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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When asked to describe himself, Doc said…

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

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

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

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

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

LAKOTA SCHOOLS ISSUE 7

Total
Number of Precincts

70
Precincts Reporting

70

100.0%
Times Counted

26804/64844

41.3%
Total Votes

26735
FOR THE TAX LEVY

13488

50.45%
AGAINST THE TAX LEVY

13247

49.55%

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

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

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

 

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

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

Well, never fear, No Lakota Levy has caught one of the thieves with pictures, and can be seen below.  The man is holding in his hand a No Lakota Levy sign ripped off its frame by him and he is on the phone obviously happy with himself for the action.  He even did a favor and looked squarely at the camera so his facial features can be clearly seen.  Wasn’t that nice of him?Screenshot_2013-11-03-16-23-16-1

Screenshot_2013-11-03-16-21-22-1 (1)For the police, the license plate number of the guy is clearly displayed, so just run his plates and go over and arrest him for damage to property and interference of a campaign.   It won’t take more than a few moments, and then you can go back to your doughnuts, your Playboy magazines, and texting everyone on your phones while you pretend to be busy pursuing justice.  It shouldn’t interrupt the Lakota investigation of the teacher………….I mean student who left behind the shooting spree warning.  Justice waits for nobody, so now the Sheriff’s department can resume its man hunt for the would-be terrorist.  Just call up a deputy, give them the plate number of the man shown above, and take care of business on behalf of No Lakota Levy who has had their property and message destroyed with the endorsement of the government school of Lakota.  If Lakota doesn’t condemn the behavior seen in the picture clearly, they obviously support it.  They guy walked by a For Lakota sign, so he obviously is from that political faction.Screenshot_2013-11-03-16-21-56-1

Because of those pictures the proof of theft is provided, and nobody can say that they don’t know whose doing it.  The information has been provided and now all that is required is action on behalf of the authorities.Screenshot_2013-11-03-16-22-22-1

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

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

Rich Hoffman

 www.OVERMANWARRIOR.com

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

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

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

Just before the Lakota levy vote, superintendent Mantia sent out the following letter to business owners all across West Chester and Liberty Twp.  She likely broke the law sending it because it is campaign literature for levy passage created during her contract hours of work which is technically against Ohio Revised Code 3315.07, which states in part “no board of education shall use public funds to support or oppose the passage of a school levy or bond issue or to compensate any school district employee for time spent on any activity intended to influence the outcome of a school levy or bond issue.”  But whose going to prosecute her………..Sheriff Jones?  He has a deal with Mantia if the levy passes, so he’ll gladly look the other way and so will all the state prosecutors.  The letter from Mantia is a thinly disguised reminder that the business community must pay their “fair share” as determined by the needs of the many.  Mantia means to strong-arm the business community into supporting higher taxes so to avoid the public disgrace of refusing.  I know quite a few business owners in and around Lakota and not a single one of them believe the arguments Mantia presented on the document.  They know that less than 5% of the proposed levy revenue is going to the kind of things she addressed.  The rest of the money is going to Lakota employee raises.  Yet they have felt compelled in the past to just go along to get along.  If the school raised taxes, they’d just raise their prices of service.  This worked for decades until the present time when consumers have proven that they have had enough, and won’t purchase items at a higher price.  So businesses are no longer willing to pass off those higher costs as they are between a rock and a hard place.  If they chose not to support a levy they get called names like selfish, mean-spirited, and have the PTA organizations threaten boycotts against their businesses, such as what happened after the last election.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  If they pass the tax increase off onto their customers, they will lose business.LAKOTA-LETTER[1]

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rich Hoffman

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Lakota’s Dirtiest Trick: The Monday of Shooter Doom–ahead of Election Day

OK, it’s been 24 hours since the article put up yesterday warned what would happen if an arrest was not made at Lakota due to the “gun scare” released to the media on Friday, November 1st about a supposed shooting spree coming on Monday, one day before Election Day.  So I’m going to paint the picture of what I think happened based on my experiences with the Lakota school system.  The short of it is that Lakota will stoop to no low to manipulate the public.  They require fear by their voters to override logic in order to win emotional votes.  What happened was a message was found written on a stall wall in the girls bathroom Wednesday October 30th at the Lakota East freshman building warning people to wear red to school this coming Monday if they did not want to be shot.   This prompted a letter home to parents warning them of the issue.  It just so happens that mass school shootings are the theme of this year’s levy attempt where even Sheriff Jones has whored away his conservative beliefs to support the public school in exchange for $350,000 applied to the hiring of armed officers to patrol the district’s hallways.   So don’t expect the Sheriff’s department to make any arrests in this case–because they would be arresting a radical levy supporting Lakota employee, not a student—and that would be embarrassing.

It should be easy to determine who wrote the note on a bathroom stall and if everyone did their jobs, an arrest would have been made by Friday instead of a press release going out to all the parents warning of impending doom on Monday.  But let’s pretend Lakota really wants to know who did it, here’s what they should have done.  A quick review of who was in the hall moving toward the girl’s bathroom during Wednesday would help narrow down the suspects.  Investigators should then use a handwriting expert to compare all known females who went into the bathroom that day with samples taken out of their personnel files.  Once this was done, the search would be narrowed down to roughly ten suspects who would then be interrogated to measure their responses and the perpetrator would be discovered. This should have happened already.  But it hasn’t.Lakota Letter

What most likely happened based on my experience with the institution was a crazy progressive leaning teacher went into the stall on her own accord after hearing about the terrible showing for the early voting numbers and wanted to push public sentiment toward the For Lakota message.  So she went into the bathroom probably between the 9 and 10 o’clock hour while the students were in class and wrote the message on the stall wall.  She hoped that a student would then see the message later and report the threat to authorities, which is what happened provoking mass hysteria, panic, and ultimately a spike in voter turn-out, better than what current numbers are showing for Lakota.  The reason the Lakota employee picked that particular time period is because they were nervous and wanted to get the act out-of-the-way early in the day, and also to provide time to let a student discover the message in time to alert authorities.

Of course Lakota officials wanted the message, and they don’t want to know who wrote it, because it gives them the fearful dialogue that fits their levy campaign—more security to capitalize off the Sandy Hook shootings.  In the back of their minds they actually worry about learning who wrote the letter because it would explode into another terrible school scandal right before the election.  That is why Lakota was quick to rationalize that it was a student looking for a free day off school, because that particular Monday, November 4th was originally scheduled as a day off for students.  It takes the edge off the impending doom just a bit.  But if the situation were legitimate, Superintendent Mantia and all the school board members, especially those running for re-election would be scrambling to get some face time on the various news outlets.  Instead they just turned the story over to Randy—who is running cover as usual, doing what he gets paid a lot of money to do—contain stories.

But nobody was fooled and even on the Lakota administration side, they fear the same thing I just proposed.  The very first comment when this story was reported in the West Chester Buzz:

More likely the note was posted by the school board to help get there levy attempt to pass on Nov 5th. Nothing like a good emotional scare to get people to vote the way you want them to.

Eric Smith

http://westchesterbuzz.com/2013/11/01/note-threatens-monday-shooting-at-lakota-east-freshmen-school/

Read More at: http://www.local12.com/template/cgi-bin/archived.pl?type=basic&file=/news/features/top-stories/stories/archive/2013/11/sif4dy9R.xml#.UnTLb3DIGzk

I’m not the only one who suspects that the writing on the wall was intended maliciously by an inside Lakota employee who wanted their $117.50 per month raise after levy passage.  As for the Butler County Sheriff’s department they will conveniently drag their feet until after the election to reveal what they probably already know—that the author of the threat letter was a teacher who foolishly believed the scheme would incite enough panic to pass a school levy on the fourth attempt.  The Sheriff’s office will handle the case in the same way as they did the police beating in West Chester.  They will get behind their union brothers and sisters at Lakota and support them, even when the evidence says otherwise.  CLICK HERE FOR DIRECT PROOF.

For more about the raises going to Lakota employees after the election read the link below.

https://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/lakota-employees-seeking-a-117-50-per-month-pay-raise-the-hidden-intention-of-the-2013-levy/

As it has been well documented, my experience with Lakota indicates that they will do anything to get their way.  I have seen them participate in open extortion, boycotting, and personal character assassination attempts.  I watched the network first-hand and learned how information flows through the political structure of Lakota when first they organized a direct attack against me with the famous Lakota Survey.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  When I lashed back, it was entertaining to see how school board vice president Julie Shafer working directly with superintendent Karen Mantia pulled the political strings of Trustee Cathy Stoker to launch an attack against me in the Cincinnati Enquirer, hoping that it would put an end to No Lakota Levy.  CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW.  On more than one occasion I have watched these same people go after the individual lives of the people who stand against them and they will stoop as low as they have to in order to perform the task.  I have watched them cover up sex scandals with the same slick tenacity, and watched them openly defy the law on several occasions because like the police, they represent the authority of the state—and feel they are above the law.  So it doesn’t take much imagination to conclude that it was a teacher who wrote the message on the bathroom wall because they needed a boost in the exit polling.  No doubt they know the same information that I do regarding exit numbers from early voting.  I haven’t talked about it much because for me the election isn’t over until after Tuesday, and the NO voters have to hold their ground and show up.  They have to VOTE NO and not take it for granted that the election won’t even be close.  But so far the numbers have not been good for Lakota, and without question this has them worried enough to attempt some crazy extremist plot to win 2% to 3% of a gullible public during an election.

If the Butler County Sheriff’s department led by Sheriff Jones does find out who wrote the letter it won’t be a student that they will take to jail, it will be a teacher—or possibly even an administrator, and Lakota will experience its deepest embarrassment yet.  It will be a national story—I’ll make damn sure of it—you can place the bets now.  I think the people who currently run Lakota are vile human beings, I have seen their ugly side, and I don’t want to pay them the tax money they already extract from me against my will, let alone more.  In my opinion, they are bad people up to no good and I don’t want them teaching the next generation.  That position may seem extreme now, because not everyone has experienced them quite the way I have, but over time, most people will arrive at the same conclusion by default.  But from then to now it is important to not let Lakota get away with this public relations stunt that is criminal in nature.  The authorities cannot be trusted to do the right thing because they are all on the same team.  The only defense there is against Lakota is to keep more money out of their pockets.  And you can do that dear reader by voting NO on the Lakota levy on November 5th, 2013.  Don’t forget, and don’t take it for granted.  Let Lakota know what you think of them with a vote that will send a message more powerful than any legal action could possibly achieve.  The best form of justice is when the bad guys do get punished, and the way to do that in Lakota is to keep money out of their pockets—and in yours with a VOTE NO!

I know Sheriff Jones reads here, so if I’m wrong………….prove it.  The burden of proof falls on the Butler County Sheriff’s department because the track record at Lakota says I’m right.

And as to those who thought NO LAKOTA LEVY would be over after that little stunt on March 15th 2012.  How do you like the signs all over town, and the ads in the newspapers, and the quotes in the press?  Yea………….that’s what I thought.  :  )

Rich Hoffman

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Lakota Wastes More Money: The Sun Associates report that cost $19,000 to pass a levy

Over the weekend Lakota staff, school board members, and the coerced use of many dozens of children confiscated one of the buildings that tax payers own to hold a rally for the upcoming levy vote.  Of course the event received excellent media coverage as local press depends heavily on sports programs and charity stories coming out of public education for content. However, they always ignore the faults of such institutions, which was clear in the Channel 9 coverage shown below.  For the online edition, the coverage was pretty even, but for the video footage the slant was definitely in favor of the pro levy factions, ignoring many of the fallacies which have caused the desire for levy approval.

One such story that has been ignored during the entire levy campaign by virtually everyone is the notion that Lakota gave $20,000 to McKibben Demographics http://www.mckibbendemographics.com/aboutus.html to provide a detailed enrollment report as recently as February of 2013. It is a very detailed report full of the kind of information that led to the video I produced called A Whip Trick To Save Lakota.  CLICK HERE TO REVIEW.  The McKibben Report showed that Lakota was about to experience severe declines in enrollment leading to massive layoffs at the public school, which was information they did not want to hear—so they ignored it.

Last fall (Oct, 2012) Lakota spent $19,800 to Sun Associates http://www.sun-associates.com/staff.html to provide them the plan they are using as a basis for Lakota’s technology expansion behind the levy campaign. The Sun Associates plan has a lot of commentary based on surveys taken from parents, teachers, and students.  A lot of the report is academic nonsense that is meant to be viewed with progressive/Democratic eyes.  Sun Associates are a Massachusetts group in the heart of progressive territory—New England.  Other than Lakota (which they cite on their web page) all the rest of their studies have been in Massachusetts and New York—hardly bastions of conservativism—not in the way that Butler County is. Essentially, Lakota spent almost $40K to get outside advice, and one of those sources is a progressive “Think Tank” not reflective of the values in Butler County or the residents of Lakota.  The school chose to believe what they wanted to justify the levy attempt, and the media has given them a free pass choosing to do soft stories about the impact of the lack of money, and not asking the crucial question as to why.  The school recklessly spent money yet again to get two reports done, but only picked one that they could use to justify a tax increase.

This isn’t new information, and only gets reported on blog sites like this one.  It is one more example of all the reasons more funding should be denied to Lakota.  Tax increases produce money that does not go children, it gets wasted on reports like the one from Sun Associates to use as clubs against a community that doesn’t have the same values, or standards as the region the report was conducted.  The cost of those two reports is roughly the entry salary of a typical teacher at Lakota (under 5 years) and if Lakota was so worried about their employees……….or the children, they would have saved the money for the report to contribute to their payroll needs.  But they didn’t.  Instead, they held a rally at tax payer expense—because it was our building, and sent out press releases of a feel good story to the local press, which returned the favor and covered it as all parties ignored the root of the problem, reckless spending on stupid things like the Sun Associations report.

The crowd in the Channel 9 report was less than in years past, but it still indicates that there will be a number of really stupid people who will vote for the Lakota levy.  They are stupid because the school is wasting money on progressive causes that work against conservative educations and those voters are willing to trade away the values, beliefs, and futures of their children just so the parents aren’t inconvenienced with having to drive their children to school.  By voting YES they are giving Lakota a free pass to continued wasteful spending, to openly deceive the public, and perpetuate a broken management system driven by unionized collective bargaining agreements—and that is just stupid.

This story is too complicated for most 3 minute news stories or 250 word newspaper articles—so they don’t cover all those hard aspects which are at the heart of the levy vote in November.  Instead it is easier to just do a story on how parents want their busing back, and that by voting in favor of more wasteful spending, somehow the children will benefit.  The hard story is that the children will benefit because they will no longer be used as extortion mechanisms of coercion against a cash-strapped public.  For those stories, I will continue to cover them here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom, because apparently nobody else will.

The responsible thing to do at Lakota is to vote NO on the Lakota levy, because anything else is simply stupid, irresponsible, and equivalent to throwing good money into a black hole from which it will never return.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

Rich Hoffman

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Lakota Employees Seeking A $117.50 Per Month Pay Raise: The hidden intention of the 2013 Levy

Even some of my most bizarre claims written about here at Overmanwarrior’s Wisdom will prove over time and lack of emotional investment to be correct.  Truth is often stranger than any fiction, and the blackness of the hearts behind politics are more sinister than a conscious mind can often allow itself to comprehend.  And this has never been more true than the Lakota levy of 2013 where the claim of necessity has been the safety of students from unforeseen dangers, assistance to the parents by returning some busing privileges, and a maintenance of real estate values to the Lakota community.  The reality is much, much grimmer than that, and once it is understood and accepted reveals the true intention of the proposed tax increase, which can be seen in the following chart.  Lakota employees stand to make after the acceptance of the tax increase at least $117.50 more per month with the proposed raises lined up for a 2014 teacher’s contract with the LEA.  As wages in the private sector have hovered around stagnation, and the economy through government tampering has flat lined, government workers here in the form of Lakota teachers and administrators seek to defy market value with forced tax increases to do nothing but pad their own pockets with looted money—stolen through coercion and deceits.Slide 4

The coercion and deceits are the emotional pleas and out-right lies about the status of the Lakota finances and the cause of educational failure.  Lakota uses children as emotional hostages to move voters into seeing their point of view.  As government workers they are using the same strategy that was so evident during the government shutdown where even the Great Smoky Mountains was shut down to inconvenience visitors into voting for politicians who will continue throwing money into a bottomless pit of inefficiency, and unregulated spending.  Even when Blount County police offered to keep the park open by doing the job of the park rangers, it was rejected for the same reason that Lakota would never allow a person like me to step in and run Lakota from the teaching side, or the finance side the way it should be properly.  The goal is never to solve the problem in government, but only to create more if the terms are not meant.  In Lakota’s situation, they propose less pain to the community if they get a tax increase, but the only thing that will change is that the employees will get a raise when their current wages are already too high and most of their positions are completely unneeded.  Most of the assistant positions at Lakota could be eliminated completely without having any impact on education.  Many jobs at the administrative level were created by government for the benefit of government.  Most of the employees at Lakota outside of direct supervision spend most of their day gossiping to one another and playing on the internet.  They don’t do much, yet they expect to get a raise in pay when they already average over 30% more in compensation than the average Lakota tax payer.

The Lakota levy is about nothing but money and they are more than willing to use the children of the community as strategic bargaining chips of pure extortion to protect themselves from more economic bad times ahead.  2014 will also bring additional costs to the average tax payer of Lakota through the Obamacare impact that will drive up insurance premiums from one of the largest socialist programs ever attempted against the American people with the most intrusive wealth redistribution scam ever conducted.  The exact cost of that intrusion will not be known until insurance companies figure out how much they are allowed to drive up their costs now that they are even more of an oligopoly than they were before, as the federal government has just guaranteed their existence and profitability.  Just for being born, every living, breathing citizen is now required to purchase the product of health insurance as choice has been removed.  (No wonder insurance companies supported Obama on this matter)  It is an arrangement by the federal government for the good of itself.  Similarly, Lakota is doing the same thing.  Every human being born is required by the federal government to get an education approved by the state.  For most children that means the public school that dominates the politics of their local community.  No matter how good the school is, or bad, there isn’t any choice in the matter.  If school is not attended, and taxes paid to it, coercion will be used to either jail the perpetrators, or seize the property for lack of payment.  The threat of coercion keeps everyone paying money through taxes even when they know it’s fundamentally wrong.  Lakota knows this, so they can get by with their exploitation of their students and the parents because government has given them a monopoly over the education process, so performance is never the issue.  Lakota is free to hire unneeded staff to “create jobs, or go on strike through their education union to drive up their wage rates.  But make no mistake about it, the Lakota levy is about nothing other than giving the employees at Lakota an average pay raise of $117.50 per month.

Most every tax payer in Lakota during 2014 will pay a lot more in either taxes or health insurance premiums—likely both.  Most families could easily be paying more than $150 per month in 2014 for the same level of insurance as they had in 2013 just because of the wealth redistribution plan enacted by the government against them and on top of that, Social Security is set to increase as well.  Then there is the Lakota levy where yet another inefficient government blob of incestuous public employees wish to raise taxes on the same tax base that is already hurting—and the only reason they are doing it is because the employees at Lakota want a pay raise, when most of the tax payers contributing to the school have no prospect of any kind of raise in the foreseeable future.  Some of them will likely lose their jobs once Obamacare kicks in.   Employers will not be able to afford carrying them any longer due to the cost increases.  But Lakota doesn’t care because whenever they get into trouble they can afford to carry all their employees even when declining enrollment states they should have a massive layoff.  Lakota can do this because the federal government has given them coercive power over property owners due to a monopoly status.  When Lakota needs more money they just propose a tax increase and promise that the children of the tax payers will not be harmed if the money is paid.

Meanwhile the umbrella of the federal government through now health care, through Social Security, and especially education hits the same tax payers year after year with cost increases where they nickel and dime every productive citizen until there isn’t anything left—and they don’t care whether or not the system is sustainable or not.  They are government, and they only want what they want and don’t care about the expense.  Lakota is a government entity—nothing more or less.  And they want their minimum pay raises of $117.50 per month and they could care less what it does to the rest of their community.  For that reason alone, every person of right mind should VOTE NO on the Lakota levy, and they should not feel ashamed in any way.  Saying NO is the only measure of fiscal restraint that there is against such a system that is parasitic in nature, and destructive in every way conceivable extending well beyond the wildest conspiracy theory.  Saying NO is a responsibility dedicated to good judgment in the face of an encroaching evil known as the federal government which looks to feed off the innocent for the benefit of its own growth and social imposition.

Rich Hoffman

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