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http://www.salon.com/2016/05/05/its_not_about_sexism_camille_paglia_on_trump_hillarys_restless_bitterness_and_the_end_of_the_elites/
"Trump has knocked the stilts out from the GOP establishment and crushed the pretensions of a battalion of political commentators on both the Left and Right. Portraying him as a vile racist, illiterate boob, or the end of civilization as we know it hasn’t worked because his growing supporters are genuinely motivated by rational concerns about border security and bad trade deals." Yeah, she comes from the Bernie Sanders left so always dusted in wacky dust, but she gets much right. More below the fold. Another Major Natural Gas Pipeline Project Bites The Dust | OilPrice.com
Brilliant. In a bid to accelerate the stampede of young people out of the state of New York, the state prevents a natural gas pipeline which would bring lower priced, clean natural gas to New York, and New England. Let them burn cake, is the progressives energy mantra. What's The Best Way To Reduce Poverty?
. . . and counterintuitively, reducing antipoverty programs reduces poverty as well. "What is the best way to reduce poverty in America? Anyone who follows the subject at all will immediately know the answer: the best way to reduce poverty in America is to reduce government "anti-poverty" programs. If that seems counter-intuitive to you, it can only be because you do not follow the subject at all. Those who follow the subject know that government "anti-poverty" programs are universally designed and structured to keep the beneficiaries in poverty, because the benefits encourage dependency and discourage work, and also do not count as "income." Keeping the poverty rate high is the first priority of the "anti-poverty" bureaucracies, who need large numbers of poor people to justify their staffs and their budgets. Call them the "Welfare Blob." The public got introduced to this subject by the mid-90s welfare reform enacted by the then-new Republican Congress and President Clinton. When Congress in 1996 instituted work requirements and time limits for basic welfare, many on the left predicted soaring poverty and disaster for the poor; but instead measured poverty (particularly among the key population of black children) immediately and rapidly declined." Read the whole thing! VIDEO: Jesse Watters Asks Socialism Supporters What Free Stuff They Want, Makes Them Look Ridiculous . . . selfish entitlement ensues! Thank to: Instapundit Just 37% of U.S. High School Seniors Prepared for College Math and Reading, Test Shows . . . with only a tiny fraction more than a third of students prepared for college. Can you imagine if airlines only achieved their primary goal one time out of three? How about medicine? What would happen if moving companies could only find the correct house in one out of three moves? But we should be fair, they only have 12 years to get this right. It's not like they have a lot of time . . . oh, wait! "Only 37% of American 12th-graders were academically prepared for college math and reading in 2015, a slight dip from two years earlier, according to test scores released Wednesday. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the “Nation’s Report Card,” said that share was down from an estimated 39% in math and 38% in reading in 2013. Educators and policy makers have long lamented that many seniors get diplomas even though they aren’t ready for college, careers or the military. Those who go to college often burn through financial aid or build debt while taking remedial classes that don’t earn credits toward a degree." But nearly 70% will enroll in college. Perhaps if the teachers spent more time instructing and less time instructing students to go to college the results would be better. COLLEGE ENROLLMENT AND WORK ACTIVITY OF 2014 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES The result for many of these students will be unaffordable debt used to complete high school. As Mamet said, if you are in a con and you don't know who's the mark . . . you're the mark. We are the mark, our children are the mark, the students are the mark, and it is the school administrators, teachers, and the college's which are running the con. Providing students with "courtesy" passing grades so they can graduate, benefits no one, well, except the schools, teachers, and administrators. They all have much easier jobs because of this "innovation" in education. The colleges also benefit, since they receive a huge cohort of uneducated students who will need to pay to be educated to the college level, and until that happens, they receive no credit for the courses. This means the college will receive tuition payments for even longer than they should expect. Until we take the government out of our school system, there will be no change in this outcome. Is it any wonder high school grads can't get a job! The smug style in American liberalism
Kyle Smith helps with some analysis. Liberals embrace the smug life Read Smith first, then if you need, go read the Vox piece. Smug is nearly always a result of living in an echo chamber, without countering opinion. This is a disaster for liberal, and is probably the reason they are unable to simply run the board on most elections. Obama's smug campaign in 2008 was backed up with indifference, dithering, incompetence, and failure. He reprised his smug campaign and was reelected in 2012. Stein's Law states, “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” This will stop once the electorate comes to the understanding that no matter how good the liberal positions sound, the implementation is bollocks. Read the Smith piece, it is worth your time. and Theocracy In 21st-century USA - Cafe Hayek
. . . but we all should, environmentalism, and progressivism are becoming a metastasizing evil religion, which can only end in something ugly, and deadly. Read more below the fold! LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat 2016 . . . with photos, and video! Lilek's is brilliant. How Americans fell for this tripe back in the 1960s-1970s is unfathomable, but it happened. Thanks to Ed Driscoll Instapundit JAMES LILEKS ON HOW TO MURDER A CITY Another city murdered by progressives. The shot: The chaser: The hangover: The solution:
Get rid of progressive government, reform the economic model to allow businesses to thrive. Small Business Should Be Priority Number One The Stockman, The Donald, The Noonan all in one place! |
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