Much has been said about what kind of teachers we don’t want in public education at this site. But we don’t often think about what kind of teachers we do want. Well, one fine example of the kind of teacher I would like to see employed in my district is Kathleen Lyday of Grandview Elementary School or rather the way she is represented at the letter shown below and presented on Gary Jeff Walker’s page at 700 WLW.
This letter is said to have been sent to President Obama, but as it turns out, it looks to have been falsified—just a wishful dream of conservative leaning patriots yearning for a teacher who has some courage to stand up to modern-day tyranny. Whether it’s a hoax or the truth, the words deserve to be read as they do paint the picture wonderfully of a growing sentiment that is boiling like a volcano about to erupt in America.
The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20500
Mr. Obama:
I have had it with you and your administration, sir. Your conduct on your recent trip overseas has convinced me that you are not an adequate representative of the United States of America collectively or of me personally.
You are so obsessed with appeasing the Europeans and the Muslim world that you have abdicated the responsibilities of the President of the United States of America . You are responsible to the citizens of the United States . You are not responsible to the peoples of any other country on earth.
I personally resent that you go around the world apologizing for the United States telling Europeans that we are arrogant and do not care about their status in the world. Sir, what do you think the First World War and the Second World War were all about if not the consideration of the peoples of Europe ? Are you brain-dead? What do you think the Marshall Plan was all about? Do you not understand or know the history of the 20th century?
Where do you get off telling a Muslim country that the United States does not consider itself a Christian country? Have you not read the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution of the United States ? This country was founded on Judeo-Christian ethics and the principles governing this country, at least until you came along, come directly from this heritage. Do you not understand this?
Your bowing to the king of Saudi Arabia is an affront to all Americans. Our President does not bow down to anyone, let alone the king of Saudi Arabia …. You didn’t show Great Britain , our best and one of our oldest allies, the respect they deserve yet you bow down to the king of Saudi Arabia .. How dare you, sir! How dare you!
You can’t find the time to visit the graves of our greatest generation because you don’t want to offend the Germans but make time to visit a mosque in Turkey …… You offended our dead and every veteran when you give the Germans more respect than the people who saved the German people from themselves. What’s the matter with you? I am convinced that you and the members of your administration have the historical and intellectual depth of a mud puddle and should be ashamed of yourselves, all of you.
You are so self-righteously offended by the big bankers and the American automobile manufacturers yet do nothing about the real thieves in this situation, Mr. Dodd, Mr. Frank, Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelic, the Fannie Mae bonuses, and the Freddie Mac bonuses. What do you intend to do about them? Anything? I seriously doubt it.
What about the U.S. House members passing out $9.1 million in bonuses to their staff members on top of the $2.5 million in automatic pay raises that lawmakers gave themselves? I understand the average House aide got a 17% bonus. I took a 5% cut in my pay to save jobs with my employer. You haven’t said anything about that. Who authorized that? I surely didn’t!
Executives at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be receiving $210 million in bonuses over an eighteen-month period, that’s $45 million more than the AIG bonuses. In fact, Fannie and Freddie executives have already been awarded $51 million not a bad take. Who authorized that and why haven’t you expressed your outrage at this group who are largely responsible for the economic mess we have right now?
I resent that you take me and my fellow citizens as brain-dead and not caring about what you idiots do. We are watching what you are doing and we are getting increasingly fed up with all of you.
I also want you to know that I personally find just about everything you do and say to be offensive to every one of my sensibilities. I promise you that I will work tirelessly to see that you do not get a chance to spend two terms destroying my beautiful country.
Sincerely,
Ms Kathleen Lyday Fourth Grade Teacher Grandview Elementary School
Unfortunately, I do not believe that Kathleen Lyday of Grandview Elementary School wrote the letter seen above, because such a thing would be too good to be true. Instead, reality says that most of the teachers working at Grandview as well as most public schools all across the country have allowed themselves to be divided up into specific bloc voting groups dictated by machine politics and lack the courage to have thoughts of their own. Most likely, Katheleen Lyday will tend to vote the way other women in her age group vote, because she sees herself as “one of the girls.” Or perhaps she will vote the way her labor union suggests after looking over the insane amount of political material the union sends her to endorse candidates. And chances are, if Kathleen Lyday is a real teacher from Grandview Elementary School, she is planning to vote for Obama, not against him, so that he will steal more tax money from citizens all over America and give some of that money to the education sector of which she’s a part, as all the employees of the teaching profession open their mouths wide like baby birds in a nest awaiting their mother government to drop a worm in their starving mouths.
Yes, it was a great dream while it lasted—because these days such courage coming from a public employee is as realistic as the most extreme science fiction drawn in a comic book. In reality we are a divided country, and it will take a major awakening to bring the real Kathleen Lyday’s to the surface where fiction can eventually become a reality.
Evidence that progressives will completely lie to advance their “green movement” can be seen in the video below. (Check out the size of the driver!)
Many wonder why I picked public education as my target strategy to beat back the international terrorists called progressives who have decided to invade my country The United States. The answer of course is to protect the property rights that are pillaged by high taxes from labor unions operating under government schools. But the more fundamental issue for me is the content of the education itself—what are our teachers instructing our young about and why. The answer to that question set my target, because of an article I read in The New Yorker way back in 2008 promoting Naomi Klein’s second book Shock Doctrine.
If you don’t know Naomi, she is an articulate, well-meaning spokesman for her cause. She is typically soft-spoken and very profession in her presentation of facts. She’s also a radical progressive, which is the new name for communism these days. In that New Yorker article I realized that socialists were a very real threat to the United States and that people like Naomi—who is Canadian working aggressively with global greenie weenies to destroy American forms of capitalism with the concept of carbon credits and other regulatory infringements on a mission to save the world from mankind. You can see a bit of Naomi Klein’s work and beliefs in this video from the Copenhagan Climate Talks.
In the New Yorker article from back then it is easy to see now in hindsight what was going on, as President Obama hadn’t even set foot in the White House yet. At a speech Naomi Klein gave at the Bloor Cinema in Toronto, Canada copies of Socialist Action were being sold for a dollar each to the line that stretched to the end of the block and around the corner. As 850 audience members took their seats Klein took the stage and gave her speech that migrated from topics of fighting racism and poverty, working for education, international solidarity, justice for immigrants and solidarity with Palestine. But most notably in the New Yorker article was the picture of Naomi wearing a pin, “MOVE THE CENTER.” This nice young woman was truly a radical in disguise openly advocating war against America and promoting moving the political center more to the left. Now, four years later we have seen every one of the issues she mentioned in that Toronto speech played out in the administration of Barack Obama to a fault, and the political center has been moved very, very far to the left—in favor of the greenie weenie religion of climate terrorism.
School teachers would be one of the first since the year 2000 to begin to implement all those speech topics into the class rooms of our public schools in an effort to teach our children to become crusaders for climate terrorism and the success of that endeavor can now be seen in our young people—especially the Occupy Wall Street crowd. The progressive platform advocated by Naomi Klein and thousands just like her have corrupted America from within by an aggression nobody saw coming. And it started in our schools.
That is why I first went after public education in my efforts, because it is in these palaces of government protection and union mob rule that progressivism is passed onto our children like a disease ingested through uncooked chicken. Naomi Klein is one of the terrorists who advocate protecting mother earth while disguising her real intentions of creating global mixed economies that feature progressive socialism as control mechanisms. One of her featured targets in The New Yorker article was Milton Friedman as she went to great measures to explain why pure capitalism as Friedman advocated were so destructive to the world of mother earth. Her audience gasped in horror as Friedman’s beliefs were subjected to her scrutiny—beliefs such as no government interference of markets, no tariffs, no subsidies, no minimum-wage laws, no public housing, no Social Security, no financial regulation, no licensing requirements, including those for doctors. In short, I saw out of Naomi Klein and her minions of doom an attack on everything I believe as Milton Friedman advocated decades ago what I know is the only course America should be on, and I decided that I would refocus my energy to moving that Progressive center shown on her button not to the left, but clean off the chart back toward the right—but completely off the scale—because I’ve had it with greenie weenie, progressive socialists who wish to impose themselves on my life with their antics of destruction.
The attack by these progressives has not gone unchecked. In 2009 the Tea Party formed to push back against these progressive encroachments and I greatly support the cause of those organizations and other liberty groups that formed under this uprising. But I saw a need for more. So I set out to create Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom and to refocus my literary intentions in a way that would counter the strategies of the progressive terrorists like Naomi Klein who are intent on destroying a way of life that I enjoy—the American way of life complete with cowboy hats, work boots, motorcycles, and guns. I don’t want what the socialists of Copenhagen want for me. In fact, I reject their lifestyle and beliefs completely, and I want their influence out of American government schools.
Now over four years later the greenie weenies are beginning to show themselves as “watermelons” which Naomi Klein addressed in a recent article from 2012 where she openly advocated that if society is going to take climate change seriously, then the free-market playbook must be thrown out the window. In the article link shown below Naomi addresses her concern that the progressive platform is failing. In 2007—back when The New Yorker article appeared 71 percent of Americans believed in climate change. In 2009 only 51% did and now in 2012 the number is down to 41%. That is the result of the blow back created by the rise of the Tea Party and other patriots who have grabbed hold of Naomi Klein’s extreme left political center and yanked hard to the right.
Progressives like Naomi Klein have acknowledged that people like me who are climate deniers are not crazy—our worldview is under attack. I know many people who feel just as she stated in The Solution Journal, that any government intervention does lead to serfdom, and will bring about a socialist world, and yes—we have to fight it off. And that fight starts first at your local school where progressive teachers and administrators are right now using your tax money to turn American children against the culture of our country, and then it is at the voting booth where a whole nest of cockroaches have been allowed under our slumber to run up our national deficit to over $15 trillion dollars while they seek to control every single part of our lives. Their most recent excursion is, H.R. 3523, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA) which authorizes internet service providers to share customer communications and other personally identifiable information with government agencies. Bills like that require action immediately to prevent looting politicians from taking away the freedom of the internet as they have with virtually everything involving liberty that exists. Left unchecked, a looter like Naomi Klein will attempt to tax us all just for breathing air and causing carbon dioxide.
No matter how compelling the presentation is from environmental terrorists like Naomi Klein they can’t overcome one small problem—they need people to buy into their scam in order to succeed. But for the patriot movement, we only need to no longer feed them with tax money. All the progressive organizations of the world and their radical agendas require funding, and they get that funding by stealing it through taxation. Progressives need us to survive, we do not need them. So to get them out of your lives, the first step is to cut their funding so they can no longer use your money against you. And the very first place, and most immediate result you can gain from your denial of funding is to your local school where there are thousands upon thousands of environmental terrorists teaching our children every day how to grow up and become tree hugging hippies and social parasites with their highest aims in life to live off of welfare. Sorry, but that’s not the life I want. It’s an American life for me complete with big cars that burn lots of fuel and go really fast. The greenie weenies of this progressive assault against America can shove their carbon credits from Copenhagen straight up their “collective” assess and drive their smart cars to the nearest dump. The youth in The United States need to learn what being an American really is and not learning to become a global citizen praying to the goddess “mother earth.”
Oh, and this is the reality of the progressive movement’s stupid “green cars.”
As you are reading this at 8:00 PM on April 25th 2012, Monroe Local Schools is having a special meeting with their school board to ask the public what to do about their multimillion dollar operating deficit. For some unknown reason, the district seems to believe that their costs magically spring up from the ground like grass, and they pretend they didn’t plant the seeds. The school board like all school boards everywhere plays dumb as to what put them into their financial situation to begin with, which are their labor costs. Monroe desperately wants another operating levy from the public to solve their financial problems, but they don’t want to end up like their neighbors to the south—Lakota and look like a bunch of bumbling fools going to the public three times in two years only to be rejected handedly each time.
It was only yesterday that Superintendent Mantia at Lakota and her public relations staff–that charges $60 per hour to the tax payer–made the final announcement that after several school board meetings, the school board finally agreed to cut 141 jobs to offset a $9 million budget deficit eventually slashing $10.5 million for the next school year. After the Monday night meeting similar to Monroe’s, Mantia and her empire of looters put out the call to the media around town that the cause of the cuts to the Lakota school system was the result of several levy defeats in recent years.
Serious……………..that’s what she said!
It’s no wonder all these schools are broke, no matter how much money tax payers send their way. Superintendent Karen Mantia of the Lakota school system makes $165,000 a year with up to a quarter million dollars in total compensation and she can’t even identify what the real problem is in solving her budget. What she does know how to do is complain about how sad it is that these 141 jobs are going to be cut, and how much every person on the layoff list has contributed to Lakota and the students. “They have served in every school, some in every grade level, and they have taught across the spectrum in many subjects. They have combined years of experience and the loss of these people is regrettable.”
She continued to say, “By experience, we know that we will receive some resignations in the upcoming months. We do have a recall list. We will recall employees up to two years as job openings arise and after that they will go through the usual hiring process.” Listening to the superintendent go on and on about how sad it is to lose all these jobs, it is easy to see what the priorities of the school are, and that is to provide jobs to the employees of the school, and the school believes that if they somehow cannot provide jobs to teachers and administrators then they have failed.
That’s the only way to explain Superintendent Mantia’s complete lack of understanding of what her budget problems are. She specifically stated that the problems were “caused” by the failed school levies over the last couple of years. She did not acknowledge the fact that the “cause” of her budget problems were that Lakota had too many employees making too much money on the pay role. She also did not say that she could have kept all 141 positions if she could have asked the labor union at the LEA to take a 3% pay reduction to save their “brothers and sisters” jobs at Lakota. No—nobody suggested that—except me.
Instead the superintendent of Lakota and the school board continued to display that they have no idea why they have a budget problem. This is why they allow their budget costs to control them instead of doing what the rest of the world outside of government does and that’s control costs. Mantia sounded just as dazed and confused as Timothy Gietner did recently declaring that the Obama Administration would do nothing to get out in front of the coming Medicare/Social Security meltdown except raise taxes on the rich, as if it wasn’t the Obama Administration policies that caused the problem. Lakota schools and the rest of the school boards across Ohio are all guilty of the same kind evasion, they truly seem to believe that they did not cause their own problems by making public school jobs some of the most coveted positions available in the modern economy, because nowhere else can an employee work so little and be paid so much. All these public employees have a nice little scam going, as if they truly believe the solution to the world’s problems is to give everyone a government job and everything will solve itself. Gietner certainly believes such things, and his boss Barry Obama certainly does—and without question Superintendent Mantia of Lakota does. That is why she’s so sad to see all those jobs go, even though most of them should have been cut a year or two ago anyway.
I know one of the positions at Lakota that will be vacant soon is Keith Klein who interviewed today for an assistant superintendent position in another distirct. Klein is currently the principle at Lakota East. That’s good, because once Klein leaves Lakota will save an additional $110,000 per year in wages. Since enrollment will be down at Lakota in the coming years that means there will be many more employees like Keith Klein who occupy wages at the top of the pay scale will also be leaving to avoid the kind of things that are crawling around in the wake of good ol’ Keith. In fact, the layoffs that Mantia announced are just the start. Within a few years there will be a number of school buildings that will be empty as there just won’t be enough students to fill them, and thus—no need for the employees any longer. Lakota’s budget next year is set to be $154 million, and as enrollment demands drop off, and employees like Keith Klein continue to turn in their resignations saving the district millions with their departure, Lakota looks to have a promising future.
But school officials are having this activity happen to them by default because the communities have taken the steps of turning off the money to these bottomless pits of government school budgets. They didn’t come up with these management methods on their own, which is why Superintendent Mantia looks like she just got blasted out of a cannon, because everything that is happening to her goes against her training as a government school employee—which was to make good paying jobs off tax payer money. Suddenly the tax payers have said they’ve had enough, and no more money is coming, so the schools have to figure out how to solve their problems—like they should have always been doing.
Monroe schools hopes that they can avoid the fate of Lakota by dancing around the issue as long as they can. Hopefully for them–if they are lucky–they will see many of their top wage earners employed at their school retire or leave for another school system so that budget room will be freed up. This is how you balance a budget. If your revenue is limited, which at some point they all must be, then you ask employees to live within the budget with pay reductions, or you reduce the number of employees to meet your revenue. Throwing a fit like a small child is not acceptable, and spending even more money on public relations manipulation in an effort to make the public feel sorry for the management of the district is pathetic, and pretentious. Hopefully Monroe will learn something from Superintendent Mantia and not make fools of themselves with a lot of noise that essentially means nothing, because the voice of the public must be obeyed and not twisted maliciously as Lakota has attempted to do which divided the community in half politically. In the end the community will come to realize in Monroe what has been learned in Lakota, and that’s all government schools are microcosms of the macrocosm of government in general. And attempting to feed that monster is a worthless enterprise and the sooner people stop doing it, the sooner they can stop being eaten by a system that never stops being hungry and seeks to devour everything in their path on a mission to destroy private enterprise, private property, and enslave the whole world into more and more government.
It is amazing how tilted the table is when someone isn’t a liberal, progressive, or public employee thief yet uses inflammatory language to make a point—because the other side certainly does it. Wasn’t it Barrack Obama who threatened to blow up the Jonas Brothers to protect his children with a predator drone. Hmmmmmmm…….or what about when President Obama’s union brother Jimmy Hoffa said he was going to “take these sons of bitches out” meaning the Tea Party at a rally in Detroit during the election of 2011. Apparently, the rules are, if you are from one side of the political aisle, you can say and do anything you want. If you are from the other side, like Ted Nugent, or Sarah Palin then everything said will be used against you in the court of public opinion.
The newspapers carried the story with vivid language used by me to describe my latté sipping enemies in full text, which surprised me. Every radio station in town read those articles on the air to over a million listeners combined in the tri-state area of Cincinnati. I heard it on radios when I went to pump gas at the gas station, from the kitchens of restaurants when I went out to eat, and from the downed windows in people’s cars. It was on FM radio as well as AM radio all day long. It was my first time up close and personal in seeing the kind of progressive manipulation that I’ve watched happen to people like Mel Gibson after he made the film The Passion, Rush Limbaugh on many occasions particularly over his Donovan McNabb comments a few years ago, and Glenn Beck countless times. Growing up I watched how progressive film reviewers went after Clint Eastwood aggressively over every film he made, particularly the Dirty Harry films and Eastwood would purposely fight back with pithy comments of his own. This went on until Eastwood made the film White Hunter Black Heart and decidedly become more of a filmmaking moderate then progressives no longer saw him as a threat and started to let him off the hook.
Progressive antagonists have learned these character assassination tactics properly from people like Saul Alinsky—who was trained by the mob in Chicago—how to engage in public relations terrorism, and they have used those tactics to eliminate their political enemies with the same effectiveness. When a political enemy has the moral high ground they are to be put on their defenses by answering a negative—which cannot be overcome easily. In Mel Gibson’s case he was a wild and crazy party guy for years and Hollywood loved him for it. All during his Lethal Weapon films his antics with women and drinking were legendary and everyone wanted to party with Mel. But Mel had a very serious side, which started to come out in films like Man Without a Face, and eventually Braveheart referenced by Ted Nugent. After Braveheart Mel became a serious threat. Hollywood wanted more of that kind of material, but they failed to understand where in Gibson’s heart these films came from. Braveheart was a very passionate, patriotic film, but it was about the faraway land of Scotland. Mel Gibson gave studios what they thought they wanted with The Patriot, which was another Braveheart type of film, but this time centering on the American Revolution and that crossed the line of the progressive agenda. At that point, progressives in the film community started coming after Mel Gibson with their name calling terrorism.
Gibson responded to his critics by making one of the most obscure and controversial films in the history of cinema, The Passion. He showed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in all the glory a long time Catholic might envision, and he had a creative license to do so. After all—it’s a free society and anybody is allowed to make a film about the life of Christ and they have tried. They just didn’t do it as good—and with the horsepower of Mel Gibson. So the forces who seek to strip away religion in America and implement the progressive agenda had enough of Mel Gibson. No longer would his wild exploits with women be accepted, or his untamed drinking–many of the things that made him popular in the first place. Now Mel Gibson would be called anti-Semitic by his political enemies and he will carry that label for the rest of his life. It’s similar to being branded on the forehead in a puritan community for adultery.
My political enemies attempted to use all these methods on me even at the local level to brand me forever as a “woman hater” because I don’t support the progressive platform of women. The evidence in my life clearly shows that I love women, but in the court of public opinion, that doesn’t matter. Progressives are not interested in facts, they are only interested in what advances their agenda and there is a double standard. They are allowed to cast any aspersion desired since many of them don’t have any value system that allows them to feel guilt. The same tactics cannot be used back at them, by the rules they’ve established, because they hide their individuality into a collective blob of mob mentality.
This disparity has occurred down the basic line of good and evil. Those who are good in heart and mind even if they are wild and crazy guys like Mel Gibson tend to care too much to play this game, and they end up playing the game poorly losing almost every time. The typical progressive does not have individual value—their values are in group assimilation—so as long as the group is behind them, they are happy no matter what coercion methods are used. But for people like me, or Ted Nugent, or Clint Eastwood over the years, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh—people who stand individually out on that limb and take the risk of it being cut off—they are vulnerable, and the progressive assimilation knows it. Individuals have no support structure.
Their methods have worked for over 100 years—that is, until now. What the collectivist progressives do not understand is the ability of the individual to stand on their own. Mel Gibson has shown that he could care less what people say about him and he is proceeding on. Ted Nugent is obviously not in the least rattled by his little visit by the Secret Service, and he could care less if Mitt Romney decides to play the pussy game of the typical conservative and distance himself from Nugent, even after Ted offered his endorsement.Such people are no different from Judas betraying Jesus showed so vividly in Mel Gibson’s The Passion. For me, I’ve been kissed on the cheek by so many “Judas” types over the years that I simply wipe away the lipstick with the same disregard that I pick bugs off my face after a long motorcycle ride. It simply doesn’t faze me, because I expect betrayal and weakness when dealing with collectivists. Those weaknesses cannot be allowed to set public policy any more. To fight the progressive you have to no longer care what they think or say. You just have to act authentically from the center of your own conscience.
And do yourself a favor—if you haven’t watched it in a while, watch The Patriot, by Mel Gibson. It is because of films like that—that he suffers now. So show your appreciation by encouraging your families and friends to see it again. Stand by those who stand individually against the waves of tyranny–because it’s not easy, and their actions are all that stands between freedom and serfdom for everyone else.
The “Lash of Extremism,” I like the sound of that. Such is the title of a recent article by Steve Morrison of the Dayton Progressive Examiner commenting on my various controversies of late. Morrison is of course referring to my work as a bullwhip artist and performer—which to me is an American form of martial art. But for the progressive community they have to find something to attempt to turn the public against me so they resort to the same old tactics they have used for years—they call people names. You can see Morrison’s article at the link below.
Since the attempt of Morrison’s article is to paint me as a backwater, “cowboy type” that has no interest in an “advanced society” I have included pictures from my booth at the Indie Gathering Film Festival that is put on by a couple of my friends from the World Stunt Association of which I’m a member. My philosophic intentions are quite the opposite from how the progressive community believes. It is my premise that the intellectual elite who have formed the thoughts and feelings of progressive politics currently are incorrect, and therefore everything they support must be examined. I arrived at these conclusions by interacting with many kinds of people and enjoying contact with multiple professions over many years. My work with bullwhips as an art form has given me insight that many progressives are lacking in their education experiences and deserves examination in light of the progressive critique of my lifestyle.
Now my controversy was initiated when I called a group of school levy supporters at Lakota “latte sipping prostitutes” that was actually toned down language from what I wanted to call them. I was seeking to provide an explanation for their lack of value in money. But the mudslinging had been initiated by the pro levy crowd already and after two years of seeing first hand attempts at coercion, vandalism, and boycotts against voters who voted against the proposed school levies, I came to a point where I had enough of the crap.
Like any good strategy, it is good to provoke your opponent to see how they behave and—how their network works. To be honest, until this latest incident I had never heard of this Dayton Progressive Examiner or the writer. But like many who showed their asses that day of March 15th, much was learned by me of who, what, why, when, and where. I ran across Morrison’s article from a reader here who wanted to make me aware of it, and I’m glad they did.
Morrison in his article exhibits many of the primary traits that make progressive political involvement in public education so detrimental, and necessitates a fumigation process by the tax payers to remove them from educating our youth. If left unchallenged these types of progressive collectivists seek a destruction of everything people like me who value traditional American Excepetionalism cherish. Morrison in his article tries the same tactic that David Little attempted a year and a half ago—the standard progressive approach, poke fun at my use of bullwhips.In the following clip it shows a bit more of the film festival mentioned in a broader context and the “networking” room from the pictures above. Ironically, many of the creative types at these film festivals are progressively minded, and I get along with them because we all share a love of art, stunts, and story telling. We usually center our discussions on what we have in common, not what we disagree with. Where these filmmakers differ from other progressive minded people is they behave “independently.” They fund their own projects and take control of their endeavors from womb to tomb, and this is a critical difference between the “creative progressive” and the “collective progressive” which many government employees resemble most.
In the minds of collectivists, they only see value in people who work in other collectivist occupations, such as teachers, firemen, police, IRS agents and other government work, because it fits their mentality—group collectivity. My use of a bullwhip and commitment to traditional American arts is a threat to their value system, so they seek to belittle it hoping the masses will apply pressure against me to change my behavior. However—what they don’t know or understand is that it’s the individual that has all the power, and art forms that embrace that individuality is universally loved. I’ve performed whip tricks in front of thousands of people over the years in all kinds of formats and in a live performance, everyone enjoys the show. It’s a talent that has been very good to me. In the clip below, I’m the one with the fire whip.
The troubling aspect to Morrison’s article is that he called me “the preeminent anti-levy bully” and that I “live by the bumper sticker, ‘if you think education is expensive, try ignorance.’” He goes on to say that nobody likes taxes, but everyone should support without question the touchy, feely leanings of the progressive legislator. He states that taxes are a necessary evil because the alternative is “to write a check before traversing on any road, calling on any first-responder or sending your child to any school.”
Well, the verdict is in, and public education is not making children intelligent. In fact, I’d say the evidence is very clear that it is public education that is responsible for much ignorance in the world, especially in America, and it is bleeding heart progressives who have propagated that ignorance. Because you have to be pretty ignorant to believe what these people tell you. Roads are paid with gas taxes. First responders should be voluntary, and no labor union should be involved in those community positions. Many of them are playing Call of Duty at the firehouse as I write this all dressed up and nowhere to go until someone has an accident. And the schools should be paid for by the parents. It should not be a state or federal responsibility. It is not my responsibility to provide an education to anyone’s child. It’s the obligation of the child’s parents. And if public education did not have a monopoly on the industry, the costs would come down, and politicians would actually think about dealing with the funding problem in Ohio and pay for education with the taxes already sent to the state.
All those programs that Morrison listed above are progressive, utopian fantasies. I don’t want free education for every American, because kids don’t value it if it’s free. And teacher unions take advantage of the monopoly, because everyone has to go to school by federal mandate and tax payers are obligated to pay for children they may not even care about or desire to help. Progressives have created a world where the spongy minded can ride on the backs of those who produce value, and that is not a correct system. The only people who benefit from such a system are progressive minded people like Morrison.
They call me the Preeminent Anti-Levy Bully because I have interrupted their fantasy of utopia, this world they’ve built through extortion. Well, it takes one to know one, and in this situation when a progressive calls me a bully, I take it as a compliment—because that is the pot calling the kettle black. It is their bully tactics–not by using muscle–but peer pressure that has caused many of the problems we are dealing with in every aspect of society today. It is because of them that there are bully problems in school, because the kid’s watch how the adults and teachers behave in politics–how can a teacher STRIKEwith their union and then tell a child not to bully another child? They can’t! Progressives at every level of politics engage in bully behavior and they are not used to anybody standing up to them—or calling them “latte sipping prostitutes.” They wish to believe they are more valuable to society and to their families than they really are, because like their politics inherited from Immanuel Kant and modified by Karl Marx, they are two people inside one mind. They are people of the living world, and they are people of some other fictional world that exists outside their understanding which they surrender logic to. The reason for their failure is embodied Kant’s term “there are two worlds: the world of experience sensed by our bodies and the world as it is in itself.” Progressives surrender their logic to this second world and believe through their collective vision that they are guided by faith made profitable by sacrifice. And the sacrificial victims are always individuals—which is the heartbeat of American Excepetionalism.
This is why a progressive can never answer a question, because their entire political belief is based on faith in a collective world and is not based on fact. Anyone who makes them look at the “world of experience” is a bully to them, because they don’t wish to see it.
So I proudly carry the term bully if that’s how they see me. It means they are getting the message. Of course my actions to their minds are extreme because I reject the premise of their entire existence—and why shouldn’t I? They require sacrifices from me while I require nothing of them. They require me to need their roads, their education, their fire department, their utopia! They need me to desire the protective blanket of their collective society, but I don’t want it! I reject it! And when I do, they call me names. And when I get mad and call them names back—or worse, they feel entitled to pull on all the resources of their progressive society to “bully” me into compliance to their wishes. That’s what they did on March 15th of which Steve Morrison played his part. He had his article written almost as fast as the Cincinnati Enquirer posted it, almost by the hour. They wanted my compliance at any cost. That is their message. And for saying such a thing, they call me the extremist—they call me the bully.
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For those who proclaim, “It’s not what you do in life, but it’s who you know,” you are committing a vast evil upon the possibilities of human potential. I have heard from many over the last couple months who assumed that through my work with the local school levies, and liberty groups that I was ultimately after a political position of some kind or another—that my work in those activities were to lead me to one of those “coveted government” jobs that provide so much money and security to the beholder. There was an assumption that I would idly comply as school board members and community parasites infiltrated the inner circles of my associates in an attempt to steer our offensive into a sort of–compromise. There was an assumption that I would hold my tongue when it was obvious that political ambitions and a need for money have tainted the ambition of the liberty groups, to maintain a status of good standing among the powerful. The assumption was that I had shown my skills in public discourse and my reward would be a rightful place among the politically powerful.
But that was never my intention—to be given a rightful place in the world of politics. It was never my intention to “get” something in exchange for my skill as a spokesman or crusader. Because in so doing I would break one of my personal rules that I live by every day, never to schmooze, suck-up, or gain favor of a person or entity that I otherwise might not associate with out of personal self-interest. My interest in political crusades and liberty fighting was not for gain, but out of a genuine desire to solve a problem. My work here at this site and out among the media has been simply to fix what is broken, and as I’ve gotten my hands dirty it has come to my mind that I desire to completely reinvent the entire political system. I do not wish to preserve the public education system, so I lost my desire to simply be a spokesman for a group that didn’t want to see its taxes increase. I still support the aim of such groups, but my interest has shifted. And now after two years of observation, it is obvious that the liberty groups do not have the resolve to solve the current political crises. They did not put their political effort behind the Ron Paul’s of presidential candidates, but the Mitt Romney’s. From people within my own family to trusted friends, the prospect of such a radical culture shift is just too great. Too many people are addicted to politics as usual—a system that depends on the premise, “It’s who you know.”
When a local personality or business owner says, “I know important people on council, or in the city or state government,” what they are proclaiming is that they can gain access to power that will give them an advantage over someone who doesn’t have that access. Someone seeking that type of access might take that powerful person to a baseball game, or invite them to play golf so that the exchange of favors can be placed on the table of thought. This is called schmoozing, and it is against the law in my book. In my book, the powerful person is supposed to be in service to the public, not handing out favors to their friends who have schmoozed them. If the so-called “powerful person” is a politician they have only become powerful through theft or extortion. They have intercepted tax revenue to be redistributed elsewhere, or they have the ability to write laws that can hurt one party or another. That is the source of their “power” and it is an abuse of their designated task.
I have several friends who are caught in this very snare; they spend a great deal of their time and money schmoozing people who might otherwise hurt them. It’s the old premise of “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer,” schmooze them into peace with you so that you can make a profit. Such a mentality is the same as the restaurant owner who might schmooze the mob to cut a break on “protection money” or eliminating a competitor. The same kind of thing is going on in legitimate businesses today and the golf courses of America are full of this activity. It’s may not be the mob as we think of it in the days of Al Capone, or the fictional Godfather, but the effect is the same.
Over Christmas I was invited to a popular meeting place on the high-end of reputation to celebrate the departure of a person I have a great deal of history with. I declared that I would not go because this person had become my enemy and I had no desire to break bread. It was explained to me that hatred was a powerful thing and that I might regret it later. I explained that I was fine with my level of hate. That I would not be going because my attendance would not be genuine. If I went it would be schmoozing, and I don’t do that. The person in question had earned my hatred, and it was not my task to ease their mind with forgiveness.
I have heard for years that hatred is a bad emotion, that to carry it around will erode my soul. Well—no it doesn’t. Hatred is a natural reaction to injustice and it lets the person who committed that injustice know that there are consequences for their actions. Without consequences there is no incentive for many people to do the right thing, because many do not chose to do the right thing out of a sense of justice, but out of fear of the personal impact of revenge should they cross the line. So when a pacifist speaks of not harboring hate, they are telling you to turn the other cheek to be abused again, and again and again. They will tell you that if your enemy feeds you to the lions then you should take the massacre with a clean heart and not wish ill on your enemy. That is what’s wrong with politics at every level, and the reason I reject everything about the current system. People are functioning from a weak philosophy that was given to them by history constructed by past dictators, and they accept it without question.
By default through the human tendency to build their entire lives around schmoozing for all the various combinations described above, two political parties have emerged. Liberals advocate intellectual freedom while putting their emphasis of government management on economic controls. Conservatives desire economic freedom while placing controls on the intellect. Both are wrong in their basic premise. This is the reason for our current “mixed economy” and general faults as a government. This is why young people reject activity in politics and instead play video games and watch silly television shows. Politics has become only applicable to the schmoozers of the world and until people have a need to schmooze someone, they do not engage in politics.
Now, to the schmoozers—which is most everyone—my views are considered radical. To declare that politics should be run by objective reason is a radical concept to a political system that is run by schmoozing, (who you know syndrome) Our legal system will never be fair as long as “schmoozing” from an attorney to a judge is accepted practice—which it is. Our political system can never function correctly as long as “schmoozing” (lobbyists) is accepted and openly embraced. Our politics at that point has no chance of being a representative republic, and it’s not worth saving because it’s broken at its core functioning from the wrong premise—the wrong philosophy right out of the gate.
If the definition of a radical is being the only one who believes something to the extreme opposite of accepted social behavior then so be it because in this case the accepted social behavior is wrong. America is the country that it is today not because of the decisions made during the progressive era. It was not The New Deal or the Great Society that built the skyscrapers of Manhattan, created McDonalds, or put man on the moon. It was the very brief time in American history after the Civil War where the industrial revolution was just emerging, and railroad’s made communication and transportation over vast distances possible and Washington was preoccupied with all the new developments. During that time there was a lot less “schmoozing” going on for about 20 years ending right around the McKinley administration. Pure capitalism functioned without the looters of politics sticking their hands into the process to disrupt manufacturing as leverage over their political rivals. Once politicians began doing this “schmoozing” again with one another and with business owners America fell back into a mixed economy and have cruised out the last 100 years off that small shot in the arm provided by pure capitalism. A few developments since then like the fast food industry, and the computer have managed to jump onto the scene before government could act as a regulator. But for the most part, government has stifled American productivity while attaching many socialist programs to the wealth created by capitalism such as Social Security and Medicare. It is those decisions that threaten to destroy America in the next century. The true impact of mixing the introduction of socialism with pure capitalism won’t be felt completely for another decade, but it’s coming quickly.
Instead of having a beer with those inviters of peace that night to see off an enemy and assure that particular person that I would not hunt them down for their evils against me 5 years down the road, 10 years or even 20 years in the future, I read some of the work of Niccolo Machiavelli. It was Machiavelli who proposed the term, “The end justifies the means.” What Machiavelli was proclaiming was an essential truth from the vantage point of protecting the success of the state. It is to that basic idea from Machiavelli that the art of “schmoozing” came to be, and it is why our current political system is a failure that I reject completely. It is also why I distance myself from groups when I see too much “schmoozing” going on because failure of the group will be imminent upon such action.
The ends do not justify the means if it is individual freedom that is desired. The rights of individuals are the only concern because in so doing, a society of goodness and prosperity that have only been touched remotely in America is possible. If such a philosophy could reemerge in America, then perhaps the rest of the world could have it too. But schmoozing only leads to one path, dictatorship. Just as a mixed economy will yield the benefits of pure capitalism to the tyranny of socialist state control, it all ends with one person more powerful than someone else and brings about some form of communism. That is the default mode of schmoozing, it gives one entity more power over another entity not by merit of their enterprise, but out of false obligation due to feelings and favors.
This is why I declare both political parties a complete and utter failure. The campaign donations given on both sides are a form of schmoozing and it corrupts the basis of republic government, and the more I have learned along the way, the less interested I have become in working with the current system as it is now. Rather, I seek to see it dismantled and rebuilt as a true republic with an emphasis on pure capitalism and the solitary pursuit of individual freedom for every single person on the face of planet earth. And there is no compromise. Schmoozing won’t dull the impact.
It is for the reasons above that I have decided a different approach to politics is desperately needed. People may call it radical. They may be very upset with me for rocking their sense of security. They may be frustrated with my lack of tolerance. But I do not schmooze and I do not look to others for anything in my life. When I need to provide income for myself I write books. A book to me is a offering of my work, talent, and imagination in exchange for something else of value, so when a fan of mine purchases a book I write, I know that an exchange of equal value has been made, and I feel good about the balance.
I desire independence and respect for my freedoms, yet I have been given a world of schmoozers that have looted off one another incessantly for decades with schmoozing but looks to people like me to bail them out of their folly–and I’m not going to do it. I don’t owe anybody anything and I don’t ask them to give me anything that isn’t already mine. That is why I’m working toward a change in attitude and approach on a quest that will make many people very angry. But that’s their problem, because they are the ones who placed themselves across the tracks of my personal freedom. And anyone who wants to come along with me is welcome. But my train is leaving the station, and it’s not going to stop.
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Dear reader, if you are still in denial that Barack Obama is a planted—created personality fashioned by the enemies of America you can stop your skepticism at this time. The new film by Dinesh D’Souza produced by the great Gerald Molen called 2016 will bring to light just how serious and to what extent Obama was placed into our culture to dismantle it. But you don’t have to wait to see D’Souza’s new film. The evidence is all around us. But first, check out a preview and short talk by that director at CPAC.
It is well-known that climate science is the altruistic fantasy of the progressive movement which is why Al Gore was the primary advocate and President Obama is now carrying the torch. To believe in climate science to the effect that the human race is so audacious as to actually overcome the effects of the sun and induce planetary warming with the pathetically small levels of greenhouse gas that our society emits, is preposterous. Yet progressive advocates who desire global socialism seek to use climate science to destroy all of society in an Aztec like sacrificial worship of the divine God called Mother Nature. But those mind-bending, catatonic, progressives are in error and in case you missed the memo, 49 former NASA scientist and astronauts sent a letter to the current NASA Administrator Charles Bolden admonishing the agency for its recent role in advocating that man-made C02 is a major cause of climate change. You can read that letter to Charles and see who signed the letter below. (CLICK THE LINK TO VIEW)
This letter went to the same Charles Bolden who was a figure of great controversy a few years ago. In 2010 Charles gave an interview where he revealed that President Obama told Bolden that his primary objective for NASA was not to send more astronauts to the moon, or even to bring about the next generation of the Space Shuttle. It was to reach out to the Muslim world and make them feel good about themselves.
Bolden in that clip obviously eats out of the hand of President Obama and is either so concerned that NASA will receive more budget cuts from Obama’s administration, or Bolden has been put in place to advance the global socialism Obama intends. It is clear that President Obama is not interested in NASA’s former greatness in being the kind of organization that invented Velcro and put men on the moon, but desires the rest of the world to become more proficient in their space programs with the United States out-of-the-way.
Many think that President Obama is a Muslim, although he has said that he’s not. It seems odd however that Obama would put so much emphasis on Muslims. He is not concerned with Buddhists, Hindus, Mormons, Scientologists, or even Christians—but Muslims. The employees who built the reputation of NASA have had to watch President Obama dismantle all their hard work with trivial nonsense and a pattern of behavior that anyone can see clearly.
Obama has purposely put a stop to NASA and done what the Soviet Union during the Cold War only fantasized about—ended the National Aeronautical Space Administration dominance in travel outside the globe in a progressive quest to honor Mother Nature. You see global warming freaks who wish to worship their incestuous Mother Nature desire to make their mother happy by ensuring nobody can ever leave Mother’s home. To make their mother happy, they are willing to cut out the legs of anyone who might escape Mother’s home. In this case it is NASA who promises to take mankind off planet earth, but progressives don’t want to see that happen, because they require captives chained to earth to believe their rhetoric and give them power.
If manufacturing and other industry were to move into space then who would listen to the preachings of the global warming freaks? To what God would the globalists sacrifice to? The progressive globalists would see that the control of their Mother Nature would be diminished as humans colonized the moon, and Mars, and built huge space stations to live in orbiting the planet. Mother Nature would have to look up at mankind as they leave her loving arms and she might be very sad.
The global warming freaks are like those suck-ass siblings who never leave the side of their mothers, and hope to bend the entire family around their illness in sacrificial service to their corrupt mothers. In this case it is Barack Obama who speaks on behalf of the global greenie weenies. His dedication to the Muslim religion is a convenient excuse to deter the efforts of NASA into productive executions of their energy. And then forcing NASA to buy into the global warming conspiracy by threatening to cut even more funding to the agency from the Obama Administration serves both objectives. Global warming advocates get respected NASA scientists to endorse their sorcery, while Obama pretends he’s making reasonable budget cuts. But in essence the action on behalf of the government is the threat of a thug bullying someone to force them to act against their reasonable thinking.
But not all NASA personnel is willing to play along, and that is the nature of their letter to Charles Bolden. It is commendable that those men and women named in the letter refuting the science of Global Warming as used by the progressive machine of Barack Obama and Charles Bolden were willing to stick up for themselves when it has been obvious that they have been coerced and bullied into action that was not in their best interest.
As we brace ourselves for D’Souza’s new film 2016 the evidence of Obama’s treachery is not in some far away conspiracy theory—it is happening right in front of us all. It is noticeable in many small ways. But it’s easy to see it in the big things too. Barack Obama is a climate science voodoo subscriber that desires to make Mother Nature proud of her children by not straying too far from home and cleaving to her breasts for milk and sustenance. The greenie weenies wish to make mother proud and chastise all those who wish to grow away from her grace.
In reality those global altruists are as sophisticated as the ancient Aztecs and their obsession with human sacrifice in a belief that the still beating human hearts ripped from a slain victim will bring water and food to their people. The modern equivalent is Barack Obama, Al Gore and other progressives who deem themselves the priests of a global mass sacrifice. They would see NASA destroyed and every American driving a Smart Car designed for children—because that’s how they see us all—as their children. That is, until a group of NASA scientists decided to stand up for themselves and the agency they helped to build—and told Bolden and his boss Obama—to go to hell.
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Come one—come all, the Lakota Education Association (LEA) is having their election for President, Vice President and Secretary. They are meeting late in the evening after all their work is complete for the day at the extreme hour of 4:30 PM on Tuesday April 17th 2012. The vote for these positions gains the new president the ability to extort money from the public for future union contracts and allows them to speak to the media about how much the local children need union labor.
The future LEA President must make sure that every service offered to the community is held hostage while the members enjoy top salaries of over 63K per year and summers off. The president must be ready also to argue that any layoffs needed will be from the new teachers just hired while the old expensive ones cruise to early retirements while school buses sit idle, sports fees remain at $550 per sport, and electives are cut down to those of a third world country. The President of the LEA must not develop a guilty conscious, but must be willing to see the whole community surrounding the school system fail without yielding even a 5% reduction in wages and benefits. After all, the LEA President is not there to protect the students or their families, but the employees of the LEA.
The President of the LEA must be ready and willing to walk off the job with a strike like presidents of the past did such as in 2008. The squeaky wheel gets the grease and this is how public unions have managed to gain an average of 30% higher wages for their members over the private sector by showing a willingness to extort every dime available from the taxpayers for the benefit of their employees.
The future President of the LEA must forget that their position has no real power or influence, only in their ability to steal from the taxpayers, since all the members of the LEA are completely at the mercy of tax revenue. The LEA President is required to make the public believe that by giving the union money that the community will benefit in some way. The ideal LEA Presidential candidates should have past experience in carnival games, or working at casinos as dealers—positions that require manipulation of the public into spending their money and getting nothing back in return. This would give the future LEA President a great advantage in handling public affairs while serving the selfish needs of the union members.
It is very important that the LEA Presidents, and Vice Presidents be very well versed in The Delphi Technique and understand Saul Alinsky’s handbook Rules for Radicals. Knowledge in building a consensus is paramount to being president of a parasitic labor union, because the public must believe that the employees actually care about the public and listen to their suggestions. Through The Delphi Technique the LEA President will listen to advice from the community, but will make the community forget what those ideas are by the end of the engagement. The LEA President must be skilled in imposing their will on the community and making the community believe they played a part in arriving at those decisions. Slight-of-hand is very important and having a basic understanding of magic tricks would be very helpful.
It is important that the LEA President understand that the future of many industries is at stake if they fail to extort vast sums of money from the public. If the public stops giving tax money to the LEA union think what might happen to all the hair and nail salons in the area? If the LEA members do not continue to make more and more money, who will be able to afford going to those businesses? The same consideration must be given to the travel and tourism industry? If not for teachers being off all summer and having large disposable incomes, how many cruise ships will go out of business? How many airlines will have to close their hubs because teachers stopped traveling from the months of June through August? The future LEA President has a responsibility to not just the members of their union, but also all the businesses that depend on the services provided to the LEA members extraordinarily high compensation.
But more than anything, the LEA President must keep the union together, because it is union dues that keep the union strong. It’s the brothers and sisters in the OEA who need all the support they can get. The OEA must continue to fund the campaign of Democratic politicians so that the OEA and NEA can continue to shape the government legislature into a tyrannical entity that is destined to destroy the traditional values of America and embrace the progressive era of the United Nations.
In short the future LEA President must be the most audacious type of low-life, guiltless, parasitic, a destroyer of thinking, a con artist, they must be the epitome of the modern mystic of muscle—a thug willing to strong arm anyone who stands in their way for the good of the many—their brothers and sisters of the LEA. After all, the goal of the LEA President is to make themselves forget, as well as all their members that the intention of the labor union movement is to corrupt America with communism. The labor movement’s primary aim has been to separate individual rights from their property rights, because without the latter, the former is not possible. The goal of the communists behind the labor movement was to replace individual rights with “human rights.” The modern intellectuals of government education understand to reject the premise of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and replace those with social justice, and equality for all so that the worst and least motivated of society can make slaves of their betters, the men and women of production. By executing this strategy it is the job of the future President of the LEA to stop war and spread peace by taking away all ambition from the world and making everyone the same by handling these tasks within the district of the Lakota School District as thousands upon thousands do the same across all of America to the drum beat of the Department of Education.
April 17th is coming quick, and this election is one of the most important for the LEA union to date. The future of progressive politics is at stake and control must be regained over a rebellious group of tax payers that has emerged in the Lakota School District to resist the might of the LEA and the power to rob, loot and pillage the wealth of West Chester and Liberty Twp. These rebels must be suppressed by the new LEA President and strength must be returned to the labor union movement before it’s too late.
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As my readers here know, I love to read and write in the early morning—and occasionally I like to do these things outside so I can hear the birds. In fact many of you might wonder if I have some dire obsession with birds. But believe me, my relationship with them is one of mutual benefit. I put food out for them, and they in turn land on my shoulder and whisper in my ear. Some of these birds come directly from the Lakota School System and tell me things that are going on there, which I appreciate.
One such little bird landed on my shoulder the other day and tweeted a wonderful message that I found very interesting. It was a report that Lakota West is graduating 1000 students this year and is not replacing them with new students next year. In fact West Chester as a community lacks start-up oriented homes that most young people can purchase and will not be adding any students in the subsequent years and that this is a concern within the halls of Lakota Administration.
Most parents with school age children simply cannot afford the $250K homes that populate most of West Chester and Liberty Twp until they’ve invested in a starter home first to accumulate the down payment on a larger home off the value gained from their starter. But with real estate values flat lining due to the recent bubble that has burst all over the country, an investment in a starter home ($100K or less) is not happening. Compound that small fact with the reality that many young people are coming out of college without a high paying job to build a life with, and instead find themselves with over $50K in student loan debt and a job at a local fast food restaurant to pay their basic bills.
The Lakota School System and their minions of latté sipping levy advocates have thought and still do that anyone who opposes a school levy increase is the embodiment of an evil to them of the worst sort. What they haven’t accounted for was that levy fighters were always preparing for this day where the explosive growth that the teachers union salivated over in Liberty Twp and West Chester would bottom out, and the community would have to adjust if it wanted to remain successful. And driving up costs on businesses and per pupil costs in the classroom is a recipe for community failure. Just look at the Princeton School District, once considered the best in Cincinnati. Their per pupil costs are over $15K per student, because their expenses are tied up in high salaries established in the days of economic boom, which is now gone. Lakota, and Mason were the benefactors of Princeton’s decline and will experience the same cycle.
The values of many homes in the affluent communities of Lakota are tanking, not because the school is bad, or the fight over tax hikes scared away potential investors, it’s because there are not enough qualified candidates able to buy a $300K home at the start of their child rearing years. So to sell that $300K home, it might only be attractive to a new family who will only buy the home off foreclosure for $200K which pulls down the value of everyone’s homes. That’s very bad for all the families who bought homes expecting a 5% to 10% increase in their home values, because like their 401K’s, they will lose that perceived value. It’s guaranteed at this point, a reality that must be faced.
Lakota as a community must adjust if they want to stay great in the coming years and survive this next period of easy growth that the real estate agents who advocate on behalf of school levies drool over. They are of course upset because if you’re in real estate, it’s easy to sell a $300K home to a duel income professional family in their early 30’s and convince them to sign up for a $4000 yearly property tax bill because the money comes easy to these young parents and they are still kids themselves—and unsure of how they will perform as parents. So the knowledge that a school can fill that insecurity makes for an easy sale of an expensive home. But along the way, affordable homes were not built, so if those jobs went away for those young professional couples, then so would the ability to buy such large homes, and the market would dry up.
Liberty Twp—the little bird told me—has stabilized its growth, but it appears that Lakota will have to remap their district. There will soon be empty buildings in Lakota West because of the exodus of students and no young people to replace the graduating classes, so some of the students from Liberty Twp will have to be bused down to Lakota West buildings to fill their vacancies. This will create another problem that the union at Lakota will have to confront—there will be massive job losses at Lakota as there will not be a need to keep so many employees on staff.
Currently Lakota is staffed to handle 18,000 students, but that number could easily decline to under 15,000 students in just a few years as the community of West Chester is emerging into more retirement aged residents without children in the district. Lakota has acknowledged that their salary and benefit packages are comparable to our current Social Security models and are unsustainable. This is why they are hoping that the state of Ohio will change the way schools are funded, because with declining property values paying less tax, and fewer students enrolling, there is no reason to keep all the employees they have at Lakota. Paying an average salary of over $63K per year to fulfill their union contracts is just not feasible.
This is the reason for my anger at the school district and the blind advocates of more school levy increases–it’s their destructive short-sightedness and selfish imposition on the world around them. Even knowing this information as I write this, the superintendent is planning to propose another tax increase on the community for the fourth time, when the solution is right in front of her face. She will have to cut—much more deeply than they have even considered up to this point. They are going to have dramatically reduced student enrollment and will not be able to staff at the levels they currently are. And the reason we’ve fought so hard to keep taxes down for businesses and residents is because a successful community is not just built around a school system–it has to have jobs and services to sustain its population and remain attractive to homeowners even after their children have graduated.
As the little bird flew away and I watched the sun rise I realized how preposterous a levy increase would be now in 2012. A school simply doesn’t need $240 million to $155 million to operate per year when you’re losing 1000 students each year for the next 5 to 6 years. Even if Liberty Twp resumes construction of new homes it will not surpass the stoppage of building in West Chester that will be occupied by residents who no longer have children in the district, and young people cannot afford to buy these homes even if they wanted to. So Lakota will be dealing with declining enrollment every year for perhaps the next 20 years. They have seen their peak employment days and must now concentrate on being a great school with far less employees than they have now and in fewer buildings to maintain.
History will prove that is was now that our community decided whether or not to succeed or fail based on where we put our priorities. Because the math does not add up for a growing school district far into the future. The opposite is true, and the levy advocates at Lakota are in denial of these facts, which makes them dangerous. But they aren’t very dangerous if nobody listens to them, or their self-centered perception of the world. It is ironic that places of learning lack the ability to even grasp the mathematics of this situation to apply in the real world. But as the little bird said, Lakota is well aware of these problems. Lakota is simply in denial of the timeframe they have to react properly.
It will be interesting to see how Lakota attempts to glaze over these facts. I wonder if the newspapers will report these stories of decline, or will they just report what the superintendent utters in public relations controlled memos? Time will tell……………………….
On purpose I have stayed away from commentary on the Trayvon Martin case where the young man was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida by George Zimmerman because I do not see the circumstances to be extraordinarily unusual from the dozens of other shootings that also occurred around that same time. The progressive knee-jerk of all shootings is to take away guns so the gangs, thugs and young people celebrating the “gangsta” mentality can kill each other with baseball bats and knives. The trouble with the progressive platform is that they helped created that “gang” culture with their policies of welfare and racial segregation for use in bloc voting. So they have helped create the environment that young Trayvon was just a participant. Young people mimic the culture that has been provided to them by pop culture, and these days pop culture heavily shaped by progressive politics says to wear your pants down around your knees, talk with heavy slang, and act like a “pimp daddy,” selling hoes on Washington D.C.’s K Street. I know hundreds of kids white and black that fit this description completely today. Its part of their culture and that culture is shaped by progressive politics.
(For a glance into this culture I’d invite you to check out the “Pimps and Hoes Society” and their United Kingdom party. http://www.pimpsandhoessociety.org.uk/ This is a direct result of progressive politics. And you wonder why kids are so confused.)
On the other hand I know the area of Sanford very well, and a gated community is that way for a reason. People value their properties, and they don’t want to walk outside and see kids cutting through their yards, or driving down the street playing loud music at crazy hours of the night. Property ownership is one of the cornerstones of our nation, and it should be respected. However, since progressive politics is just a thinly disguised attempt at socialism, private property is frowned upon. Private property is to be surrendered in a communist society, which is why progressive taxation on property is so aggressive. The progressive attempt is to encourage young people like Trayvon to not strive to have a house in a gated community, but to disrespect those who do, so all the gates of the world will come down, value for personal property will be eradicated, and everyone will look to government for their welfare checks. And this clash of cultures is fairly evident in Sanford that has a lot of retirees who want to live close to the Orlando area, but also has a lot of immigrant residences just looking for a foot into the American dream. And for those people, money is scarce and they envy those who have it. I was at a Piggly Wiggly in that area a few years ago when a group of 5 youths came into that grocery store while I was waiting for my wife to come out. All 5 boys looked like they were dressed for a Spike Lee movie and one boy had his pants pulled down so far that he had to hold them in place with his left hand. I watched him with great humor as he tried to open his car door while holding a bag of beverages in his right hand knowing his pants would fall down if he let go with his left. The gated communities are there to keep kids like that from vandalizing their homes and roaming across their back yards while they enjoy the fruits of their labor.
George Zimmerman was protecting that “gated” community concept by following around a suspicious character which turned out to be Trevon Martin. The two eventually had a scuffle and Zimmerman shot Trayvon probably because Zimmerman was losing the fight. I personally think Zimmerman should have used non-lethal weapons to incapacitate Trevon on his watch patrol. Resorting to a gun that only has a lethal option is very limiting in these kinds of conflicts, but listening to the circumstances around Zimmerman, he sounds like a typical mall cop, he was hungry to show his authority. I’ve also seen a lot of fights in parking lots and watched cops arrive on the scene ready to shoot everybody in an act of overreaction especially if one of the fighters had a gun. The panic is a cover for their real desire to fire their weapons and take the life of another human being. And I think deep down inside Zimmerman had a desire to prove to himself that he could make a decision like that—which is a common fantasy among young males. In fact, Mr. Progressive politics himself, Teddy Roosevelt signed up to charge San Jaun Hill in Cuba just so he could “kill a man” so this isn’t anything new. That may be a difficult reality for all the social engineers reading this and wondering how I could say such a thing to understand, but those types are simply out-of-touch as to what drives a young man.
Of course there are better ways to prove manhood, but in a culture of progressivism that is taking the human race backwards, toward a more tribe village mentality, they will discover that the need for violent conflicts will actually increase. This is the result of Hillary Clinton’s “it takes a village.” This is also why her husband Bill cheated on her insistently, because that is the village (communist) idea of no property values and shared sacrifice. It is progressive politics that makes these primitive desires worse, not better.
The proper thing for Zimmerman would have been to use a non-lethal martial art weapon or mace to incapacitate Trevon and if the young man attempted to use lethal force then to resort to the “Stand Your Ground Law” and use the firearm. There were so many options that weren’t used, and again, I blame progressive politics for preaching a message of peace, love, and charity—because these two young men did not know of any option besides fists and guns, and that is a breakdown in our culture. It is in the progressive desire to eradicate violence that they have not allowed young people to learn the art of conflict properly, because unfortunately, in any world at any time in history where some people function as a parasite on a human population, conflicts will occur.
The incident was sad, and a failure from all parties involved. But the situation become even sadder when the parasites discussed above saw that Trayvon was a black youth, and decided that they could capitalize on the situation and advance their own quests for power. That’s when they called for boycotts, and a national firestorm erupted over the last couple of weeks into what has become a joke—watching grown men and women who lack the fundamental principles of conduct in their own lives play into the parasitic apparatus of the Black Panthers, Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton and many others who sought to use the death of a young man to get them leverage over the human race in the manner of their Civil Rights idol Martin Luther King. But unlike King who was genuinely pointing out a lack of equality that all men and women under the Constitution deserved, the radicals who came after him disguised their message of equality to hide their own desire for power and control. The parasites want to see their name in a history book, they want to force further legislation of a progressive nature and they sought to use Trayvon to their evil ends.
You don’t see these parasites come out over black on black violence in South Chicago and you don’t hear them berating modern slavery in Africa, but if it’s a gated community in Florida and a black youth is involved, then they will ignore all the other death and mayhem that is occurring daily and focus on this one child because it suits their political objectives—and that makes them the worst kind of looters.
The looters in this case are those who have sought to use emotion to defy logic and to pass new laws and social precedence that will advance a progressive agenda. We have watched this process for years undermine the American way of life and rather than looking at Zimmerman and Trayvon with sympathy the looters actually seek to change the direction of society with a group “collective” hug. The looters all want to be a village chief or the king of a land and wish themselves heroes to save the day on the backs of Treayon’s death. You can see them in the governing bodies, media, entertainment and in Civil Rights advocates whose goals are not equality, but progressive advancement.
The looter—the social parasites of emotion do not care for Trayvon Martin or his family. Their outward concern is purely cosmetic and designed to conceal their real intentions, which is more power and prestige. And sadly, as many of them deep down inside consider themselves to be good little socialists working on behalf of the progressive cause, their actions are strangely capitalist. Only they don’t seek to make a new product, or create a new technology with their capitalist tendency, but to steal power while a nation cries and cannot see through its tears at what they are really up to. They seek to “capitalize” on our misery.
Unlike Sanford, Florida we cannot put up gates around our homes high enough to hold back the kinds of looters that have shown themselves in the Trayvon Martin tragedy, because these parasites will attempt to feed off the very air we breathe if we let them. They do not value personal property, individual sovereignty, or rational values. They are progressive socialists who wish with every cell in their bodies to make the United States into a communist nation under the flag of tribal collectivism, and it is they who are the real menace to our way of life.
But The United States Constitution protects us from these parasites if we allow it to. We are only compelled to listen to them if we allow our emotions to rule above our logic, and their words only have power if we let them. Ultimately we have protections against their encroachment and if we could only avoid the guilt they attempt to use on our minds to sap our strength and resolve, we could vanquish them into the oblivion of irrelevancy forever and hold our ground by a firm reliance on the Second Amendment. And at that time the grief that Trayvon Martin deserved, and the ego building that George Zimmerman needed could be established so that young people might learn an important lesson from this tragedy and not be doomed to repeat it because the problem was misdiagnosed by the collective will of our society led by looters and grandstanders.
Oh–you want more proof? You think I’m kidding you? You think all this is a conspiracy, because the knowledge is not convenient? Then read what’s at the link below and you’ll see how it was all set up in 1958 to create the world we are finding ourselves dealing with today. I’ve made it easy for you. All you have to do is look for yourself.
The Overmanwarrior 