The Wealth Of An Empire

[Flanders]

The details in an article by Jason Morgan remind me of the tremendous wealth controlled by the “. . . educational empire . . .”.

Harvard’s endowment, for instance, is approximately 35 billion dollars. If one adds together just the endowments (and not the tuition income, grants, subsidies, athletics licensing fees, patent and copyright income, alumni donations, and total asset value) of the top ten American universities, one arrives at a sum just about equal to the GDP of Senegal. Universities are building and expanding, hiring new professors, publishing oceans of data in a virtually uncountable number of specialty journals, attracting new students, opening campuses overseas, and paying presidents and chancellors salaries in the millions of dollars per year.​

A few years ago I read that the University of California (10 campuses) had 50 billion dollars in its pension fund alone. Most of that money came from tax dollars, and that’s just one university. Yet teachers’ unions expect taxpayers to bailout their pension plans in trouble. Years ago I suggested that higher education use the enormous amount of money in their pension funds to bailout the troubled pension funds of their union brothers and sisters instead of asking taxpayers for more.

In brief: Congress has no constitutional authority to subsidize higher education, nor is there a logical reason to do so. All of today’s crapola in so-called institutions of higher learning is the result of subsidies. Enforcing policies like multiculturalism, politically correct speech, politically correct activism, students forced to attend classes taught by the foulest Communist professors with lifetime tenure, are implemented because no college or university dare run the risk of losing government subsidies by permitting opposition to Socialism/Communism on campus.

Here is brief reminder of what a President Hillary Clinton has in store for higher education:

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Hillary Clinton admired Alinsky and even chose to write her thesis on his book. David Brock referred to her as “Alinsky’s daughter” in 1966’s The Seduction of Hillary Rodham. At the request of the White House, Wellesley College sealed her 1968 thesis because it showed, “the extent to which she internalized and assimilated the beliefs and methods of Saul Alinsky.” It was eventually opened to the public in 2001. Alinsky offered Clinton a job, which she turned down to go into politics, commenting,

“Alinsky said I would be wasting my time, but my decision was an expression of my belief that the system could be changed from within.”​

One of Alinsky’s rules says,

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)​

Saul Alinsky Alive And Well On College Campuses Across the Country!
By Leigh Bravo
November 13, 2015

Saul Alinsky Alive And Well On College Campuses Across the Country!​

Now, let’s try Alinsky’s rule on Hillary.

Everything Clinton believes in is verified by her entire public life, her political statements and her outright lies. Everything she ever said and did prove the kind of person she is. The change she has planned for Americans will be more destructive than the changes Taqiyya the Liar instituted on his own authority.

NOTE: Hillary goes in as a known-liar, while it took a few years for the lies to catch up with the Chicago sewer rat.

Congress and the courts rolled over for Taqiyya and everybody in his administration because he is black. What do you think you will get from Congress and the courts because of Hillary Clinton’s gender?

The most offensive thing about higher education is colleges and universities using tax dollars to teach Saul Alinsky’s religion in violation of every Right in the First Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.​

NOTE: In effect, colleges and universities receiving subsidies become government agents whenever they dictate which causes are politically correct enough to assemble and address grievances.

My topic in this message so depresses me, I’ll close on a humorous note:

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, novelist Oscar Wilde reveals the effects of a life of debauchery on the soul, . . .

November 14, 2015
The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Two Faces of the American Academy
By Jason Morgan

Articles: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Two Faces of the American Academy​

It is impossible for me to put Dorian Gray’s face on an institution. If I had to select one human face to represent every college and university that face would belong to Bernie “Tuition Free” Sanders. (Tuition ain’t free when somebody else is forced to pay for it.):

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His portrait looks like this:

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[imawhosure]

Excellent read!

 

[Flanders]

NOTE: In effect, colleges and universities receiving subsidies become government agents whenever they dictate which causes are politically correct enough to assemble and address grievances.

ADDENDUM

Are these uprisings a spontaneous student-led effort, or are there puppet-masters pulling the strings with paid activists aligned with radical left ideologies?

Scholars Expose Student Radicalization Across College Campuses
Ginni Thomas
11:58 PM 11/14/2015

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/14/scholars-expose-student-radicalization-across-college-campuses/​

Answer: Puppet-masters and activists paid from tax dollar subsidies.

 

[Flanders]

This one wins the blue ribbon for EASIEST QUESTION OF THE YEAR:

Why isn't education a bigger election issue?
By Jason Russell • 11/20/15 12:01 AM

Why isn't education a bigger election issue?​

1. Teachers’ unions are education. Whatever union officials believe passes for education.

2. The education industry has no taxation authority in the Constitution, yet it absorbs more tax dollars than any other government expenditure including the military.

3. The education industry spends tax dollars to finance an ideology most Americans abhor.

4. The education industry created a welfare state that benefits millions in the industry in addition to teachers.

5. The education industry is the political, intellectual, and economic force driving Socialism/Communism.

6. The education industry is the major philosophical force behind open-borders

7. The education industry gets billions every year to indoctrinate illegal aliens.

8. The education industry’s propaganda apparatus is committed to indoctrinating children into the joys of Socialism, multiculturalism, and collectivism.

9. The education industry is the parent company of the United Nations' own propaganda apparatus.

10. The education industry champion’s Common Core.

12. Last but not least, the real job of primary education is to first break children to the will of the government. Teaching the three R’s is relatively simple; implanting organizational skills in a youngster is much more difficult. Those who best learn the required institutional skills do very well for themselves; especially at the public feed tub under the our system of government control. In time, every lesser institution will only be permitted to operate for the singular purpose of serving the people in government. Institutions are a fact of civilization, but even the very best institutions should always be approached with healthy skepticism because in the final analysis every prison is every institution unmasked.

 

[Flanders]

10. The education industry champion’s Common Core.

The details in this article are partially true:

Simply put: Federal overreach led to rapid adoption of Common Core. Now it's in the hands of the states. It would be hypocritical to blame federal overreach for Common Core and then use the same tactic to get rid of it. Common Core is out of the federal government's hands now, and for the next president to "kill Common Core" would require more federal overreach.​

Can the next president really kill Common Core?
By Jason Russell • 3/5/16 1:39 PM

Can the next president really kill Common Core?​

Shutting down the Department of Education is not federal overreach. Indeed, it will give anti-Common Core states the edge.

NOTE: Ohio Governor John Kasich is a big supporter of Common Core.

 

[initforme]

Blaming teachers. Why don't you

1) give up your financial earning potential and become a teacher and fix it? Demand lower wages, less benefits, and be a new voice.
2). Without a college degree a person ain't getting ahead in today's world.
3). Republican governors had a hand in developing common core.
4). Is the pledge of allegiance a form of indoctrination? Makes one think.

 

[initforme]

Kasich is my pick. By far more integrity than kooky Cruz or little Marco.

 

[Flanders]

Blaming teachers. Why don't you

To Initforme: Okay. I do.

1) give up your financial earning potential and become a teacher and fix it? Demand lower wages, less benefits, and be a new voice.

To Initforme: Are you serious? Anyone educating one’s self for a tax dollar income does so for wages, benefits, early retirement on bloated pensions, job security, and knowing it is damn near impossible to fire a teacher.

2). Without a college degree a person ain't getting ahead in today's world.

To Initforme: That is another subject. Common Core in relation to children is the premise.

3). Republican governors had a hand in developing common core.

To Initforme: That was before the public learned what Common Core is. John Kasich never learned.

In some places, the fight against Common Core has seen bipartisan support. Teachers' unions oppose using the Common Core tests to evaluate teachers. Some conservatives say states were pressured by the federal government to adopt Common Core.

Tide shifting against Common Core
By Jason Russell • 11/23/15 11:43 AM

Tide shifting against Common Core​

Your man of integrity even lied about it:

If John Kasich wants to make the case for Common Core, he should focus on any academic gains made in his state instead of lying about the way Common Core was written. (AP Photo) ​

"Governors themselves wrote the standards," Kasich said at the National Review Institute's Ideas Summit. "We've implemented the standards. I didn't implement them, Obama didn't implement them, nobody did. The local school boards have adopted the standards, and now, the curriculum is being written by local school boards. I don't know what's wrong with that."

Kasich paints a picture of Common Core that would be nice, if only it were rooted in reality.​

John Kasich's Common Core lie
By Jason Russell | May 2, 2015 | 5:00 am

John Kasich's Common Core lie​

4). Is the pledge of allegiance a form of indoctrination? Makes one think.

To Initforme: Apparently not since so many adult Democrats hate this country after they took the pledge many times as children.

Kasich is my pick. By far more integrity than kooky Cruz or little Marco.

To Initforme: Lots of luck with that one.

p.s. I posted a lot of messages opposing Common Core. Here’s some stuff for anyone who is interested in the topic:

Parents are also suspicious of the gigantic amount of money that is being spent to promote the use of Common Core-aligned books and teacher training. Emeritus professor Jack Hassard of Georgia State University estimates that billionaire Bill Gates has spent $2.3 billion on Common Core.

Some say Gates is a promoter of “global sameness of education as defined by UNESCO and the United Nations.” Gates has expressed agreement with U.N. policies that many Americans oppose such as Agenda 21, which promotes global governance at the expense of private property and national sovereignty.​

My child is not common!
Phyllis Schlafly: Latest top-down education scheme more hated than all its predecessors
Published: 05/12/2014 at 7:51 PM
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY

My child is not common!​

And this thread:

Common Core Is A United Nations Program

 

[initforme]

Perhaps common core was implemented because of crybabies out there whining they wanted more testing and more accountability.....they got exactly what they wanted. Finland does no testing until a kid is 17....of course they respect their teachers. And they are rated #1. I don't care if they get rid of common core...fine with me. I'm for abolishing all testing until the ACT as well. Put all control in the hands of the local school board. Fine with me. Once common core is gone, let states abolish testing as well.

 

[Unkotare]

...
2). Without a college degree a person ain't getting ahead in today's world. ....

Lots and lots of people do.

 

[Unkotare]

... Once common core is gone, let states abolish testing as well.

Why?

 

[Flanders]

4). Is the pledge of allegiance a form of indoctrination? Makes one think.

To Initforme: Apparently not since so many adult Democrats hate this country after they took the pledge many times as children.

To Initforme: We were both right:

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World Nations on path to De-Nationalize & Globalize

 

[Flanders]

Shutting down the Department of Education is not federal overreach. Indeed, it will give anti-Common Core states the edge.

Eliminate the Department of Education and RINO will not get an opportunity to advance guys like this:

The Senate HELP Committee approved President Obama's nomination of John King Jr., to serve as secretary of education. Educators, parents and public officials in New York criticized King's appointment, citing his tenure as commissioner of the New York State Education Department where he oversaw the roll out of Common Core. (Photo: Olivier Douliery/ZUMA Press/Newscom)
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Senate Republicans Help Advance Obama Education Nominee Who Supports Common Core
Melissa Quinn
March 09, 2016

Senate GOP Helps Advance Obama Education Nominee​

 

[Flanders]

UPDATE​

Not confirming John King Jr. is a golden opportunity for conservative Republicans to stake their claim on opposition to Common Core. A major fight against confirmation is win-win-win for Republicans.

1. Media coverage blocking King’s confirmation will put opposition to Common Core near the top of campaign issues.

2. Hardcore Socialists have a lock on two cabinet posts; the secretary of education and the secretary of labor. Opposition to Common Core will spillover into the legitimate reasons for abolishing Jimmy Carter’s Department of Education. It is an issue whose time has come.

3. Every senator will go on the record. A vote for confirmation (Common Core) will identify them as conservative or RINO.

Common Core math problem​

Amid the controversy over whether the U.S. Senate will review a nominee from President Obama for the U.S. Supreme Court, an Obama nominee for another position is posed to do great damage to America if confirmed, charges the Home School Legal Defense Association.

The world’s premier homeschooling organization has posted a notice online asking constituents to urge their senators to oppose the nomination of New York Education Commission John King Jr. to replace Arne Duncan as secretary of education.

Homeschoolers post warning about Obama nominee
Posted By Bob Unruh On 03/11/2016 @ 8:49 pm

Homeschoolers post warning about Obama nominee​

Finally, John Kasich is a big supporter of Common Core. Media support for Common Core and the ED notwithstanding, the public’s disgust with television mouths makes it time for the remaining wannabes to declare their position on Common Core and the Department of Education. Instead of campaign rhetoric about grand ideas let’s hear a simple yes or no.

 

[Flanders]

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America-haters have been harder on Thomas Jefferson than they have been on Benjamin Franklin. I fear that will change when this article gets around. The following excerpt pretty much sums Common Core and the Dept. Of Education:

“But you who are wise must know that different nations have different conceptions of things, and you will therefore not take it amiss if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours. We have had some experience of it: Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences, but when they came back to us they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, or counsellors, they were totally good for nothing.​

Common Core Is Stupid, Says Benjamin Franklin
by Josh Gelernter March 19, 2016 4:00 AM

Common Core Is Stupid, Says Benjamin Franklin, by Josh Gelernter, National Review​

 

[Flanders]

Media support for Common Core and the ED notwithstanding, the public’s disgust with television mouths makes it time for the remaining wannabes to declare their position on Common Core and the Department of Education.

It took a game show to prop up television’s sagging fortunes:

​

A teacher appearing on Jeopardy Thursday mocked a category named after the “Common Core” education initiative during the popular game show’s teachers’ tournament.

Host Alex Trebek read off the list of categories to begin Double Jeopardy, the last of which was The Common “Core,” where every correct response would include “core” somewhere.

Terrie Trebilcock, a high school history and economics teacher, had a quip ready to go.

“Well, let’s get it over with,” she said. “Common Core for $400.”

Trebek chuckled and the audience laughed appreciatively.

Teacher Mocks Common Core During Jeopardy Appearance
BY: David Rutz
May 5, 2016 8:04 pm

Teacher Mocks Common Core During Jeopardy Appearance​

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

This one wins the blue ribbon for EASIEST QUESTION OF THE YEAR:

Why isn't education a bigger election issue?
By Jason Russell • 11/20/15 12:01 AM

Why isn't education a bigger election issue?​

1. Teachers’ unions are education. Whatever union officials believe passes for education.

2. The education industry has no taxation authority in the Constitution, yet it absorbs more tax dollars than any other government expenditure including the military.

3. The education industry spends tax dollars to finance an ideology most Americans abhor.

4. The education industry created a welfare state that benefits millions in the industry in addition to teachers.

5. The education industry is the political, intellectual, and economic force driving Socialism/Communism.

6. The education industry is the major philosophical force behind open-borders

7. The education industry gets billions every year to indoctrinate illegal aliens.

8. The education industry’s propaganda apparatus is committed to indoctrinating children into the joys of Socialism, multiculturalism, and collectivism.

9. The education industry is the parent company of the United Nations' own propaganda apparatus.

10. The education industry champion’s Common Core.

12. Last but not least, the real job of primary education is to first break children to the will of the government. Teaching the three R’s is relatively simple; implanting organizational skills in a youngster is much more difficult. Those who best learn the required institutional skills do very well for themselves; especially at the public feed tub under the our system of government control. In time, every lesser institution will only be permitted to operate for the singular purpose of serving the people in government. Institutions are a fact of civilization, but even the very best institutions should always be approached with healthy skepticism because in the final analysis every prison is every institution unmasked.

1. Teachers’ unions are education. Whatever union officials believe passes for education.

What about states where there are no teacher's unions? Didn't know that, did you?

2. The education industry has no taxation authority in the Constitution, yet it absorbs more tax dollars than any other government expenditure including the military.

Bald face lie. Why do you do this?

3. The education industry spends tax dollars to finance an ideology most Americans abhor.

Take it up with your state legislatures, not the federal government.

4. The education industry created a welfare state that benefits millions in the industry in addition to teachers.

Please explain why you think our benefits are so great, but rank among the lowest for the education required.

5. The education industry is the political, intellectual, and economic force driving Socialism/Communism.

Another bald face lie.

6. The education industry is the major philosophical force behind open-borders

We have a Trifecta of lies!

7. The education industry gets billions every year to indoctrinate illegal aliens.

You just can't stop lying, can you?

8. The education industry’s propaganda apparatus is committed to indoctrinating children into the joys of Socialism, multiculturalism, and collectivism.

When will this hit parade of lies end?

9. The education industry is the parent company of the United Nations' own propaganda apparatus.

The UN has nothing to do with education. Where do you get these nutty ideas? Is there an e-mail or website to sign up for them?

10. The education industry champion’s Common Core.

Why not? Everyone needs standards in order to teach.

12. Last but not least, the real job of primary education is to first break children to the will of the government. Teaching the three R’s is relatively simple; implanting organizational skills in a youngster is much more difficult. Those who best learn the required institutional skills do very well for themselves; especially at the public feed tub under the our system of government control. In time, every lesser institution will only be permitted to operate for the singular purpose of serving the people in government. Institutions are a fact of civilization, but even the very best institutions should always be approached with healthy skepticism because in the final analysis every prison is every institution unmasked.

Utter bull shit!

 

[Flanders]

What about states where there are no teacher's unions? Didn't know that, did you?

To Admiral Rockwell: Research my messages before you assume what I do not know.

As to the rest of your stupidity here is a sampling that addresses your major talking points:

Teachers began their long march in 1857. (Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto 9 years earlier).

Around 1960, in spite of the longstanding opposition to giving public sector employees the power inherent in collective bargaining, teachers’ unions began enriching their members with tax dollars negotiated through collective bargaining. I use the word negotiated loosely since the taxpayer never has a seat at bargaining tables. In effect, pubic sector unions negotiate with themselves.

The exorbitant salaries teachers “negotiated” allows them to contribute part of their SALARY to Democrats, and to causes advancing socialism’s ideology, without breaking the law that prohibits contributing union DUES to political parties, candidates and causes.

More importantly, NEA membership before 1960 was much less than one million. Today it is approximately 3.5 million. [INSERT: Irrespective of 5 states without teachers’ unions.] Indeed, after JFK’s assassination the entire parasite class began its phenomenal growth in tandem with LBJ’s Great Society and the parasites in the education industry. Surprise, surprise! LBJ was a teacher before running for elected office.

Identifying The Caring Enemy

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As I’ve said many times, in addition to all of the harm teachers’ unions do to this country the elected officials who did the most lasting harm all came from the academic community; Woodrow Wilson, LBJ, W. J. Clinton, and his mentor J. William Fulbright. Barack Taqiyya also has a background in academia, and he is not finished yet. (FDR is on a level all by himself.)​

NOTE: FDR opposed public sector unions.

Fragile Children v. Teachers

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I’ve posted countless messages about strengthening real property Rights since my first message board in 2000. I must admit that I never thought I’d live long enough to see a state do what North Dakota is on the verge of doing.

After I read a NY Times article I felt that my first love had returned; so I want to go over some things I posted over the years. Keep in mind that property taxes are levied and collected by state and local communities, while protecting real property Rights crosses over to the federal government. Eminent domain abuses shows that the federal government opposes property Rights. Let me set the tone with this:
“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” That definition is attributed to Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820 – 1895), German social philosophers, revolutionaries.

At the time that pronouncement was laid down in Europe it sounded pretty good to people who had no property. The basic method used to impose a Communist dictate on American homeowners is quite simple: Confiscation.

Don’t pay your property taxes and the Socialist teachers’ unions will bounce you out into the street faster than an old-time slum lord ever dreamed of doing. I’m singling out the teachers’ unions because they are the primary beneficiaries of property taxes but not the only ones.

Incidentally, from a Socialist/Communist perspective property taxes are a far greater detriment to individual liberties than the income tax because property taxes gives the government and the teachers’ unions far more leverage over the homeowner than does the income tax.

Let me clarify taxation in the context of my premise.

Fear of the federal government turning to property taxes for income should be a very real fear to Americans because candidates for federal office sweat bullets at the thought of turning the teachers’ unions against them. Why should that be? Property taxes are levied by each state or local community; so anyone running for federal office should not be afraid of the teachers’ unions. Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority are afraid because local property taxes pay salaries and fund lucrative pension plans.

Major and minor political parties cater to, as well as fear, the teachers’ unions because the Ministry of Propaganda is squarely on the side of teachers. Not squarely behind teaching the three R’s at the elementary level which no one is against, but squarely behind teachers feeding at the tax trough for all they can get.

Obviously, the members of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the NEA do not want anyone holding federal office they don’t approve of. They know that the day might come when the federal government challenges the things teachers’ unions have been getting away with for so long. Teachers’ unions want office-holders in Washington who are indebted to teachers.

First Love​

Finally, why have teachers been getting away with forcing Socialism/Communism on children and young adults? I use the word forcing because without balance no other word describes it so well. My opinion: There are two popular images of teachers; Mr. Chipping and Ichabod Crane. Hollywood movies, and television shows worked long and hard to make Americans believe that Mr. Chips is the true picture of today’s teachers. It is not working. The image of Ichabod Crane persists because he, too, was an accomplished parasite before there was a public trough as it exists today. The fact is that Americans should view teachers collectively as Ichabod Crane rather than Mr Chipping.

 

[initforme]

So let me get thisstraight...teachers get together and conspire to. Plan out how to create socialists....i see. My daughter teaches first grade...i gotta let her know she is an indoctrinator....

 

[Flanders]

So let me get thisstraight...teachers get together and conspire to. Plan out how to create socialists....i see. My daughter teaches first grade...i gotta let her know she is an indoctrinator....

To initforme: Get real. Every classroom teacher is not a player in one big conspiracy, but they do help the tightly controlled curriculum originating in Washington, D.C. get the brainwashing job done just the same. Teachers in coming generations will be so brainwashed themselves before they are permitted to set a foot in a classroom, they will not question what they are a part of because everything will appear normal to them. Even today’s teachers, along with their young charges, are accepting the Socialistic garbage that has been taught for six or so decades. Is it any wonder that top Communist strategists running the Democratic party join with Department of Education spokes people in insisting that public education is a success? From their perspective it is!

Teachers do as they are told. A substantial number of teachers have no use for Socialism; however they work in an industry that is governed by Department of Education Socialists. Most teachers probably belong to a teacher’ union tightly controlled by outright Communists.

Bottom line: Teachers are no different than any employee working for a company that produces goods or services they personally hate. It is awfully difficult to walk away from a nice income with the best medical and pension plans.

NOTE: There is no shortage of mean spirited Socialists in teaching who just love breaking children to collectivism.

Parenthetically, the poor are never going to live as well Socialists/Communists in government live even if they work harder because the poor do not have the institutional skills necessary to acquire sufficient income in a Socialist institution anymore than they have the skills required to gather enough of the wherewithal in any other institutional climate. When you take individual liberty, mainly expressed through freedom of choice, away from everyone as Socialism does, the poor have absolutely nothing left except Communistic Democratic party good intentions standing over them with a club in hand.

Education is unquestionably the best way to rise above poverty, but teaching the three R’s is not the purpose of a Socialist/Communist education in the United States; paying off the teachers’ unions to institutionalize the young is the real deal.

The American education establishment is only interested in identifying and rewarding those children whose personalities are compatible with Socialism. Such children are pushed forward and given material rewards after they complete their education and are deemed to be loyal Socialists —— they are welcomed to feast at the public trough. If education continues down the same road it has been traveling on since the FDR years, it is inevitable that one day soon this country will be governed by a handful of teacher’s pets. Won’t it be a wonderful country then?

As for the undeserving: They are simply given obedience training that passes for education. There is no help available for those youngsters who simply do not do well, or even belong, in an institutional setting. Such kids and American education contradict each other. The only thing that will help those youngsters in life is to teach them how to avoid being exploited by institutional types —— and that will never be taught by the government.

It is because of those kids that failing grades are taboo. Socialism/Communism itself cannot be associated with failure of any kind in the public’s mind. If a few million kids are given failing grades every year in spite of the billions of dollars spent on teaching the three R’s, opponents of the current education system would then point to solid numbers and ask “Why?” Whenever Department of Education defenders admit in doublespeak that a few kids do “fall between the cracks,” they mean that those kids just won’t be broken to the Socialist/Communist institutional bit. When funding time rolls around like clockwork, the media never reports that it has to be one big-ass crack if so many kids keep falling through it every year.

In the modern world, as well as in mediaeval times, every religion that ever controlled a government behaved in the exactly same way insofar as the children are concerned. Religion always boils down to indoctrinating the young. The leaders of Islam’s radical organizations were children once, and I’ll wager they were Islam’s most adept pupils for all the wrong reasons.

In the same vain, the Roman Catholic Church always said, “Give me the child at six and I will have it for life.” The Communist/Socialist religion is not as good as Catholicism, or any traditional religion’s priesthood held in check for that matter; so Communists must get their hands on kids at an even younger age in order to get a head start on their competitors. And that’s not the worst of it. With all of this talk about even more funding for higher education, we can see that the Socialists want to keep their neophytes in indoctrination centers until they are old enough to collect Social Security. It all goes to show what a lousy religion Socialism/Communism really is; it has to get ‘em younger and keep ‘em longer just to get the job done properly.

Leading Democrats and Republicans not only conspired in supporting Communist/Socialist indoctrination centers with lots of money, they ordered the media to spin their skullduggery into a positive score for bipartisan deceit. However, one thing does become clearer with each bipartisan vote on education and that is this: There are three kinds of sneaks —— sneaks, filthy sneaks, and legislators. It really drives me crazy trying to figure out why everyone elected to federal office thinks their office grants them a license to be a sneak? Or does high office attract those characters who are sneaks to begin with?

For those people who say “Communism in the United States is not that big of a threat,” I can only reply “No religion should exercise governmental powers, no matter how slight those powers might be.” If Socialism’s religious evolution to full-blown Communism in the United States is not frustrated before much more time goes by, it will soon have the power it requires to drop any pretense of government by and for “all of the people.” Once Communists/Socialists are in position, they will govern in the same way religious fanatics always govern. They will control and punish the heretics while they reward and pardon the faithful. If enough non-Communist Americans finally come to understand they are being taxed into supporting and promoting a religion that is not their religion, there might still be a chance to turn the US around. Unfortunately, support for Bernie Sanders shows that each year more young people are accepting Socialist/Communist doctrine as shining truth without realizing what’s happening to them.