For some reason, Michelle Obama thinks I’m her friend. She would be wrong. Tonight she sent me this ridiculous email:
Friend —
Four years ago, during his first inauguration, Barack and I were thrilled when thousands of Americans from every corner of the country took part in the National Day of Service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We were so excited because we knew that the celebrations weren’t just about a new president, but about everything that we can accomplish together. And that starts with service.
So this year, as we prepare for another celebration, we’re hoping to renew that spirit of service and citizenship — we’re calling on all Americans, including you, to volunteer in your community on Saturday, January 19th, for this year’s Day of Service.
Throughout our lives, Barack and I have seen that building a full life isn’t about what you can get for yourself — but what you can give to those around you. It’s a value that’s been central to our lives together. And as parents, it’s something we’re trying every day to pass down to our girls.
This inauguration is only possible because of you and all your hard work. Barack and I are so grateful for you, and for everything you’ve done for us and for our country.
Pledge to join us for the Day of Service at an event near you:
P.S. — When you commit to serve, you’ll be automatically entered for the chance to come out to Washington, D.C. for Barack’s inauguration — flight and hotel covered.
Lady……………..I don’t serve anybody. The only thing I’ll pledge is to throw you and your husband’s ass outta office. Enjoy your party spent with the money stolen from the American people through the strong-arm tactics of the IRS. The time is coming when the princes and princesses of The United States will learn that it is they who serve, not the other way around. And Michelle…………..sweetheart………….if you’re in such a giving mood……………..why not give back the millions of tax payer dollars you’ve spent on family vacations.
One of my changes in position on public education comes not from the revelation that the labor unions have no respect, or desire to work with taxpayers over school funding issues—but in learning about changes in education methods that are far better than the traditional way of learning. To my mind first comes Rosetta Stone software which is completely changing the way that foreign language is taught to individuals, and is quite revolutionary. It is only a matter of time before math, science, and language arts is revolutionized in the same way. In fact, I believe that Microsoft Office is the most significant revolutionary step forward that any society has ever made, because it helps solve many of the basic language problems in communication with its powerful word processor and very excellent Excel Spreadsheets which I think are stunning in their conception. The Cell design in Excel is one of those very unique inventions that are having a major impact on our society, because it makes complex mathematical computations accessible to a mass audience. No longer is an accounting degree from college necessary to understand complex financial calculations. This fact alone has helped stoke the fires for the present “freedom movement” that is going on in The United States where everything is being re-considered and re-invented as the revelation that we have all been duped by the political class for many years with fuzzy math and flat-out lies has been easily revealed by Microsoft Office’s powerful, user-friendly programs. Excel by Microsoft has helped average people blow the lid off the truth that used to be concealed in the brief cases of politicians and understood only by accountants and lawyers.
There is a currency system in the game that is specific to over 17 different planets, plus the Republic itself has a kind of universal currency. A player must manage their crafting skills, their armor damage, the specs of their weapons, armor and those of their companions. They must also manage a starship of their own including the fuel to get from point A to point B, and countless other small little details that must be constantly maintained as the game is played. Not to mention there are many opportunities to play with groups of 4 to 16 players at the same time so you have to coordinate with all of them to achieve mission objectives. Most of the time my wife and I work as a team, I’ll designate that I’ll perform one task while she does another maximizing our efforts and it was during all this that I realized that much of what The Old Republic was doing is far better than the kind of things public education is trying to achieve in the old fashion way of teaching. No wonder kids are so bored in school and aren’t learning anything when they are playing games like these for fun!
I had managed to curb my enthusiasm for the first 70 hours of game play by telling myself I only liked the game because it was new, or because we had to spend several thousand dollars to play it at the level I wanted to. But after we visited the planet of Alderaan, the planet that was destroyed in the first Star Wars film A New Hope I realized that I was not only playing the best video game I have ever played, but was witnessing a revolutionary new way educating tomorrow’s youth. Alderaan graphically and politically is absolutely magnificent. The reason we spent money on buying new computers just to play The Old Republic were for moments like the environment on Alderaan, with snow-capped mountains all around the major cities that even have mist drifting in front of them. There are windmills generating power off in the distance and everything is very lush, green, and advanced. For those who know me, my favorite amusement park in the world is Epcot Center at Disneyworld, and Alderaan in the game The Old Republic is like a living breathing city of Epcot design with very complicated politics that must be unraveled by the game’s players. It is extremely intriguing and really mind-blowing how vast that world is. We tried for over an hour to get to the edge of the map world, (the programmed content of just that planet) and couldn’t do it. Alderaan alone in The Old Republic is bigger in size than most video games that might be programmed for Xbox or the PC, so in relation to the other 17 planets in the game, it is difficult to comprehend how BioWare pulled all this material off. There had to be mountains of scripts, dialogue performed by actors for many, many hours and large teams of programs just to create all the substance—but to connect it all with a storyline is baffling. To stand on Alderaan and take it all in, and look at the mist forming and drifting across the mountains in the distance it had the same kind of look as the Smoky Mountains, the Colorado Rockies, the Canadian city of Banif, or the Swiss Alps—BioWare pulled off what I would consider an impossible feat with just this one environment—the illusion of reality. Once a player is in that reality, they are open to be taught in that environment. That is why The Old Republic is so superior to any other game experience I’ve personally ever had, but also sets the stage for education in the future. This is the way education should be handled with all America’s youth. No politics, no exploitation, none of the funding issues that are plaguing modern public education with inefficiency–but instead the kind of productivity that is evident in The Old Republic that encourages a player to learn, and rewards that learning with gratifications that are remembered because they are fun to pursue.
Needless to say that I am impressed beyond measure with The Old Republic, I get the feeling that I’m involved in the start of something truly revolutionary. I remember how educators and scholastic purists had a negative reaction to the pocket calculator in the 1970’s the same way they are resisting Rosetta Stone software today for foreign language use. Many will resist too the notion that a game like The Old Republic can replace much of the current education structure with a more efficient type of learning that is far more powerful than the type of collectivism found in public schools. The Old Republic is the first of its kind and is heads and shoulders above anything else done to date—not just in the combat system, but in the story and what it teaches the player. It is gigantic in an attempt that is utterly successful and it makes me wonder what the future holds if there comes a time where The Old Republic becomes considered graphically simple as a standard that gamers today look back on titles like Pac Man and Pong from years past and shake their heads at how far we’ve come. The world is changing, and The Old Republic is evidence that not all of it is bad. The lessons learned within the context of the story are valuable, morally sound, and players can see immediately the consequences of their actions in a way that life has a way of molding over many years. On The Old Republic players can see those actions within the context of 200 hours of game play instead of 20 years of hard living. In that way The Old Republic is the best form of educational entertainment I have ever seen, and I am proud to live in a time to see it developed into a reality. I simply love the game and am a very proud subscriber, and will be for a long time. It is a miracle of everything that is good about our modern times mixed with the power of myth, which is the backbone of every culture that hopes to survive into the future. It takes more than math, science, and language arts to make a flourishing society. It requires “context” to apply all those skills, and without that context, education only succeeds in creating mindless drones. What The Old Republic does successfully, is provide “context” in a story which allows players to develop skills that are directly applied with quick and frequent rewards. That is why The Old Republic is so revolutionary, and is the first step into a much, much larger world.
Specifically in Steubenville a couple of high school football players appear to have gang raped an intoxicated 16-year-old girl that was bragged about by other students on YouTube. Fury broke out on both sides of the argument featuring the same old cover up neglect that is always present in these cases—primarily from adults who are so in love with the distraction of organized sports that they no longer recognize the rights of individuals. On the other side are the kinds of people who make a moral argument for justice on behalf of the victim. In this case of Steubenville computer nerds making up the group Anonymous hacked a deleted controversial video where an 18-year-old Ohio State student bragged about the crime with his friends, then tried to take the video down once the heat came down on them. Anonymous reposted the video which opened up the case nationwide.
But what I find most amazing is that Ohio State and now Kent State is seeking to distance their affiliation with the characters that were directly or indirectly involved in the “gang rape.” Surely Ohio State and Kent State are quite aware that the same levels of rape are occurring every single night on their campuses, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights when group parties are most prevalent. And surely the parents of every decent looking 16-year-old girl up till about the age of 23-years-old knows that their little girl has probably been gang raped in the exact same fashion as the girl at Steubenville high school. Surely the parents knew that all the years they saved money so they could send small fortunes to these colleges that this was the kind of activity their children would be involved in. If their child attends parties—especially ones where athletes are present, gang rapes of unconscious girls is common, not unique. Surely they know that the problem is wide-spread and nowhere near an isolated incident. These rapes happen every single night on their campuses, and they happen all the time in high school parties where drinking is involved. If a girl loses consciousness in a crowd of boys, she will find her cloths off and sexually assaulted nearly 100% of the time once she wakes up again. Any girl who brags that she has lost her memory at a party is trying to distance herself from the disgrace to save embarrassment—which is why these things don’t get reported more often. When they do, the girl is blamed for getting so drunk that she put herself in danger—just as what happened in the Steubenville incident. The general attitude from the public is that “boys will be boys” and collective salvation takes precedence over the individual rights of a passed–out young girl. So why do the universities distance themselves from a few boys when tens of thousands of girls and boys are conducting the same activity nightly? They are either liers, or extremely niave. I would bet on the former.
If not for New Media and some of the computer geeks who used it–the story at Steubenville would have been covered up like the hundreds of thousands of other rapes that occur every weekend at every education institution across the country. And the guilty parties are virtually everyone who has turned their eyes away from the nature of evil and embraced collectivism. It is only for New Media that a change in society is occurring forcing it to look evil in the eye at Steubenville and deal with their emotions—instead of using evasion to turn away from the responsibility. The little girl who went to the party and was allegedly gang raped by a small group of football players is ruined forever in the a way that innocence can only measure and I feel deeply sorry for her. The guilt falls on many shoulders. Women who find themselves in this kind of situation are ruined because men do not like to take on wives that have had sex with lots of other men, and now that her story is out, she will have to explain it forever not only to her future husband, but her future children, which will be embarrassing for the rest of her life.
That doesn’t mean her life will always be terrible, but there will always be that stigma that she will either have to explain, or avoid when dealing with others. But the girl is not alone, she shares a story that many thousands of young women all share these days, and they try to ignore their checkered past when they finally do marry and try to start families of their own. But the secret is always there in the back of their minds and all future relationships. It is the source of much male impotency, sexual dysfunction, and amorous relationships that occur outside of wedlock in the decades to come regarding relationships. Men like to know that their woman have been theirs and theirs alone. But a society committed to collectivism wants to destroy that sense of possession, and that is the root behind the evil. The girl was just doing what society has instructed her is “popular” and “proper.” She has been taught that getting drunk is good. She has been taught that self-respect is a bad character trait. And she has been taught to surrender her integrity to the Gods of sports.
When I go to sports events I often park in the same areas as the players do who play on the field, and it always amazes me after a game the lines of young women who form up where the players exit. All those young women are hoping to use their looks to sleep with a sports star that society thinks is so important. The women in the back of their minds hope they might become pregnant so they can have a permanent connection to those Gods of the arena, or at least be able to brag about their powers of seduction to friends which gives them social prestige. The girls who think such things are fools, but the people who taught them to think this way are worse—their parents, their school, their media driven society that turns its eyes away from evil by promoting it are the real villains. Ultimately, the poor girl who went to the party at Steubenville, got drunk and surrendered her body to the athletes at the party did it for the same reasons that the groupie girls try to bed professional athletes—for social prestige. They of course don’t mean for things to get out of hand—but often that is the case. Evil is at work in these events, and the guilt is on more hands and minds than the two football players who will be tried for the incident only now that the story has become a national story. Those football players like the girl are only sacrificial victims to a society committed to collectivism. It is society at large that sacrifices these young people once the evil of their actions are exposed in the light of day, and there is no court system in the nation that can prosecute such a wide-spread evil that is virtually everywhere. It is an evil that has grown under our current education system and is a direct result of America’s social commitment to progressivism.
Why do people think that the media is selective in their coverage and agenda driven? Well……….because they are. For instance, just a few short days after the Sandy Hook shooting in Connecticut a gunman in San Antonio, Texas was upset that his girlfriend broke up with him and went on a shooting rampage at a movie theater—very similar to the Aurora Theater shooting. The only big difference is that in Texas there was an off duty police officer nearby who was armed. So when the 19-year-old Chinese restaurant worker started his shooting rampage in anger over his girlfriend, the shooter was shot by the armed officer. The result of the shooting was just two people injured in the hospital—one of them the broken-hearted shooter. The trouble is that as big as this story was—every bit as big as any other incident across the country and deserved the same kind of wall to wall coverage on the major networks that Sandy Hook, Aurora, or any other shooting received—it was only the local news around San Antonio and a few blog sites across the country that have discussed the story. Other than those sources, the story has not received any “play” by the major networks which is odd considering the level of awareness that public shootings have been getting lately. Watch the coverage from the local television affiliate here:
Yes, many of the stories that make the major networks are agenda driven. That does not mean that the average reporter is privy to that agenda. In reality, they may be unaware of the company agenda completely when they are first hired. The agenda for a news organization is driven by the owners personal beliefs and as diverse as many think their news organizations may be, when it comes down to the original sources of an agenda driven news organization there are always only a few at the top who own everything—as it usually is—and all the reporters, editors, free-lance writers, even organizational management know what the parameters for a story are based on the kind of content their owners approve of. News organization employees lucky enough to keep their jobs for five or more years learn that agenda and stick with it for the good of their own livelihoods.
In Cincinnati Scripps is a big player, as well as Clear Channel. Gannett runs the Cincinnati Enquirer, and Cox Media controls many of the local papers from Dayton to Cincinnati. When these organizations form up story topics they will give “play” to a view point—especially a controversial one if it gives them ratings—which is understandable. This works well as long as the subject does not exceed the parameters established by management—following the guidelines of their ownership. If a story fits the parameters set by ownership then the news organizations will give the story “play.” If it does not, then the story will be canned—because no editor is going to risk their job covering a story that will anger their ownership. The reporters who survive for many years in the “business” learn what the parameters are. Those who don’t, find themselves removed in the RIF process. (Reductions in force)
CNN was the creation of Ted Turner the media tycoon from Cincinnati who set up shop in Atlanta, Georgia. Ted married Jane Fonda in the 80’s as Jane was re-inventing herself after her long known associations with communism. Ted although a capitalist, has shown many philanthropic leanings toward communism and obviously shares many of his ex-wife’s collectivist beliefs, which is reflected in the kind of stories that CNN has covered. Turner as recently as 2012 stated on CNN that he believes its good that American troops are committing suicide because it shows aversion toward war. Compare that to Jane Fonda riding a communist North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun in the 60s calling for an end to American imperialism and you have a communist marriage made in heaven. These are the kind of people who formed CNN and really all the 24 hours news programs, with only Fox News representing conservative viewpoints. MSNBC is even further to the political left than CNN openly advocating progressive causes with the company slogan, “Lean Forward.” (Where have we heard that slogan before……….Hmmmmmmm) Ted has given over a $1 billion dollars toward The United Nations, so it is obvious where his beliefs reside, and most of his companies reflect his political viewpoints—otherwise they find themselves unemployed. And his companies are virtually everything that falls under Turner Broadcasting, which includes the Cartoon Network, TBS, TNT and TruTV. If you are a Time Warner subscriber, you send money to Ted Turner’s companies.
Much has been said about the radical conservativism of Fox News owned by Ted Turner rival Rupert Murdoch. It would appear that Fox News was created by Murdoch as a 24 hour news channel answer directly to the radical left leaning tendencies of CNN. Much of the public relations action against Fox News on many networks including cartoons on Comedy Central are brown-nosing actions designed to earn the respect of Ted Turner’s money and funding. Few know that Turner has a long-running grudge with Murdoch that originated in 1983 when a Murdoch-sponsored yacht collided with Turner’s boat during the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, causing it to sink 10 km from the finish line. At the post-race dinner, Turner verbally assaulted Murdoch, afterward challenging him to a televised fist fight in Las Vegas. In 2003, Turner challenged Murdoch to another fist fight, and later accused Murdoch of being a “warmonger”, as he was backing President George W. Bush‘s invasion of Iraq. [29]
Even to this day, even though Ted is retired for the most part from many of his businesses, his loose lifestyle and commitment to collectivism can be seen in the way he socially conducts himself. Like all communist and collectivist loving people seen best during the hippie movement in The United States, monogamy is not one of their strong suits—as liberalism advocates loose sexual relationships and promiscuity. Even at age 75, Ted and his ex-wife Jane are involved in a love triangle with her new live in boyfriend 70-year-old Richard Perry. (Imagine the sex antics when they were younger) These are the kind of people who have had a huge hand in shaping the news coverage that comes into our living rooms in 2013.
In that context it is easy to see why CNN advocates gun control when it is The United Nations who most wants to see the world disarmed of all firearms. CNN will pick stories that fit the old boss’s viewpoints because his money still speaks, and all employees at CNN know that if they want some of it, then they have to toe the company line. So CNN will exploit Sandy Hook to push control legislation, and other networks will copy CNN because they are the trend setter. But CNN and the rest of the national media will not cover the story of San Antonio where an armed citizen ended a gunman’s rampage because a private citizen had a gun and was not afraid to use it saving dozens of lives—unlike Sandy Hook and Aurora where the citizens were sitting ducks because they were unable to defend themselves.
So yes, there is media bias and it is quite rampant and driven entirely by human weakness. The employees of tycoons like Ted Turner have no problem trading their journalism ethics for a pay check even if they disagree with Turner politically. And people like Bill O’Reilly may never have had a shot at becoming the number one news guy on prime time television with Fox News if not for the rivalry that started between Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch during a yacht race in 1983. Murdoch wanted to stick it to Turner so he paved the way for a guy like O’Reilly to have a shot at writing his own ticket. John Stossel has done the same thing coming from ABC’s 20/20 which is owned by Disney and must adhere to the social positions of that very large media company. Stossel left to join the Fox Business Network to have freedom over his journalism that he didn’t have at 20/20. If Stossel had written a book like he wrote last year called, No They Can’t, which is an argument in favor of libertarianism, he would have found his job on the chopping block at ABC, but at Fox, he’s encouraged to do such things because Rupert Murdoch leans more to the political right. Glenn Beck left CNN for the same reason to join Fox, and then create his own television network with The Blaze TV which is now on the Dish Network. Thankfully for all of us, Glenn Beck will be the new Ted Turner and that will go a long way to fixing many of the problems our society is currently dealing with. Look for these improvements to begin around 2020 lasting through about 2040 when Beck will be hitting aged 70 himself. The big difference will be that such stories like those of Turner and Fonda won’t be happening with Beck. The personality differences are one of personal quality and those attributes directly find their way into their companies. All this news media is driven from a few minds that happen to be billionaires and their ownership of the news organizations and the employees who work for them are a direct reflection. In Beck’s case he has a personal friendship with billionaire Jon Huntsman which helps keep Beck fighting along in a world established by the many billions of dollars spent by radicals like George Soros and Ted Turner to advocate social progressivism.
Much of the news we see today is driven by those few minds, minds like George Soros, Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, NBC executive Tom Rogers and a few others. Everyone who works directly or indirectly for those people must form their journalism opinions around their bosses—just like any other business.
That is why the San Antonio shooting that occurred just a few days after Sandy Hook did not get any coverage except in the San Antonio news market. National news is agenda driven by the minds that created the organizations and cannot be trusted at face value. Unfortunately, the same people who create those organizations also contribute a lot of money into politics, so these same people not only influence heavily how Americans see the news, but also influence how the news is made in the world of politics. Unfortunately, many of the minds mentioned above are radical left leaning progressives who want gun control, they want open sexual promiscuity, and they want a drug induced society—so the news we see every day is filled with stories that support these topics. And it will continue until there is competition that threatens the monopolies of those ownerships in news organizations—and it will come. The hypocrisy was accepted in the 1990’s and 2000’s, but the scam is out of the bag now, and people are turning away from those traditional broadcasts by the handfuls. Stories like the San Antonio shooting will get coverage, and will be used to defend the Second Amendment against the wishes of old gun grabbers, communists, and hot-tempered yacht tycoons who behind all the money and power of their financial empires are still only people who breath, eat and use the rest room just like everyone else. They are flawed human beings at best, and their news reflects their ownership.
When critics of the Tea Party point and say that they (the Tea Party)“resist everything, and are stuck in the past,” the context for what Tea Party members are weary of is never explored. The issue of why they are against most new laws, every act of the political do-gooder, and insist on a return to American founding principles gets lost in the debate because more often than not the critics have no sense of history and are limited in knowledge to the shallow depths of knowledge in their own lifetimes. The more issues of governance is explored, the more evident it becomes that without a group of patriots who function not out of a love for political power, a thinly disguised grab for power, networking connections, or just a desire to be socially destructive, that politics in a democratic republic deteriorate quickly without such a presence. There needs to a group in America that can use wisdom and a firm adherence to The American Constitution to keep politics as honest as possible. Without such wisdom, without the prying eyes of a neutral party, all the well intended programs that government invents today become tomorrow’s tyranny, and now that there is a clear history in America, it is now clear that all laws created by government end up becoming monsters of self fulfilled destruction shortly after passage.
For proof of how slowly, and how destructive an idea created by government can become a social monstrosity, look no further than the Social Security system and witness the gradual erosion of that socialist oriented program which should have never of happened. These things do not become terrors in one lifetime, but over two or three lifetimes, so many of the laws created within the last 20 years in government cannot yet be measured. In that context, read the below history of Social Security, and take note of why the Tea Party is a needed–why political skepticism should be valued so that American politics can avoid a peril similar to the fall of the Roman Empire, the decline of English Imperialism, or the decline of Greek society. The decline of American society will occur without addressing the erosion of moral order currently embracing The United States or a return to Constitutional principles. And to date, it is the Tea Party that is committed to returning America to the formula that made the greatest nation on the face of the Earth over all of human history. Such a formula is valuable, and needs careful adherence. So study carefully the below history of Social Security to see how quickly it became one of the most corrosive socialist programs the world has yet seen.
Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message, NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION,was removed.
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised: 1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary, No longer Voluntary.
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program, Now 7.65% on the first $90,000.
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year, No longer tax deductible.
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program, and, Under Johnson the money was moved to The General Fund and Spent.
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income. Under Clinton & Gore Up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:
Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.
Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US
Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: Jimmy Carterand the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it.
The same kind of distortion will happen with Obama Care, it has already happened with Medicare, and is present in every program that has the government’s name tag on it. Now that the government created Social Security—which was an obvious—and costly mistake, they have tried to correct the error with more rules, which has only dug the hole deeper. The only way to fix the problem of Social Security would be to reset the political system before the failure occurred, and this is what the Tea Party is starting to advocate in response to the many errors that are beginning to show up as these socialist programs are beginning to fail. The position may be unpopular, but it is the desire to come up with a populist solution that created Social Security in the first place and has made it a mandatory program that is used for personal identification tracking and an extraordinary pay check contributions at 7.65%. At the rate of decline that Social Security has deteriorated in just 70 years, it is obvious that 70 more years will lead to a total collapse of that particular program. After all, the American demographic is changing. People are living longer, the young people are not getting married at age 19 and staying married for 50 years like they did when Social Security was created—so socially the adult population of tomorrow will be much more unstable, and not able to sustain Social Security without it encompassing even more than the current contribution rate. So there are copious amounts of evidence that Social Security will change much more radically in the coming years than it has in the past—which is quite a bit—because of the decline in social quality of the participants.
Social Security is just one example of a program that started with good intentions, as it was a direct response to the Red Decade of the 1930’s push for communism, but quickly degenerated into a corrosive social element that most of American society is addicted to. Stating that such a program should be abolished or radically reformed at a minimum is the task of scholarly groups like the Tea Party who are committed to education above radical protest and social unrest to move society in the proper direction. But it will make factions of society very upset because many of them have signed their name behind the support of more programs like Social Security and if such a thing were ever abolished, it would mean that their lives have little meaning—because that is at the heart behind most new laws, small-minded men and women looking for a way to leave behind a legacy—a way for future generations to think fondly of their time on planet Earth. That is not a good reason to protect a program that is functionally against everything that being an American is supposed to represent—self reliance. Going against that current will be unpopular, but often the truth usually is. But that doesn’t make the action invalid. Instead—it’s quite the opposite.
I’m waiting patiently for the revolution to start. When it happens if I’m the only one fighting, that’s fine—but somehow I think that won’t be the case. Once other people see one or two people resisting the encroachment of perpetual statism happening in The United States as of 2013, they will join like others have in the past during the American Revolution and the Civil War. Whatever we call this next war within America, I will be one of the first to respond to the force that is sure to be applied and I can’t wait. I love history and we are living history. Now—before I elaborate, look at this next video and study the foolish position of the presented actors when the editor took the comments they made favoring more gun control and compared them to the kinds of films those same actors have made which feature gun violence. The hypocrisy is obvious, but is done in this video with a comic flare that should be noted.
Guns are one of the biggest parts of American culture and that isn’t going to change. The reason that the movies those actors play in feature so many guns is because Americans love guns. Americans like to see guns shooting. They like knowing they have them in their bedrooms. They like plot lines that have guns in them, and Hollywood knows it—which is why they make movies that feature gun violence. If Hollywood tried to change that trend, they would loose billions of dollars at the box office—so taking violence out of movies will not happen. People are not going to pay $15 dollars a ticket to watch people talk about their problems. They want to see stuff blow up, and they want to see heroes save the day with guns.
Hollywood doesn’t really believe half the garbage that they advocate through donations to the Democratic Party, but they feed money to those statism monsters to keep the idiots from passing laws that will hurt Hollywood’s ability to make money. Hollywood simply pays the troll by sending their actors out to give public messages making the statism advocates happy—which is why those mindless actors came out against gun violence, while they make their livings advocating it. The message is just as hypocritical as a pornography actress coming out publicly in favor of sex only after marriage in a strictly monogamous relationship. Her words are worthless because of what she does for a living.
Guns are a fact in America and the enemies of American sovereignty are the ones who want disarmament for the same reason that it has always occurred—a potential for invasion and the capture of national resources. There are enemies who want to control America both foreign and domestic and you can tell who they are because they advocate removal of guns from our society. For them it’s a tactical maneuver not a moral one. For the global statism power grabbers using the United Nations as their personal army behind a façade of peace, they have no hope of pulling The United States into the global fold of power so long as private citizens have so many guns. There is not a utopian desire for global peace by these people. It hasn’t happened in over 100,000 of human development and it won’t leave the mind of man in the next 100,000 years no matter how pompous the progressive academics wish to believe such a thing possible. The way to curb violence is with more guns, not less because the threats to our nation are not outwardly obvious, but instead devious.
Just to put things in perspective as to why America is being targeted from across the two big ponds is that a potential invader of American resources must not only defeat the American military, but the American people also. For instance if you took just registered deer hunters in the state of Wisconsin and assumed that each of them possessed only one gun each, their number alone would exceed the guns possessed in Iran, France and Germany combined. That is a lot of guns, and it makes it very difficult for a military general to plan any sort of military maneuver against America. There are enough guns in just one state to hold off an entire army from those three countries. But states like Michigan and Pennsylvania outnumber Wisconsin in registered deer hunters. There are enough guns in just those three states to hold off an invasion from all of Europe making a direct attack against America impossible. So they are forced to attack America indirectly—through The United Nations with regulation, taxation, and treaties. Yet even with all the guns in Wisconsin, Michigan, or Pennsylvania a murder with guns is very rare in the Midwest. It is only in the big cities like Detroit, Philadelphia and Green Bay where statism is strongest that gun violence is worst. There are a lot of homes in my Ohio neighborhood with guns and nobody shoots each other when we get angry.
I know for a fact that guns make a peaceful difference because I’ve seen it first hand many times over. I once took a bet to walk from Central Parkway to the University of Cincinnati up Vine Street back when it was one of the most violent areas in the city. I walked the whole distance past drug dealers, hookers, pimps, and various thugs without a single act of violence against me. I did the same in downtown Washington D.C. I walked five blocks down K-Street at 3 A.M. then up four blocks to the north. Along the way I passed one car that had been overturned and was on fire from violence that had occurred just 20 minutes before I passed by. No police or fire fighters came until dawn when the thugs went to bed and the politicians traded positions on those same streets. Not a single incident happened to me—because all the goons, the punks, and creeps who roamed the streets at night looking for a victim thought I was armed. I wasn’t armed with a gun—because if I did get into trouble, I didn’t want the added complication. But thugs know by the look in your eye that you are armed, whether it is with a firearm, or the internal knowledge that you can handle yourself in any situation. That assurance is the key to personal and national freedom. Americans know deep in their hearts that they outnumber the entire army of North Korea, Japan, China, Germany, Russia, England, France Australia or the entire continent of Africa, so they don’t worry about an attack from any of those countries. The reason we can all travel to the mall and buy goods without worrying about a terrorist bombing routinely is because we have guns. The reason that many companies wish to do business in America in spite of the extraordinarily high taxes is because we have a stable political climate because guns force everyone to keep on the up and up. Guns keep our own military in line—making sure they stay on the side of the tax payers instead of aligning with statist power grabbers. It is because of the gun that we are safe in America from all enemies. Not just made up propaganda targets.
The domestic enemies in America are those who advocate gun control, because it is those people who wish to alter the American Constitution, and wish to disarm The United States to fulfill the wishes within The United Nations of global disarmament, and I consider that type of rhetoric to be an attack on my sovereignty within my nation. Those power grabbing people will not go away—they will continue to encroach themselves upon our American lifestyle using every tragedy as a platform for their message of war through peace. That’s what is behind the Hollywood message for gun control. That is what is behind the entire gun control argument and those who cannot see such deplorable acts are naive—and sorry to say—stupid.
When war happens, I will be there to fight for The Constitution specifically The Second Amendment—because they are coming after our guns. They will use the IRS, the ATF, Homeland Security, local law enforcement, TSA, the FBI, the CIA, the National Guard to come after those of us who stand against statism. The only thing that keeps war from breaking out right now is the knowledge that we all have guns. We sit on the knowledge that we can defend ourselves should the unthinkable happen. If gun laws are created that buys these guns back, or confiscates them entirely, that security will go away, and that is when the next war will erupt. And when it does, I’m ready and looking forward to meeting many of you in person. The country does not rest on the shoulders of some politician in Washington, or some 23 year-old girl who will take her top off for millions of people then lecture us about how we should support more gun control. Our freedoms rest behind the barrel of a gun and are only as strong as the number of them that are in houses all across the nation. When guns are threatened by domestic enemies, that is the start of the next war within the states. The first fire of that war will be when authorities try to take those guns and learn the tragic result of that arrogant miscalculation.
I’m with you Ted. It might be you me, and a handful of people, but it will be enough.
If you ever wondered why our current government is so screwed up all one needs to do is look at the kind of institutions that instruct our society and study how they behave when confronted with trouble. It is not hard to discover the root of the deteriorating rot that infests anything that is attached to government, and public schools are “government schools.” They believe that they function outside the rules of reality because they live off of tax money which is collected on their behalf under force—and they fight over that money like dogs over a bone. And their collective intelligence is just as proficient as the only concern they have is to fill their bellies so they can live five more minutes before they are begging for another bone.
In my local community of West Chester it has been well-known that I have spent the last couple of years fighting the stupidity of the blind tax and spend actions of the Lakota school district—which I attended as a kid. Many, because I went to the school, believe that I should automatically support anything that Lakota does because I’m an “alumni” or something. I hear the same type of ignorance from fools who blindly support their colleges because as adults they love the sports program—never connecting the dots that it is in such follies that many evils are conducted. Those actions are forms of collectivism which I reject entirely. At Lakota, they have refused to acknowledge that the cause of their funding problems is that they are like rabid dogs begging for food at the dinner table blindly hungry for more and more money to consume never connecting their actions to their hunger—as if the two weren’t connected. Then to make matters worse, there are the apologists who try to sneak food under the table even when the owner of the dogs tell those apologists not to—because it makes the dogs even hungrier, and misbehave more often. Such is the role of the local newspapers against the wishes of the taxpayers.
It’s not like Lakota tried—they simply refused—just like Obama and the gang is doing now on Capitol Hill–to deal with reality. They simply ignore any part of reality that doesn’t fit their version of it. As government entities, they have their agenda, and their expectations—and they will only listen to options that fulfill their agenda—which is why they fail time and time again. Have a look:
In the course of early March 2012 The Enquirer decided to get into bed with the Lakota school district and the evidence is in their priorities of what they consider to be the “biggest story of the year.” But nowhere is there any mention of “WHY” Lakota has a budget problem. The article only mentions the result, not the cause, which is typical of these big government types. The reason is because Lakota employees make too much money, and there are too many of them. Pure and simple. The education market is changing, there are many options that are better for teaching children, and government schools are clamoring to keep themselves relevant just as the Postal System is trying to stay relevant after the advent of EMAIL. Public schools are trying to fulfill a progressive utopian vision of being the central figures in society, and the newspapers are obviously on board to help paint that picture—which is why The Enquirer has been losing readership by the droves and more and more people are turning to alternative sources of information like this blog, for their news. People see the situation for what it is, and 18,000 people voted against the foolishness of the Lakota district, and the many thousands of tax payer dollars they have spent on public relations—to help set up articles in publications like The Enquirer and The West Chester Buzz.
As The West Chester Buzz published their top story of 2012 article a levy supporter sent me an email stating, “No Lakota Levy seems to indicate that the teaching staff is paid too much and now the community is unable to afford such salaries. I contend that the labor force is overworked and, for it to consider any further concessions, that group needs to be thanked for their steadfast service of the past and encouraged to work a normal 8 hour day rather than devoting hours of free labor to a district that can no longer afford such dedication.” That statement, which the newspapers should be covering, cites the entire funding problem at Lakota, and in just about every government employee in The United States. They have all lost touch with reality and have a sickness rooted in neuroses. They simply aren’t working within the realms of reality—and therefore cannot be rationed with. “Thanked,” what are these school employees—children? Or worse—not even possessing the ability to retain information like simple dogs begging for food.
How can any sane person claim that an employee making 65K per year should not be expected to work 10 or 11 hours a day or more, and that such people are “overworked.” The average income for Lakota employees is 63K per year, which is very good compensation, but the trouble is, it’s not competitive. In the argument over what makes a good teacher or a bad teacher the public is supposed to take the word of labor radicals like the guy who sent me that comment at face value without validating the truth. In my book his comment doesn’t even deserve a seat at the table because I don’t recognize his right to exist. I have determined that the biggest problem in public schools is the labor unions who utter that kind of garbage, and there is no discussing anything with them. They are like speaking to hungry dogs who only wag their tails if food comes near their mouths. They are not the pinnacles of our society as The Enquirer has tried to make them out to appear. They are simply parasites hungry for more government expansion, mindlessly higher taxes, and more youth seduced by all the wrong things to be cast out ill-prepared into adulthood. The labor argument in this case has a monopoly on education and the government backs that monopoly, and until that organization is broken up, there will never be cost reductions in education, there will never be improved test scores, and there will never be great leaps in social advancement. The problem with government schools and their monopoly is the fact that there are no options for parents to have their child taught by ambitious teachers making only 45K per year over the one making 90K per year who is tired and beat up—hanging on till their retirement at 55 years old. The tax money in the State of Ohio is sent to the school, not to the child, and that is the source of the problem allowing labor unions to basically control that tax money. The system is ridiculous, and the press has not had the backbone to do their job—which is a disservice to everyone.
People say that all the things I’ve said above are “just politics.” It’s just the way things are, and they will never change. Well, it might be politics, but like I told one of my employers years ago, “politics costs money.” If you remove the politics, you will save millions. And the same holds true for Lakota and every other public school—remove the politics, and they will be able to balance their budget without being leeches on the rest of the community constantly hitting up the residents for more tax increases. Lakota needs competition, and the press needs to get out of the business of helping to support destructive monopolies, which The West Chester Buzz confirmed is the role of The Cincinnati Enquirer in regard to Lakota. For myself, and many on my side, the “labor argument” doesn’t even deserve a place at the negotiating table. I don’t care what they think; they are no different then dogs begging for food to me. They don’t offer a service I think is important, and they charge too much to provide it. They need to be cut out of the money stream completely and that is my 2013 position. Apparently, the media is going to settle for their role to be mere lap dogs, to the dogs begging for food at the bargaining table where the feast of West Chester is in control of the adults sitting at the table.
Being a “Bad Cop” is not the same as being a “bad guy.” But when dealing with people who have no understanding of their community imposition, of the tyranny of their collectivism, of their advocating gigantic government intrusions it is needed to have a “good cop” who will speak to the media and play the game the way progressives do, but there is a need for a “bad cop” to do all the things that the “good cop” can’t. Progressives have a lot of “Bad Cops” out there functioning fully, so the liberty movement deserves the same armament, and I wanted the role as far back as last year, primarily because the Lakota levy was gearing up for another try, and NDAA was signed into law.
The freedom I feel is similar to ending a job that one hates when you realize you don’t have to go to that particular building again and speak to all the people you didn’t like there. It’s like ending a relationship that was dysfunctional, but endured because of prior obligations. Once those obligations are fulfilled, you might be free to pursue another path leaving your mind free for the first time in a long time. For the last two or three years while representing many moderate personalities in Southwestern Ohio on issues raging from the Lakota levy attempts, to the Right-to-Work campaign in Ohio, to all the media contacts I had to maintain—I was constantly aware of what I said and to whom I said it. I had to be otherwise my ability to do radio interviews and get coverage in the newspapers and television would be limited as they tend not to cover radicals if they are on the political right—even though they do cover radicals on the political left. This left me always feeling like I was fighting a battle with my arms behind my back, and I was getting sick of it as 2012 dawned one year ago, only to see that government had a controversial new law that directly violated the Fifth Amendment, signed by the President on New Years Eve in the faraway land of Hawaii. Watching that progress it didn’t take long for me to realize that the liberty movement needed its own “bad cops” to counter all the goof-ball radicals advancing progressive causes at the expense of us all.
Now with 2013, I am free to act as I see fit without the burden of political correctness, which will be necessary to solve the problems that we are facing in America. I mean look at our dismal situation, a national debt of over $16 trillion dollars, a dysfunctional government, a communist president, radical teacher unions controlling the thoughts and lives of our children—and a whole slew of tax increases that will hit us all—at least those of us who already pay taxes. We are not in a good situation. Yes—I am looking forward to a very colorful year in 2013, one where I won’t hold back as much as I have in the past. Freedom feels good, it fills your lungs with copious amounts of fresh air, and lifts the spirit—and I am free to do what’s right without the restrictions of public sentiment. So to those who thought they had seen the worst—no, not even close. It’s time to shift gears and pick up some steam instead. It’s time for other people to play the “good cop” role, and its time for others to play the newly created “bad cop” role also. It is time to treat progressives as they have treated conservatives for years. The correct strategy with progressives is not with a pat on the ass and bribery whispered into their ears, but to treat them like dog shit that is found on the bottom of a worker’s boots. Starting in 2013, I have in my hand a scrapper ready to make sure the heel of my boots stay clean as I do my work. And it feels good!
I had said that I was going to reward myself for all the hard work I did in 2012 and celebrate the first quarter release of my new book Tail of the Dragon. Typically authors in my position might take a cruise to the Mediterranean, or schedule a few weeks in Hawaii to celebrate the conclusion and release of their novels but I had stated that I was going to do something different, I was going to invest in a video game that my wife and I had been eager to play for all of the last year, but didn’t have time–or to be honest–the machines to properly play them on. Instead of an external vacation, we were planning to go on an internal one by playing the very involved MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, which is the latest creation of Bioware, LucasArts, and Electronic Arts with a production budget of over $200 million dollars. The Old Republic MMO is the very latest of its kind following along the tradition of World of Warcraft, and the popular, Guild Wars. MMO’s are very involved, all-encompassing, and can be very complicated. There are a lot of computer calculations that are made per second with people from all over the world playing at the same time as you are, so they require computer systems that can operate at peak performance all the time, and that required me to make a major computer upgrade just to play for myself. However, for my wife to play with me, it would require two supercharged computer systems, so after the fourth quarter sales closed on my Tail of the Dragon and with the help of my son-in-law, we built two specially designed, eight core processor, 75 Watt power-driven monsters for a few thousand dollars just to play The Old Republic which is very graphics intensive, and at times stunning to behold, especially if you love Star Wars like we do, enjoying the story lore with great reverence.
For kids who have grown up with MMOs–who have been over 13 years old since Play Station 2 came out, I think they are missing the wonder of these modern games. I have read some of their reviews of Star Wars: The Old Republic before making my purchases, and I think they have the attention span of a nat. Their expectations in the field of gaming are unreasonably high, which of course can never be satisfied completely by anybody. Because of my schedule being as intense as it had been for many years, the only type of video gaming I had time for were X-Box 360 classics like Red Dead Redemption, Dragon Age, also from BioWare, and an old X-Box game that my wife and I loved to play together called Gladius, which was an RPG co-op–an early design that has obviously carried over into Old Republic. My family, meaning my kids, my wife, and my extended nephews played Star Wars: Galaxies a lot, and World of Warcraft, but I never had the time to play with them, and found it irritating that most of the MMO’s did not have a way for players to co-op in story mode in the way that Gladius had, so I stayed away and my wife never invested much time because of it. This problem has been fixed in Star Wars: The Old Republic, which allows two separate players to do just about everything together, with two totally different storylines—and the way that BioWare pulled this off now that my wife and I have played it for over a week both day and night is nothing short of a technical miracle. For the kids who want the kind of story content available in The Old Republic, to go on forever, they are deeply unrealistic. There is no video game on the market today that is as deeply story driven as The Old Republic, and everything is absolutely epic in scope. For people like me who grew up watching the original Star Wars movies in a movie theater when they were first released, and had to wait almost an entire decade for the ability to watch those movies at home on a LaserDisk—well before VHS video tape or DVD’s, the work that has went into The Old Republic is a small miracle.
My wife is playing as a Jedi Counselor and I am playing as a Jedi Knight, and The Old Republic allows us to both play our stories in a co-op mode that is just stunning in its conception. If all married couples could find something like Old Republic to do together, I think the divorce rate in America would drop off the chart putting many lawyers out of business—because the game is simply wonderful in its co-op play. For instance, my wife and I got up at 5:30 AM on Saturday December 30th after playing the game intensely for 5 consecutive days, and we logged into the game on our two monster computers, each of them being cooled down by 5 internal fans just to keep the video card temperature down. We logged off the game at midnight that same day and went to bed but were up again 5 hours later to follow the same routine on Sunday and Monday. The story content is very intense, and every couple of hours of play there is a major climax in the action similar to most movies, where there is a plot driven introduction, a series of problems that must be overcome, then a resolution to conclude that portion of the story. In one instance on the capital planet of Coruscant—which is absolutely stunningly rendered in the game—I had convinced a member of the Senate who I had caught doing a lot of double-dealing between the criminal underworld, and the people’s business of the Senate, to resign. She offered me a lot of money to keep her name clean, which of course I didn’t take—just like in real life—and forced her to come clean with her resignation. The Senator in question was not a bad person, or evil in any way. She was doing what she felt she needed to do politically, but she had crossed the line and lost her way, and it was my job to make sure she stayed clean. In the world of Star Wars that is the job of a Jedi Knight—a defender of the Republic from not just countless hoards of bad guys, but from the corruption that is indicative in politics. Jedi are a great plot device that fills a need that is indicative in all democratic republics, such as what The United States is facing with unbridled corruption within politics. Jedi are the stabilizing spiritual force that keeps everyone honest and reminds me of the kind of philosophical leader that Plato had in mind in his book The Republic.The Old Republic as a video game excels at giving players those types of moral dilemmas every few hours of game play and so far, my wife and I have over 70 hours each invested, and we haven’t even scratched the surface of the sheer amount of content that is available.
The servers we are playing on were all full much of the time we have been on the game, so it looks like Electronic Arts strategy of offering a free-to-play option worked. Lots of people are flocking to the game, and on the worlds especially like Coruscant, there were many people running around just like any major city. They were everywhere, even in the most far-flung corners of that particular planet. But my wife and I are subscribers and proud to be. I saw that Amazon.com was offering The Old Republic for $14 dollars which will allow people to play under a preferred status. BioWare is offering the game for a free download off the web site. But I personally think they should sell the game for over $200 each, because it’s worth it. The game is that good. It simply dwarfs similar games that are console driven. The computer programming alone to make planets like Coruscant or the space port of The Republic Fleet look so great is mind-blowing. In fact, when my wife and I arrived at the Republic Fleet Space Port we were slammed in the face by the sheer size and scope of the place, the countless video advertisements, the street vendors, the sights, the sounds, it reminded me a lot of a real life Las Vegas where you can’t help but look out the window at the scope of creativity put forth by the human mind in the rows and rows of theme driven hotels and resorts. Star Wars: The Old Republic is loaded with these kinds of bewildering scenes leaving many hours of discovery open to any diligent gamer.
I anticipate that my wife and I will stay on this vacation well into the summer, so if my readers here wonder why I seem more reclusive than normal, and difficult to contact, or to pull commitments out of, blame it on The Old Republic. I haven’t turned on a television in over a week, and have only casually scanned news reports, so the benefit of the vacation has been effective in this case. There are few things that could divert my mind as effectively as something so intellectually stimulating as The Old Republic. It is a miracle of the modern age and I cherish every moment I get to play it. It is worth the thousands of dollars I spent just to play the game and then some. It is a lifetime experience that my wife and I will never forget.
Elections have consequences…….but they don’t force people to participate in a fools game, and that is what modern politics offers. Atlas Shrugged was right all along. The Old Republic is my personal Gulch and I’m thankful to have it.
As we watch the fiscal collapse of Greece, consider that they are about two to three years ahead of The United States in the debt crises–why, because public schools in the United States have been following a “global education” formula that is quite popular with superintendents like Lakota’s Karen Mantia. Watch the video below to see how similar the problems in Greece are to our problems in America over public education.
Carl Rullmann of West Chester should be President of the United States for what he said in regards to the Lakota School System floating the idea of a “permanent improvement” levy in 2013 that public schools all over Ohio are clamoring for due to dwindling state funding sources. Carl said he would not support a permanent improvement levy in the Lakota district. He said school districts should be spending their money more effectively, with the main focus on student learning—what a radical concept! Specifically, he said “As a voter, I wouldn’t support a levy because the schools are in good shape; maintenance is an operating expense not capital. Parents have jumped in and done things when busing was reduced and sports fees were raised. There are plenty of avenues for kids to engage in activities in West Chester. Schools are for education and teaching kids about the Constitution.” Well said Mr. Rullman, well said indeed!
You can read the whole article about this issue from the Pulse Journal which goes into more detail and exemplifies the financial bottomless pit mentality that many of these public education advocates utter.
Of course that article features a nice picture of kids playing on a playground designed to appeal to the parents who aren’t much older than the children they send to the school, who have not yet developed an understanding of fiscal awareness—since they barely know how to balance their own check books. But the article wisely discusses how it will be up to parents to come together in PTA groups if they want to pay for things like play grounds, band electives and other extracurricular activities. This sounds like a much better activity for those groups instead of sitting around each other’s dinner tables complaining about me, or camping outside of Kroger stores trying to smear my name publically. They might even lose some weight getting up off their butts—which is good for everyone.
In the past education institutions have allowed private fundraisers to contribute to capital projects in small amounts to make the community feel like they are a part of the process of operating a public school, but have discouraged such behavior behind the scenes keeping the fiscal numbers low and uneventful. Public education institutions universally desire increased taxes on property values for the bulk of their budgets because it fulfills a philosophical commitment that all public schools are dedicated to—centrally controlled education that is attached like a cancer cell to real estate values of a community—so that the school can use that relationship as an extortion tool when it needs funding increases keeping the government on the mind of all residents as an ominous authority figure.
I know that there have been attempts by community members to completely pay for the band activities, and sports programs with private donations, but Lakota has discouraged all such activity because they know that if the community took control of all those funding mechanisms that they would lose the emotional leverage they use against the community to garner tax increase approvals—so the schools have dug their own holes with restrictive, and unimaginative funding models. I would argue that Lakota could nearly fund its entire $160 million dollar plus budget with donations and fees from the community that wish to send their kids to the school by-passing the tax revenue from the state completely. There is enough wealth in the Lakota district and enough overly zealous parents willing to pour infinite amounts of money into their children that could fund everything and anything that Lakota would ever need. But……………..the schools are not about teaching children, and this is the hypocritical reality behind the whole school funding mess–schools are about government control of local communities—and are designed to attach themselves to every home in every corner of the entire country linking us all to Washington D.C. in a marriage made in Hell—without giving us the opportunity for a divorce.
I don’t want to pay for public education for the next 40 or 50 years of my life. I don’t like it, I don’t respect it, I think it is destroying children, and I don’t want to pour thousands of dollars of my income per year into a failing institution—yet I’m expected to out of some yearning to care for tomorrow’s children. Well, the parents are responsible for those children—I already raised my kids and my views are reflected in Carl Rullman’s quite effective comments. He is 100% right, the schools are only tasked with basic education functions and should be concerned with learning about the U.S. Constitution, which of course is spit upon by the national teacher unions who are openly committed to global communism. Those are not the kind of people I want teaching America’s future generations—so I view any money given to those organizations as a complete waste. I wouldn’t vote for an operating levy for my public school either and I certainly wouldn’t vote for a capital improvement levy. Instead, I’d like to see the supporters of those schools to pay not just the $5000 per year in property taxes on their homes, but $10,000 to $20,000 per year in tuition so Lakota can operate at the level they expect. After all, it is they who want the service—I don’t—so they should be the ones to pay for that service.
But common sense permeates in Carl Rullman’s words, and I hope that more people like emerge in 2013 to fight these kinds of battles that are sure to emerge on the backs of our communities children. He has a lot more patience with the levy whores than I do, and he is a great voice for our community—and I thank God that he is out there in the world doing what I wish everyone did—speak his mind and resist the temptation to be everyone’s friend. Sometimes the responsible thing is to tell people NO. And in public schools, they need to learn what the word NO means—and the politicians that have provided public education with a gravy train of looted tax money in exchange for votes need to learn that meaning as well. Thanks to people like Carl Rullman, educrats are hearing “NO” for the second and third time, and are beginning to understand what it means.
