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fear.less is a free online magazine that empowers people through unique stories of overcoming fear. From entrepreneurs, business leaders, artists and scientists to survivors of extreme experiences, these stories demonstrate the hidden potential we have to confront our fears and come out victorious. Fear.less is our answer to an emergency.
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Technology-wise it appears slow. But content-wise it’s “interesting”.
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http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2010/05/05/black_americans_and_liberty
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Black Americans and Liberty
by Walter E. Williams Townhall.com Columnist
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Then there’s the grossly fraudulent education delivered by the government schools that serve most black communities. The average black high school senior has a sixth- or seventh-grade achievement level and most of those who manage to graduate have what’s no less than a fraudulent diploma, one that certifies a 12th-grade level of achievement when in fact the youngster might not have half that. 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.
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It’s a shame what we have done to the inner city. Between the “war on (some) drugs”, the denial of the resident’s right to defend themselves, the dole that saps (i.e., single moms get more unmarried and unpaired; the minimum wage mandates unemployment; the gooferment takes over “charity”; the policing is inadequate; rent control prevents building real wealth; licensing prevents entrepreneurship; “equal opportunity” is anything but), then the final nail is the schools.
It’s racism to deprive the inner city youth of paths to “success”!
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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2010/05/voucher-hypocrisy.html
Monday, May 10, 2010
Voucher hypocrisy
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Bret Schundler jumps into the voucher hypocrisy pool, dismissing stats that contradict his claims and call into question his proposals.
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Don’t you think that Gooferment-run schools propagandizing future voters is immoral?
Don’t you think that funding them by stealing wealth from unwilling victims is immoral?
Don’t you think ripping children from their families and imprisoning them for many hours a day for decades being “taught” to be good little robots is immoral?
Don’t you think allowing the Teachers’ Union to become an overpowering force in politics is immoral?
Don’t you think that “public education” in the inner cities (a failure by any measure) is immoral?
Answer those then we can chat about how it’s ineffective and inefficient.
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http://cafehayek.com/2010/05/stopping-the-social-security-ponzi-scheme.html
Stopping the social security ponzi scheme
by Russ Roberts on May 4, 2010
in Social Security
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The way to keep social security from bankrupting the country is to make it a welfare program for the elderly. But what about all the money I “contributed”? Alas, that was a lie. The money wasn’t set aside for the future. It’s like asking why don’t I collect food stamps even though I’m rich. Hey, I contributed so I should get food stamps. That’s a bizarre belief to have. That’s not the way food stamps work. That is the way social security is supposed to work, but it’s a bad idea, it was an illusion that your contributions were really yours and there isn’t enough money to keep the illusion going.
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The problem is that the gooferment took the “seed corn” from everyone. They skimmed the “cream” off the top. We could have saved MORE for our own retirement, but they STOLE it early (when the savings would have had more impact) and OFTEN (by inflation eats up savings and raises costs). So everyone to now say “too bad, you’re screwed” is the perpetuation of a fraud and a theft. We didn’t get into this mess in a few years and won’t get out of it in a few years. It was decades. So, like Chile, we need time. <sub 40, recognition bond for contributions payable in 40 years; over 40 below 60, you get some choices; over 60, you get the old plan> And you work your way out.
I pitched a similar idea in the NY Tax Revolt in the 80’s. A twenty year plan to get out of gooferment education at 5% a year. Followed immediately by a twenty year plan, to get out of gooferment funded “education” completely. Forty years, like the time the Jews wandered the desert, gives you time to reeducate people and allow them to adapt to the new realities. Too bad they didn’t adopt it, we’d have been half way out by now. NJ’s education expense is crippling the State.
Paradigms and memes don’t change over night. And, folks have to be able to see the path, where it leads to, and how it can be accomplished with 960 (40 times 12) easy monthly payments of some modest amount gets them to Freedom.
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Upon reflection, this would cause violence in the streets. Only the wealthy could survive this body blow. And, with the gooferment planning to “monetize the debt” (i.e., inflate the currency so it can pay off the debt), those on fixed incomes and retired will be slowly strangled. Think the German pre-WW2 hyperinflation that made Hitler possible.
No, we need an orderly multi-generational way to get form here to there. Peacefully. The Chile solution worked well; why not here?
One problem is they were all illiterate and could ignore the liberal media telling us the gooferment’s propaganda line. We’re too “smart” for our own good. And, the youth propaganda reeducation camps are ensuring continued stupidity!
Argh!
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I was watching an old episode of Family Fued and one of the questions spurred a RANT. Really political.
“What do you think is a fair salary for a new teacher?”
Arghhhhhh!
Regardless of the answer, this had so many “teachable moments” it was astonishing.
(1) Opinions are like …, everyone has one. Who cares what people think is “fair”? The ONLY “fair” price is one that is freely offered and accepted. A marketplace establish what is “fair” better than any vote or opinion.
(2) The teacher is an employee of the gooferment. With a capturing captive union that exerts tremendous political pressure. Starting salary is political. Very political.
(3) The salary of day care “teachers” is by definition “fair”. And, much lower than that of “real teachers”. Why do we have gooferment “education”? I’d call it “youth propaganda prisons”. And we sneered at the Communists and their “political reeducation camps”; what’s different?
(4) The whole education system isn’t “fair”. I don’t decide ANYTHING in a child’s life, but I’m forced to pay for their education. That ain’t “fair”.
Argh!
Did I miss anything?
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/galvin5.1.1.html
Strike a Victory for Federalism: Eliminate the Public Schools
by Paul Galvin
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But eliminating public schooling, an institution not extant at the country’s founding, would have national implications extending well beyond the boundaries of any one state. Chief beneficiaries would be an overall strengthening, and rehabilitation, of the American federal system and an increase in individual liberty.
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The whole public school “sysstem” is:
(1) Immoral
• Forcibly separating children from their families. The model was to create cannon fodder and factory workers easily led by the elite.
• Indoctrinating future voters to support the government.
• Excessive costs drive senior citizens from their homes
• The “public education” model demotivates the student, “un-involves” the parents, and creates an “education” political force.
(2) Ineffective
• Education results are in free fall; without factoring in all the tricks being used to pump up results.
• Unlike a free market, education isn’t delivered where it is needed at price that can be afforded. It’s political; not market based.
• One size fits all squeezes everyone into the same mold; the smart are held back and the “dumb” are lost.
(3) Inefficient
• The Horace Mann model hasn’t changed with the times; University of Phoenix delivers over the inet, why not everyone?
• Cost per student “educated” is double Catholic, private, or other parochial schools.
• Mandatory attendance, child labor, and licensing laws deprive us of non-academic education (i.e., craft apprenticeship)
(4) Harmful
• Creates “education factories with gun free zones” that are an undefended target rich environment.
• Puts children is a hostile environment where they are exposed to drugs and bullying.
• Some teachers are sexual predators.
• Children are not taught the skills they need to survive in the real world. School life is completely unlike real life.
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A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of
its recipients. The following addresses failed:
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Interesting! University of Phoenix takes down email when it’s student’s graduate. How short sighted is that?
Obvious, even if I had to cut a deal with Google for Gmail to offer to all my alumni that’s a great marketing ploy.
Future sales. Referrals. References. Social networking. Free advertisign when folks use it. Alumni networking.
Boy, did they blow it.
They may have the next generation in the “education” model, but they still have old thinking at the top.
Traditional schools most flub it as well, but they’re dinosaurs so what would you expect!
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http://reason.com/blog/2010/04/13/is-the-president-an-athlete-an
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So the latest faux-flap in the post-racial age many of us hoped that the election of Barack Obama would usher in is, naturally, about race. Guest-hosting on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Norah O’Donnell suggested to the assembled throng of rag-tag plagiarists and John Demjanjuk enthusiasts that former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s jab at the president was coded racism.
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Faux-flap!
An excellent characterization.
“Coded racism”?
We don’t need examples of “coded racism”. We have an actual example of “racism” that we should ALL be talking about.
Anyone looked at any inner city school lately?
Crime IN the school. Drugs IN the school. Graduation rates?
Of course, my solution is to put parents back in the driver’s seat.
While as a little L libertarian, I’m against taxes.
But if we are to have theft by force, let’s do “vouchers”.
(I did a transition plan for the Hands Across New Jersey tax revolt group.
Essentially, it was a FORTY YEAR plan to unwind “public education”.
We don’t need “no stinkin gooferment skrools”; they’re racist!
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What: April 20th School Board Elections
When: 04/20/10, 07:00 AM-9:00 PM
Where: Your local polling place.
Details: Please make sure you go out and vote today for Board of Education members and budgets.
Now more than ever your vote is necessary as we face cuts state wide.
Please also make sure to tell and remind everyone you know in New Jersey
(Check with your local polling place to voting hour, they are not the same as in the general election)
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At the very least, go vote AGAINST the budget!
Yes, I know it doesn’t matter because the vote will be over ruled by some bureaucrat somewhere.
But, keep sending a message: “Over taxed”, “Mad As Hell”, and “We need a paradigm and meme shift”!
OK, the last one is geeky but we do.
The paradigm of “public education” as something that is “good”, “unifying”, or even “needed” needs to change. Other than ads by the teacher’s union, no one would defend that “public education” is effective or efficient. Look at our world ranking for effective and look at the costs for efficient. Time for a paradigm shift.
The mene of “public education” needs to be updated. Even if you believe in fairy tales like jumbo shrimp, the Tooth Fairy, and honest politicians, we must understand that “public education” currently means “taxpayer-funded gooferment-run indoctrination”. We need to parse each part of this meme and examine if it’s rational.
SO please go vote against the budget, we’re on the wrong path and it’s the only way to register a protest.
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