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Ignorance of the Marxist Obama: Follies of a school teacher gone mad

One of the most disturbing comments made by President Obama after Justice Roberts tipped the Supreme Court scales in favor of upholding the tyrannical Obamacare law as Constitutional was a reference to the greedy CEO’s of insurance companies who collect huge bonus checks. (It’s at the 1:40 mark on the video below)  Upon hearing this it reminded me of the heart of Obama’s problems. It displays why the President is having a hard time raising money these days, because he is essentially against the wealthy in America. The people who do give him money are those who work in fields that have little appreciation for money, such as actors and philanthropists who have lost touch with reality. The President even though he denies it, is a functioning socialists going as far as an extreme Marxist. No advocate of capitalism—the blood of the American economy—would say the kinds of things he does about the wealthy if they in fact embraced capitalism. Obama does not. He’s anti capitalism, which is defined by the stupid statements he has made about the wealthy.

Obama’s hatred for those who create wealth explains why he does not understand why his health care law is bad for the American economy. Since I know Obama’s people read my site regularly, let me help him understand why he is such a menace to American business, and why he is suffering economic failure during his term.

Obamacare targets businesses that have 50 employees or more, and requires them to cover insurance costs or pay a penalty enforceable by the IRS. This means all small companies like department stores such as Walmart, Costco, Target, Kohls, Home Depot and thousands of others will now be required to provide insurance to their employees. Of course the employees will think that’s a wonderful thing, because employees who are making minimum wage or just a little better will now have good insurance that is very affordable. The cost of that insurance is coming directly from the ownership of these businesses. The employee cost for these employers will dramatically increase as a result of Obamacare. Obama’s answer to the CEO’s of those companies is that those owners should not receive million dollar bonus checks for running a good business because in Obama’s eyes, the CEO has an obligation to pay those bonus checks to their employees. That is a philosophy right out of Karl Marx—and is essentially Marxism. The belief that the wealthy have an obligation to the employee is Marxism. This move will force companies to keep their employee hires under 50 employees to avoid Obamacare. They will now get rid of cashiers and use self check out, and utilize every method of minimal staffing to keep the amount of employees under 50 so they don’t have to live with the mandates of Obamacare.

But the real impact of Obamacare will come to the middle-sized manufacturing business with sales of 10 to 100 million per year. Typically these companies have employees of 75 to 1000 and often pay just a bit better than department stores like Walmart so the one great benefit they have to offer to their employees to entice them to work for their company is health insurance. In many of these companies I would predict 25% of the employees work for these types of manufacturing companies as opposed to Walmart because the manufacturing company offers insurance where the others do not. That is free market selection and it’s natural. Walmart has determined that they are happy to have workers who just want to make extra money, and are not looking for health insurance options. And the medium-sized manufacturing company is looking for the kind of workers who want more out of their employment than just money. Employees in the medium-sized company also want security.

Many of these medium-sized companies are headed by owners who spent 20 to 30 years building up their businesses. I personally know many of these people so I know what is on their minds. They offer a slightly better wage than Walmart but cover insurance costs so they can have a secure employee base to manufacture the goods they’ve spent a lifetime developing with customers and suppliers to fulfill a market need. The company owner has done the work of taking a risk in developing a new idea or product, and they hire a work force to deliver those products to the marketplace.

Often, because the workforce has been trained in public education by Marxist teachers like President Obama they may look with jealousy at the owner of these companies and dare proclaim that the owner and his top management employees should not drive exotic cars—they should not own condos in Florida, Hilton Head, or Hawaii, and they do not deserve to go out to eat at nice restaurants everyday, or have the ability to take the afternoon off to play golf. The employees typically believe they are entitled to some of that wealth of the owner because they equally share in the business.

Well, the employees do not share equally in the business. At the end of the day, the typical employee goes home and thinks nothing of their jobs till the next day. The difference between the worker and the owner is the owner takes the risk, and that risk in America is rewarded with riches. That’s capitalism, and it makes the entire economy work. The owner and his top-level managers take their work with them everywhere they go. They answer the phone at 2:30 AM from an overseas call when a supplier fails them. They worry when FedEx leaves their “hot” package on a dock in Mississippi when it should have arrived in Louisville 5 hours ago. When there are a lot of employees in a company at least 5 to 10 times a year there are lawsuits from former employees, workman’s comp claims that are bogus, FMLA restrictions that are abused and other legal issues that the employer must contend with just to stay in business. On top of that, there are federal compliance inspections, state compliance inspections, and local arm twisting that goes on requiring money to be thrown at the problems to make the trolls go away.

The life of the business owner at best is difficult, and they deserve to drive the nice car, they deserve to have a summer home in Florida, and they deserve to eat well—because they took the risks and shouldered the burden of creating a job so the employees have somewhere to work. Without the owner doing these things, there is no job. If the owner decides that it’s not worth it, they will toss in the towel and close shop putting hundreds of people out of work. I’ve seen it happen many more times than once personally. I’ve seen it happen so bad that I do not blame such people when they decide it would be easier to just work a job like everyone else rather than deal with a new legal issue every month, and all the other pains of business only to be told that no matter how much the owner has given—it’s never enough.

The business owner up to the legalization of Obamacare offered their employees insurance out of the kindness of their heart. They offered it as an incentive so they can get a higher quality of employee. Now, Obamacare has taken that act of kindness and personal initiative away from the owner. Now the owner is required to provide the same thing without their choice. It’s now a requirement, not a choice. Obama sees this as “social justice.” Because he’s a Marxist Obama wishes to empower the workers of the world to take away from the economic elite so everyone is equal. Obama foolishly believes that health insurance providers and business owners will continue to shoulder the burdens of doing business with all the barriers that currently exist if there is no profit in the end for them to enjoy. Obama through Obamacare is taking away the fruits of the ambitious—the people who wish to have a better than average life—and is giving to the 14 million who do not. Obama wishes to make the average worker equal to the business owner so everyone can have a summer home, and everyone can drive a luxury car, and everyone can be equal in the world. But Obama’s ideas are naïve, ill-conceived, and are a parasite to capitalism.

The wealth of a nation will depend on the amount of capitalism a country participates in. Obamacare infects 1/5 of the entire American economy with open Marxism. Combined with the socialism of Social Security, and the Medicare acts from the 60’s, the scales of capitalism will not survive. Obamacare is an attack on business owners who take the chance to create a business. Business owners already have public schools digging into their pockets, local politicians on city councils, county trustees all who wish to increase taxes to usher in a project to legitimize their personal political legacies. State and federal regulations are imposing. The legal system is parasitic and the only incentive that a business owner has is “profit” to continue with the headaches involved in operating a business every day. Obamacare takes away that profit, which is the only thing that motivates many of these people and that does not make them evil—not in the least. Obamacare is the ultimate “leveling” of the playing field in favor of the workers—which is Marxist rhetoric created by a poor despot that has ruined Europe by the name of Karl Marx.

Obamacare and progressivism must be eradicated from the American language. It’s no longer cute or even funny to just simply make fun of how stupid Barack Obama and his legions of looting politicians are, because they are attacking a way of life that has been the best in the world—even for the poor. It’s time to call a spade a spade, and a joker a joker. Obamacare is an attack on the way of life for every American in a hope to delude America to the will of the weakest links—and it’s appealing. Obamacare must be repealed—repealed—repealed! Then it must be stepped on—spit on—and torn to shreds! Then it should be flushed down the toilet where all the worst of human waste goes to join its brothers and sisters in the sewers of our civilization with items of like-mindedness. Because it’s time to take the gloves off and fight with bare knuckles and defend those who create from those who simply loot, rob and steal. That is the essence of Obamacare, and now the highest court in the land has made theft an act of collective salvation—and that’s where the line was crossed.

It’s time to call the lazy—lazy. It’s time to call out the looter—as a looter. It’s time to ridicule the social parasite for what they are. It’s time to stop tap dancing around the sensitivity that progressives use to destroy our society with kindness. It’s time to identify the values of what makes America great and expose what doesn’t, and from now on, this site will be dedicated to that task as if it wasn’t already. For now on, the greatness of America will have a voice—and I will make sure I do my part in giving it to those who haven’t had it up to this point. Obamacare has infuriated me to a level I have not recollected feeling. It is in essence an attack on my country, my way of life, and every person I care about—and I don’t take that lightly.

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ObamaCare Tyranny: The Supreme Court Lets America Down and PUNTS

Speaker Boehner instructed the Republican Party members not to spike the ball at the Supreme Court ruling on Obama Care. But it wasn’t the Republicans who had the ball; it’s was the looters of the Democratic Party starting with Obama given to them by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the individual mandate for that tyrannical legislation under the ability of congress to tax American citizens, so the ball is now in the court of congress where it should be repealed.

The ruling by the Supreme Court shows just how dangerous it is to allow members of congress to act as activists as they did under the congress of Nancy Pelosi, to the marching orders of Barack Obama. Because the Supreme Court passed the responsibility to congress they have essentially stated that the people of our nation have a responsibility to vote in favor of the law or to strike it down, and that must come from the upcoming election in 2012.

Right now the Republicans could repeal the entire law, but the Senate which is still controlled by power grabbing progressive Democrats will not allow the repeal to go through. So that means that the type of politicians, typically Republicans, who will vote Obama Care down must gain a majority in the House and Senate in the elections of 2012 otherwise Obama Care will impact our society in a major way by the year 2014. The Supreme Court ruling of June 28, 2012 puts the responsibility completely on the quality of the American people to decide what kind of government they want.

Progressives of course desire an America that is made up of stupid, half-witted, lazy, drooling mouthed Neanderthals who will mindlessly bobble head yes to anything the power grabbing reformers of our Constitution like President Obama wish to impose. This is why no matter what the President does, almost half of the American people will say yes because they are lazy, welfare yielding sloths that seek to live their lives at the expense of the economic activity of others. Half the nation has been bred in the American public education system to be mindless drones sitting in the nest of mother government waiting for a worm to be fed into their mouths. The other half still rebels against that imposing mother and those are the ones who are outraged at this Supreme Court ruling that will have lasting consequences.

This is the danger of electing lawyers as President. This is also the danger of electing Constitutional teachers who are Marxist activists who bend the rules of the Constitution to fit their radical agenda. The Supreme Court elected not to have an opinion on the wisdom of such a law as they stated that it is Congress, the body of government that is supposed to directly represent the people of the United States who have the responsibility to either keep or repeal Obama Care.

It is a very dangerous slope that we are currently on, because under the law, lawyers have demonstrated that they can manipulate any line of dialogue in a law to mean anything they wish it to. By upholding the individual mandate the Supreme Court has empowered generations of power grabbing presidents yet to appear to attempt the same type of activism that Obama and his cronies endeavored to pass ObamaCare through strong-arm tactics and massive public manipulation. The Supreme Court has just allowed my unborn grandson to become a victim before he’s even born. He must buy government health insurance just because he lives. The moment my daughter delivers him into the world, he will become obligated upon adulthood to buy healthcare by mandate of a tyrannical president, and a progressive congress of thieves who desire to steal from him so that those who do not have the ambition to care for themselves can have health care.

Obama and his minions are simply drug pushers who seek the weak and downtrodden to buy into their addictive services of government servitude, and under ObamaCare they have now been given a free pass by the Supreme Court to force the strong and productive to care for those who lack ambition. Obama and his aggressive activists have crossed the line. The Supreme Court was our last defense on the rule of law, and they chose to pass—which is fine. They put the burden on the people to pass or fail ObamaCare based on the elections of 2012.

If Americans want ObamaCare, then vote for a hippie tree hugging, boot licking, globalist Democrat. If you want ObamaCare repealed vote for anyone with a party affiliation of Republican. Government will continue to grow if people continue to feed it, and by voting for politicians like the looter Obama. Politicians who get elected by promising to give away free stuff will be more of a threat in the future than they ever have now that the “individual mandate” has been upheld by the Supreme Court. Their lack of decision means that the quality of our politicians must go up dramatically. America cannot allow congress to be filled with the kind of looters that it has traditionally. CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT KIND OF CONGRESSMEN ARE CURRENTLY IN GOVERNMENT. It is truly frightening that the Supreme Court has put the fate of our nation in the hands of those people. But that is the situation and we must deal with it as a nation.

I had less faith in the nation and the legal system at the end of the day than I did at the beginning. I think the system is irrevocably broken and is driven by the worst kind of people in the human race—the politician. My opinion mirrors Justice Kennedy. It was Justice Roberts who was appointed by President Bush, which made the deciding ruling. Bush was a progressive just as Obama is now. Now America can see how dangerous it is to allow activist presidents like Obama and Bush to place into the Supreme Court weak willed legal annalists. It was Roberts who should have been the vote that repealed ObamaCare, and that did not happen. Now we have a tragedy of epic proportions and the American people will have to clean it up.

The first step to improving our government will be on the Fast and Furious Contempt vote that extends into the Congress over Eric Holder. With the evidence being so overwhelming that the Obama gang is the modern version of Al Capone’s Chicago only without the open murders, Congress can begin by showing they have a backbone by sending some people to jail for their open crimes against American society. If the people do not support Congress in these actions, then the game is already over. At that point it would indicate that there are too many Obama addicts with their hands out, and the democratic process of our republic no longer functions, and new measures will have to be enacted. The Supreme Court declared today that they cannot rescue America through legislation. Only the American people can by starting at the voting booth. And if that doesn’t work, then more severe measures will be required. Because I will not personally leave a society to my grand kids that requires them to pay others just for the act of breathing—that will not happen on my watch.

As to health care, to learn more about how the entire industry is changing, CLICK HERE. ObamaCare will stop this progress. The free market will speed it up. And the success or failure of that progress will determine directly whether you live or die. That is what’s at stake.

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Emperor Obama’s Circle of Monarchs: Protecting the boss any way possible–just like the mob

The more that Emperor Obama’s circle of monarchs attempt to deflect away from their boss his involvement in the Fast and Furious case, the more foolish they sound. It is truly the act of cowards to even suggest that the entire investigation is a Republican “witch hunt” in an election year. It is even worse to suggest that the investigation of Eric Holder and Barack Obama is racially motivated since both public employees are black men. The issue is rather simple, Emperor Obama and his administration got caught manipulating a gun running operation that ended up costing American lives, and somebody must be held responsible. The gun running operation was started way back in 2006 under the Bush administration. But in 2009 a gun grabbing new President Obama in a quest for firearm reform laws under a Democratically controlled House and Senate escalated the operation to what is now known as Fast and Furious and it backfired. Obama only has himself to blame.

Congress has no choice but to act. To do the job they were elected to do, there will need to be people in the Obama administration that must go to jail and lose their jobs. The signs of a cover-up are obvious. We’ve been through this kind of thing with Watergate, and Nixon lost his job. We’ve been through this with Reagan over Iran Contra, and heads did fly. We’ve been through this with Clinton and his multiple scandals most notably Lewinsky Gate where he lied to prosecutors and attempted to delude the crime much the way Obama is, by legal justification over the dialogue used. All those presidents in spite of what good they may have done during their terms were severally injured in the context of history and Obama will certainly be remembered most for this epic debacle.

It is insulting to see Emperor Obama’s employees as defiant as they are, counting on the foolish and uneducated to rally to his defense with emotional pleas. The Obama administration got caught in doing what many have always suspected, committing crimes while in the White House and seeking to rewrite the Constitution through bench legislation and legal challenges to hide those crimes.

It is true that Emperor Obama has a right to invoke Executive Privilege. But he does not have a right to control the impression such a privilege has on a public who has been burnt by these abuses of power before. Nixon will always be known as a crook because of his use of Executive Privilege. Reagan will always be known as accident prone and a forgetful man because of his use of Executive Privilege. Clinton even to this day is thought of as Slick Willie because of his frequent use of Executive Privilege to hide his crimes from public eye, and now Obama joins the list.

Emperor Obama would not have invoked that right if he were innocent. If his hands were clean, he’d gladly show them to all, but invoking Executive Privilege has the same implication as taking the Fifth in a court of law. It may be a right to use, but taking it means guilt to those who hear it. What is being denied is the evidence to prove the guilt. But the impression is created in the act of hiding the evidence.

If there is evidence that our education system has produced too many lawyers all one has to do is look at this Fast and Furious case. All the reasons that our legal system is failing can be seen in the comments coming from The White House attacking Republicans for even investigating Holder. Like a typical lawyer who is defending their client in court over a crime that is obvious to everyone, the typical lawyer will twist the words of logic any way they can to defend the guilty. In Holder’s situation he lied to Congress openly, and that is very serious. Obama’s team attacks the investigators by saying in general terms, “He lied because the question should have never been asked—as determined by us.” The Obama defense has implied that the only reason there was an investigation over Fast and Furious was to bring down Emperor Obama which is simply disingenuous to any concept of the law which is typical of a group of lawyers who do not respect the law as much as their ability to manipulate it.

The ultimate sign of guilt is when a guilty party attempts to hide their crimes behind a skin color, and that is certainly prevalent in this case. The progressive use of “racism” as a way to shut down any opposition to their advancements is now as useless as schools who claim that their bad behavior is “for the children.” The way to easily detect a progressive is that they use emotional arguments as a defense to hide their true guilt. To see what they are really after, all one has to do is look behind the accusations to the actual behavior.

In Fast and Furious it is now evident that there is much to hide in the documents Congress attempted to subpoena and The White House is directly guilty otherwise they wouldn’t have evoked Executive Privilege to keep them from the public. Because of Obama’s actions through his minion Eric Holder he will go down in history as one of the most corrupt presidents and it won’t be because he’s black. And it won’t be because he was or wasn’t born in the USA. Obama has chosen to associate with radical extremists in his past, and he has attempted to paint a picture of himself that is clearly not true. As a president, he is a power hungry tyrant addicted to attention. He speaks out of both sides of his mouth and appears to have no strong convictions about anything. President Obama is guilty of being an activist administrator who like so many judges in our judicial system has ruled from the bench. Obama wanted to push for more gun grabbing laws and being inexperienced in his first years in office was way too aggressive in the things he said through emails and letters proving that activism. It is that political activism which cost lives of that he is guilty.

Obama has been known to use the Justice Department as his own personal political enforcement wing. Most notably I think of the way the Justice Department encouraged the Black Panthers of harassing voters at a key polling place and how the Justice Department is suing Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona because it has been Sheriff Joe that has been so aggressive against illegal immigration and in going after Obama’s birth certificate. The Justice Department under Emperor Obama has certainly gone after individuals because they attempted to stand in the way of Obama’s power grabs.

In our government it is for this very reason that we have checks and balances, and Congress has no choice but to go after the criminals in this case, such as Eric Holder, and apparently now Emperor Obama along with anyone else. The cost of not doing so tells history that only certain people are required to live within the law. Lawyers/teachers like Obama can exempt themselves from the law if they are pursuing social justice since they are in pursuit of “collective salvation.” This his how Obama will justify his crimes as an American President to his own mind, but in the context of the law, he is simply just another criminal who used the power of his position to break the law, and attempt to rewrite legislation as he went along to make his crimes legal through popular consensus.

Heads must roll in the Fast and Furious case, and those heads will go all the way into The White House, and this situation could very well prove to be bigger than Watergate was for Nixon. But don’t ever expect Emperor Obama to step down like Nixon did once he was caught. Obama, because he has nothing else in his life but the power given to him through elected office will fight and manipulate any fact he must to survive one more day—because as a political looter he has nothing else to offer. His fear is that when he must return back to the private sector, he will be ridiculed forever as a thief and a fool. He will no longer have the world bow at his feet like the Emperor that he pretends he is. He’ll be just another common person without an idea in his head, or the effort to create one. He’ll be a “has been” in the worse extreme, a figure that was used by Democratic Machine politics to win The White House for one term and will be kicked to the curb as soon as it is discovered that Obama is useless.

In just a few short months not even Hollywood will host a party in Obama’s benefit because nobody wants to associate with a known thief even if the information has been suppressed through Executive Privilege. Everyone, even apologists know that doing such a thing is an indicator of guilt and that is a reality no lawyer can pave over. This is how Emperor Obama will be remembered as Congress will systematically decimate the layers and layers of crime committed under his presidency now that the smoking gun can be seen. And the fault will not be on anyone but Emperor Obama himself, and the minions who followed his order even to their own demise—like Eric Holder.

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How To Remove a School Levy: Taking tax money back from the schools

The Cincinnati Enquirer recently announced that Lakota Schools had lost nearly half of all their school principals due to the financial struggles of three failed school levies. These Lakota principals have jumped off the ship citing upon their exit that they are uncertain about their financial futures and are either retiring or seeking employment elsewhere. That information is of course contrary to what they say in school levy campaigns, which is that everything they do is for the children. The mass exodus of these administrators to school districts they believe will continue their premium salaries and benefits should be an insult to the surrounding schools, and reveals what the true feelings are from these school employees. Administrators are essentially saying that they would rather leave behind the children who count on them because the district is attempting to solve their financial difficulties in favor of districts that are still throwing money at their public employees like there is no tomorrow.

http://westchesterbuzz.com/2012/06/21/lakota-losing-principals-at-high-rate/

One of the downsides to the Lakota School District deciding not to put a levy on the ballot in 2012 is that I will not get to attempt what the taxpayers in the Westerville School District are doing. For many years, those of us who have fought against tax increases have felt like victims of an organized political plot arranged between local politicians on school boards, and the radical teachers unions who have created for themselves gold plated benefits and wages at the expense of the tax payer. I have often complained that the average wage for the Lakota employee is $63K per year, but in Westerville, in Central Ohio, their average wage is $65K per year and trending towards $80,000 by the 2014/2015 school years. The spending was not stopped at Westerville as it was at Lakota because voters there approved by a narrow margin a 51% to 49% passage of a 6.71 mil tax.

See video of the repeal move against this levy at this link: http://vp.mgnetwork.net/viewer.swf?u=9ad6b34aea08102f8fb5001ec92a4a0d&z=OHV&embed_player=1

Usually, the story ends there, as it did recently in Southern Ohio in districts like Fairfield, Lebanon, and Little Miami who barely passed their tax levies with the help of huge apartment dweller votes, and serious organized labor rhetoric. Many voters once they approve for levy passage and see how the schools spent the money on teacher raises and other employee costs often regret their decision. And that’s what’s happening in Westerville.

With the help of the 1851 Center as their legal representation tax fighters have began to collect signatures to place on the ballot a roll back of that recently approved levy which is a tremendous act. Westerville is doing what all school districts who fight higher taxes are doing, and that is utilize the philosophy of the “best defense is a great offense.” Don’t wait for the radical union elements to push for further tax increases. Go after the tax increases already wrestled and manipulated by the educrats in organized labor, and rob it back to give to the tax payers who had it stolen to begin with. Such a move means that no longer on Election Day can organized labor put levy after levy on a ballot till it passes, then roll their naked bodies in the piles of money once they’ve legally stolen it without recourse. The 1851 Center led by Maurice Thompson has revealed a little known section of Ohio Revised Code that makes what Westerville is doing possible for every school district in Ohio who has suffered a similar fate. Read more about Westerville here:

http://www.ohioconstitution.org/2012/05/07/westerville-taxpayers-move-to-repeal-march-tax-increase/

I had a chance recently to speak with Maurice Thomson for a bit and he let me know that a few Southern Ohio tax fighters had contacted him but did not follow through, and he was still waiting to hear from them. I was surprised because I know the people involved and it seemed like the kind of thing that they would pounce on. Thompson is the Executive Director at the 1851 Center and directed the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions. Previously Thompson served as an attorney for the Sam Adams Foundation in Chicago and practiced privately in Ohio and Illinois. His legal fees on these education matters are free. He has successfully litigated cases in the Supreme Court of Ohio as well as intermediate courts of appeal and courts of common pleas throughout Ohio on issues such as property rights, regulation taxation, corporate welfare, search and seizures and smoking bans. He’s also the author of Presuming Liberty: Using Ohio’s Constitution to Limit Government, Defending Liberty in Ohio: A Roadmap for Protecting Freedom and Limiting Government with the State Constitution, and he wrote the forward for the current pocket copy of Ohio’s Constitution. You can contact Thompson at the following website:

http://www.ohioconstitution.org/

Maurice Thompson has actually written a citizens guide to reducing school district tax burden that can be found at the 1851 Center site. Basically, what Thompson is advocating is that there is a very little utilized R.C. 5705 and R.C. 5748 that allows tax payers to reduce or eliminate most types of school district property and income taxes enacted through local levy elections. Specifically it is R.C. 5705.261 that permits Ohioans to use local initiatives to win the reduction or repeal of qualifying tax levies. Some of the rules for reduce or repeal of a tax is the voters must have approved the levy. The levy must not expire, and there can only be one attempt every five years. Read it for yourself here:

http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/5705.261

So for those who want to attempt this, be sure to take a page out of the union playbook and collect the ballot signatures during the summer while all the school employees are on their Caribbean cruises and vacationing at Disney World so that they can’t match your signatures with an attempt of their own to reduce their own levies with a ballot attempt of .000001 mil just to keep residents from being able to strike back at them, since another attempt would have to wait 5 years before trying again.

The sum of these matters is this—tax payers do not have to be passive victims always waiting for a school district to attack them with never ending tax increases. There are measures right now in place to strike back at the labor union methods of placing levy after levy, after levy on a ballot until it passes—then attempting to put it on in the summer like they did in Pickerington to stack the votes in favor of the school employees since school was off everyone’s mind. That district finally passed their levy after several attempts. Lawyers at the 1851 Center like Maurice Thompson are licking their chops for an opportunity to help right the wrongs that are going on in Ohio Schools at the expense of children for the gain of extremely self centered public employees who are out-of-touch and just plain greedy. But people have to call them, and let them help. Tax fighters have to be willing to collect signatures, but most of the people I know who fight these things have done all this activity before, so it isn’t difficult. I plan to call Maurice if Lakota ever manages to sneak one by in my district. But for those who have had them sneak by, like Lebanon, like Fairfield, like Forest Hills, like Little Miami, I recommend you call Maurice today and begin the process of removing those levies and showing the school boards that the tax payers of your districts are not going to take it.

We do not have to sit around waiting for school districts to keep pushing and pushing and pushing a tax until they get it passed, forcing taxpayers to just endure the higher tax grudgingly for the next 4 to 5 years until they try to raise taxes again in order to pay for the extraordinary salaries of their public employees. Now taxpayers can strike back, and do so in a huge way. And the way is being paved in Westerville with the help of Maurice Thompson at the 1851 Center. The wave of the future is not in tax increases initiated by bloated school districts but in the removal of them by the citizens who refuse to take the initiatives lying down. Such vigilance is the best way to bring fiscal responsibility to school districts by forcing changes that the schools will not enact upon themselves because of the radicalism of the unions that infect them.

As for Lakota, they will learn that they can succeed quite well without those middle manager principals, and that all along many of those administrators were just useless positions that could easily have been picked up by the assistant principals or a promoted teacher. The urgency at Lakota is only because the residents have taken the effort to manage our costs by saying no to tax increases. But for the other districts around Ohio who have been unfortunate in having taxes raised behind their backs after intense struggles—such as Little Miami who put their levy on the ballot 9 times—there is now a tool that tax payers can use to shut down those levy increases so that there will soon be no place for the bandits to escape to, forcing them as public employees to deal with the facts of reality.

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The Tea Party and Me: Politicians only have themselves to blame–“No They Can’t”

Just a bit of a disclaimer—I hope it wasn’t thought that because the Lakota Levy attempt of 2012 has been called off, and it would seem that the school district is going to take measures to solve some of their financial problems, that I was just going to go away. Maybe the belief was that I would just go swimming, or do cartwheels in my back yard, because that is not my plan. There have long been issues regarding local politics that I simply couldn’t get to because the Lakota information consumed so much of my time. Well, not anymore.

I have seen the spike in hits here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom no doubt from many of my political enemies around town who thought I might take a break as they looked at my latest article about the West Chester trustees. I thought I’d take the time to address them before their imaginations get away from them. When it comes to my involvement with the Tea Parties around town it is true that I do support them. But when it comes to the politics of the Tea Parties, we have many differences, so my relationship is not one where I take marching orders from any group of Tea Partiers. If my articles seem to be motivated by Tea Party ideology it is where I am on common ground with them that those articles reflect. Much of the Tea Party movement is simply dedicated to educating the public and peaceful protest of big expensive government. Their danger to the political process is that those who have been playing games in broad daylight with tax payer resources now have a group to fear who intends to expose those acts in pursuit of fiscal responsibility, and they have a right to do so. That is called, “management” of financial resources. Actually, they have an obligation to do so.

Regarding Catherine Stoker and Lee Wong, I’m sure they think it’s unfair to be at the center of these investigations, but they are public servants—with “servants” being the operative word. They are not part of any political class of rulers, as much as they might pretend to be amongst themselves.

Where I differ from most of the Tea Party members is many are just a bit too far to the political left for me. Many of them that I know quite well I disagree with their desire to even play politics with some of the obvious instances of corruption that are openly known, and if I had it my way, there would be much harsher treatment of those crimes than just exposing the stories with the light of awareness. While many might consider me a radical right-wing advocate, from my point of view that’s only because they are so far to the left they have lost perspective. The Tea Party members I know are good people who still believe in the system of government we have now, and they wish to work within that system to tweak the republic back into some sense of honesty, which I think is a noble cause, and I support if it’s possible.

Personally, I don’t see hope in such a process. I think the bad guys should be rounded up and confronted directly and left to fate to determine the result. I have no desire to play patty-cake with bad guys and to me, a politician who openly lies and manipulates a situation—even a minor one so that they might personally advance their positions are bad guys and gals and I have no tolerance for it. None.

I have nothing personal against Lee Wong, but he got caught manipulating “the system” to his advantage over the Eagleridge crosswalk. Lee’s wife is on the board of the Beckett Ridge Homeowners association and it is very obvious by the mountains of evidence that Lee worked with Cathy Stoker to get a crosswalk put in for personal use at the expense of the tax payers. It was a feather in everyone’s cap and they used a disabled person to advance the cause, and it was wrong.

I started watching the West Chester trustees and their actions more closely because of the comments by Stoker in the Enquirer article against me where she jumped on the band wagon to attack me, so I have been looking to return the favor. Why she felt she should include herself in the obvious school levy campaign against me indicates guilt to some extent, so it drew my attention to her activities. When I saw how the two of them treated, and disrespected Trustee Lang, who I do personally like, I took offense to their behavior. To watch in the videos how Trustee Lee became so defensive and attacked Lang as being “unethical” really pissed me off to put it mildly. It reminded me of how this same group of politicians attempted to paint me as a “woman hater” in the Cincinnati Enquirer because they could not answer the questions about school funding that I brought up. It’s an old political trick where something you do is taken out of context and twisted around by a political enemy to mount peer pressure against the provoker. In my case it was a blog posting were I blasted a select group of levy supporters in a negative way once I discovered they were protesting against me outside of the local Kroger grocery store. For Lang he went through a trial a few years back and Lee attempted to shut Lang down in their spirited debate with that bad memory because Lee was trying to cover up the collusion he had been doing to have the crosswalk built. And believe me; I understand what Lang went through. It’s partly because of it that I am happy to say he’s one of the few politicians I respect.

So Cathy and Lee only have themselves to blame for the attention that is headed their way. I wouldn’t have been looking too closely if Cathy didn’t make herself part of my personal story and Lee obviously does not have a working relationship with a person I respect in Mr. Lang. So they can be angry at the West Chester Tea Party for paying close attention to the happenings in their community and questioning the way funds are allocated. They can send the zoning people over to harass the Grand Ole Pub because it’s no secret that they have been hosting the West Chester Tea Party social gatherings, although I wouldn’t say the owner is a radical right winged guy, just a lover of American nostalgia. And they can consult their advisors about how to proceed next. But they only have one person to blame for the attention that is coming their way—themselves. The kind of political games I witnessed over the Eagleridge crosswalk is exactly the kind of thing that has virtually destroyed America, and to ignore it is wrong. Without question Stoker and Wong believe they were doing the right thing for the community, so they saw no harm in undermining the political process by initiating the allocation of funding 6 weeks before the issue was even brought to the board and Wong had his neighbor initiate the deal before the trustees so it would be recorded in the public minutes of the meeting officially. The trick from Cathy Stoker to sucker Lang into agreeing to hear the testimony at the conclusion of the meeting only to have it used against Lang weeks later as a way to say the project is already done and he agreed to it is underhanded at best, and represents bad politics in the purest way. It is not the job of these politicians to “rule” on our behalf as political elites, and that’s how these trustees behaved, and it deserves to be exposed.

To be angry at Lang, or the West Chester Tea Party—or any other affiliate is misdirected. Collusion in politics costs a lot of money, and years of that type of behavior has bankrupted our nation, and we have an obligation to fix it when we see it. So a note to the politicians reading this—you better get with the program. You can try to suck up to the local Tea Party groups all you want, but know this; I don’t work for them, or anybody. If I see bad things going on, I will expose it here for the world to see since our newspapers won’t do the task themselves. And I won’t stop until there are no more bad deeds going on in politics. It’s that simple. So choose your next moves carefully, and decide best how to serve your community. Because the methods of the past will not work in the future–the Tea Party wants to work with you to make a better world. I simply want to put every bad politician out of business and eliminate their job completely so we can all be free of them. Shaking hands does not achieve that for me. But life as it was will not be possible.

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American Families Lost 40% of their Wealth: The little bits of socialism in West Chester

I received a Twitter feed the other day indicating American families had lost 40% of their wealth during the recession (depression) that occurred from 2007 to 2010. The same people who are scratching their heads now wondering how this has happened are still not talking about the obvious problem in Europe where similar numbers are being reported. The common problem that permeates all the economies involved in this world-wide recession is a global commitment to socialism that has caused these losses, yet nobody will call it out by name.

The depression of 2007 to present has been caused by socialism and the commitment to Keynesian economics. For the same reason that academics have been reluctant to reveal scientific discoveries that shatter their previously published studies, academics have been very reluctant to take responsibility for their commitment to socialism and communism in our public schools. Millions of college students have went through communism basic training in college, and are now expected to function in a capitalist economy, and they don’t know how—so the American economy is failing, because education failed The United States population, just as it has the people of Europe. European socialists actually expect to retire at age 55 only to become leeches for the second half of their lives off their collective societies.

To provide an example of how socialism has impacted our local economy I’ll repeat a story I heard from a business owner while having lunch the other day. The owner complained to me that he had advertised for his business in his parking lot on Sundays, just like many of his neighboring businesses have; only he was stunned to find that one of the zoning employees for the Township of West Chester cited him for the infraction. The owner asked why he was being picked on instead of the other businesses, and there wasn’t a good answer, because it is a commitment to socialism that the young zoning employees are committed to, not capitalism, and this particular business was being targeted because two of the three trustees of West Chester do not like the kind of people who come to this particular business, so regulation is used to make the act of doing business difficult. The politicians involved hope that the owner will eventually give up and go out of business. So in this way, local politics can pick winners and losers and those who want to stay in business learn that if they want to play ball, they have to grease some squeaky wheels in politics.

There are 5 zoning employees in West Chester, most of them hired during the building boom of the last decade. Many of them are no longer needed, but because they are government employees, they are nearly impossible to get rid of, so now they have nothing to do but create needless regulation and enforce those regulations on the businesses they see their bosses—the trustees—do not approve of, so they can maintain their jobs and appear to be effective. In this case none of the individual players are evil. But the system they are functioning under is socialism, and the collective nature of that philosophy is evil, because it allows a hierarchy class to pick winners and losers. In the case of the business owner I was having lunch with, he was being punished for being the “wrong” kind of business as determined by the hierarchy of two out of three West Chester trustees and the zoning employees were using regulation to decide what kind of business succeeds or fails in West Chester.

http://www.westchesteroh.org/CDPlanning.cfm

This isn’t just isolated to West Chester where zoning employees use regulation to control the flow of business. Just to the north in Liberty Twp, a Frisch’s restaurant that is due to open in August of 2012 experienced similar harassment. That restaurant almost didn’t happen because the builders were at odds with the zoning employee in Liberty Twp over whether or not that particular restaurant could have the famous Big Boy statue in front of their store. A regulation created by Jonathan West who is heavily petitioned against by several builders to be removed from power because of his open abuse of building investment in the region prevented the construction of the new Frisch’s for well over a year basically due to the issue of the famous statue. This same Liberty Twp zoning employee has went to great trouble going around the township harassing businesses in the same way that West Chester zoning employees have.

I’ve spoke to non business residents about these zoning issues and they almost always say to me, “but if it wasn’t for zoning, those greedy builders could do whatever they want and would only get richer.” And there you have it. That is the cause of the 40% loss in American wealth—the American people have been taught to distrust businessmen and business women, corporations, builders, developers, inventors, anyone who is rich—they are all targets from all the little socialists who seek government jobs and a lifetime of justifying their jobs with coercion sucking up to the political class. In the case of the zoning employees, it is the majority rule on the Township trustee boards who decides what businesses will be heavily regulated and which will not just like cops pull over sports cars with young 25-year-old men more often than the middle-aged tax payer in a “family car,” because the regulation is a “nudge” created by the collective to help shape society into the vision of the political class. The trustees have to show the community that they are doing tasks the voters can see, so they use regulation to give themselves performance measures and they use those same regulations to pick successful businesses and failed businesses. The zoning people just like the police “enforce” the law of politicians so that socialism can grow.

None of this is intentional. Human beings do what they are taught, and unfortunately for more than 40 years, socialism has been taught to the American people, and they have accepted it thinking they were being patriotic American citizens. They did not see the red flag of the Soviet Union, or China, so they did not think they were advocating socialism on a clear path to communism when they embraced the tyrannical polices of township trustees and their zoning employees. But it is socialism that makes the cost of doing business either prohibitive or conducive, and if a business is out of favor with the “political class” even in a conservative area like West Chester or Liberty Twp they will be put out of business with excessive court costs and fines. There is simply too much government that have their hands in too many businesses, and there are too many people who believe that regulation protects them from “greedy” rich people who just want to make money.

Schools have taught generations of young people who “making money” is a bad, evil act. Yet the world is shocked when they learn that socialism in Europe is bankrupting the Eurozone and America has lost 40% of it’s wealth in just 4 short years. Lack of wealth creation is the natural byproduct of having an anti-wealth creation mentality in society, and most Americans are just a little bit guilty of accepting socialism without realizing they are accepting a parasitic political philosophy that is inadvertently destroying their lives. But the guiltiest of this serious crime are those who know better, but advance socialism anyway because they consider themselves good little Democrats, progressives, ex-hippies, or civil rights crusaders. They refuse to admit to themselves that it is their political philosophy that is ruining the world, and they deny the fact to themselves. They are no different from the overweight person who claims to be on a diet and orders a tremendous amount of fattening food at a restaurant but justifies their diet by ordering a “diet” soda. Those same types of people claim they are committed to capitalism, yet they want huge government employee expansion, wonderful federal pensions, and short—nonproductive work hours—then they wonder why no wealth has been created and businesses are failing. They also wonder why nobody is stepping forward to start a business when they have zoned land to attract such development. The reason is socialism. More often than not, the zoning administrator who drives around on a Sunday afternoon picking on businesses who break their zoning regulations are making more money than the owners of such businesses by the time the business owner follows all the federal regulations, state regulations, and community regulations, then pays for their accountants, their attorney fees and pads the pockets of the local politicians by donating tremendous amounts of money to the charities in fashion at the time. It is the little socialist government zoning worker who sits at their desk all day maintaining their Facebook accounts and little else who make much more money at the end of the day while the business owner worries each night before he goes to bed how he can stay open for one more day, or one more week.

Hmmmmm, I wonder why America is losing its wealth?

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Teacher’s Threaten to Strike in Chicago: The big labor union show with a puppet mayor

Does anyone remember when President Obama told America right after his election in 2008 that The United States had a lot to learn from Europe, and that we should strive to be more like them as a nation? Now, as Spain is begging for a financial bailout, Greece is locked in a civil war in the it’s streets between the communists and Nazi parties, France is collapsing under it’s newly elected socialist president and Italy is failing especially in their economy and is not far behind Spain. When President Obama pointed at Europe and stated that The United States should be more like them, he was saying that it was socialism that America needed to emulate, and within four years of open socialism from the start of Obama’s presidency to the end of it, Europe is collapsing under economic failures directly created by the small little book called The Communist Manifesto. Those who followed the economic policies of Karl Marx have led their nations to financial ruin.

In America, thankfully not quite too late, some are beginning to see the socialist tendencies being taught in our schools and openly advocated by our government. Some in the Tea Party movements and other liberty groups are beginning to fight back in an attempt to save the capitalism that built America from the encroachment of communism. Most notably, the recall election in Wisconsin to remove Scott Walker as governor was the grand attempt by socialist labor unions to maintain their grip on economic power and dedication to expand socialism to every corner of the world.

Yet in the city of Chicago, President Obama’s favorite city, it is socialism that rules still as the teachers union for the Chicago Public School system voted by a margin of more than 75% of it’s members to impose a potential strike in mid-August 2012 if the CPS management cannot come to contract terms with the Chicago Teacher’s Union which expires on June 30th 2012. You can read the announcement of this strike at the website of Progress Illinois seen below, which is Illinois version of Progress Ohio. (Special note, all such “progress” groups are essentially socialist/communist advocates. They use the name “progress” to hide their real intentions, which is to follow the path of Europe. So beware of them all. They are anti-capitalist—and therefore anti-American.)

http://progressillinois.com/posts/content/2012/06/11/whats-next-after-ctu-strike-authorization-vote

It is clear in this proposed Chicago teachers strike why the unions are against voucher schools and privately run schools, because under capitalism, if free enterprise were involved in education, the government schools would not be able to maintain a monopoly and tactics like these massive teacher strikes would not work, because parents would have options in case their children’s school teachers did strike.

The issues that the CTU wish to strike over are of course wages. Currently, the average wage rate for CTU teachers is $69,000 and under the new contract the CTU wants a 29% increase over that amount. Another stipulation is the teachers of the CTU are upset that the teacher work day will increase by ten percent from 420 minutes to 460 minutes a day. At 460 minutes of contracted work, that comes out to a work day of 7.6 hours. The audacity of such expectations is that those CTU employees are so incredibly out of touch from what the average American is experiencing that they don’t see that such an expectation is ridiculously foolish. The CTU employees are suffering from the same inflated viewpoint that citizens in Europe expect which is bankrupting the entire Euro zone.

The first thing any rational person would ask when listening to the CTU demands is how on earth could they expect in this day and age to succeed with this insane, and unprecedented strike attempt. Well, the answer is in whom the mayor of Chicago is, the former White House Obama heel licker Rahm Emanuel, who at his heart is a big time progressive, pro union advocate. The union leaders of the CTU would like the public to believe they are locked in a mortal battle with the Mayor Emanuel, but I will declare this—that the whole thing is a political stunt and the Mayor is in on the act.

Emanuel and the labor leaders of the CTU plan to allow the threat of a strike to percolate and gain media attention during the summer of 2012, and at the last-minute, Emanuel and the union leaders will strike a deal, and both parties will declare victory over the charade imposed upon the tax payers of Chicago. Their combined hopes, along with the White House are that unions all over America will use Chicago as an example of strength and follow with the same type of strike attempts in every city in the nation. The unions desire a victory after the paralyzing loss in Wisconsin so they are staging one in Chicago with the progressive Mayor Emanuel to prove that the extortion attempts of old still work, before the unions lose all their members due to ineffectiveness.

The goal for all involved is not to bring relief to the tax payers of Chicago or even to help one single child, but to spread the socialism which is crushing Europe all over America. The unions realize that they must move fast, or they will be completely out of power within a few years, so they need to radicalize their base with a victory in Chicago, which Rahm Emanuel is poised to give them.

The fight in Chicago is nothing more than a WWF wrestling match. The victors are already determined, and are simply staging a fight on behalf of the American people. The staged fight is designed to breathe life into unions bent over with defeat as tax payers everywhere are beginning to fight back. Progressive know that if they don’t rally their troops now, it will be over for them in America very soon, because Europe is failing miserably under socialism/communism and the dream of a communist worldwide utopia so fantasized by the political left for so many years is quickly evaporating like a puddle of water on a sidewalk in Columbia, South America. It is communism that these progressives on both sides of the Chicago labor dispute desire, only they won’t tell the taxpayers that. What they show is a mayor who must come to the negotiating table with the CTU, forced there by the threat of a strike, to negotiate a collective-bargaining agreement and preserve the union way of life into the future. Their attempt is as futile as the fools of Europe marching in the streets and setting police officers on fire to protest free government support for their lazy, unproductive lives. And such a description is the antithesis of your local school teacher who complains that $69,000 a year is not enough money for only working 7.8 hours a day.


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Mt. Healthy’s Class of 2012: Punishing parents for loving their children

When a Mt. Healthy star football player recently graduated his family cheered extensively, according to the Mt. Healthy superintendent. The young man’s family cheered so much that the ceremony was held up by the superintendent untill the cheering stopped. You can see in the clip below how the superintendent purposely stopped the next name from being read off till the arena was once again silent as she had instructed prior to the graduation ceremony. The Mt. Healthy superintendent was working from a political agenda that is spreading across the country in 2012 and the threat of keeping the student’s graduation certification for not following the school rules is not an isolated case in Mt Healthy, Ohio. The superintendent could have allowed the next name to be read, and everyone would have heard, but she purposely stopped the ceremony so she could enforce the nationwide agenda circulating around Department of Education under the leadership of Emperor Obama.

The school for that small display of fanfare from the graduating student’s family felt it had the community authority to enforce twenty hours of community service for not following the school rules. The superintendent of Mt. Healthy and her staff are of course insane in their beliefs, and way out of line. The school even if they did have students sign a document before the ceremony taking responsibility for any outlandish behavior do not have the right to enforce such a measure. The school of Mt. Healthy has forgotten that they are but employees of the parents and students, not a governmental ENFORCER of bureaucratic policies! The effort of the Mt. Healthy superintendent is further proof that public schools are progressive institutions intent on destroying individuality with subtle messages of communism. The Mt. Healthy school district has no authority to force the young graduate or his family to perform any community service as reported by Channel 9 News, yet they did anyway and audaciously proclaimed themselves judge, jury, and executioner.

This behavior exhibits how far reaching public schools see their roles in the modern family, and the intention is to prevent exhibitions of this kind that highlight the efforts of individuals. All the students as mandated by the Obama Department of Education are to be treated equally whether they are black or white, boys or girls, tall or short, skinny or fat, straight or gay, fast or slow, all sounds wonderful taken at face value. But the real intention is not “equality” and “fairness,” but rather selling collectivism by stamping out individuals by discouraging solitary endeavors. This is the same policy that allows progressive politicians to use the so-called “civil rights” movement or “war on woman” to manipulate mass groups of voting blocs to achieve communist aims that are revealed behind the proclamations if looked upon closely. Individual praise is frowned upon in these crusades. It is only sacrifice of the individual for the sake of the collective that they highlight for the good of the masses.

The message sent to the Class of 2012 at Mt. Healthy is not fairness for the next student to be called after all the cheering, but to let every member of the arena know that individual Excepetionalism will not be tolerated. I listened to the Mt. Healthy superintendent give a few interviews defending her position, and the reporters of course pandered to her crimes, but attempting to sell the far-reaching authority of the Mt. Healthy school district on behalf of fairness and maintaining order for future graduations is rather pathetic. This action by the school district of Mt. Healthy is simply a disguise for the real intention, destruction of individual endeavor. At the Mt. Healthy graduation ceremony cheers for the collective Class of 2012 was acceptable. Cheers for individuals as regulated by the Gestapo superintendent of Mt. Healthy are not.

This trend in public education advocated by the teachers and administrators, many of whom function under socialist leaning philosophy to begin with, is to show that individualism is to be scorned, and collectivism embraced. The message that no one child is special is the common mantra of our day–it is the essence of public education. Educators are less concerned about math scores and knowledge of history. Their primary concern is to make sure that students do not believe they are special in any way unless they play a sport that unites the pride of the school in the community. Individuals are not embraced unless they serve the collective institution. Public education through their government monopoly status and big labor unions are pursuing progressive policies at the cost of the local tax payers. In Mt. Healthy the superintendent there attempted to obtain a tax increase the day after a recent failure by sending a message to the community that they will continue to see tax increases bi-annually forever unless they break down and approve the tax hike. School districts like Mt. Healthy behave like this because they do not view individual families as sacred, but simply as part of the collective blob that makes up their district. So they see no reason why everyone should not support their efforts with tax increases as it is the school district that sets the law in communities. That’s why the Mt. Healthy superintendent thinks she has a right to enforce “community service” on the parents of a graduate if the student doesn’t wish to do it.

Tax payers were always told that if they loved their child, they’d vote for a school levy, because public education is essential to creating a well rounded adult. But what we we’re learning is that public education is truly a process of destroying individual identities so that adults will cast away any notions they may have of growing up uniquely. For the proof and a very audacious example of this public education strategy listen to this administrator tell his class of 2012 that the students in the ceremony are “not special” but are in fact much the same. If you take the time to watch through the first couple of minutes you’ll hear this educrat profess that there is a reason all the student’s caps and gowns make them all uniform—because the intent is for them all to be seen collectively, not individually.

The push for collectivism comes from governments desire to live. So long as society is made up of a collective whole, and not a bunch of free thinking individuals, school teachers, tax auditors, and Washington educrats will have jobs serving the collective blob of people lacking individual identity. Individuals who can do for themselves may find they have no use for government, or the silly socialist schools of public education. Government workers at all levels find themselves promoting collectivism instead of the American principles of individualism because that’s the only way they can keep their very lucrative jobs under the monopoly of government schools, is by keeping people from asking any questions and blindly following orders no matter how ridiculous.

The situation in Mt. Healthy is not the only one of its kind, but it deserves special notice, as the parents of the popular student have refused to do the “community service” demanded by the school. The school revealed too much of their real intentions at the graduation ceremony for the Mt. Healthy Class of 2012. And thank goodness they did, so tax payers can really see what they are paying for. Public schools no matter what the community are teaching open socialism with tax payer dollars, and they will continue to do so until communities demand to put a stop to it. These teaching methods come from the Federal Department of Education, so are not alone the work of the Mt Healthy superintendent. But the responsibility to refuse unjust mandates does fall on the individual families who find themselves attacked by these government schools as they attempt to hold the diploma hostage from students in order to force social change upon the community. This tactic by the superintendent at Mt. Healthy is no different than creating pay-for-play sports to push for levy increases, or cutting busing to punish parents for failing a school levy. Or teachers who march on their school boards with threats of strikes to drive up their wage costs. This time, it is the superintendent who seeks to carry out the Obama platform of progressive education which if given the proper name would be called red communism in full bloom. Communism is all about destroying the individual in favor of the collective, and this is what is going on at graduations all over The United States in 2012. And it will continue until communities stop taking it, and decide to push back, like the parents of the student in Mt. Healthy have done. It is parents like those that make America the greatest country on earth. The rest of the world would take the punishment without question, but not in America. And not in Mt. Healthy. As long as parents like that produce children like that star football player, America will be just fine—and the socialism that the schools intend will perish, one school at a time by simply saying “NO” to the authority of the school, “NO” to the mandates from the DOE, and “NO” to more tax increases which promise to bring more of this behavior with more socialist teachers and their ideologies of individual destruction.

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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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The Best Transformer Costumes: Opening the new Tranformer 3D Ride at Universal Studios

I know what I want for this Halloween’s costume, the Optimus Prime outfit seen below at the grand opening of the new Transformers 3D ride at Universal Studios in Florida absolutely rocks!!!!  I want one!!

The don’t make them any better than that!

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Rich Hoffman
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