If anyone thinks that Jessie Jackson Jr. is alone in his fall from grace, guess again. Jackson is only the latest to get caught dipping is hand into campaign donations to buy Rolex watches and other tid-bits of pleasure while working in government. Politicians who would otherwise be unsuccessful in business find they can become respected in public office, but they lack the mental aptitude to resist temptation making them for the most part scandalous bands of thieves always looking to partner up with a financial pirate or public con artist. The Jackson case is fresh from the press and shows to what extent the trouble in government runs. I would say that Jessie Jackson’s tendency to throw his wife under the bus in his plea deal to get reduced jail time says everything about the quality of person Jackson is and all politicians in general. Read more about his case at the link below:
The trouble with politicians is that they represent the low quality constituents that America has become. Just the other day as I was listening to Bill Cunningham on the radio, he was rather animated over John Boehner’s long time position against earmarks in congressional bills. Cunningham on the air stated that his golf buddy John should drop a few billion dollars worth of earmarks into some bill to pay for the new bridge that needs to replace the Brent Spence connecting I-75 in Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky. “Nobody would notice,” Cunningham said. “Everyone else does it, so why doesn’t Boehner?” That statement ladies and gentlemen is why we have so many scum bags in politics. The more money that is thrown into the public treasury, there are far too many hands who wish to take it and use it for some pet project to satisfy the whims of any of the multiple lobbyists on K-Street. Wall Street to hedge their bets and keep government looters out of their pockets is happy to include politicians in their scams to keep the law off their back. Politicians like Jackson can’t resist the call of easy money, so they start taking it and buy themselves expensive watches, and real estate investments off money that isn’t technically theirs. Boehner is a Washington insider who considers himself an honest politician compared to the rest because he has a long-term policy against putting earmarks in congressional bills, but at the same time his golf buddies who claim to be conservative hawks want him to take money out of the treasury to pay for pet projects in the Speaker’s district—which is just as corrupt as when some politician on the other side of the country does it.
The trouble is in the lack of personal responsibility, the disconnect between the value of money and the value of the people stealing it. When people of little personal value have their hands on money of great value, the attraction is unfathomable. When Jessie Jackson Jr. took money to buy lavish gifts for himself, he did it to fill a void in himself that lacks personal character. When Bill Cunningham urges John Boehner to install earmarks in some meaningless congressional bill to raise the billions of dollars for a new bridge, he is making such statements from a lack of personal value. The money is there to be taken, so somebody should take it and use it on something needed. When Elizabeth Warren asks why there is a cozy relationship between Wall Street and politicians on Capitol Hill, she is really positioning herself for a candidacy in 2016 for President. She doesn’t care about the corruption really, but rather sticking to the progressive party talking points that wants to destroy Wall Street while making waves that place her on the national scene. Politics is all screwed up and is run by thieves and con artists because the values of our society are so bad that nobody sees such things as wrong any more. Nobody wishes to uphold a moral order, so there is no consequence for actions. That is unless, as in the case of Jessie Jackson Jr., he understates his income on his tax returns. Then, justice is swift and true. Government must have its money to pay for all the bandits that hold office there, and wish to make sweet-heart deals with scum bags on K-Street. When taxes aren’t paid, even Al Capone was sent to jail—because government is not about caring for people in a republic. It’s about making politicians rich off the backs of extortion and shell games of injustice that makes Las Vegas look like a church on a Sunday morning.
Considering that I spent a good part of last weekend preparing DVD copies of my videos to prove a tax filing status to satisfy the IRS, the news that Facebook isn’t paying any Federal taxes caught my attention. Facebook (spelled with a little “f” to prove they don’t take themselves too seriously—which is the cool thing to do these days—won’t pay a penny in Federal income tax. Rather, they are getting money back after making over a billion dollars in profits. Shhhhhhhh, do you hear that……………………………..keep listening……………………….if you pay attention you will not hear a damn thing from the Obama White House when a huge financial contributor to his progressive causes dodges payment of their “fair share” in social obligations. More on the story is at the link below.
Now, I don’t begrudge Facebook the ability to make money, or file their taxes in creative ways to avoid getting pillaged over tax obligations. Taxes are legalized theft of property owner resources by a mob like government, so I applaud at every opportunity free enterprise and bold innovation to avoid the money collecting trolls calling themselves IRS agents. The trouble is, if the company getting caught doing such a thing were a company associated with the Republican Party, the Tea Party, or individuals who typically cause the IRS trouble, that harassment for not paying a mythical “fair share” would be aggressive. It has long been stated by people like me that the IRS (Internal Revenue Service=Tax Collectors) is not about fairness, it’s about control and is the oldest game in the book of manipulation from one entity over another.
But remember the constant utterances from the political left all during the Presidential election about Mitt Romney only paying 14% of his many, many millions to the IRS and the accusation that he was a bad, greedy man because he didn’t want to pay his fair share to the government. Even President Obama himself poked fun at Romney for hiding money in the Cayman Islands and attempting to shield his wealth from the grubby hand of progressive looters. Romney paid more in taxes last year than the $1 billion dollar profit generating free website Facebook. In fact, 49% of us did. Anyone who pays Federal taxes—which is just under half the nation–paid more in taxes than Facebook, but why.
Dear reader, if you want to be treated with the same respect that Facebook has, and not have IRS agents show up at your house asking for DVDs to justify tax status, or grill over all your financial records to prove that you are telling the truth, all you have to do is give a few million dollars to the organized crime syndicate called the Democratic Party and all will be forgiven. The hidden story behind Facebook is that if you pay the troll, the troll won’t come and eat you and your family. But if you try not to pay, then every law written in the IRS books will be brought to justice against any who dare question their authority, or avoid paying them the money they believe they have coming to them just for being born.
The hypocrisy is obvious. Not a peep came out of President Obama on the campaign trail following his State of the Union speech about how Facebook was evil in trying to avoid paying taxes. Not a word was said that executives at Facebook didn’t feel an ounce of guilt as they took their bonus checks and went on lavish vacations and rolled in the massive profits they generated by selling collected data to third party interests—(cough)…….like the government. After all, who pays Facebook a billion dollars? To learn how Facebook makes money, click the link below.
Once again the real nature of government business is easy to see and right out in the open for anyone with the guts to look. Obama has said nothing about the tax evasion of yet another one of his financial contributors and this flies in the face of progressive theory in ways liberals on the political left chose to ignore. Their idea of a utopian society forcefully provided through violence, extortion and massive wealth redistribution will never work because in the end, they are as greedy as the most corrupt oil company, the most openly capitalistic, profit generating Midwestern business. Obama doesn’t say anything because he wants easy access to Mark Zuckerberg and the young voters who think that Facebook is cool, and hip. Obama also needed the campaign donations from people like Zuckerberg to keep him in power over Republican rivals so turning a blind eye to tax evasion on behalf of Facebook is to his benefit.
The IRS is not about justice, it’s about protection money. If you are on the wrong side of the current President, the law will be used to hunt you down to prove your innocence–no stone will be left unturned. If you do not pay your protection money to the government through campaign donations, you will be publicly ridiculed, and perhaps even thrown in jail for not paying your taxes. But if you are a huge company that puts money in the mobster’s pockets indirectly, you can go free and even profit more because they will help you become more profitable with public endorsements and official cabinet seats within the administration. If President Obama really cared about the poor, the down-trodden, the debt ridden malcontent who’s been unemployed for over a year, he’d publicly call out Facebook for dodging their taxes the same way he accused Mitt Romney of doing during the last presidential campaign. But instead, Obama updated his Facebook status and bragged to his daughters that he knows the CEO of Facebook personally, and hopes that it makes him a better dad in the eyes of innocence that are blind to the dirty tricks and scandals that go on behind the cubicles of the IRS.
Below is a clip of what Kelly has been able to do as President of Springboro schools.
If public education were about actually teaching children, I would be all for it. If little boys wanted to grow up to become Thomas Jefferson and little girls Annie Oakley or Amelia Earhart I would support public education in less than one second. Instead, public education inspires young people to be more like Kim Kardashian and Honey Boo Boo. When I speak against public education and college it is not because I don’t love learning. It is because those institutions are reeking with liberalism and are teaching our youth everything wrong. They are filled with teaching positions held by liberals scared of the real world and in no position to teach the youth of American anything! The evidence of this liberal presence in all tax payer funded schools is overwhelming, and is vastly ignored by the adult population because the knowledge is inconvenient. Parents fear losing their day time babysitting service, which is all public education really amounts to these days—which is quite tragic.
Many people today would be shocked to learn that in the year 1636 Harvard was founded by Congregationalists to train for ministers. Yale in 1701 and Dartmouth in 1769 were founded with the same intention. The College of William and Mary was founded to train Anglican ministers. In fact many of the early education institutions in America particularly those guided by minds like Thomas Jefferson who founded The University of Virginia as a multi denominational school committed to higher learning, emphasized critical thinking, and a yearning for philosophy in their studies. Education in the early days of America was committed to more than just landing a good job with a high salary. The students were encouraged by their teachers to be good people, and to operate under moral conviction. Education in America during the time of the Founding Fathers intended to elevate the soul of the students through education not to reprogram them into some small-minded perpetrator of liberalism.
It is educators like Arnol Elam who have yelled to the world that good men like Founding Father Thomas Jefferson should be discredited by an affair with his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemmings—because the tenants of progressive philosophy must tear down Jefferson and those like him so that history will not measure progressivism against the philosophy of Scottish Common Sense, that are most guilty of destroying our society with moral depravity and watered down educations. But guess what? I measure Progressivism against the philosophy of Scottish Common Sense that founded American very unfavorably, so unfavorably that I reject modern education because of it.
The Scottish School of Common Sense was a school of philosophy that flourished in Scotland in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Its roots can be found in responses to the writings of such philosophers as John Locke, George Berkeley and David Hume, where its most prominent members were, among others, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Reid andWilliam Hamilton, who combined Reid’s approach with the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. The peculiar influence it had on philosophers elsewhere in Europe, not to mention in the United States, exemplified by the American pragmatistCharles Sanders Peirce, is of a considerable magnitude.
One central concern of the school was to defend “common sense” against philosophical paradox and scepticism. It argued that common-sense beliefs govern the lives and thoughts even of those who avow non-commonsensical beliefs and that matters of common sense are within “the reach of common understanding”.[citation needed] The qualities of its works were not generally consistent; Edward S. Reed writes, e.g., “[Whereas] Thomas Reid wished to use common sense to develop philosophical wisdom, much of this school simply wanted to use common sense to attack any form of intellectual change.”[2]
In regard to the affair of Jefferson and Hemings it is highly unlikely that Jefferson even had intercourse with another woman after his wife died, let alone had an affair with Hemings. It was largely because of Jefferson that slavery began to be examined as immoral in The United States, steps that Lincoln would later utilize to abolish the practice for the first time in human history. And Jefferson was NOT having sex with underage girls as progressive modern educators hell-bent on embracing human weakness wish to slander and propagate to further their agenda of social destruction. Jefferson it would appear—especially once he was over forty, was far more concerned with reading, writing, and scientific thought than plotting ways he could have sex with a woman for a mere two hours of pleasure. Only an immoral progressive educator would think such a thing—who has nothing going on in their minds or private lives to indicate to them that people think any different from them.
Imagine the typical modern-day school superintendent who has a doctoral degree in education—in liberal studies, in progressive social advancement–that is committed to attacking America’s version of Scottish Common Sense, who don’t even have understanding enough to see that Kasich wasn’t stealing money from the poor to give to rich schools, but that it is the other way around. Modern education is not about teaching children big ideas about science, philosophy, or even spiritual awareness. It’s about creating good jobs for progressive minded human beings who seek to impose their small-minded world view onto all tax payers with the blanket assumption that education is universally good—when in fact it only advances thoughts favoring liberalism and rejects common sense entirely. The product of modern education is bad. It creates bad, immoral characters, and it is responsible for much of the misery that can be seen around the world to this very day. It is truly sad that dusty old relics such as the Founding Fathers of The United States were far more intellectually sound with all the limits of their day than the modern educator with far more tools at their disposal—but it’s true. Educators like Arnol Elam see only one thing—money and progressive causes in the daily conduct of their lives and they disgust me. I despise having to contribute money to such people with my tax dollars. I hate that a small portion of my money goes to the salary of Arnol Elam to propagate such disgusting verbiage to his school district that young people will learn and carry into their adulthoods.
There isn’t much in this world that I love more than books. I read every single day of my life, and most days I read for many hours. I understand people like Thomas Jefferson, and yearn to see his kind of America. I do not want to understand people like Arnol Elam. Educators like that are small people with small minds and they are teaching young people to be small adults—and that absolutely disgusts me. It is not the job of the American tax payer to throw more money at education so that people like Arnol Elam can have a good job on the public dime. The job of education is to teach young people how to be successful adults, and that job is not being done. So in that respect I see every public education issue as my problem because my money is being used to advance it. If I’m going to pay for public education I’m going to get a return on my investment. If public education takes my money, they will get my criticism especially when they fail to do the job as I think the job should be done. My measure for good education is people like Thomas Jefferson who placed education on the highest level of human thought and spent his life learning every day and wanted to share that love of learning with all American citizens. I do the same, and understand that. But advocates of a faulty product such as modern education like what Arnol Elam represents are parasites to common sense; they seek to advance the basic tenants of Immanuel Kant and the European Enlightenment. Jefferson spoke of that same European Enlightenment by saying “the comparisons of our governments with those of Europe are like a comparison of heaven and hell.” And so too is my idea of education compared to Arnol Elam, it is for this reason that I reject modern education in public and college models. I see them as lost ships guided far out to sea under the idiocy of modern progressives who built their philosophies off Kant and the European Enlightenment monstrosities. Such things may sound like disconnected rubbish when attached to superintendents like Arnol Elam, but the roots of progressivism are in his concerns, his political actions to move the city of Franklin to political action against a governor in Kasich that is trying to reform education spending. Districts being run by my friend Kelly Kohls are cast in a bad light by people like Arnol Elam because it is Springboro that is trying to emerge from the darkness of liberalism that has so infected every single education institution in America, breaking the universal commitment to collectivism which so terrifies progressives. As a conservative, anti-Federalist, Tea Party loving American, the liberalism being taught in public education is unacceptable and I’m not happy with it. If I had a choice, I wouldn’t spend one dime of my money on it. Instead though, because of big mouth, greedy, small-minded educators like Arnol Elam who cries out for more money at every turn to fuel their progressive diatribes my money is taken from me and wasted on liberal institutions in the form of public education without my consent—and that is not acceptable.
So it is not true that I hate education just like it is not true that Thomas Jefferson had an affair with Sally Heming’s. Both falsehoods have been spread by progressive enemies of Scottish Common Sense in order to advance modern progressive activism rooted in European Enlightenment. I love education, but I reject the liberal institutions that currently possess those houses of learning. Instead I advocate individual learning so to bypass the liberal control of the education process so that young minds can return their concerns to common sense and a life-long study of morality and goodness that they can carry not just into a job making them subjects to consumerism, but in every aspect of their lives from being good parents, to responsible voters, to committed community contributors, to thriving human beings. If education is not concerned with these things, it is worthless. The evidence to the state of modern education is in the words of Arnol Elam and his cries to steal more money from the rich to fuel his progressive school district toward the destruction of more youthful minds and their last hope for a clean and productive life.
Education is more than cheerleading, band, football practices, and art class. Education is philosophy, critical thinking, and moral grounding along with igniting a life-long yearning for knowledge. Education in the state that 2013 America holds is a deplorable excuse for human achievement that does little if anything to advance human progress. Instead, it seems committed to carrying mankind backwards to the tribal villages of Africa or the human sacrificing city-state of the centrally planned communities of the Aztecs and Mayas. I wouldn’t offer modern education to a dog I cared about, let alone a child I loved. So it has no value to me as a viable tax expense and there are few politicians qualified to offer commentary on the subject when their primary concerns in life is the quality of their golf game instead of the quality of their life. Thomas Jefferson did not, and would not have an affair with Sally Heming’s or any other sexual representation of feminine magic. Such a thought is hard for people who are still intellectually inept to grapple with, but sex is not the only concern for the human mind. As anyone who has a love of learning can attest to, and has lived a full enough life to tell the difference, books and learning are far more rewarding than sex. Thomas Jefferson in all probability spent the last 45 years or more of his life sexless completely because his mind was so active. Modern educators who seek to teach young people about sex in the 4th grade can’t imagine such a person as Thomas Jefferson—and because they can’t are not qualified to teach anybody anything, let alone a child. Thomas Jefferson to me represents how education should be in America and anything less than his approach is worthless and not worth any amount of money. If the desire in public education were to carry every child into the life of such a classic founding father, I would support it unequivocally. Instead, modern deconstructionist education seeks to tear Jefferson down, so that people like Arnol Elam can be seen by the public to be viewed as an equal measure of a man, instead of a money-grubbing thief with their gluttonous eyes on the public treasury.
Not all things at the Lakota School System have been bad. I personally like the treasurer for Lakota, Jenni Logan. She is very competent and is more than able to manage a multimillion dollar budget. School board members Ben Dibble, Ray Murray, and Linda O’Conner I personally like, even though they are way to the political left of me. I think they mean well. And the current spokesman Randy Oppenheimer seems to be a pretty honest person with his heart in the right place. Even though I think spokesmen for public education should be illegal, Randy is not bad at his job. Recently in the Hamilton Journal Randy gave an honest assessment of Lakota’s financial situation that deserves recognition. He stated along with reports from many other local schools regarding Governor Kasich’s new education budget that Lakota had been planning for a reduction in state funding so the news that cuts would not be forthcoming was seen as a budget surplus. The quote from the paper can be seen below with a link to the article following.
“Lakota Local Schools — with enrollment around 16,625 — is set to receive $35.6 million in 2013; and would receive $4.1 million or 11.6 percent more the first year, and $849,318 or 2.1 percent the second year. “We had projected a cut in funding, and the governor made his comments (last week) and indicated we couldn’t be cut,” said Lakota spokesman Randy Oppenheimer. “Any increase in funding is good news.”
That statement says that at least some of the management team at Lakota is crunching the numbers properly. At this point I have my doubts but logic would dictate that Lakota shouldn’t ask for another school levy for more than a decade since their student enrollment is set to decline over that time span. When Lakota was asking for school levies every 6 months a couple of years ago and we were fighting like cats and dogs Lakota had a student population of over 18,000. By the time The United States elects another president Lakota’s enrollment should hover just over 10,000, and I would expect that the staff of over 2000 employees would have to be cut to reflect that loss in demand. There may even be a combination of schools where some of the buildings will sit empty for lack of need. This is good news for the tax payers of Lakota as they should be able to save millions upon millions in staff that costs a lot of money in salary and benefits. If Lakota is smart, like some of the people who have emerged within the last couple of years have shown themselves to be, they wouldn’t ask for another levy till well after 2020. Their tax base will stabilize, new businesses continue to move into the area which contributes money to that base consistently—which should flood the market with new money once the Liberty Way development takes off in 2014, and home sales from the Carriage Hill development where Homearoma is taking place in the summer of 2013 will contribute revenue per household well above the 250K per pupil tax base needed to maintain a funding model of 20 mills. CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT CARRIAGE HILL.
Those are all wonderful and exciting things. Carriage Hill and the Liberty Way shopping complex will naturally expand the tax base while student enrollment will be declining rapidly bringing down the cost demands at the Lakota School System, if management does not give away the kitchen sink to the employees with excessively high labor contracts. I would think that it would be worth a reasonable salary of between 50K per year to 60K per year for a 10 to 20 year veteran of education to teach at Lakota where the kids are nice, the parents care about their children, and the community is thriving versus going after 70K to 80K per year in salary teaching in a district like CPS which is a declining community because the taxes are too high and there are way too many parents on government assistance, which statistically leads to poverty and crime.
The home owners who purchase homes ranging from $700,000 to $1.2 million at the new Carriage Hill development are not the types of families who bring 2.1 children into a school district seeking to flood the market with a desire to for free babysitting while they work an average job at P & G, climbing up their personal career ladder. The people looking to purchase homes in Carriage Hill will be successful people in their own right and most likely will find instruction for their children in private schools or tutors and won’t use the services of Lakota anyway—even though like the rest of us without kids in the school, will have to pay for it.
I don’t like the idea of having to spend the next 40 years of my life paying for kids to attend Lakota through my property taxes. I don’t like the amount I pay now, so an increase is unfathomably ridiculous and I know that the people who invest in communities like Lakota won’t keep their money in the distinct if they find it continuously stolen from them by short term thinking levy supporters. The fight in the Lakota School District is not over children, it’s over whether or not Lakota becomes the next Fairfield—overrun with Section 8 housing and degraded property value or continues to increase in value like Indian Hill has over the years with managed development and growth. Chaos and reactive spending will not lead to perpetual prosperity. The growth of the Lakota district has more to do with residents fleeing high tax communities from around the country than the nice trees and school system that levy supporters believe. It is low taxes and prosperity that are the most attractive feature to the affluent property owner, and that must be protected if the district wishes to maintain its value in the future.
Lucky for people like Jenni Logan, Ben Dibble, Ray Murray, Linda O’Conner and Randy Oppenheimer the numbers work in their favor at Lakota to not just sustain themselves but survive well into the future maintaining an Excellent with Distinction rating that reflects the community it resides in, even if the most affluent send their kids to private instruction. I hope they accept the manageable challenge of allowing the enrollment rates to decrease as the tax base stabilizes without asking for further tax dollars. That would be the responsible thing to do in virtually every facet of community management. The worst thing they could do is listen to the short sided utterances of their levy hound real-estate agents who want a levy increase to lure in more panicky 30-year-old parents who cry over every drop of spilled milk and perceived threat to their children’s lives who are still children themselves and willing to spend infinite amounts of money on education to compensate for their own internal insecurities as parents. Those are not the kind of people who should shape the direction of our community for the future. So a lot rests on how the school management team above handles 2013 at the Lakota School District and the numbers that are now known before them.
I might believe what the Department of Homeland Security is saying, as well as the FBI, ATF, and many other government departments if I didn’t see for the first time in my life an ammunition shortage for .223 ammunition, .45 caliber ammunition, and even bricks of .22 long rifle ammunition at my local gun suppliers. Their suggestions at The Department of Homeland Security are that their requests for 26.1 million rounds of ammunition that is drying up the supply of ammunition for the rest of America is “normal,” and is strictly for the training of officers. Read an article about this issue at the link below.
Combine the ammunition grab with frequent training drills where the participants have been writing home to their mothers about military endeavors in the National Guard and Coast Guard over martial law simulations and the ammunition shortage is quite alarming confirming what many of us already suspect—that at the end of the tunnel there will be a war of some kind that is of a civil nature, not external—and government departments are stocking up to lunch their offensive against the American people.
I do not worry about the theory of such a confrontation that seems to be emerging rapidly. Anything could trigger martial law in the United States which would be the first step in that process. China is poking Japan as we speak for war which would force The United States to pick sides. Do we pick the long time ally of Japan or the holder of our debt—China? Whoever we pick will have a lasting economic impact that will touch the lives of every American, which is why China has not went to war with Japan yet—because they can’t afford it. But they want it–that is for sure. Such an example is just one of the many possible circumstances that could destroy the value of the American dollar over night plunging The United States into another Civil War, as the government seeks to protect themselves from the wrath of the American people who wake up one morning with the bank calling in their mortgages, and themselves jobless because the value of everything has just flown out the window. That may sound extreme but it simply describes one possible scenario that could befall a nation with a national debt of over 16 trillion dollars. If something goes wrong, the government has to have a plan B, which is why they are conducting martial law drills—to protect themselves from the wrath of mismanagement. I read a book titled Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles a number of years ago and found that I understood Jesse James fight against the Federal government when the South surrendered but James and his brother refused to submit. Sure they were outlaws and they crossed the lines of justice many times when they robbed banks and harmed civilians in their plights of plunder—but I did understand the tactics and the politics very well. And I can see a day when a new Jesse James will ride again maybe as the first rebel of the next Civil War. After all it is the victor of such confrontations that gets to write the interpretation of history, and I will match my ability to write history against anyone that sides with the Federal Government these days. We’ll see which history the future remembers most—I’ll take that bet.
The more concerning question that comes to my mind is not what these government agencies are doing with so much ammunition—but why am I paying for it? Why should I as a tax payer be forced to purchase ammunition that most likely will be used against me in some future war within the states? Why should I help fund a political entity that wants to destroy me? That doesn’t seem right, or tactically sound. Heck, I don’t think I should have to fund the agents of Homeland Security who were built under George Bush to compensate for all the fools who screwed up on 9/11 and allowed a terrorist attack on American soil. Bush created a whole new branch of government in these Homeland Security employees and now the ridiculous TSA agents who are now unionized. I don’t even support the government passions that were created under George Bush let alone millions of rounds of ammunition to train them how to shoot a gun—which is expensive. Chances are, when our current socialist president uses the NDAA Act to declare martial law over some made up crises like a major snow storm, or even another school shooting like Sandy Hook, it will be my tax dollars working against me and my fellow Anti-Federalists—making my job harder, and that doesn’t make any sense.
But surrender or passive compliance is not an option—just as a disclaimer right out of the gate. The mountains of ammunition that the government is hording to me are just another waste of money by a band of legalized thieves hell-bent on the destruction of American sovereignty. I don’t think they should be able to use my tax money to purchase one round of 9 mm ammunition let alone millions. I can do more with that one round than any 100 of their Federal agents so if we are all fighting over ammunition supply and the goal is the defense of our country from foreign aggression, terrorism, and the like, then me and my kind should be the ones to have it, not The Department of Homeland Security. The DOH shouldn’t even exist as far as I am concerned and that goes for the Department of Socialist Education either. They do little good for America but give inflated salaries to worthless employees. But that is the Anti-Federalist in me talking—the kind of Anti-Federalist who founded America, not the kind that plans terrorism, or acts of sedition that are unpatriotic to the cause of liberty and freedom—no matter how much the secular progressives who make up modern Federalism might attempt to portray it through their puppet media.
I laid out my thoughts about a modern Jesse James story in my book Tail of the Dragon, and what justification might be behind the kind of activity I’m speaking of where a civil war of a modern kind might break out leaving us all fighting for the same ammunition. Next to most secular progressives these days they think of people like George Washington and Alexander Hamilton as radical fringe Constitutionalists who lack a worldly view of things. But to me, Washington and Hamilton represented Federalism in a reckless fashion of big government and gradual encroachment of liberty. I am a Jefferson Anti-Federalist from that era, and I have little faith that anybody in a government position of any kind can do anything right, let alone detect real threats against America from perceived threats who hold Anti-Federalist views against a Federalist system. I especially don’t trust a president who went to school in Indonesia to sign a paper turning my tax dollars against American Anti-Federalists out of convenience and self-preservation while buying millions of rounds of ammunition with our money to launch the offensive.
Such behavior seems like it should be against the law—but then look at who we’re talking about here. When criminals write the law—I suppose anything can happen. But I will say that when it does, I will not allow what happened to the memory of Jesse James to happen to the current Anti-Federalists. Learning from history, the next time there is an armed conflict between factions of political interest in America, the Federalists will not have the stronger use of the pen to paint history in the light they desire. They may find that they can buy up all the ammunition making me drive around town to find what I need—which pisses me off—but in the end, the victor gets to define history and the next time it won’t be those like Jesse James that gets painted as the outlaw.
It’s was good to see that Channel 5 did a hard-hitting story on the extreme abuse that is going on in the Cincinnati Public Schools. They revealed that 45 employees at CPS were making over 100K per year, which is appalling, especially considering the poor performance of CPS as an institution. Further they went on to report that there are over 100 employees who make more than 90K a year. While this may be shocking, and an inconvenient statistic for those who do not want to believe that their local public school is raking tax payers over the coals using the innocence of children as the extortion mechanism, the reality is quite evident.
Most of the employees who are members of the 100K club in public schools are administrators, not teachers. But in public education most administrators come from the ranks of the teaching profession and are deeply loyal to the teachers unions of which they were at one point members. As members of management they do not have any desire to ruffle the feathers of political order and instead seek to increase their own salaries so that the teachers in the union can justifiably see pay increases as well. As members of management the more administrators who make close to six figures the better for a teacher with a Master’s Degrees because all boats rise in the public education system under union rules. If an administrator makes a lot of money, the wage limit for teachers goes up proportionally. This is how management gives the illusion that they fight the union while at the same time helping them with expectations that have already been set high by members of the 100K club. Any half intelligent analysis will quickly determine that the whole system is a giant financial scam that uses children to hide the crime—and a crime it is. You can read more about the Channel 5 report at the link below.
At best the whole public education system is a massive scam and I personally get angry about it when it seeks to exploit children the way they all do, which is why I call the activity a crime. To use children for the personal gain of a comfortable salary and retirement pension is just as exploitive as any other crime that hurts children for the personal pleasure of an individual. When asked why a teacher is worth 60K to 90K and an administrator is worth 90K to 150K they will all say that they have many years of service in the teaching profession and that their “quality” is exceptional and the district is paying for that quality. They will also say that they do what they do because they “love children.” Bull————-shit. I would believe that coming from an employee who works for 45K per year and stays late into the night and volunteers their time to children off the clock—as a few do—just so they can help mentor kids. I don’t mind people, who fight for their right to make a dollar or two more, but I can’t stand a liar, and these public education employees who inflate the value of their wages on the backs of children are liars.
Below are the specifics of the superintendent contract for Keith Kline at West Clermont Schools
-$138,000 salary which can never be reduced
(Brook’s–previous superintendent–first salary $118,000/last salary $145,000)
-2013/14 year there are 3 goals to meet, and each one
met will kick in a 1% salary increase
-After that the board will provide goals and guidance on raises
-Pension is picked up 100% (so an additional $13,800 in compensation on top of the $19320 (14%) that has to be paid by statute)
and if the pickup is ever legally taken away (legislation/board changes)
then the pickup amount is added to the base salary to cover it.
-Same health care as WCEA
-$500000 life insurance policy, beneficiaries are 50% family/50% board of education
-An annuity (additional retirement benefit) of 6.5% of salary for every contract year (pro-rated this year, but annual rate would be no less than $8970).
-Medicare tax paid up to $2000 per year
-Board pays all professional membership dues
-218 day work year
-Board president may allow 15 additional days worked above 218 at a per diem rate (for this year that would be $633 per day).
-Allowed same sick leave as WCEA
-Severance of 1/4 unused sick leave up to 65 days to be paid at retirement
-Mileage reimbursement at IRS rates
Knowing a bit about Kline since he worked at Lakota and had the arrogance to stand out in the parking lot of Lakota East and deride parents who were upset that they had to bring their kids to school because of the busing cuts—that they “should have passed the levy” there is a history that provides material for judgment. I’m sure he would declare that he’s put in his years of service and that his compensation isn’t any more extraordinary than the package of Karen Mantia, the superintendent of Lakota or any other public school. He believes that he’s in it for the “good” of the community because he WON’T face the truth to himself that he’s in a money racket that hides behind the collective façade of public education. The culture in government schools is that there is safety in numbers and nobody passes judgment because they all believe that if they put in the years of silence and time, that they have a payday coming to them before their retirement age of 55. Keith I’m sure believes he is owed a contract like the one above no matter how ridiculous the rest of us thinks it is compared to private sector market driven benefits.
No teacher is worth six figures. And I would say that very, very few administrators should be in any kind of 100K club. Their jobs are not that important or difficult. I have told school officials to their faces during the Lakota Levy days that I would not only teach their classes but I would volunteer to teach 4 at the same time. I said as much to the Spark Magazine at Lakota East during an interview in 2011, which of course never found its way into print. The trick public schools use against the tax payers is that they have a monopoly on the education system and severely attack ANY form of competition that would exploit their money racket with reality of a market driven system. They have control of the social presence of their product and of the value of that market by artificially setting the value high because nobody can ever challenge their statistics. Public school employees can maintain the extortion racket so long as they have a monopoly on the education system. They are well aware of what they are doing. Fortunately for them few people call them out on it, so give Channel 5 some credit for doing this recent story. Not too many news organizations are willing to go against the grain and expose the exploitation of children like Channel 5 did most recently, and Brendan Keefe at Channel 9 has done in the past. (CLICK HERE FOR REVIEW) There’s a lot of politics that goes on behind the scenes, so it’s tough business to expose these education manipulators, but sometimes there are members of the press who boldly do the job of reporting as it is supposed to be done, and on this particular story, Channel 5 did the tax payers an incredible service that is crucial to the protection of a thriving society.
I stopped my work in its tracks back in 1995 when I first heard Paul Harvey’s “God Made A Farmer” radio skit on 700 WLW at 3:30 in the morning during the Truckin’ Bozo show. I was working 16 hour shifts back then starting at 4 PM and lasting till 8 AM 7 days a week and every single night I looked forward to the home stretch break when Paul Harvey would come on and give the news of the day. I remember vividly when I heard that dedication to the farmers of America, and it gave me pause in positive reflection. It didn’t take me but two words to remember the passage word for word when Dodge used the old Paul Harvey speech during their Superbowl commercial for Ram Pick-up Trucks as those memories from old came rushing back in a fury.
The reaction to the Dodge ad was extremely positive in the days after the big Superbowl event. It was so effective that long after people forgot the events of the game itself, the blackout, the near comeback by the San Francisco 49ers, the goal line stand by the Ravens to secure the win, people were talking about this commercial. I would conclude that Americans detected in that speech by Paul Harvey an America they see slipping away, and they are in the depths of their heart trying to recapture it before its gone forever. It is the elements of that speech that the Tea Party is dedicated into preserving. It is not a mindless yearning for the ignorance of the past, but the stability of knowing the roles we all require not just from ourselves, but of our youth.
When I was growing up both my grandparents were farmers and several other family members also. When I went to Christmas dinners and our family gathered for Thanksgiving I went to real farmhouses where the unmistakable smell of manure greeted you on a gravel driveway while the bite of cold northern winds froze your cheeks upon stepping out of the family car. The kitchens would be blazing hot with wood burning stoves and fireplaces warmed the entire house, hot downstairs, cold upstairs in a traditional farmhouse guarding Ohio farmland. Bails of coiled hey could be seen out every window covered thinly with snow. Cows where in the barn where I would play hide and seek with my siblings and cousins swinging from high beam rafters like Zorro and landing on the hood of a tractor bought at an auction in the 1920s that had a flat tire for over twenty years. I remember seeing slaughtered pigs with the heads hung on the porch for ease of display when I first learned that it was their meat that made bacon and I learned many more such things from my grandparent’s farms over the emerging decades.
I feel terribly sorry for most people now who will never know a farmer in their lives. I feel sorry for the people who saw that Superbowl commercial and found that they couldn’t relate to it at all, as they have become too urbanized. When I was a kid most everyone knew at least one farmer in their lives, but now, almost nobody does. A lot of children don’t even know a home where both their biological parents are still married let alone know a family that has been married for 50 years and earned their living off the land like the American Farmer. I was benefited with knowing not just one or two, but I knew many, and for me, they set the social parameters that I hold to this day of strong families, and strong figures within those families who are the glue that hold society together.
Kids today visit their grandparents in condominiums and they have Christmas dinners in quarter million dollar homes with high-efficiency heating systems which is a testimonial to technological advancement, but in the process, America has lost its traditional roots and surrendered its honor to the convenience of progressive philosophy. Our entire society has lost touch with the source of their milk, as they’ve never seen a farmer milk a cow at 5:30 AM or deliver a calf at 12:30 PM. When I was a kid my grandpa called my dad late one night and we rushed to his farm to deliver a baby calf by tying a rope to its feet and pulling it out of the mother with a tractor.
My anger at progressives and the source of my outrage that is displayed with millions of words upon these pages stems from the intentional destruction of this purely American way of life that Paul Harvey so accurately captured with his creative monologue. Few people have ever done it as good as Paul Harvey did but thankfully at least one did. Because without Paul Harvey’s monologue it may have been possible that progressives in America might have erased all memory of this exclusively American life from the minds of the world forever.
The America I am fighting for is the one in Paul Harvey’s words. I think its fair to ridicule those who have advanced the destruction of those traditional values because I have seen once too many the people I cherish ridiculed by a progressive teacher who teachers that women in the workplace have more value over my grandmother who could cut the head off that chicken and prepare it for her family which she loved with every cell in her body. I am tired of hearing the progressive politician urge urban dwelling by smearing the good name of the rural farmer and their desire for personal liberty. And I am tired of attorneys who desire divorce at every turn just so they can make money off the misery. I prefer the terrified farmer cowering in his barn afraid to deliver bad news to the woman of the family instead of taking the easy way out by serving divorce papers through the mail. I do not like, condone, or believe in the America that progressives have been attempting to advance. I believe in the America that Paul Harvey so accurately captured with his “God Made A Farmer” monologue. That is why I paused over a decade ago to pay silent tribute to those ancient words, and why I personally loved the Superbowl experience of 2013, because Dodge had the foresight to release a commercial that pays tribute to the American Farmer. I’m glad they did it, but I am sad that so many people found the experience foreign. That is a trend that must be reversed if America is to survive, and it is that reversal of which I am fully dedicated. The silent yearning that the commercial evoked in the American consciousness is but a compass that our society needs to observe so to find our direction in a wilderness of confusion, and find our way back to greatness that has it’s backbone in the American Farmer.
It is because of Paul Harvey that I write here every day. I listened to him for years and I miss the guy. It is because nobody else has the guts to be him, or pour words into the tapestry of our day the way he did that I write so much about the world around us. I believe in the hearts of all Americans that there is a Paul Harvey in each of them, even if they have been taught to think otherwise. The video above featuring Paul Harvey in the Dodge Ram commercial had over 6 million hits on YouTube in just three days. Ratings say everything.
I get the typical questions still almost every day I do it, wondering why I ride a motorcycle in the harsh cold and falling snow. During the span of days where 6 AM temperatures hovered around 15 degrees in early February, 2013 through black ice and drifting snow I rode my motorcycle as I always do to the inquisitive curiosity of many. They don’t understand why a 45 year-old man is riding such a vehicle and suffering through the painful cold when I clearly don’t have to. My answer is one that many can’t understand logically, but it has to do with maintaining a Survivor mindset, one that does not falter under harsh conditions and can continue thinking when a physical reality is filled with pain. That answer leaves even more people scratching their heads because they don’t understand why such skills would be necessary in today’s world. But over the years I have done a very good job at surviving anything that has come my way, and I have been so good at it that my family has always joked that I should be a contestant on the TV show Survivor. In fact, half-way serious back during the third season of Survivor when they were going to Africa I actually tried out for the show. I was only 33 years-old at the time and went so far as to obtain my passport to appear on the show. Below is my audition tape that I sent to the producers. Their criteria at the time was to pick one item that I would want to bring with me on Survivor and describe why. I picked my 12 foot bullwhip.
The fun thing about watching that old video now is that I haven’t changed that much from then to now. My oldest daughter was just a little girl at the time as she held targets for me like she always used to. I filmed that little audition tape while my wife was making breakfast with her mother on a brisk November morning mainly because I wanted to send a message to my kids not to be afraid to try anything even if the odds are very much against you. Often the fun is in the journey, so it was delightful to assemble those clips with my daughter and allow her to take an active part in helping me try out for such a large television production while at the same time giving me a creative way to tell her the back history of how I came into using bullwhips as a hobby.
By now there is over a decade of Survivor episodes so we all know how the game has been played. Even though I haven’t played that particular game on that particular show I have played the game in real life very effectively. Some who know me best have seen to what extremes I am willing to play the game of Survivor in real life. I’ve had to do it with several companies, personal triumphs, also with politics and in hindsight I had very good instincts to try out for Survivor all those years ago. Watching the kind of people who have won over the last decade and studying how they’ve won I would have had a good chance at winning the million dollar prize, which is why that show has always been so popular. The large financial incentive in the game pits many different types of personalities against each other in a successful duplication of reality. After all, we all play Survivor in our everyday lives in some form or another, so we enjoy watching the show as it strips away all the masks that such competition hides behind. In the TV game Survivor the settings are always exotic and primitive with the basic human condition exposed under the rugged conditions and easy for viewers to study—which is why the show has been so successful.
Even though I didn’t get the opportunity to be on that show I have survived many personal episodes over the years, and you might be surprised dear reader how many times my use of the bullwhip has bailed me out over that span. Much of the time it is knowing when to be intense, when to form an alliance, when to break an alliance, when to be unpredictable, when to be predictable, when to show your cards and when not to that dictates who wins and loses in the game of Survivor which we all play every day. Being good at Survivor requires an understanding of who is scheming against you and who is simply trying to use you to get closer to their eventual goal of which you share with them the final prize. Much of the time alliances are formed with those you know eventually must be taken out before the game ends and you must detect when they are going to make a move against you so that the aggression can be headed off before hand.
In that regard the game of Survivor that we are all playing is not for a million dollars or even to survive in corporate America. The game of Survivor we are playing now is one for all the marbles in American philosophy. For the reasons that John Boehner has sided with Barack Obama in many cases while publicly pretending to dual with him is to maintain the alliance the two have formed along the lines of what George Soros recently revealed about a strategy against the Tea Party being played out in Davos, Switzerland. Boehner wants to protect machine politics as does Obama, so they both have that trait in common and find the Tea Party as a threat to their personal philosophy. They may not agree on much else, but they know they must get rid of the Tea Party before they fight each other, so they form a union, just like in the show Survivor. CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR MORE.
The weakness of the Tea Party movement is that they are inheritably honest by nature so they find themselves often on the short end of the stick when playing against deceitful competitors. I too have the very same problem. It took me a long time to work through this handicap, which I figured out in my teenage years. I cannot be as deceitful as the typical politician and cannot change sides so quickly as others with less ethics have proven so capable of. The Soros/Obama plan is to provoke that honesty prevalent in the Tea Party “into the forest” as they put it, so that they can regain control of the two-party system. Locally we have seen traditional Republicans move away from the Tea Party for this very reason, because they are betting that the Tea Party will not survive, and they fear exposure. This trend is so popular that even education reformers like Governor Kasich are quickly changing their tune. He has formed an alliance with labor unions designed to earn his re-election and a run for President in 2016 by turning against the Tea Party ideas that he ran on. Kasich may not philosophically agree with the labor unions, but he will side with them now so that he can advance to a political level where he can betray them at a future tribal council—(metaphorically speaking).
What is required if you are a Tea Party supporter is a change in strategy that “they” don’t anticipate. As we move forward with fighting school levies, preserving the Constitution, and maintaining fiscal responsibility in government, it will require new alliances and a will to cut up the old ones into little pieces so that they cannot betray us in the future. If a deceitful manner is not an option for the Tea Party, which I know before hand that it’s not, then it requires a toughness that the opposition does not have to beat them.
I have learned over the years that the willingness to be “tougher” than a rival can provide leverage over the more manipulative in the game of Survivor. Opponents who play “politics” and believe they can outspend, outsmart, and outwit a competitor while sitting in the safety of their homes or their luxury cars are ALWAYS at a disadvantage to a rival who is not afraid to bleed, fight in the trenches and rip off the masks of those who desire to remain hidden behind them. In this way it is possible to always gain the upper hand on a rival who desires to play Survivor from a level of comfort.
If I had been on the show Survivor all those years ago, I would have done well using my athleticism to win a majority of the immunity challenges, and I would have done well otherwise by created and dismissing the proper alliances at the proper time. And the reason to this very day that I still do push-ups every day, and ride my motorcycle in the extreme cold, the snow, the rain, the intense lightning storms is to remind myself to never get comfortable, to always be ready to make an adjustment in alliances to one that is successful and will allow victory in the game of Survivor. Typical politicians like Barack Obama, John Boehner, John Kasich and financiers like George Soros are playing the real game of Survivor with the standard “outwit, outplay and outlast” motto. To win, all those elements are important and cannot bring victory to someone who doesn’t excel at all those traits. However, I would add “toughness” to that motto. The ability to be “tougher” than your opponents with all other things being equal proves that victory comes to the tougher player who plays as honestly as possible nearly 100% of the time. “Toughness” beats all the billions of dollars that people like George Soros spends on politics nearly every single time in a head to head competition of wits. That is the short answer to why I ride my motorcycle in the cold February months and leave the car in the garage 95% of the time. “Toughness” is not something you can purchase; it has to be earned the old-fashioned way, and is the extra boost that any competitor can use to defeat their rivals with assurance.
If the Tea Party can maintain their sense of toughness while all these alliances change hands then it will be possible for a handful of tough-minded rebel rousers to dismantle all the billions that George Soros and his minions have spent to advance a global “progressive” society, and it can dismantle the two-party buddy system that is modern politics. Weak minded competitors who can be purchased because of their love of comfort do not make good allies for the mentally tough anyway, so there is no loss when they abandon us in favor of George Soros type’s power and money. In the end, honesty, toughness, and tenacity added to maintaining the ability to outwit, outplay, and outlast is a winning formula that will take the Tea Party into the real life finals in the game of Survivor. The above formula will give the Tea Party a chance to do what many think is impossible—to save America from the advancement of global progressivism. The real game of Survivor is not on TV but is being played out right here right now in this time and the winners will be those who play it best, and last to the bitter end.
As for me, since the time that I first made that video for the third season of Survivor and now I have survived many, many, many metaphorical tribal councils—enough to have won the TV game many times over. Some of those real tribal councils have been every bit as vicious as what can be seen on that television show each week for over a decade now. I anticipate that over the next decade I’ll survive even more that are every bit as ferocious. There will many alliances that are broken, many tears that are spilled, and there may even be some blood—but in the end, it’s all about “outwitting, out playing and outlasting” competitors with my personal addition of playing with honesty, toughness, and tenacity. I am confident that I’ll win far more immunity challenges than I’ll lose because at 6 AM in the morning through the pouring rain, the drifting snow, the black ice and extreme cold, I’m the only one on a motorcycle, which is why I do it.
I sympathize deeply with Tom Egger and his neighbors on Wethersfield Drive who are fighting the proposed Kroger Marketplace construction. They do not want to see a shopping center with thousands of people parked at the doorsteps of their homes. I say that knowing very well many of the people who are involved directly in the development of some of these properties in Liberty Twp and West Chester. There is only one thing that I respect more than the right of a property owner to make money off their properties and that is the rights of the home owner to protect their individual plots of land. To me residential homes are equally valuable to a plot of land that is currently just a field. The developer makes such a plot of land into a revenue generating entity and that is very valuable. But that value does not exceed the value of the individual property owner.
When the developers bought the plot of land in question they spent a lot of their own money on it with the understanding that the proper arms would be twisted to make way for the eventual commercial development of the property and provide a return on their investment a decade down the road. Many of these developers tie their money up in properties for many years before they ever see the opportunity to get their money back in developments like the Kroger Marketplace. Developers will purchase these plots of land based on initial zoning maps that show 20 year forecasts where current day zoning may be residential, but future zoning shows commercial development.
This is where the fight over Agenda 21 comes into our local communities and why I will soon be at odds with the same people I worked with in NoLakota Levy to fight the local school levies. The zoning maps are created by big government lovers who socially engineer communities around Agenda 21, and developers, trustees, and business finance uses those zoning projections to make their investments into communities. When fights break out over these changes the fight always happens between the developers and the residents when the real culprits are the zoning central planners who are either dead and in a grave by the time the zoning change is proposed or retired comfortably in a Florida condo living the rest of their lives off a government pension. The villains are nowhere to be found as they made their plans without voter input away from the eyes of the community leaving residents to fight it out with developers over plans nobody ever knew existed, and are helpless to stop because politics sides most of the time with the developers. When campaign times come, the developers are the ones who make the financial contributions to politicians, not Tom Egger and his neighbors, so local government tends to roll over the rights of the private citizen, which is what will happen with Kroger at the end of Wethersfield Drive.
Central planners from twenty years prior will point to the “greater good” as a reason to step all over the property rights of private citizens with emanate domain justification, such as what happened with the Butler Country Regional Highway. Without the Regional Highway and the many lives it destroyed by basically stealing away the properties of the people in its path there would not be a current Bridgewater Falls shopping center or the upcoming Liberty Way development would not even be a thought. So developers will often use the “greater good” as a reason to justify the developments they wish to build. Developers are used to opposition to their projects and they often know how to play the politics in their favor. For people like Tom Egger knows all too well, often the zoning approvals occur regardless of how many people show up to speak against a proposed zoning change—because the deals for the property were made long ago by forces who do not represent the homeowners, but the financial investment into the community.
Usually when the property owners lose in these zoning fights; they get a nice financial settlement that makes the pill go down a bit better. Over time, most everyone forgives the imposition. Government workers and developers know people will forget and forgive over time, so in the short run, they will steam roll over the private citizen because they can, and because they have millions of dollars of their own money tied up in a development while the homeowner is only investing 200K to 300K in their private property. In this way, the developer can justify their position.
However, the developers are wrong. Communities like Indian Hill have never yielded to such pressures as commercial development that is over zealous and a direct response to Agenda 21 community planners who want to see utopia like communities complete with fountains, side-walks, easy access to gas stations, and plenty of convenient banking. This is why Indian Hill is filled with extremely valuable real estate, because the zoning was never infused with Agenda 21 strategies. Instead, Madera, Deer Park, Kenwood and all the surrounding communities have felt that wrath with very mixed results. What Tom Egger is fighting for is the long view return on his investment. His property will not increase in value because a Kroger Store sits at the end of his road. It clutters up his life unnecessarily, because when he moved to West Chester Kroger was down the road, not at the end of his driveway. Developers will say that a Kroger Store was always slated for that property, but the real estate agent surely didn’t tell Tom Egger and his family that when they invested in their home over a decade ago.
People like Tom Egger have just as much value as property owners as the developers who bought the big field of the proposed Kroger site. Egger and his neighbors should not be steam rolled over because they do not pour thousands of dollars into local politics, or have millions tied up in a potential real estate deal. The rights of the individual rules 100% of the time over those of the collective good—there is no argument about the greater good that developers can make to justify moving a Kroger store one mile down the road so it can reside in front of Tom Egger’s property. Tom Egger’s home may not be worth millions dollars, like the property being developed for Kroger is, but to Tom it is. It is his palace, his cherished enterprise, and the result of his work and effort. Tom should not lose the quality of his life to the whims of money and politics just because he can’t play the political game at the same level as the developers.
I will fight to protect those same developers from being unnecessarily pillaged from collectivist school systems and big government taxation policies, as I did by joining with some of them in our group called No Lakota Levy. But I will always fight for the rights of people like Tom Egger who are the valued citizens who maintain thousands of similar properties all over West Chester and Liberty Twp. It is they who make up the community and it is they who ultimately hold the most social value. Their individual rights far exceed those of financial investment and political will which is aligned in a marriage made in court and sanctioned by judges. It is for this reason that I stand with Tom Egger, his neighbors and those like him against a Kroger Marketplace shopping center. The context for my opinion is in my prequel statements. CLICK HERE TO REVIEW. Doing what is right and good is not always easy, and can cross the lines of political parties, friendships, and even vested interest. But doing “good” is what we must all be committed to, no matter what the cost of that “good” is.
If Kroger wants to build a new Marketplace Center, they need to do it in the location it currently resides at. If it’s not possible, then Kroger can live with shoppers going to the Liberty Twp location. Better yet the old Biggs building could be converted over to a Kroger Marketplace easily since it has plenty of square footage–but such logic is not what this Kroger deal is all about. It’s not about doing what’s good for the community–it’s about recovering the money invested in the field across from Tom’s house with a political favor that will be just one more empty building 30 years down the road. That is why Tom Eggar and his property should not be crushed under the political will of collectivism and an original sin designed by the architects of Agenda 21. When the Kroger building becomes old and out-of-style Tom Eggar and his grand-kids will probably have Christmas dinners at his home, and a Kroger store that will lose value in the coming decades will then be an eye sore and a grim reminder to future generations of the power of politics and the people it crushes when they get in its way. In this regard, Tom Eggar’s home will still have much value, but the Kroger store will just be another old building that nobody wants to visit.
It is not enough to just point at the government and say that it’s bad. Government is bad because it attracts the wrong kind of people to serve it. Yet in order to fix government the understanding of what “good” people are, what they look like, and how they should behave must be understood. Without that understanding, there is no hope for government to ever be reformed for the better no matter what the political affiliation is or under what flag it resides under. The roots of people come out when they are pressed, as seen in the article link below from the West Chester Buzz regarding John Boehner and the comments about John’s current political predicament, from some of the same people who have intersected my life at times. This posting is directed at some of those people, and the ornaments that hang from their lives to this day who are equally as baffled to the changes in political climate as Boehner is currently.
I know many Republicans who only have conservative beliefs so that they can advance their careers. And I know many, many Democrats who do the same. Statistics prove that many of the teachers, fire fighters and cops who voted the “union” ticket in the last elections do not care what the politicians on their tickets believed politically, but simply voted in the fashion that they did to secure their livelihoods. In my own family there are superintendents, teachers, school bus drivers, professional students—kids who are school age children whose parents need their schools to watch their kids while they pursue careers. They all wonder what I am after in my political arguments even though many of them have known me my entire life. They assume that I will announce to the family that I have a big lobby job with Washington or a public relations position for a local school system because I must have some personal agenda for my political campaigns, otherwise, why else would I do them?
Lately I have went further down the rabbit hole of personal life management because the solutions to America’s problems reside in individual lives—and it does no good to point out the deficiencies and failures of government without addressing the reasons. And those reasons are some of the most obvious yet obscure traits available to the minds of the masses on a daily bases. Too many people arrive too late in their lives with a yearning to be “good.” They fall in love for all the wrong reasons; buy the wrong kind of cars, clothing, and even dishwashers for motivations that defy practicality. They pursue occupations that allow these movements not for their inward calls to adventure but out of a desire to find meaning in their meaningless lives. They have pushed God from their lives, they have accepted collectivism as a social blanket to hide their inner demons from themselves, and they arrive into their adulthoods fractions of their true potential—wastes of human beings that are navigating T.S. Eliot’s Wasteland in their grim realities.
For the worst of the human being they seek to hide their personal wastelands from public view by joining government in a quest to save society because they cannot save themselves. They do not have the courage to face life daily, they buy into collectivism and hope to have success in mass. This is how it all starts, this is how government goes bad, because bad people join it with the good intention of saving themselves with redemptive escapades—but they only end up bringing the same kind of destruction to government and the people government serves as a result and they seek to use stolen money through taxation to cover their multiple personal evils. If only one or two people did such a thing, society might be able to absorb the impact, but tragically, there is only one or two per thousand who are good. The vast majority in government are broken souls trying desperately to fill their personal voids with public office under the guise of doing public good. The reality is that they are trying to conceal from public view their many inner evils of which they spend most of their lives fleeing from only to arrive at retirement age broken relics of their once hopeful lives.
There is a real fear when it is realized that a few here and there involve themselves in politics not to redeem their past sins, or to curry favor to build alliances with others to advance their careers, but out of a desire to do “good.” When objectives of personal gain cannot be found, the panic begins to set in and a new layer of anger emerges. For those who are truly dedicated to being good and understanding the higher meanings of things, political theater is a trivial pursuit and I personally don’t have much tolerance for it. When I make my comments about politics and the participants it is out of a personal disdain that I have for the quality of the people attracted to politics. If their desire is to hide their personal faults from society by joining public office then spending my money to redeem their activity through collectivism, then I have a right to expose them for what they are attempting to conceal from public view. It would be less of my business what their personal faults were if they did not consume my tax money, but because they do, they deserve the wrath of critical analysis.
My objective is to sort the good from the bad. In my personal life, I only have room for those who want to do good. I don’t enjoy the company of social climbers and political manipulators so it’s no skin off my back if I piss them off. If they don’t wake up in the morning committed to being good people then I don’t have value for them. In that regard, when I have been invited to meet Governor John Kasich, I have dodged those meetings not out of disrespect, but because my personal time is valuable and there is nothing in such a meeting for me. Kasich is a public servant and to me that is equal to the kind of person I might hire to clean my house. When I was invited to have breakfast with John Boehner fairly recently, I ducted the invitation not out of disrespect to Boehner, but out of a preference for having a private breakfast with my wife doing what we enjoy doing on Saturday mornings. And there is no circumstance that Barack Obama could invite me to the White House for any kind of meeting that I would go to without having something better to do. Many people would say that my comments in this regard are crazy–yet that is why our government is so screwed up, and what I fight against. For those who don’t understand, I work to make them understand by forcing them to look at their actions in the context of goodness, and measure for themselves if they wish to continue down that path.
Such action may not be popular but that’s alright with me. My view is on the long view, not the short. There is nothing in the short view that interests me, and no amount of money in the world that could lure me into such a short-sighted view. Along those guidelines, there is no tolerance that I have for those who are so short-sighted, and my respect for people who are, is non-existent. So for those who wonder, I hope this explanation frames the situation correctly.
The Overmanwarrior 