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How to Ruin American Enterprise
Forbes Magazine ^ | December 13, 2002 | Ben Stein

Posted on 12/16/2002 11:36:34 AM PST by tdadams

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A real classic from the peerless Ben Stein.
1 posted on 12/16/2002 11:36:35 AM PST by tdadams
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To: tdadams
We should add: Do not tax imports, NAFTA free trade, legal or illegal migrant workers' imporation of services etc...
2 posted on 12/16/2002 11:45:32 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: lavaroise
Well, he's got it right. Now what to do about it?
3 posted on 12/16/2002 11:47:33 AM PST by widowithfoursons
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Fundamentally, we believe that the U.S. government needs to devote more resources and put in place new programs to build wider expertise about China and to protect our industrial base from eroding as a result of our economic relations with China.

-- C. Richard D’Amato, chairman
U.S.-China Security Review Commission
(How to improve U.S.-China relations )


4 posted on 12/16/2002 11:54:34 AM PST by Willie Green
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To: tdadams
A spot on post. Thanks.
5 posted on 12/16/2002 11:55:24 AM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: widowithfoursons
We started a parents group at the local high school. Our main goal is to improve the curriculum so it is academically focused (right now the curriculum is focused on socially engineering the kids).

Here is something we _must_ change. Check out this history syllabus

Even if you don't have kids in public school, you should be well informed on what they are teaching the kids and raising hell when it isn't academic.
7 posted on 12/16/2002 12:02:25 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: Bruno
let loose a Clockwork Orange plague of gangs and crime

A real eye-opener of a movie that is going to be released Christmas day is Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York" which chronicles the early cycles of immigration in the U.S. and the rise of gangs and crime during the 19th century. You can find an excerpt of the book here.

8 posted on 12/16/2002 12:16:07 PM PST by Archangelsk
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To: hedgetrimmer
The fact that they needed a gluestick sets my mind at rest. We certainly wouldn't want young minds tracking history without a gluestick. I can't even expand on that; it's so profound.
9 posted on 12/16/2002 12:18:30 PM PST by widowithfoursons
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To: widowithfoursons
a new cultural revolution....it's past time for those people who love God, justice, and freedom to begin to collaborate and netwok with each other in a much more militantly overt way. We should have the malice of doves but have the wisdom of serpents! You get 70 millions of conservative Americans overtly protesting and saying no to evil and things will change real quick. Good people should move out of the more evil places in our nation to concentrate in states to concentrate our political power, and swing more congressional districts and senatorial seats in a more moral direction. It could be done in a decade if we had the will and organization to do it!
10 posted on 12/16/2002 12:23:46 PM PST by mdmathis6
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And what shall we call our new political party? The GOP doesn't care about us, if you think I am wrong please explain why next to nothing has changed in the USA since GWB was elected.
11 posted on 12/16/2002 12:34:46 PM PST by Karsus
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To: tdadams; joanie-f
Excellent article.

I would have added a paragraph on the founding of America, and what a shining star this Country has been in the history of the world: The first and only country founded on the idea that an individual has rights which neither the government nor his neighbors can violate with impunity.

Every school child should have to memorize the first part of the Declaration of Independence.

12 posted on 12/16/2002 12:46:57 PM PST by snopercod
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"Name of Course: United States History: Politics, Economy, Society & Culture in the 20th Century"

Sorry, but I don't see a whole lot wrong with the syllabus.
It seems to cover the course's intent quite well. And the instructor laid down the disciplinary standards clearly.
A little more weight on test results would be good.

I assume that the students in this course have previously studied American history from the Colonial Era through the Ninteenth Century.



13 posted on 12/16/2002 12:48:44 PM PST by smalltown
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To: mdmathis6
The Bible doesn't say "malice of doves!!!!"
14 posted on 12/16/2002 12:51:25 PM PST by widowithfoursons
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To: tdadams
Wow. I didn't know Ben Stein is a conservative. Right on the money.
15 posted on 12/16/2002 12:59:41 PM PST by jjm2111
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To: Karsus
I'm not sure if political party is what it should be. If anything, what would shake things up is a massive registration of conservative Christians to the democrats in that such a shift would cause consternation in the party as Christians would be voting for more conservative democrats in stead of the flaming radicals that run the party now, primary power voting especially!Lets have more DINO's(democrats in name only!).The goal would be to be a leavening effect on both the Republicnas annnnd the Democrats! Let's rock the paradigm, there are at least 70 to 80 million evangelicals, not counting conservative catholic voters... galvanizing a third of them would rock the country. Even Gideon defeated thousands with a 150 men, using light, noise, and utter surprise in the dead of night.

Remember Gideon who chose his men by those who cupped water from the river with their hands instead of lapping it up on their bellies like dogs! Are there any Americans left who are tired of having their traditions trashed, their freedoms threatened?

We need to unite as the true heart of our nation, a nation within the nation, to counter those unseen hands that attempt to steer us covertly into utter apostacty and national destruction! I speak not of violence but of passionate vocal resistance to the evils that our corrupt government has forced us to choke on. We conservative Americans, Christians and Jews many of us,are the most productive people on the face of the Earth, perhaps in history. We are the Huguenots of our generation, but unlike the tragedy the befell them by the subterfuge of the French Monarchy, we must not give up our rights and our arms. The French economy fell into ruin after the suppression of the Huguenots, and Britain became the world power as exiled Huguenots transfered their indistrial prowess into the service of Britain's ecnomy. Some of their descendents became some of the founders of our country!

Perhaps that's we could call our selves, the Neo-Huguenots, in stubborn challenge to the spirit of the age!

16 posted on 12/16/2002 1:02:38 PM PST by mdmathis6
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To: hedgetrimmer
Holy shi'ite. They left out the American Revolution. (Probably left the constitution out too.)
17 posted on 12/16/2002 1:03:33 PM PST by jjm2111
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To: Karsus; mdmathis6
I'll prolly move out of NJ before too long.
18 posted on 12/16/2002 1:04:55 PM PST by jjm2111
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To: mdmathis6
Does this conservative Christian/Jewish group believe we should ban Harry Potter and Dungerons & Dragons?
19 posted on 12/16/2002 1:07:17 PM PST by Karsus
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To: widowithfoursons
Well, he's got it right. Now what to do about it?

If at all possible, HOMESCHOOL. If the circumstances don't permit that, then try AFTERSCHOOLING. It would involve giving the kids a few minutes each day of what is missing in schools; civics, real history, non-PC science, etc. It could be in the form of videos, historical fiction, etc. You could also try memorization drills for math, etc. Tie it to some sort of reward system!

What is amazing is how little time it takes for your kids to learn at home what they are missing in school. Every 30 minutes of home learning time equals over an hour's worth of school work!

20 posted on 12/16/2002 1:17:23 PM PST by SuziQ
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