO” to government mandated insurance of ANY kind, especially health insurance. The worst weapon that can be inflicted upon the tyrant intent on American destruction comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from the simple word, “NO.”

Dear reader, you have nothing to fear from the Bilderberg punks if you could only learn to say, “NO.” It is that easy. As of 2012, you still have the power to end all these threats to your existence by saying “NO” when asked for your cooperation in ending global terrorism by surrendering your freedom. Because the threats are very real, and the groups wishing to commit these encroachments are quite sinister in their intentions. Eliminating just the Bilderberg group will not end the threat. They will simply form a new group of philanthropists and “intellectuals” to construct yet another plot to take over the world at our expense. But the way to beat them all is to learn to say “NO” and to become proud in your power to say it. Because that simple word has the power to destroy every enemy working against America with an efficiency more robust than an atomic bomb, the collateral damage from such a blast is negligible leaving only the enemies of freedom destroyed, and those who love freedom left to exist by the terms of “Truth, Justice, and the AMERICAN way,” because to me, there is no other way, but the “American.” To every other way of life and their offerings, I simply say, “NO.”

Become a modern superhero, by harnessing the power to say, “NO.”      

This is what people are saying about my new book–Tail of the Dragon

“Just finished the book and am sweating profusely. Wow, what a ride !!!  Fasten your seat belts for one of the most thrilling rides ever in print.“

While you wait for Tail of the Dragon, read my first book at Barnes and Nobel.com as they are now offering The Symposium of Justice at a discount which is the current lowest price available.

Rich Hoffman
https://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/ten-rules-to-live-by/
http://twitter.com/#!/overmanwarrior
www.overmanwarrior.com