Reinke Faces Life

http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/smash-the-union-thug-ocracy/

SMASH THE UNION THUG-OCRACY
By Dick Morris And Eileen McGann
11.8.2010

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One of the first orders of business to come up in the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives will be the demand for bailouts of states where expenditures have been especially profligate – California, New York, Michigan, Illinois, and Connecticut. Throughout 2009 and 2010, these states governments have stayed above water by repeated infusions of federal cash. These one-shot stimulus payments must be repeated each year. They are all non-recurring expenditures requiring separate annual appropriations.
The Republican House must say no and hold the line, stopping this raid on the federal Treasury. The cry in the caucus must ring loud: “No More Bailouts!”
But, as the Republicans demand fiscal discipline and refuse to make the citizens of the other, more responsible states subsidize the wayward finances of California and New York, we need to focus on the union power that has forced states, localities, and school boards to raise taxes, borrow money, and – ultimately – to depend on federal bailouts.

These unions have forced contracts on their states, localities, and school boards which provide for ever higher wages, benefits, and pensions. Even now, teachers are on strike in a suburb of Pittsburgh because they feel a 4.5% annual wage increase is inadequate!

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This should be interesting.

One thing in a “corporate bankruptcy” is that past contracts are broken. Everyone gets a haircut. Pensions get dumped on the Federal Gooferment at a greatly reduced level; ask the Delta pilots about that.

It will be interesting.

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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2010/11/sad-but-not-surprising.html

Friday, November 05, 2010
Sad, but not surprising UPDATED

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MSNBC has suspended host Keith Olbermann indefinitely because he apparently made political donations to three Democratic candidates.

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And where do the traditional broadcast anchors contribute? You don’t think that ANY of them give money to conservatives or R’s, do you?

The “liberal” media bias is just dishonest. The slants are one thing; the out-and-out hostility to viewpoints not approved by the vast left-wing conspiracy are unacceptable. The folks are voting with their eyeballs.

At one time, “liberal” was a label one could be proud of. A champion of the people. “Classical liberals” opposed the King and force. Modern day little L libertarians trace their roots to these great thinkers.

Now, both “conservatives” and “liberal” joust to be the one in control of the “guns of Gooferment” to tell people how to run their lives. I, no more, want orders from conservatives than I do the liberals.

Let’s cut Gooferment spending 10% across the board. Let’s sell 50 or 100 year bonds to retire the Gooferment debt. Let’s demand that the crooks in DC only spend what is taken in in taxes.

Let’s end the Warfare / Welfare state. And, return to peace.

Isn’t that something that “liberals” and “conservative” can agree on?

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>In regard to unemployment, if you need to rely on that to survive

Agreed. Unfortunately, they pitched it as “insurance” and it ain’t. Unemployment is not an uninsurable risk. It’s not random. (Learnt that in the MC eckynomics class; I am after all a fat old white guy injineer with a low index.)

>So let’s agree to disagree.

Agreeably.

>government stands to make a profit. As they have on the bailout money.

So, they stole 10K$ from my wife’s retirement fund to enrich the unions, Wall Street, and the big banks. Then they sell the proceeds of that theft, make a profit, and me as the victim are supposed to be happy about that? If they had been forced to go thru bankruptcy, she would have gotten some money back. Estimates were 25¢ on the dollar. So we got screwed; I’m not happy. It was only a small percentage of her retirement and our portfolio. But it was the principle. By allowing anyone to avoid bankruptcy, the Gooferment took the pressure off the various managements to find a solution. By allowing Leman Brothers to fail but bailing out others, they created a mess. Goldman Sachs was picking winners and losers. Lehman was the biggest GS competitor. Timmy and others were all ex-GS people. It was a raid on the public treasury.

>I know you’ll never agree with me, but that’s my humble opinion.

You’re right about that. I’ve worked on Wall Street and I KNOW how the sleeze think.

>I believe most of today’s unemployment is due to skills gap.
> There are a lot of jobs out there, but individuals don’t fit the profile.

Might be. I think that the unemployment is due to the uncertainty that the Gooferment has introduced.

>I fear those jobs will not be coming back.

Well you could get them back if there were tariffs. But then, like Smoot Hawley, will create a worse Depression. We have to reinvent America. I think we have a natural global advantage in the production of food. So instead of paying farmers not to grow, we need to incentivize the food production process.

>This due to improper planning and reliance on another stipend from uncle
> sam, social security.

Another welfare program designed to transfer control to Washington DC. And, racist, xfer $ from poor minority men to rich white women. And, another mislabeled program; how can you “insure” old age?

>Why is Obamacare socialism when Medicare is a sacred cow?

Both are “socialism”!

>I think the free market is a viable option, with premiums being tax deductable.

I think we should just leave everyone alone to chose what they want and STOP using the guns of Gooferment to “social engineer”?

>Unfortunately, I do agree the Bush tax cuts must be repealed for the more wealthly americans.

Sorry, but when you take the money away from the rich, who will save and invest?

>Its an effective way to deal with the deficit. (Which Bush did wonders to increase.)

Nah, the Lafer curve, and the fact that you’re not dealing with idiots, will frustrate you. Lowering taxes will generate more revenue as it frees up people locked in by taxes. And, rich people aren’t stupid. How many docs will choose leisure over treating folks when their income is going to exceed 250K. And don’t forget it’s 250k$ on small business, so you’re paying on gross not net of expenses. It’s stupid. So like Maryland found out when they levied a “millionaire’s tax” over ½million, about ½ of their millionaires disappeared. Moved or feathered back their taxable income.

> legacy costs, defense and servicing debt.

I like the idea of a 10% across the board cut every year. But, no one is allowed to impact the citizens. Should drive the bureaucrats nuts!

>All of business is not hurting, this could be a record year on wall

>street. Bonuses are back up and greed is back in vogue.

You know that looting the public treasury is very profitable.

>Additionally, whether Republican or Democratic, I support my government.

That’s where we disagree. I’m a little L libertarian like Jefferson. It’s NOT my government. If we were having a beer, I could go into great detail about why it ain’t. :-)

> I disagree with some legislation, but I know it is a basic

>part of what makes this country great.

No, what makes this country great is liberty. And, then people make the most of it. Then, everything flowed from their “greed”.

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>In regard to unemployment, if you need to rely on that to survive

Agreed. Unfortunately, they pitched it as “insurance” and it ain’t. Unemployment is not an uninsurable risk. It’s not random. (Learnt that in the MC eckynomics class; I am after all a fat old white guy injineer with a low index.)

>So let’s agree to disagree.

Agreeably.

>government stands to make a profit. As they have on the bailout money.

So, they stole 10K$ from my wife’s retirement fund to enrich the unions, Wall Street, and the big banks. Then they sell the proceeds of that theft, make a profit, and me as the victim are supposed to be happy about that? If they had been forced to go thru bankruptcy, she would have gotten some money back. Estimates were 25¢ on the dollar. So we got screwed; I’m not happy. It was only a small percentage of her retirement and our portfolio. But it was the principle. By allowing anyone to avoid bankruptcy, the Gooferment took the pressure off the various managements to find a solution. By allowing Leman Brothers to fail but bailing out others, they created a mess. Goldman Sachs was picking winners and losers. Lehman was the biggest GS competitor. Timmy and others were all ex-GS people. It was a raid on the public treasury.

>I know you’ll never agree with me, but that’s my humble opinion.

You’re right about that. I’ve worked on Wall Street and I KNOW how the sleeze think.

>I believe most of today’s unemployment is due to skills gap.

> There are a lot of jobs out there, but individuals don’t fit the profile.

Might be. I think that the unemployment is due to the uncertainty that the Gooferment has introduced.

>I fear those jobs will not be coming back.

Well you could get them back if there were tariffs. But then, like Smoot Hawley, will create a worse Depression. We have to reinvent America. I think we have a natural global advantage in the production of food. So instead of paying farmers not to grow, we need to incentivize the food production process.

>This due to improper planning and reliance on another stipend from uncle
> sam, social security.

Another welfare program designed to transfer control to Washington DC. And, racist, xfer $ from poor minority men to rich white women. And, another mislabeled program; how can you “insure” old age?

>Why is Obamacare socialism when Medicare is a sacred cow?

Both are “socialism”!

>I think the free market is a viable option, with premiums being tax deductable.

I think we should just leave everyone alone to chose what they want and STOP using the guns of Gooferment to “social engineer”?

>Unfortunately, I do agree the Bush tax cuts must be repealed for the more wealthly americans.

Sorry, but when you take the money away from the rich, who will save and invest?

>Its an effective way to deal with the deficit. (Which Bush did wonders to increase.)

Nah, the Lafer curve, and the fact that you’re not dealing with idiots, will frustrate you. Lowering taxes will generate more revenue as it frees up people locked in by taxes. And, rich people aren’t stupid. How many docs will choose leisure over treating folks when their income is going to exceed 250K. And don’t forget it’s 250k$ on small business, so you’re paying on gross not net of expenses. It’s stupid. So like Maryland found out when they levied a “millionaire’s tax” over ½million, about ½ of their millionaires disappeared. Moved or feathered back their taxable income.

> legacy costs, defense and servicing debt.

I like the idea of a 10% across the board cut every year. But, no one is allowed to impact the citizens. Should drive the bureaucrats nuts!

>All of business is not hurting, this could be a record year on wall

>street. Bonuses are back up and greed is back in vogue.

You know that looting the public treasury is very profitable.

>Additionally, whether Republican or Democratic, I support my government.

That’s where we disagree. I’m a little L libertarian like Jefferson. It’s NOT my government. If we were having a beer, I could go into great detail about why it ain’t. :-)

> I disagree with some legislation, but I know it is a basic

>part of what makes this country great.

No, what makes this country great is liberty. And, then people make the most of it. Then, everything flowed from their “greed”.

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The big question is are Americans “We, The People” or “We, the sheeple”. I haven’t flown since this nonsense started and don’t plan to. I’d suggest that each of us has to decide when enough is enough. As a little L libertarian, I object to the Gooferment infringing upon our rights to supposedly “make us safe”.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. — Ben Franklin

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. — Samuel Adams

Why aren’t we all screaming and boycotting the airlines?

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Kathryn Muratore
[address deleted]

October 25, 2010

US Airways
ATTN: Customer Relations
4000 E Sky Harbor Blvd
Phoenix, AZ 85034

Dear Sir or Madam:

I am writing regarding my plans for Christmas travel with my family from Washington, DC to [a town in] CA. I purchased my tickets on your airline – via orbitz.com – about a month ago. However, I just learned that BWI has backscatter scanners as primary screening for all passengers, so I am changing my plans. I was not alerted of this gross invasion of privacy when I purchased my tickets and, having flown out of BWI in June without going through a scanner, so I had no knowledge of this requirement at the time of purchase. I am requesting that you do one of two things in order to keep this customer happy:

1. Refund the entire amount of my ticket so that I can use the money to make alternative arrangements. My ticket # is 03777558XXXXXX and I paid $651.80.

2. Or, cover my expenses to fly to BWI from another airport without the scanners installed so that I can make the flight that I’ve already paid for. For example, I can rent a car one-way (est. $100), drive to Norfolk, VA and catch flight 4084 to Philadelphia at around 1:30 pm, then connect from PHL to BWI on flight 3407. Orbitz has this flight listed at $141. I won’t charge you for the time and inconvenience – just the car, gas, and flight.

My husband will be on the flight from BWI to [a CA airport] on ticket # 03777558XXXXXX and I will be traveling with my baby daughter. Because of his work schedule, he can not commit to any of the alternative travel arrangements that I am considering. This is why, if I don’t get a refund, I want to be on the same flight from BWI to [a CA airport] with him.

I made the same trip in June – from BWI to [a CA airport] – for the funeral of my husband’s maternal grandmother. We hope to see his paternal grandmother this Christmas and for many years to come. Unfortunately, unless the airline industry starts protecting their customer’s human rights, this will be the last time I will fly to California.

I am deeply concerned about the non-choice of a backscatter scan or an enhanced pat-down for my daughter and myself. I dare say that US Air’s complicity in the TSA policy is anti-American, since it violates our Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure, without a warrant and without probable cause. I’m sure that, by buying a ticket from your company, I did not become a suspect in a crime. If I did, then you would also be involved in the conspiracy and would presumably be getting an enhanced pat-down with every ticket sold!

I’ve never been frisked in my life. I don’t intend to be frisked now and I don’t want my daughter to be frisked before her 2nd birthday. And I certainly won’t show a stranger parts of me that I intentionally keep covered with clothing around all other strangers. If US Air doesn’t have the guts to stand up for their customers’ rights, then you don’t deserve any business.

The short-term goal of this letter is to fix the problem of my upcoming holiday travel. But, in the long term, US Air must stand up for what is right. For that reason, I will be making this letter public, and, your response or lack of a response will be public as well. I will state the obvious intention here – to humiliate the travel industry into doing what it ought to have done already: tell the TSA that you know how to protect your customers best and to take their mitts off of us!

Sincerely,
Kathryn Muratore

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General Motors won’t have to pay federal taxes on up to $50 billion in profit under an unusual provision of its government-funded bailout, giving the car maker an added boost as it prepares to return to the stock market this month.

GM may use the $50 billion in so-called tax-loss carry-forwards to shield that amount of profit from U.S. taxes for up to 20 years.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575590642149103202.html?mod=djemalertNEWS

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I’m speechless.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/01/business/main7011590.shtml

NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2010
Popular U.S. Tabloids in Trouble?
American Media Inc., Publisher of The National Enquirer, Star, Plans to File for Bankruptcy Protection in 2 Weeks
(AP) Last updated 3:53 p.m. ET

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After years of dishing tales of celebrity folly and misfortune, The National Enquirer’s publisher has fallen on hard times of its own.

American Media Inc. plans to seek federal bankruptcy protection in the next two weeks or so. The privately held company, based in Boca

Raton, Fla., announced its intention Monday without sharing any details about its finances.

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They did save the USA from one lying politician. They should have received a Pulitzer for investigative journalism. But attacking a big Gooferment Socialist with the “D” label is politically incorrect. If they had done it to an “R”, they’d have won.

American needs to clean its house of the “liberal elite”. We can no longer afford the luxury of their muddled thinking and obvious biases.

Sorry, time to grow up!

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William Lynch>FJohn Reinke: William asks: Will you join me in committing to vote? Join the Commit to Vote Challenge and inspire your friends to vote

William committed to vote by November 2nd. “I am voting as it is my responsibility as a citizen and I want to protect my interests. “

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I’ll vote. Trying to protect everyone’s interests from an out-of-control Gooferment. A citizen exchanges loyalty for protection. The State, “King”, Gooferment, whatever you want to call this mess is NOT protecting me, the average joe six-pack, or the rest of the Sheeple. When you have no choice, it’s like voting in the old USSR. When you have no hope of change, why bother. So I understand staying-at-home. The American experiment is collapsing under the greed of the “Secular Progressive” leadership in both the D’s and the R’s. When the piggy bank is empty, we have to start over again. Argh! Vote, yes; chance that things will improve, zero. Best we can hope for is gridlock.

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http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2010/10/19/armageddon-what-democrats-are-hiding-why-they-are-really-scared/

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One example of a company that would likely go out of business is YRC trucking, which employs approximately 35,000 Teamsters. While the freight currently carried by YRC would likely be picked up by other carriers (many of which are non-union), the loss of members (and their dues) would be devastating for the Teamsters and the Democrats.

Right now, before November 2nd, Democrats don’t want voters to know that their union benefactors may further cause the economy to fall further or more companies to close and jobs to be lost. As a result, Democrats are not talking about it on the campaign trail. Instead they’re hoping they can work out a scheme during a lame duck session, sticking taxpayers with another $165 billion union bailout.

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Seems like every time you turn over a “financial rock”, there’s poop under it. That the politicians and bureaucrats have left for the taxpayer to clean up after. Argh!

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http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101015/NEWS04/10140328

Article published October 15, 2010
TPS teacher who watched Obama sign bill is laid off
Board not using $7.6M share to rehire workers
Toledo Public Schools teacher Amanda VanNess, second from right, is on hand as President Obama signs the stimulus bill.
By CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK BLADE STAFF WRITER

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As Toledo Public Schools teacher Amanda VanNess stood in the Oval Office and watched President Obama sign an education stimulus bill, she already knew she’d lost her teaching job back home to budget cuts and low seniority.

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I smell a rat.

Could this be a democrat operative?

Sorry, but I can’t imagine being a prop.

But then, no politician and / or bureaucrat is inviting me to anything?

Doesn’t any one see the stupidity of paying all these “handling charges”? The Federal Gooferment robs people of their wealth under the guise of “protection money” aka “taxes”. They take a cut for handling and send it to the States. The States take a cut for handling and send it to the Cities. The Cities take a cut and send it to School Boards. They take a cut and there’s probably little left to spend on anything. Let’s, for ease of example, say that the handling charge is ½. (You can make up your own fraction because no one knows what it is.) There are (at least) four handling charges so it’s exponential. (Fed’s send half. State send half of the feds half. A half of a half of a half of a half may get to the children.) ½ ** 4 = a sixteenth! (Hope the county government doesn’t get in there some how.)

I can double the amount getting to schools with the stroke of a pen!

Fire the Federal Gooferment from having ANYTHING to do with education.

After that I have another idea with respect to the States.

(Bet you see where this is going. Yup, parents had ’em. They should educate them. It’s a lot cheaper and better beside.)

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-10-15-1Avideocops15_CV_N.htm

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“The proliferation of cheap video equipment is presenting a whole new dynamic for law enforcement,” says Jim Pasco, executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest police union. “It has had a chilling effect on some officers who are now afraid to act for fear of retribution by video. This has become a serious safety issue. I’m afraid something terrible will happen.”

Kamau and others argue terrible things already have occurred to victims of officer abuse, and video has brought some of the most brutal cases to the public’s attention. Video also has helped narrow the “credibility gap” between police and their accusers, civil rights lawyer John Burris says.

“It used to be that the police officer always got the benefit of the doubt,” says Burris, who represented Rodney King in a civil lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles related to his videotaped beating by white Los Angeles police officers. Television broadcasts of the infamous tape, one of the first to show the power of citizen videos of police actions, prompted widespread public outrage.

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I am one of those outraged; you’re all complacent Sheeple.

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http://extratv.warnerbros.com/2010/10/view_co-hosts_whoopi_goldberg_joy_behar_walk_out_on_bill_o_reilly.php

Interesting. BOR said that they have a right. And, that BHO44 distanced himself from the folks by stopping at that point without commenting on the appropriateness.

Joy is a hard left type so she kept interrupting and over talking him. His response of “you’ll learn something” was respond to rude with rude.

When he said, “Some muslims killed Americans in the WTC”.

That sent Whoppi over the edge. (I don’t understand why? BOR stated a fact.)

Adjusting my tin foil hat, what if 9-11 was a “false flag operation”?

In the world of international relations, terrorism, and spy versus spy, I would trust anything is what it seems.

Trust but verify. What better way to put a wedge between fellow Americans and another wedge between the USA and “the Muslim world”?   

Argh!

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http://www.spinninglobe.net/amishmudsill.html

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There was nothing popular, local or personal about this artificial conceit of forced schooling; its purpose was to weaken people’s capacity to educate themselves, to break their loyalty to family, church and land in order to release customers and workforce for élite schemes of economics and social ordering. Brownson said the teaching function belonged in a democracy to the whole community, not to a controlled monopoly, and we had already become the best educated people in history on our own hook. “Children,” he said, “were far better off educated by the general pursuits, habits and moral tone of the community” than by a privileged class of corporate or government agents.

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They want to make cannon fodder out of children

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/nestmann6.1.1.html

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The CBP believes these rules are necessary to investigate terrorism, child pornography, etc., but I’m not so sure. For instance, if you were a terrorist, would you really bring your laptop across the border with your plans to blow up the White House? No, you’d simply e-mail yourself the plans to blow up, poison, or incinerate whatever you wish to target. As with most anti-terrorism initiatives, this one does little or nothing to fight terrorists. It merely inconveniences law-abiding travelers.

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Thought you could use yet another realization of “security theater”.

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http://www.zerohedge.com/article/hr3808-equivalent-tarp-2-and-obamas-get-out-jail-gift-card-high-frequency-signing-scandal

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That’s the theoretical definition: the practical one – the legislation, if enacted, could protect bank and mortgage processors from liability for false or improperly prepared documents. In other words, with one simple signature Obama has the capacity to prevent tens of billions in damages to banks from legal fees, MBS deficiency claims, unwound sales, and to formally make what started this whole mess: Court Fraud perpetrated by banks, a legal act, and to finally trample over the constitution. Will Obama do it? Potentially – the banking lobby certainly has enough power over him and his superiors, the members of the FOMC. On the other hand, the populist revolt that will surely follow the enactment of such a law will certainly end any dreams of a second term, and potentially of a completed first one. The drama is now on: will Obama openly side on behalf of the bankers (without a “blame the republicans” fall back this time) or of the foreclosure “victims” (granted, the bulk of whom are deadbeat homeowners who should never have owned a home to begin with). We doubt a decision will be reached before the midterms, although quite a bit now hangs in the balance.

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Hard to imagine the powers that be not giving themselves a pass!

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http://www.lifetrekcoaching.com/current/

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Ravitch views that as a travesty, especially since the data that are being used to condemn teachers and schools are neither reliable nor helpful. They cannot be counted on as either performance indicators or as guides for school improvement. But they can be counted on to undermine trust — a critical element in both society and organizations.

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I feel that “We, The People” have bought into the meme of “Gooferment Skrules” equates to “Education”. To use Covey’s metaphor, we are “leaning our ladder against the wrong wall”. Testing, teachers, and condemnation is all wrong.

The current education meme comes from Prussia where the objective was to create: cannon fodder, factory workers, and sheeple that can be led easily by the elite by separating parent and child on many levels. (Note where politicians and bureaucrats send their children to school!) The current schools system has parents, taxpayers, and the voters fighting over entirely the wrong issues. To the delight of politicians, bureaucrats, and those pigs that “dine” at the trough.

Gooferment is force. And, a monopoly on it. As it’s first — bedrock — operating — principle, it immediately spins out a whole load of “stuff” from it. Gooferment, at all levels, acts like it alone has the “charter” to “do” education. It’s corrupt, immoral, ineffective, inefficient, and just unacceptable.

corrupt: It takes children from their families and <silently, quietly, and sometimes overtly> propagandizes them into beliefs that their parents don’t hold, approve of, or support. And, after inflicting actual harm on the children’s minds and bodies, the Gooferment leaves the debris to the parents’ to clean up after. And, in the process there is a whole education complex that feeds off the children’s “jail time”.

immoral: Wealth is stolen from people to brainwash other people’s children. The ideas being “rinsed in” are often in direct opposition to their parents’ beliefs. And, the “Gooferment Skrules” are training the children for prisons.

ineffective: Even by ANY measure of the STATED objectives, “Gooferment Skrules” are a failure. Unless there are HIDDEN objectives which it suceeds at? “If the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan wanted to sabotage black academic excellence, he could not find a more effective means to do so than the government school system in most cities.” — Walter Williams

inefficient: By any measure, costs are increasing and results are plummeting. The news is filled with stories of bigger boondoggles and waste. Never mind that the feds and states extract a handling fee as money passes though their hands.

unacceptable: The Teacher’s Union has become the biggest political force in the National and State elections. Politicians and bureaucrats use children as hostages in the vaious debates.

We need the Separation of School and State.

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>From what I understand, the term “gooferment”

When I use “Gooferment”, I refer that gang that uses their supposed monopoly on the use of force to impose “its will” on the Sheeple. I urge care because we anthropomorphize a group of people into its own entity. I’m a voluntarist. Maybe even an anarchist. You know those PEOPLE with flags and costumes that purport to be part of the matrix?

>Mr. Cranick lived outside of the town

http://seerpress.com/fire-department-lets-house-burn-down-over-unpaid-dues/9139/

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Cranick lived just outside the city limits of South Fulton in Northwest Tennessee in Obion County, but within an area that allows homeowners to subscribe to the city’s fire department services by paying a $75 annual fee.

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So we have one subdivision of Gooferment that takes taxes from the victim. Then, they say they don’t provide fire protection? But you can buy it from this other subdivision of Gooferment. Excuses!

So what did the victim “buy” with his county taxes?

>It does seem heartless for the fire department to stand there and watch his house burn down,

It doesn’t say if the FD was paid or volunteer. It doesn’t say much about what went on. I find it hard to believe that they rolled on the scene and didn’t deploy immediately. There must have been a decision earlier about what they were going to do. Firefighters train. Hell, if I’d been the Fire Chief, then I’d have called it a “live fire drill or training session”.

>if they didn’t, everyone similarly situated who did pay the $75 would stop paying,
> knowing that if their house caught fire they could pay then.

I’d suggest that this is the problem with Gooferment. They are not responsive to market place discipline.

>Should they also drop their fire insurance and be allowed to purchase
>it when their house starts burning?

Clearly not, but I bet the insurance company would have paid the $75 rather than pay off for the fire.

> Being able to set the fee at only $75 is based on most people  
> agreeing to the assessment, but not having to use it.

Ludwig von Mises’ “socialism calculation debate” points out that “socialists”, which is what he’d call the Gooferment in all its forms, doesn’t not have the free market’s mechanism to set a clearing price. That price where there are no more willing buyer or sellers. Everyone has acted on their particular time preference calculation. So how does anyone know that $75 is the right or wrong price? There is no competition.

Fredrick Hayek’s “knowledge of the particular time and place” points out that “socialists” can evaluate the facts and costs at a particular time and place. So the bureaucrats arriving at the fire scene can’t decide what is the correct course of action.

It’s not as if the person had to decide between three offerings: McD’s, BK’s, and Wendy’s. He could pick based on criteria that he decided on. In a free market. Where he choose the “best”. Knowing the (Mises) true cost as deiced by the marketplace. Knowing how important each (Hayek) of the criteria was to him.

>I would think a libertarian would agree to this.

As a little L libertarian, and I can only speak for myself, there is a lot of blame to spread around. I blame the “socialists” in the illusion of Gooferment. And the “firemen” who are nothing more than bureaucrats.

And some blame for the victim for not picking his battle better.

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http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/10/if-im-drunk-youre-a-jerk.ars

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Nearly all the participants, no matter what condition, judged all the unambiguous statements correctly. However, when the actions were ambiguous and could have been performed either intentionally or unintentionally, the “drunk” participants were much more likely to perceive the actions as deliberate than the sober participants were. The clever design of this experiment allowed the researchers to separate the actual physical effects of alcohol from its expectancy effects. What the subjects believed they had consumed didn’t affect their responses—only whether they had actually consumed booze or not.

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Then, I must be drunk all the time. I don’t think anything is “unintentional”.

No?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qff2xJgDuOY&feature=player_embedded

If you don’t comply, we’ll kill you. Argh!

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/book-review-the-next-american-civil-war/

Book Review: The Next American Civil War
The pushback against the all-encompassing state has its roots deep in the American tradition.
September 29, 2010 – by Janet Levy

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Harris sees the threat to liberty today as not emanating from Marxism, the essential focus of Tea Party activists, but from prosperous modern civilizations supported by cumbersome government bureaucracies, corporations, and media and from our failure to cherish freedom. He reasons that if we cared enough about freedom and less about material comforts, Marxist policies opposed by the majority of Americans would not be imposed upon us. The supremacy of the state as a vehicle to improve the lives of citizens has become a betrayal of American founding principles of individual liberty and traditions of self-sufficiency, hard work, and self-governance.

Harris proposes that a turnaround for future generations begins with our children. Rather than raise them with a sense of entitlement in which the struggle for their rights is paramount, we need to raise them with a sense of duty and responsibility. They need to be taught self-control that is essential for preservation of freedom and to admire and emulate the heroes throughout our history who fought for freedom.

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Clearly, the battle will be separating the Gooferment from education of future voters. Close the “reeducation camps”!

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