Tag: insane public policy

Oh, Boy! Free College! Again

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Stupidity has consequences.

Already strangling in a webwork of high taxes, the people of my home state of New Jersey committed the ultimate folly of electing a Democrat as governor–Phil “Mr. Sanctuary” Murphy. They actually told man-on-the-street radio and TV interviewers that they hoped their new Democrat governor would lower their taxes.

That’d be hilarious if it weren’t so pathetic.

Murphy’s signature projects are the legalization of recreational marijuana and the transformation of our state into a mecca for illegal aliens. But he’s also floating a scheme, announced yesterday, to provide “free” tuition at our community colleges for, like, everybody (http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/04/murphy_free_community_college.html)!

First it’s gonna be just 15,000, er, “poor” people getting free tuition, at a cost of $50 million. Anyone who believes that’s all it will cost is crazy. Then they’ve gotta get some legislation passed–we can pray they find a roadblock there–and then the final tab will be $200 million for “free community college to all.”

Let’s see… It’ll be free, so thousands of people will be going because they have nothing else to do, who otherwise wouldn’t be going… and they’ll need more professors and teaching assistants, more cafeteria staff, more security officers and maintenance crew, more gender consultants, diversity counselors, and microaggression response teams, more boxcar-loads full of Play-Doh and coloring books… $200 million my ***. The cost will be in billions by the time they’re done.

But as Squanderer Phil says, “Education ought to be a right, not a privilege.” Oh, yeah–every warm body in New Jersey has a right to a degree in Social Justice Studies. I’m sure it must say so, somewhere in the Constitution.

I don’t think our people are going to get those tax cuts they were hoping for. Do you?

You Still Support Public Education???

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Right! Back into the nooze. Hip-deep in muck.

Thanks to an insane Obama policy, public school teachers have become sitting ducks for violent students: and all efforts to remedy the situation are being vigorously opposed by–would you believe the teachers’ unions? (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/02/teacher-coalition-seeks-to-end-obama-school-discipline-policy-a-lot-of-fear-in-schools/)

Last week we told you about the PROMISE Act, by which the federal government rewarded local police departments and school districts for ignoring certain kinds of crimes and thus making the crime rate appear to go down. That was the carrot–and now for the stick.

In 2014 the administration of President *Batteries Not Included sent out a “Dear Colleague” guidance letter (why does “guidance” seem such a threatening word, when leftids use it?) to school districts warning them that the Dept. of Justice–“justice”!–and the Dept. of Education might “investigate” districts where school discipline seems to be applied “disproportionately” to “minority” students.

Well, waddya know! In the wake of government pressure to ignore infractions like disruption, fighting, assaults on teachers, etc., student violence against teachers increased dramatically throughout the public schools. In desperation, in 2016 the Minnesota legislature passed a Teacher Protection Act to remove aggressive students from the classroom and to warn teachers about students who’d shown themselves to be a physical threat.

So of course the American Federation of Teachers gets in on the act–opposing measures to protect teachers from violence! Hey, that’s some union you’ve got there, teachers! The AFT is joined by the usual crowd on the Loony Left–the ACLU, the NAACP, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (taking time out from censoring conservatives on YouTube).

Predictably, the leftids insist that any attempts to rein in “minority” students from violence are… racist! They believe in this thing they call “the school-to-prison pipeline,” it’s systemic racism, to punish juvenile delinquents. To combat “racism,” we have to let certain students physically attack their teachers–not to mention other students. Again, we make the crime rate go down by ignoring it, especially when it’s crime committed by a “minority” criminal.

Hello, normal people! Wake up! These left-wing crazies are wrecking your country and you’re letting them do it! If it goes on much longer, there won’t be anything left to wake up to.

‘PROMISE Act’ Shields Criminals

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As hard as I try, I can’t keep track of all the mischief done to my country by liberals in government. Here’s one I hadn’t heard of until today: President *Batteries Not Included’s 2014 PROMISE Act–which massaged crime statistics by rewarding local police departments and school districts for not reporting certain crimes: mostly misdemeanors, but also some lesser felonies (https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2018/02/27/promise-program-exposed-by-this-show/).

Well, that’ll make the crime rate go down–simply not arresting or charging offenders.

It also makes a joke of background checks on persons, especially young people, seeking to buy firearms. The vendor checks the background of a chronic offender and, behold–there’s nothing there.

So, if you want to get federal grants, via the unspeakably corrupt Dept. of Justice, for your local police department or school district, you just turn the other way and don’t write it down, don’t take any action, when certain crimes are committed by certain people. It’s supposed to be for “racial justice” or something.

It reminds me of a friend I had in high school. On the dashboard of his aging car, the oil light kept flashing. So he taped a piece of paper over it. Problem solved! Until, of course, the car went belly-up and died.

Could we, like, repeal the PROMISE Act? And please never, ever again allow Democrats to run the country? I mean, just because they really and truly don’t care who gets hurt, who gets killed, by them putting their crazy ideology to work…

‘Why We Crave Fantasy’ (2013)

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I’m not talking about the kind of fantasy we have to wade through every day–Climbit change, universal free college, secular utopianism, blah-blah. All that depressing stuff that The Smartest People In The World keep pushing at us, if only we’ll just let them have lots and lots of power over us…

But there’s another kind of fantasy that’s good for us.

https://leeduigon.com/2013/07/19/why-do-we-crave-fantasy/

‘Fantasy Disguised as Politics’ (2011)

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Look at this–eight years ago, this item was posted, and the topic is still with us. Income equality! Hot dog! Democrats are going to give us Income Equality!

Aren’t we all a bit too old for fairy tales?

https://leeduigon.com/2011/11/23/fantasy-disguised-as-politics/

I’ve Been Quoted in the Big Time!

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If you turn to Robert Knight’s column on townhall.com today (https://townhall.com/columnists/robertknight/2018/02/13/free-money-and-pigeons-n2448155), you will find Yours Truly being quoted–in the national media, no less.

The column is about the Stockton, California, mayor’s lunatic scheme to give “the poor” a Universal Basic Income–free money, just for… well, nothing. And its likely effects on the poor devils who will have to keep working to pay for this.

UBI is a favorite fantasy of Democrats and other leftids, and deserves every brickbat we can throw at it.

Here’s a link to my original blog post from a few days ago (https://leeduigon.com/2018/02/05/city-to-embark-on-mad-experiment/).

Thank you, Bob, for helping me to be heard.

Cancel Everyone’s Student Debt???

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Some ideas are so profoundly awful, they just won’t go away.

New York Magazine is now beating the drum to cancel student debt and “make public universities free” (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/lets-cancel-everyones-student-debt-for-the-economys-sake.html). It’s the usual leftid tripe: “We Must Cancel Everyone’s Student Debt, for the Economy’s Sake.” Like they really care about the economy.

So, we’ve got, according to this article, 44 million people burdened with $1.4 trillion in collidge student debt–and we ought to just write it off, like that would make it go away, and in so doing, expand the job market somehow, maybe by magic, and get rid of “the racial wealth gap,” blah-blah. Yeah: the job market is just dying to employ tens of millions of otherwise unemployable grads with masters’ degrees in Women’s Studies and Bald Chicano Gender Studies, etc. That’ll work.

But I think there is a way to write off all that debt and let these people get on with their lives. It entails a great big trade-off.

In return for canceling student debt–which only means that the $1.4 trillion monkey will be placed on the backs of the rest of us–we get to end the whole student loan program, no more college loans for anyone, and stop all government funding to the looniversities. That will balance out the $1.4 trillion and put an end to what so-called higher education is doing to our country–filling it with tens of millions of chip-on-the-shoulder, heads-full-of-toxic-mush, no-work-ethic college grads with degrees in Nothing Studies. It will also un-employ multitudes of academics who hate this country anyway and are every bit as useless as their students. Let ’em pump gas, or work as Wal-Mart greeters. They might redeem themselves with honest work.

Looks like a square deal to me.

My Newswithviews Column, Feb. 8 (‘Wrecking Civilization, Piece by Piece’)

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Do you ever get the feeling that all the big shots of our civilization are trying on purpose to destroy it? I do.

https://newswithviews.com/wrecking-civilization-piece-by-piece/

Canada Goes P.C. on National Anthem

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While here in America spoiled millionaire football players show their disrespect for the country by kneeling instead of standing for the National Anthem, up in Canada they’ve seen our knee and raised us a P.C. blather–as the Canadian Senate has voted to change their national anthem, “O, Canada,” to make it… “gender neutral” (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/canada-votes-to-change-lyrics-of-national-anthem-to-make-it-gender-neutral/ar-BBIzzpO).

Yes, they will pluck out that horrible offensive heteronormative Hate line, “in all thy sons command,” and replace it with “in all of us command,” because Gays and Trannies can’t procreate so the very word “sons” is Hateful and Excluding and Not Affirming–“Blather Bingo! Bingo!”

Conservatives in the Senate fought this tooth and nail for 18 months, but the Liberals shut down debate last week and rammed it through.

Would you believe there are “activists” who say they’ve been toiling for 30 years to get this done? Now for them the challenge is to find some new thing to complain about.

Ironically, the song as originally written in 1908 said “doest all of us command,” but I guess that was a little hard to sing, so they changed it.

No less a leftid icon than Margaret Atwood, who wrote The Hand-Made’s Tail, hailed this change in the anthem as just off-the-charts great.

Prediction: Very soon they will be demanding more changes because “O, Canada” is still not Inclusive enough. Just for starters, it excludes non-Canadians. Dude, how can you have a national anthem that, like, excludes most of the whole world? It also presupposes some kind of “patriot love,” a concept which eats away at liberals’ innards like a belt of battery acid. Every leftid knows that real bona fide genuine patriotism, a la John Kerry or Hillary Clinton, means to loathe and detest your country and root for its enemies.

So the activists won’t have to get lives, after all. They’ll just go on to the next Cause.

 

The Issues that will Sweep the Dems Back into Power: Transgenders and Amnesty

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Can you resist voting for this?

Joseph Kennedy III delivered the Democrat rebuttal this week to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Speech. Now, thanks to him, we know what two issues Democrats are counting on to sweep them back into control of the House of Representatives in this year’s elections.

Transgender rights, and amnesty for illegal aliens (https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2018/01/31/democrats-boo-america-n2442696).

The Dems have been in full tantrum mode since Election Night in 2016. Well, heck, why not? When you go to a restaurant and there’s a kid rolling around on the floor, having a tantrum, isn’t your first response to reward him for it? He should get whatever he wants, right? A tantrum is such a great way to win friends and influence people. This approach is just bound to work, according to the same pollsters who predicted a Hillary Clinton landslide victory.

So Kennedy, as reported by Anne Coulter, “devoted the lion’s share of his speech to the Democrats’ pet issues: transgenders and foreigners.” Hot dog.

They’re citizens of the world, so everybody in the world should be allowed to come to America illegally and get free stuff and “a path to citizenship.” This is called replacing the electorate. Dems don’t like the electorate they’ve got. They don’t like America. As Chuck Schumer reportedly said, “If they–” meaning “you”–“won’t elect Democrats, we’ll bring in people who will.” I can’t vouch for the accuracy of that quote, but it does accurately sum up what Democrats mean by “immigration reform.”

And then there are the transgenders–poor, deluded souls who demand we applaud, affirm, and bow down to their insistence that they get the right to redefine reality. That is, the invented false reality that states that whatever gender they say they are, that’s what they are. Democrats demand the rest of us share in that delusion, and heaven help us if we don’t. Like, where’s the fun in being the government if you can’t force millions of people to say things they know to be untrue? And punish them if they don’t.

Nothing much good can happen to America until the Democrat Party is put out of business. Permanently. That won’t put a stop to leftism, which springs from Original Sin. But it will at least stop them, for a while, from passing laws and handing down judicial rulings.