Posted on 12/01/2008 9:56:46 PM PST by zootallure
Not enough people are watching and warning of the incremental ways in which we have all lost so much of our liberty and are well on the way of losing them all. Sure at 46 years old I may die with a semblance of freedom left but my kids and grandkids are lost. People who think and learn and pay attention to history can easily provide times and events that have made what our founders warned against and in fact protected against a very real U.S.A. that we live in today and they haven’t stopped or even slowed down.
They want the world but they don’t need it now, they know that in time nobody will even notice that they stole it away from us.
Just as the enemies of freedom and liberty and all that made our country so great in such a short period of time, in fact so great and so strong as to have endured under the constant attacks that began even before the Constitution was dry started with the children, we too must take our kids away from them.
We have to start with the schools. Most people have been scared into the forced government school system and the same people have become complacent with mediocrity. None can put two and two together to understand that.
No school taxes allow for only Mom or Dad to work, not both if they so choose. By having a nuclear family restored to our nation crime will naturally drop for just one huge benefit. By having no government blockage more teaching styles and a broader information base will naturally develop, this is historical. People who want to learn to succeed do, and they succeed far greater than those who don’t want to learn. Most of the boys who have “A.D.D.” just don’t learn well in the feminine confines of the government forced school system. We can’t imagine the ideas and inventions that may have provided us all with answers and medicines, and so much more if only those kids could go out and learn what suits them outside the conformity of our present system.
Failures are sure to happen, so what? If you have pursued your happiness and failed at least you were free to do so.
With all the Obama appointments and all the other diversions we must keep our eyes on the prize. Just like our enemy we cannot get comfortable with anything we perceive to be a good thing they have done because that is just a salve a little K.Y. if you will so it won’t hurt so bad. Don’t be fooled.
I am looking into running in the state of CT. for State Rep. or perhaps 1st Selectman of our town. I was a Republican but when they left me I became unaffiliated only switching back to the G.O.P. to support Ron Paul in the primaries. Baby steps I know but if enough of us get out there we might be able to start things going in the right direction for our children. It took well over 100 years to ruin our nation it may take as long to fix it.
These morons will inherit and destroy what is left of an incredible experiment in personal freedom. In the end, it killed them. We return to the serfdom of the middle ages.
I’m going to do my part. I’m now tutoring my nieces and my goal is to expand my services to other kids in the neighborhood.
I have to be an educational guerrilla outside the system because I’m not going to put up with ed schools and ‘enlightened’ principals that believe in Everyday Math and lowered expectations.
The problem I see is that the types of people who voted for Obama - typified by the horde that trampled that poor Walmart clerk to death the other day - are not the types that can handle freedom.
And, if given freedom they would use it to simply take from the producers of society.
If we are to have ignorant masses, then maybe freedom is not the best situation. If we must be a police state, maybe the thing to do is to be sure to be one of the police(?)
Since 80 to 85% of a school district’s budget is set aside for staff salaries, and since there is an undeniable leftist grip upon teachers, I’m wondering what would happen if more and more voters would turn down levies, making it clear to administrators that support will not return until the NEA grip and agenda are eliminated. Just a thought. Teachers want their yearly increments. If the voters said “No more taxes until you reform,” it would put some pressure on the pocketbook.
It’s too bad that the concept of freedom includes freedom to be stupid.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from
extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the
bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed
on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our
sunset years telling our children and our children’s
children what it was once like in the United States where
men were free.”
—Ronald Reagan—
My wife and I took the eldest of our four children out of the government school system before he’d even completed kindergarten and started home schooling. That was seven years ago, and our kids are out-performing their public school peers.
Disturbing thought. And interesting.
Maybe the idea is that instead of removing freedom, we (as conservatives) should find better ways to TRICK the “stupid” like the left does. Too often, we try to persuade with rational argument— often the winning argument is who has a more sparkling smile.
It seemed to me that home schooling really started to take off in the early 80s.
I started my kindergartner in 1987 and things were pretty well established - big groups, HSLDA, lots of curriculum.
I had hoped to see the firstfruits of this movement by 2004 or so. I thought I did, but the 2008 election knocked that idea over.
Of course, not all home schoolers are conservatives. But I think most are.
Perhaps some are so conservative that they shun candidates who aren’t “good enough?”
Anyway, the wave I was hoping to see hit the shore did not materialize.
Marie, I think you despair needlessly. From every article I’ve read on the subject of home schooling these last couple of years, it’s on a steady increase. Maybe you’re not noticing an increase of home schoolers in your vicinity, but it’s happening all across the country.
I agree, that most home schooling parents tend toward the conservative. We used to belong to a large group in Los Angeles, and the parents were nearly all conservative folks. I think I only knew one real Democrat family in our group.
One issue is the ability of the ignorant and the lazy to survive in our society and enjoy a standard of living that would have seemed luxurious to a poor American living 100 years ago or a poor person in any third world country today. Today we have third and fourth generation institutionalized poor people who live in government housing. Ninety-eight percent of US households have TV and telephone service. With the government providing the basics — food, clothing, and shelter — plus the utilities required to provide cable TV and phone service — a person with no initiative can live comfortably in front of the mind numbing drivel emanated by the boob tube. Freedom is meaningless to people content to live at the standard of living provided by the government safety net.
One hundred years ago, the safety net option did not exist. People had to work to survive, often in very harsh conditions whether on the farm or in the dangerous factory conditions of the times. People who work value what they produce. They resent government intrusion in their lives, particularly when the government attempts to take away the fruits of their labors.
In concept one might extend the safety net concept to certain job classifications. Many mindless positions in the huge federal, state, and local bureaucracy represent an exchange of freedom for “security” by individuals desiring a slightly higher than subsistence income. Like those perpetually living on the safety net, these individuals can subsist in a comfort zone provided by the taxpayer. Extend this group to the academics who again accept income limitations for the “security” of tenure and we have another group willing take from the producers to protect their comfortable existence.
The existence of a large government bureaucracy supporting a bloated welfare state creates the conditions where individuals gladly submit to the security of a low standard of living guaranteed by the government than accept the risk and rewards of depending on the individual’s ability to produce.
I question whether it is ignorance kills freedom or sloth and indifference.
Kids voted for Obama. Sorry, but it’s really too late. The best you can do is emphasize education in their lives.
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I do agree that home schoolers continue to increase in numbers. I just would have liked to see its effect more at the ballot box!
Absolutely!
Good for you. Once we all stop giving half or more of our salaries to the wasteful system we allowed them to create and profit from, we can all have the time for the important things. Whatever happiness you choose to pursue.
When we all learn to succeed we will ALL learn to succeed.
Maybe I have more faith in the human spirit that is set free by putting the government back where it belongs. I think in time the slackers will die off while everyone else strives for their summit.
Never forget that it won’t happen over night and we might only see a turning point back in the right direction in our lifetime but we do have to start it and keep it going.
Excellent. You are truly on the front lines my freind. Thank you.
It’s not too late. We just have to lose the immediate gratification mind that we are so programmed to use. We may only see the beginnings.
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