Numb and dumb.

Not really Rob………there is very little that you actually can do……..it is very hard to communicate what is the TRUTH and then convince people to “act”…….but despite this there are two things that everyone can do……..

1.) Do not blame the “victims”…….if you have been fortunate enough to escape this latest trip to the edge of insanity and even if you think that you were prepared and expected it,
do not imagine that you are immune……….

2.) No matter how bad things get….remember what soldiers really fight for…….the person next to them………there are people next to you now………..in the end, you will need to depend on them and they on you……….be prepared……get to know those next to you.

“Your only as DUMB / Stupid or Ignorant as you will allow yourself to be. Its not up to any Government, nor your mommie to educate you, its up to “YOU” to do the job. If you have questions – {SEEK the answers.} When the answers don’t jive, then figure out why that is”. … (Time)… Why that is, is the education system is not responding to anything but criminal activity and rule breaking.. The ‘learning’ aspect is now antiquated and placed into one ridiculously ignorant test that even a cave man could pass but never understand..

THIS is what I have a problem with, ‘lil buddy.. Your chucking on me, and him and other adults when it’s not us at all, it’s the new generations they are targeting.. First the powers make it where we (adults) must work our lives away just to enjoy what we strive for as the American dream.. Not only us but our spouse.. This doesn’t leave much time for our kid’s attention (though we continually try) but the kids don’t want a “Father knows best”.. they want what the establishment is providing (for a price) so, hand held gaming, computer and cell phone communication, even TV has placed us all in a lose/lose situation.. The kids learn from these ‘gadgets’ but nothing that will help them in the real world.. Schools are the real world but their teachings do not resemble anything like how we viewed life.. These kids can’t ask questions because there’s nothing related to the games that society has provided to them.. We are not the problem, young minds are the problem and so long as education keeps them ‘dumbed down’ how can they even find a question? It IS the education’s duty to teach our kids else their nothing more than highly paid baby sitters.. We should help them as well but when the G’ment continues to threaten us with foreclosures, high prices and more and more demands.. How can we take even a little time to help kids who blatantly tell us “We know it all”… As far the rest of your post, I couldn’t agree any stronger.

Silas –
well said. But one of the most effective dumbing down tools is the use of drugs put in the hands of the teachers to silence the brain power of the kids before they can complain about the worthlessness of the teachers.
One of the main jobs we must do is totally undo and then rebuild the present construct we call “health care”, medicine, medical education or the modern method of social destruction by drugging the populace into compliance.
But,…who knows? It’s probably too little, too late,…too latte’.

If Eric Holder and Obama can get away with what they’ve done, for this long and so few people get outraged – - – people are just too tranquilized and anxiolyticized. They’ll survive.

The rest of us will, without doubt, be identified, rounded up and moved to the re-education centers.

Silas,
It was my “liberal” teachers who pushed me to think. They wouldn’t accept the idea of just memorizing facts (though they demanded that as well,) they wanted us to be able to explain, in our own words the reasons for and consequences of that which we were learning about. Again, it’s unfunded edicts like “no child left behind” that are creating generations of workers trained to follow the rules and do the work without question.

Can you say “TENURE”?

FICR,
You can’t tie the teachers hands behind their backs, crowd their classrooms, cut their funds and tell them that they MUST teach the kids how to pass a State/Federal test above all else and then blame the teachers for students failing. I’ve worked in my kid’s class room. I’ve seen the homework from kids whose parents either aren’t available to help, won’t help or can’t help due to a language barrier. I’ve seen very bright kids failing due to language issues that could be overcome if the budget wasn’t cut to shift money over to testing materials. The extra attention the teachers have to direct to these kids then costs the rest of the kids. “Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”

FICR,
One more thing: who gets paid the big bucks?
I live in a county that covers just 520 sq. miles. The population is about 250,000. We have, as most counties do a county office of education, and no fewer than 19 districts. Each district has it’s own supervisor and staff. Supervisors earn between $125,000 and $160,000. I won’t bother to take the time to figure out the staff pay, but it’s a fair assumption that each district office pays out at least $200,000 to $500,000 in salary alone! Teachers, on the other hand average between $37,000 and $64,000 (the lowest paid pre-school teacher is paid $25,000 and the highest paid HS teacher gets around $90,000) and most of them end up spending hundreds of their own on supplies the schools no longer budget for. Oh those evil teachers and their high paying jobs. They’re just bleeding us dry!

Who does the real work of education? Do we really need 19 school districts to oversee 83 schools? A dozen of these offices have 3 or fewer schools in their district! Others have as many as 20. How much would we save if they cut it down to, say 4 or 5 districts? How much more money could be spent on educating our kids instead of overlapping duties?

Ragss,
Just look at the choice we had! McCain was all over the map trying to appease and one look at Palin’s record says it all. As long as the system remains in it’s current state, we can only pick from what is offered.

clyde carter -
Well-l-l-l, quite obviously to carry out the “People’s Business”…meaning, name local post offices and branches thereof…before they close them down forever because we can no longer afford to keep them open and do their business. But, that is really a confounding bit of information because I can’t see how that contributes to the “franking privileges” of the Congress????
I wonder if they are planning on interrupting – uninvited – anyone’s internet discussion time to hawk their lies and propaganda?

Bob, ….. L-I-B-E-R-A-L . ….. please spell it correctly or you reinforce the essence of the Gary Ackerman article.

Bobseeks,
I will admit that Sen. Kennedy made some big mistakes in co-authoring “no child left behind”, and that other Democrats followed suit with their votes, but there is no avoiding the fact that this law, which proposes to improve our schools by forcing our teachers to instruct students in how to pass the test, is a conservative win. Since the implementation of this misleading law, the Big Three text book publishes—McGraw-Hill, Houghton-Mifflin, and Harcourt General have come to dominate the testing market. One Wall Street analyst aptly referred to these as “Bush stocks,” following the 2000 election, and all three represent owners like Harold McGraw III, who has longstanding ties to the Bush administration and the lobbying efforts of Sandy Kress. Kress has other clients of note, such as “Ignite! Learning”, a company headed by Neil Bush, and K12 Inc., owned by Bill Bennett. All of these long standing and up start companies have tailored themselves to take advantage of what the administration has offered, to the tune of between 2 to 5 BILLION dollars a year!

When I was in school we were taught to think. We were asked to analyze and interpret the information. In Jr. high my math class had us faux investing in the stock market. We chose, tracked and justified our buying decisions. In high school I took classes like “clear thinking”, where each class was a debate. Now it’s Math, English and History. Period. Science? If we can find the time, but who needs scientists? Music? Who cares if study after study shows that the abstract concept of music improves math comprehension? Generalized tests results are simple to read and understand, and the testing materials are worth a fortune for those who print them. Follow the money.

Wow, dumb is right. Government = Laws; Unalienable Rights to Life, Liberty, and pursuit of Happiness = rights of all people to have the freedom to retain/pursue life, and achieve happiness (comfort, warship, peace) without being unduly detained/constrained/taxed by a non-representatve government. Not a government assuming authority to be/do the opposite to some, so others need do nothing. Historically welfare states have always failed, after first becoming broadly oppressive; whose who fail to learn from history are destined to repeat it. Our Constitution most broadly represents the set of very limited authorities which our government is able to possess (ever), in an attempt to prevent it from becoming too repressive on anyone’s behalf through time.

“What is government’s role in securing THIS UNALIENABLE RIGHT?”

As outlined in the opening preamble of the United States’ constitution, it was the Founding Fathers’ intent to have the federal government perform six fundamental functions. An excerpt from the U.S. Constitution that best expresses these purposes reads, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America”.

1. To Form a More Perfect Union
2. To Establish Justice
3. To Provide for the Common Defense
4. To Secure the Blessings of Liberty
5. To Promote the General Welfare
6. To Insure Domestic Tranquility

Other than those six things mentioned….absolutely….. nothing.

Best Wishes,
AJ

Dear Galt,

The answer to your question is really quite simple;
“UNALIENABLE” means – its the right to be born with {NO Debt}

To be born into a life with – “No form of Slavery be it by force or indentured Servitude.”

Black’s Law 1950′s edition.

Galt, you misunderstand what a right is. A right does not infringe on another person. If you think food is a right, you don’t understand. To give a person food that he did not work for means you have to take (steal) food from another person that did work for it. That is the primary difference between the constitutional bill of rights and FDR’s 2nd bill of rights. My right to speak my thoughts, worship how I please, own and use a gun, privacy, property ownership, etc. do not infringe on another. Guaranteeing food, a job, healthcare, etc. requires taking property away from people who worked hard to earn/produce that property. It is theft (or legal plunder according to Bastiat) whether it is done by an individual or a government.

GALT,

Since I don’t know how many of these you wanted answered, in what order or what answers that you are expecting, but I will attemt to answer them all, in order and to the most simplified version that I can write.

“What were those 56 dead white guys thinking?”

Which 56 “dead white guys are you referring to? There have been many over the centuries. All I am saying, is please be specific. with your enquiries.

If you are referring to the founders, a read of the Federalist Papers as well as their personal letters, notes and speeches might lend a bit of insight as to their thoughts.

“Which of the following: Air, Water, Food, Clothing,or Shelter……..do you believe are
non essential elements regarding the unalienable right to LIFE?”

While each of these things are nessesary to sustain life, none of them are unalienable rights.
You have the right to obtain all of those things by the sweat of your own brow, but not by the sweat of anyone else’s brow. If we wish to have these things, then we must obtain them by our own endeavors, without infringing upon anyone elses ” Unalieable Rights”.

What is government’s role in securing THIS UNALIENABLE RIGHT?

What is “THIS” UNALIENABLE RIGHT? Again, “THIS’ leaves a pretty broad pool of options to choose from. Be more specific.
If you are referring to “Air, Water, Food, Clothing,or Shelter”, as I explained above…they are not in fact “unalienable rights” , but rather “NEEDS”.

I have already given my view above as per the Preamble to the Constitution, but I will add:

The Governments main purpose is to secure the unalienable rights of the people.

Best Wishes,
AJ

Galt asks his “lefty” stupid question: “Which of the following: Air, Water, Food, Clothing, or Shelter……..do you believe are nonessential elements regarding the unalienable right to LIFE?”

The same stupid post Galt already posted on this web. Previously I dismissed/ignored this self- egocentric, self-pleasing posting, but this time I decided to comment on this persistently ignorant post.

And as a GOOD libtard Galt first changing subject, than he twisting and distorting the Declaration of Independence.

So, Galt, let analyze your distortion and nonsense and point the FACTS/IDEA of the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”

What are the Unalienable Rights? Life, Liberty, pursuit of Happiness. Let talk about each of them.

1) LIFE. We know that God gives/grants us life. Don’t you, Galt?
a) God gave us life, not government: God “breathed into his [man’s] nostrils the
breath [AIR] of life; and man became a living being.” (Genesis)
Galt, God provides us with Air and Water, not government.

b) But what Founders meant by declaring LIFE as Unalienable Right?
It means that no one can take your life, even thru abortion.

2) LIBERTY=FREEDOM.
Again, God gave us a FREE WILL in the moment of our birth/first breath. This is the most valuable God’s gift, because without LIBERTY and FREEDOM the life is worthless, even for liberals like you, Galt.

The Founders highlighting/underlining/underscoring the role of Government:
a) The Government MUST “TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS”
b) And Founders precociously warning and advising the PEOPLE that in the
case if “Government becomes destructive of these ends [by other words
becomes TYRANNICAL/DICTATORIAL/OPPRESSIVE/DESPOTIC], it is the
RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE to ALTER or to ABOLISH it, and to INSTITUTE
NEW GOVERNMENT…”

Now Galt, answering your ignorantly stupid and hypothetical question, which nothing has to do with the Declaration of Independence: Which of the following: Air, Water, Food, Clothing, or Shelter……..do you believe are nonessential elements regarding the unalienable right to LIFE?

1) AIR. Galt, it’s so ridicules, absurd and laughable to think that your right to BREATH comes from Government.
Galt, God supplies us with AIR limitlessly, not Government. We DO NOT have to ask Government’s permission to breath. And by a way, Galt, you and Government are breathing the “God’s” AIR.

2) WATER. Galt, Government do not produces WATER.
Again, God is providing us with WATER limitlessly. And thanks to God, we do not have to ask Government’s permission to drink. Government & you also drinking “God’s” WATER.

3) FOOD. Galt, Government does not produce FOOD. People do produce FOOD, but God PROVIDES.

“And God said, “See, I HAVE GIVEN YOU EVERY HERB that yields seed which is ON THE FACE OF ALL THE EARTH, and EVERY TREE whose fruit yields seed; TO YOU IT SHALL BE FOR FOOD.” (Genesis)

God said: “EVERY MOVING THING THAT LIVES SHALL BE FOOD FOR YOU. I HAVE GIVEN YOU ALL THINGS, even as the green herbs.” (Genesis)

Galt, God said that “In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return.” (Genesis)

Galt, as you see the Government does not supply us with FOOD. People, who produce FOOD, supplying us and Government.

4) CLOTHING & SHELTER.
The same: Galt, the Government does not produce or supply or provide us with CLOTHING or SHELTER. Hard working PEOPLE DO.

Galt, Here is the conclusion: Government does not produce or provide Air, Water, Food, Clothing or Shelter.Hard working PEOPLE DO.

Galt, I understand that Government for leftists is god. But it does NOT for self-relying hard working and lovers of the FREEDOM & LIBRTY true Americans.

Galt, I don’t think that your communistic propaganda convinced anybody, at least on this Web.
Good luck to you in worshiping to your god and your messiah.

Galt, now I would like to bring your attention to the article’s subject.

Mr. Ackerman says: “It used to be you had real friends ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE. It’s not like that anymore.”

Of cause, the witch Pelosi harassing and threatening each & everyone, who makes even an half step to the center.

Mr. Ackerman says: “I think the people have gotten dumber.”

Galt, I am not agree with Mr. Ackerman. And here is why:

According to the 2010 survey of none other than the Pew Research Center, a left-of-center organization, REPUBLICANS outperformed Democrats on 10 of 12 questions, with one tie and Democrats outperforming Republicans on just 1 (ONE) of the 12.

In the latest 2011 survey, however, REPUBLICANS OUTPERFORMED Democrats on EVERY SINGLE one of 19 questions.

Galt, Mr. Ackerman is not correct, because he is generalizing all people. But it DEMONcratics who “have gotten dumber.” And they became not only stupider, but also more senseless, unwise, ill-advised and misguided. And there is an explanation for that: They adapted in full communistic ideology. And from the history we know how countries with the communistic regimes ended – total destruction and degradation.

Galt, I think you have to switch the party.