Reinke Faces Life

An article in the September issue of The New Yorker makes the case that education is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Constitution. It’s not. Public schools in Detroit are failing to educate students. Just like they are failing to do so in many large cities throughout the country. A case in the federal court system, Gary B. v. Snyder, filed by Public Counsel and Sidley Austin LLP on behalf of a class of Detroit students, argues that students in Detroit public schools who failed to learn how to read were denied their due process and equal protection rights under the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. The case was dismissed by a federal district court in Michigan in June, but has been appealed to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. The plaintiffs, as well as the writer of the piece in The New Yorker (Jill Lepore) cite the Supreme Court case of Plyler v. Doe (1982). In his book The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American

Source: Is Education a Constitutional Right? | | Tenth Amendment Center

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What we have here is a failure to communicate!

Rights can only be “negative”; “positive” ones require someone to pay for them.

A “right” to healthcare implies that the doctor must treat you or that someone has to pay for your care.  Either way someone is being made a slave!

So to, a “right” to “education”, enslaves someone to deliver or pay for that “education”. Again someone is enslaved.

It’s interesting that in poor third world countries, parents get their children educated.  Often without their Gooferment’s help and in some case despite their Gooferment’s hostility.

Here in the good old USA, the Gooferment “promises” to educate the children but fails miserably.  Yet, the enslaved Taxpayers are continually robbed to spend more and more money on a broken system.

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You have mail and packages arriving soon.
10/24/2018
 COMING TO YOUR MAILBOX SOON.

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It would be nice if I could delete the junk mail from the web.  After all, they can tell me it’s coming. Why not let me delete it.  Save everyone some trouble?

Guess that’s too “out of the post office box” thinking for the Gooferment!

Sigh!

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The Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (later redesignated the Federal Transit Act) provided loans and grants for transit capital acquisition, construction, and planning activities.… Notably, only public entities could apply for the federal grants. Given the availability of federal aid, many cities, states, and counties purchased or otherwise took over their local rail and bus systems. Thus by the 1970s, a largely new model of transit provision—public ownership—had become increasingly prevalent in the United States. Many jurisdictions consolidated the operations of smaller private and public systems under the auspices of regional transit authorities. A few states, such as Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Jersey, formed statewide transit agencies.

Source: Government Crowd Out in Transportation | Cato @ Liberty

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I remember that in 1964!  Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats promised better service at lower cost, and despite all my ravings to my family  — who were ALL FDR worshipping D’s  —  they believed the propaganda.

Reflecting on all the “Gooferment roads”, I’d like to ask them “how’d that work out”?

My grandfather, when driving over the GWB, would reamark: “When will this be paid off?” and some smart alec in the back would chime in “NEVER!”.  Many decades later, the answer is still the same.

You see, my fellow taxpayers, the Gooferment, politicians, and bureaucrats never want to have anything “paid off” EVER!

Argh!

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Homelessness in Los Angeles County has been on the rise for a decade. Despite the slight decrease in 2018, the city estimates that since 2010, the number of homeless people in the region increased 52 percent.

Source: Why An LA Musician Was Kept From Building Tiny Homes For The Homeless

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The Gooferment can’t solve ANY problem.

In this PARTICULAR case, the Gooferment CREATES the problem with zoning, taxes, regulation, and other diktats.

Just ignore the fact that the mental institutions were closed to ‘mainstream” the mentally ill with “local neighborhood support” that was never provided because it was too expensive and NIMBY!

Then when property and rent skyrocket, the Gooferment blames the “free market”.

When individuals step up to solve problems, the Gooferment steps in to prevent it.

After all what would the politicians and bureaucrats do without the “homeless problem” to solve.

Argh!

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2018-Jul-02

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/01/4-billion-in-snap-money-went-to-improper-food-stamp-payments/

$4 Billion in SNAP Money Went to Improper Food Stamp Payments
Katherine Rodriguez — 1 Jul 2018

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) spent a total of $4 billion on improper food stamp payments to those receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the USDA confirmed with Breitbart News on Friday.

The USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service announced this week that improper payments made up 6.3 percent of SNAP money in the fiscal year (FY) 2017—the latest data available from the agency.

Breitbart News analyzed the USDA’s data on food stamp spending and found that $4,007,026,532 of the $63,603,595,754 the agency spent on SNAP in FY 2017 went to improper payments.

The USDA told Breitbart News that “it is important to note that improper payments include both overpayments and underpayments,” meaning that households on SNAP that received less than what they were supposed to receive for the month are also included in the percentage rate.

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Sorry, but that much “error” is inexcusable!

But why should the politicians and bureaucrats care it’s OPM (i.e., Other People’s Money)!

Argh!

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http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/05/05/california-expected-to-mandate-solar-panels-for-new-homes.html

California expected to mandate solar panels for new homes
By Amy Lieu | Fox News

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The California Energy Commission will vote on the new solar energy standard Wednesday, Southern California News Group reported.

“California is about to take a quantum leap in energy standards,” Bob Raymer, technical director for the California Building Industry Association, told the newspaper. “No other state in the nation mandates solar, and we are about to take that leap.”

The proposed solar standards would add about $25,000 to $30,000 to the cost of home construction, said C.R. Herro, Meritage Homes’ vice president of environmental affairs, according to the report.

But the cost should result in a savings of $50,000 to $60,000 over 25 years, he said.

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So it sounds like, from the individual buyers pov, it’s a wash.  What’s the time value of money?  And, how much do they “save” by buying versus renting?

The Gooferment puts the house out of reach price wise.  

You can think about it like you have to buy the house with the extra option.  Even if you don’t “need” it to get in the door or can afford it.

The ego of the politicians and bureaucrats is amazing and will keep people “poor” and renting.

Argh!

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If Donald Trump does not wish to collaborate in the destruction of his presidency, he will refuse to be questioned by the FBI, or by a grand jury, or by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his malevolent minions.Should Mueller subpoena him, as he has threatened to do, Trump should ignore the subpoena, and frame it for viewing in Trump Tower.If Mueller goes to the Supreme Court and wins an order for Trump to comply and testify to a grand jury, Trump should defy the court. The only institution that is empowered to prosecute a president is Congress. If charges against Trump are to be brought, this is the arena, this is the forum, where the battle should be fought and the fate and future of the Trump presidency decided.

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Source: Defy Mueller, Mr. Trump – LewRockwell

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“The only institution that is empowered to prosecute a president is Congress.”

Isn’t this the essential Constitutional check ‘n’ balance?

The Dead Old White Guys were fearful of a “tyrant” but knew the essential qualities of “politicians”.  Untrustworthy.

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https://amac.us/poll/should-james-comey-be-prosecuted-for-intentionally-leaking-information-to-the-media-while-he-was-director-of-the-fbi/

Should James Comey be Prosecuted?

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IMHO in one word — yes!

As should everyone who was involved.

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https://nypost.com/2018/04/15/why-were-forgetting-the-holocaust/

OPINION

Why we’re forgetting the Holocaust
By Karol Markowicz
April 15, 2018 | 7:06pm

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A scary new survey released on Holocaust Remembrance Day purported to show that Americans are forgetting the atrocities of the Holocaust. What it really showed, however, was that Americans don’t learn enough to forget in the first place.

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Yet lack of Holocaust knowledge had become so pervasive that in 2016 Michigan and Rhode Island passed bills requiring Holocaust and genocide education in high school, joining New York, New Jersey, California, Florida and Illinois. Several organizations are pushing to expand this mandate to all 50 states.

That would be a good start. As these surveys show, students need to be taught not just the basics but the details. The Holocaust stands apart as one of the few world events students should have to master.

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Instead of protesting the Second Amendment, the “children” should know about the direct relationship between a disarmed population and genocides. 

If there not going to learn the three R’s, then they should learn how to shoot.

Argh!

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5617901/Oregon-public-university-president-receives-monthly-76-111-pension.html

REVEALED: Oregon public university president receives a $76,111 A MONTH taxpayer-funded pension

• Dr Joe Robertson retired as president of the Oregon Health & Science University in October last year 
• The 66-year-old is receiving a monthly taxpayer-funded pension of $76,111
• His pension is considerably higher than what the average family in Oregon earns a year with the median household income being $57,532 in 2016
• His high pension is a result of the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System
• Pensions paid out by PERS are reportedly consuming other essential spending

By Emily Crane For Dailymail.com

PUBLISHED: 10:08 EDT, 15 April 2018 | UPDATED: 12:19 EDT, 15 April 2018

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A former Oregon eye surgeon and public university president is receiving a $76,111 a month taxpayer-funded pension after retiring late last year. 

Dr Joe Robertson, the former president of Oregon Health & Science University, will receive an annual pension of $913,000, which is the state’s largest public pension.

The 66-year-old’s pension is considerably higher than what the average family in Oregon earns a year. The median household income for the state was $57,532 in 2016, according to Census data.

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Why should the taxpayers be one the hook for something that’s impossible for them to get?

It puts a burden on future taxpayers that they can’t escape.

And, in the case of the average fixed pension, inflation can ravage the purchasing power of the pension.

By making it a defined contribution plan, the taxpayer is off the hook for a future liability.

Argh!

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/holocaust-study-millennials/

4 in 10 millennials don’t know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust, study shows

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NEW YORK — More than one-fifth of millennials in the U.S. — 22 percent — haven’t heard of, or aren’t sure if they’ve heard of, the Holocaust, according to a study published Thursday, on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. The study, which was commissioned by The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and conducted by Schoen Consulting, also found that 11 percent of U.S. adults overall haven’t heard of the Holocaust or aren’t sure if they did.

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Argh!

How can the children be so “mis-educated”?

Argh!

“We” need to do much better!

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https://patch.com/new-jersey/southbrunswick/s/ge8s8/east-brunswick-public-library-forgives-all-late-fines-for-kids

East Brunswick Public Library Forgives All Late Fines For Kids

Hey kids or teens, have an overdue book from the East Brunswick Public Library? You’re in luck…

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Maybe I’m an old curmudgeon but what lesson do the children get from this?

Like the “everyone gets a trophy”, it just sends the wrong message imho!

“Come home; all is forgiven!” should be “You promised; you knew the rules; you agreed to the rule; here is the consequences.” 

Children are smart and observant. It tells them that they don’t have to keep their promises.

Argh!

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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/04/james-bovard/after-the-fbis-pulse-nightclub-failure-why-should-we-trust-james-comey-anymore/

After the FBI’s Pulse Nightclub Failure, Why Should We Trust James Comey Anymore?

• Now that Noor Salman has been acquitted of charges she played a role in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, the FBI should be embarrassed.

By James Bovard USA Today April 5, 2018

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Federal prosecutors flourished the FBI memo of Salman’s confession as the ultimate proof of her perfidy. But the memo contained false statements and contradictions which even the government could not sweep away. After the trial ended, the jury foreman (who wished to remain anonymous) notified the Orlando Sentinel: “I wish that the FBI had recorded their interviews with Ms. Salman as there were several significant inconsistencies with the written summaries of her statements.”

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Require all FBI “interviews” to be video recorded … …

… … because “we” can no longer trust them — if “we” every could.

Argh!

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https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2018/04/04/trump-should-withdraw-us-forces-from-syria-but-he-wont/

Trump Should Withdraw US Forces from Syria, But He Won’t
Daniel Larison Posted onApril 4, 2018

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If Trump did withdraw US forces from Syria, it would be the only good foreign policy decision he has made thus far. The US military presence is illegal. It has no authorization from Congress, no international mandate, and our forces are in the country over the explicit objections of the recognized government. The US military presence is not needed to protect US security interests, which are not threatened by the prospect that the Syrian government might reclaim control over its own territory. No vital American interests are at stake in Syria, and therefore no American lives should be put at risk there. Staying indefinitely in Syria an attempt to oppose Iranian influence in the territory of Iran’s own ally is not only a waste of time, manpower, and resources in a dubious cause, but it is also runs roughshod over international law and the Constitution.

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One can only hope for DJT45 pulls out and gives us some “peace”.

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http://ncc-1776.org/tle2018/tle966-20180325-04.html

Here’s Plenty We Could Do About Mass Shootings 
by Vin Suprynowicz 
vin@vinsuprynowicz.com
Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

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Despite the fact this giant unionized “jobs-and-day-care” program for the otherwise largely unemployable now costs a hundred times more per student than the schools of a century ago (which turned non-English-speaking immigrant kids into the physicists who built the atomic bomb), they certainly aren’t producing many graduates today who can count change, do long division, find Paris on a map, speak a foreign Language, or explain if their lives depended on it the difference between “there,” “their,” and “they’re.”

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Certainly seems this way.

Why does the taxpayers of the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee pay such high property taxes for a dismal result?

Why aren’t parents responsible for educating THEIR children?

Argh!

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https://www.ac2news.com/2018/03/maxine-waters-video-the-president-obama-has-put-together-a-database-that-no-one-has-ever-seen-before-that-database-will-have-information-on-everything-on-every-individual/

Maxine Waters VIDEO: “The president (Obama) has put together a database that no one has ever seen before…That database will have information on everything, on every individual”
https://www.ac2news.com/2018/03/maxine-waters-video-the-president-obama-has-put-together-a-database-that-no-one-has-ever-seen-before-that-database-will-have-information-on-everything-on-every-individual/

 — via my feedly newsfeed

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​Why the uproar that DJT45 did basically the same thing as BHO44 except that BHO44 probably had Facebook’s help doing it?

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http://www.jeffjacoby.com/20903/the-scandal-free-obama-administration-an-urban

The ‘scandal-free’ Obama administration? An urban legend
by Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe
March 7, 2018

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And he declared that his administration had been scandal-free.

“We didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us,” Obama said. Sure, there were occasional mistakes and screw-ups, “but there wasn’t anything venal in eight years.”

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• Operation Fast and Furious
• Benghazi 
• Veterans Administration 
• The IRS discriminated against politically conservative groups
• The Office of Personnel Management suffered a catastrophic data breach 
• Solyndra
• Letting Hezbollah funnel cocaine into the United States
• Wiretapping AP reporters

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I’d add a few of my own:

• Eric Holder
• Hillary Clinton’s email servers
• Hillary Clinton’s Foundation pay for play
• Fairview 
• Firing of Shirley Sherrod

It’s really hard to list them all. And, they keep getting revealed in dribs and drabs.

Argh!

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