When Parasites Strike...Again
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WHEN PARASITES STRIKE...AGAIN!
You
can't make this stuff up. Even as the American taxpayer is being
awakened from his slumber of tolerance for the outrage that is the
Obama agenda, the "Parasite in Chief's" faithful supporters insist on
demanding their "right" to the fruits of other's labor. The John Galt
and "Tea Party" phenomena that are sweeping across America is sadly, if
unsurprisingly, not being reported by the mainstream media who seem to
think only the rage of the "entitlement" class is newsworthy. Yet what
the media fail to perceive is the amount of anger that these so called
"civil disobedience" demonstrations provoke in the Americans whose work
and assets must be taxed in order to satiate the appetite of ACORN and
their socially engineered parasites. Read for yourself and watch your
anger rise as well...
LOS ANGELES -- A
school board meeting turned into a display of civil disobedience
Tuesday as about 50 educators refused to leave, creating a brief
standoff with police, who refused to make any arrests in the presence of media.
The
members of ACORN and United Teachers Los Angeles -- all wearing bright
red shirts -- entered the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of
Education meeting on Tuesday afternoon, sat down and began chanting.
Police said the protesters were staging an illegal occupation of a
public building. The district said no arrests would occur as long as
members of media were in building.
UTLA
President A.J. Duffy approached the speakers' lectern and told the
board, "You know why we're here. You know I'm not leaving this rostrum.
You know I'm going to keep talking." As he spoke several teachers sat
on the floor in front of the board and held up signs saying "Students
lose when we lose teachers, No layoffs" as the crowd began chanting.
Board
President Monica Garcia repeatedly asked Duffy to sit down, but he kept
speaking. The microphone was turned off, but Duffy continued to speak
and the chanting continued. Garcia then announced that the "disturbance
has interrupted our meeting to the point where the orderly conduct of
this meeting is not feasible."
There
go our buddies in ACORN again. Its good that we have them looking out
for our welfare...oops did I say w e l f a r e? Pardon me.
ACORN’s
shakedown soldiers consider actions like occupying a public school
board's meeting room to be an act of "civil disobedience." In truth it
is just another arrogant display of a parasitic need to inefficiently
consume resources that can be better used elsewhere. In this case they
are trying to preserve employees of a teacher's union in the face of
dwindling tax revenues. The school board was merely attempting to do
their job of deciding where to allocate the funds that are available.
Unfortunately that involves cutting costs, firing teachers and living
in the real world where tax revenue is not unlimited. Enter the
parasites of the teachers union and their allies ACORN to demand that
they be preserved at someone else's expense.
There are reasons
why zoo's and national parks have signs prominently displayed that say
"please don't feed the animals." Once the animals get accustomed to the
handouts, not only do they become dependent on them, they will actually
get violent in making demands for them. We are seeing this "animal"
behavior in the actions of ACORN and their fellow "community
organizers."
As surely as a hookworm believes that a dog
exists just to further his own survival, so too do teachers unions and
community activist groups like ACORN believe that schools and the
government exist solely to provide them with the financial sustenance
they need to survive and thrive. It is a complete misconception of the
arrangement between the taxpayer and the receivers of the government's
largesse. In this case the misconception is abetted by the failure of
the schools to educate anyone to know any better. A marvelously
self-reciprocating system.
This misconception comes from the
belief that things like government jobs and checks are somehow an
entitlement. How did they come to view it that way? We fed the animals,
that's how. Teachers unions are no more concerned with the education of
children than ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform
Now) is concerned with reforming communities. The goal of the teacher's
union is only to increase their membership, not test scores. They are
just parasites whose sole preoccupation is to educate, and thereby
procreate, more parasites. These are the proceeds from our "investment"
(our President's term for this sort of social engineering) in forty
years of the "war on poverty." Do you feel cheated? Well you should, if
for no reason other than the ingratitude and revisionist history the
beneficiaries of these "investments" have construed. Nowhere was this
better demonstrated than during a recent exchange between Bill O'Reilly
and Dr. Marc Lamont Hill:
"The
problem here is that you won't acknowledge that for the last 20 years,
we've had wealth redistribution. It's just gone from the middle class
and the poor to the rich." - Dr. Marc Lamont Hill
Therein
hides the lie that the American political left feeds to its all too
willing victims. The idea that capitalists, industrialists and other
assorted "rich" people acquired their wealth FROM the poor and the
middle class. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but such
"misconceptions" placate a desire for those who need an excuse for
their life's circumstances. It allows them to perceive themselves as a
"victim," as well as attach the blame to someone whom they can then
extract some form of reparation. In the case of the current
administration, income inequality is the justification for
redistributionist tax policies.
However the wealth that these
"rich" people have acquired was never in the possession of the poor and
the middle class. In fact this wealth did not exist at all until these
industrious people invested, worked and ultimately CREATED it. It is
the fruits of their skills and labor that brought this wealth into
existence and, lest we forget, this wealth was then taxed right off the
top. Much of this taxed wealth was used for the great social
engineering experiment that is the 40 year "War on Poverty." It was the
industrialists and capitalists whose taxed income was redistributed to
the poor! What would they have been able to do with THEIR money if they
had been allowed to keep it and reinvest it into the economy? We can
only guess. However we do know what became of the money that was
redistributed to the poor.
The U.S. government has spent close
to $10 trillion dollars on domestic welfare programs since President
Lyndon Johnson launched the “War on Poverty” in 1965. These
include Aid to Families with Dependent Children (now Temporary
Assistance to Needy Families—TANF); food stamps; Medicaid; the
Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children
(WIC); utilities assistance under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance
Program (LIHEAP); housing assistance under a variety of programs,
including public housing and Section 8 rental assistance; and the free
commodities program. And then state and local governments engage in
welfare spending that includes free medical care for the impoverished
through charity hospitals. And what, pray-tell, did this "investment"
into the poor communities return?
Well, it could have happened
to anybody right? Families were destroyed as the illegitimacy rate
skyrocketed. Welfare programs that rewarded women for having more
babies naturally produced...more babies! Those women who "qualified" as
single mothers would get preferential treatment by the system so
naturally this led to the phenomenon, entirely predictable, of more
single mothers. Welfare quickly became a way of life. That's what
happens when the government tries to help people. They created a class
of professional parasites whose sole area of expertise was fulfilling
the criteria established by the government to get the "free" money. Way
to go guys.
Lets not forget what our investment in education has
returned as well. Federal spending on education has risen steadily over
the past three decades to unprecedented levels. The United States spent
$553 billion on public elementary and secondary education in
2006–2007, which is 4.2 percent of gross domestic product.
In 2004–2005 (the most recent school year for which data are
available), an average of $9,266 was spent per pupil in American public
schools. This means that a student entering first grade in 2004 could
expect approximately $111,000 to be spent on his or her elementary and
secondary education if the student completes high school. Yet the
results for all this increased spending are increasingly mediocre. The
more we spend...the less we get.
Math Rankings
Grade 4: 12th in the world
Grade 8: 27th
Grade 12: 19th
Science Rankings
Grade 4; 3rd
Grade 8: 17th
Grade 12: 16th
Its
clear that something other than money is needed to "reform" our
education. Perhaps outlawing the teachers unions would be a good place
to start. Unfortunately the Obama administration is sending them MORE
money. Feeding the parasites is not the answer.
In this election
cycle the democrats made an appeal to one particular group of people
whom they had previously not been very successful at drawing into their
coalition of the damned and downtrodden. Christians fell into the old
"social gospel" trap that actually was a hallmark of Franklin
Roosevelt's brand of social intervention. It's the idea of trying to
prey upon a Christian's need to fulfill Christ's many exhortations to
feed the poor and the downtrodden such as:
LUKE 14: 13-14 But
when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the
blind: And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for
thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
And
of course Jesus did set an example by feeding a multitude of 5000 in
this passage that is a favorite of the "social gospel" apologists:
JOHN 6: 1-14: After
these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of
Tiberias. And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his
miracles which he did on them that were diseased. And Jesus went up
into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. And the passover,
a feast of the Jews, was nigh. When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and
saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall
we buy bread, that these may eat? And this he said to prove him: for he
himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, Two hundred
pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them
may take a little. One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother,
saith unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and
two small fishes: but what are they among so many? And Jesus said, Make
the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat
down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves; and
when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the
disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as
much as they would. When they were filled, he said unto his disciples,
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. Therefore
they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the
fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto
them that had eaten. Then those men, when they had seen the miracle
that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come
into the world.
It is truly
one of the great miracles that Jesus performed during his time on
earth. Its amazing how even the most anti-Christian purveyors of social
engineering love to use this particular moment in Jesus' history in an
attempt to shame Christians into supporting their socialist ideas.
Often they even attempt to portray Jesus himself as some sort of "robin
hood" liberal. As always, however, they leave out something very
important. Jesus commanded individuals, not governments, to help the
poor. There is a reason for this that eludes far too many people. It is
not just the food that is the issue. It is the human interaction as one
person CHOOSES to help another person. The feeling of worth and value
that is imparted when someone goes out of his way to personally spend
time with, and assist, another human being is as nourishing for the
spirit as the food is to the body. No government social program can
provide that interaction for it is a totally impersonal transaction
that merely establishes your qualifications based on a set of criteria.
Then of course there is the one thing you will never hear from
the liberal social engineers and their "social gospel" apologists
allies. Its the next verse in the passage:
JOHN 6:15: When
Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force,
to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.
Yea,
that makes a difference. He knew they would come back. First, they
would come back expecting him to feed them again and then they would
want to make him a king. Therefore I think it is important to point out
that Jesus fed them ONCE and then left. Once is charity. Anything more
and you begin to create dependence. By engaging them just once they
would better remember him AND what he said, rather than just associate
him with free food. That Jesus was a smart man. Apparently he knew the
worst thing he could do for them was to make them dependent on getting
something for nothing. But then again, Jesus wasn't running for elected
office. He didn't need their votes. Unfortunately that's not the case
with the social engineers of the modern welfare state.
Our new
President doesn't seem to share Jesus' desire to help his fellow man as
much as to get him to associate the government assistance with the
"generosity" of his administration. It's easy to be generous with
someone else's money. You can say he is right to call these programs an
"investment" in America. It's an investment in making as many Americans
dependent on the government as possible, and particularly the
Democratic party who "redistributed" it to them. This is how you
encourage more parasites. There is nothing in a government program to
provide that sense of self worth. In fact, by accepting such
entitlements, there is an implied acceptance of one's lack of worth.
Therefore it must always be a dysfunctional relationship based upon
need and dependence. The same attributes one finds in the relationship
between an addict and his supplier. Make no mistake about it, all
parasites are addicts. Especially those that are socially engineered.
The
"War on Poverty" and the "Great Society" represented the crowning
achievement of the liberals social engineering vision of society.
Government programs hailed as the solution to social problems. The
"unintended" consequences that followed have made the word "liberal" so
much of a political liability that almost no political candidate
desires that designation. Unfortunately these policies have returned
with the election of the parasite messiah Barack Obama. However this
time the professional parasite class created by these disastrous
practices is arrogantly DEMANDING what was once GIVEN as an act of
benevolence. And like the animals in a national park that were
foolishly fed by well meaning tourists, they are willing to attack and
use force to acquire their demands.
We must stop feeding these animals.
