Gulf focus shifts, but where is all the oil? — So-called eco-”disaster”??
Read full article at: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.1bf4b2bc655fe02115286da8f5c66478.541&show_article=1
Excerpts from the article:
“What we’re trying to figure out is where is all the oil at and what can we do about it.”
The figures speak for themselves. Before the cap went on, some 25,000 barrels of oil a day were being skimmed from the thickest part of the slick near the well site.
By the time tropical storm Bonnie arrived last week, the take was down to a pitiful 56 barrels, begging the question of what to do with the fleet of 800 skimmers, many of them run by disgruntled fishermen.
Allen said he was already looking at trying to redeploy the so-called Vessels of Opportunity in surveillance and testing programs and was meeting local leaders on Thursday to discuss options.
As to where all the oil that hasn’t been skimmed or burned off has gone, opinions vary: some experts say it has been broken down naturally by the elements and by microbes in the ocean, others fear it could be lingering undetected in underwater plumes.
Only weeks ago, the slick was an unstoppable force that couldn’t be prevented from swamping shorelines and slowly choking helpless pelicans, now the oil is an elusive enemy, one that has to be tracked down.”
Comment: Seems we’re now having a hard time finding the evil oil over vast tracts of the Gulf of Mexico, where the ocean itself and microbes in the ocean break down the oil patches naturally (read full article for explanation of this natural-cleaning process by the ocean). The REAL disaster is that the eco-radicals, the left media, and the liberal-socialist Obama administration used this alleged “disaster” as an excuse to put a Moratorium on all drilling in the Gulf, and Obama created yet another monstrous regulatory agency to now “regulate” the oil companies and the whole coastal region in the Gulf of Mexico. As Rom Emanuel said for the Obama administration, never waste a good “crisis”, meaning never waste an alleged crisis or government-created crisis to justify creating yet another government power-grabbing agency and regulations to strangle the free-market. The “disaster” of this oil spill is that radical-left Obama and his socialist cronies in Congress have used this “crisis” to now strangle oil production in the Gulf of Mexico, and push their psychotic eco-global-warming agenda and strangling cap-and-trade legislation on the American people.
Solution: Vote EVERY Democrat and moderate Republican in Congress out of office come November. Vote ONLY for true conservative Republicans or Libertarian candidates. Your freedom and the future of this blessed country are at stake.
Obama Coup Nears Completion — Only One Brick Left Before Free Society Crumbles
7/24/10 • Examiner
These are highly dangerous times. And the thing that multiplies the danger is that the regime knows it has lost favor with the public. As Obama’s approval ratings plummet, the desperation skyrockets. And desperate people, particularly the power-hungry . . .
Read full article at: http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/072619-2010-07-24-obama-coup-nears-completiononly-one-brick-left-before-free-society.htm
White House Backs Bill to Collect Employee Pay Information from Businesses — More Liberal-Fascist Legislation
07-23-2010 • CNS News
Massive government database to determine and set “fair” pay. The Obama administration is backing legislation that includes regulations requiring U.S. businesses to provide to the government data about employee pay as it relates to the sex, race and . . .
Read full article at: http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/072578-2010-07-23-white-house-backs-bill-to-collect-employee-pay-information-from.htm
Comment: Here’s another piece of liberal-fascist legislation from this wretched Obama administration. To call this administration fascist is precisely what it is. Like the fascist dictator Mussolini in Italy, Obama wants government to control every aspect of our personal lives and our once-free economy, including what businesses pay their employees. Seems he wants to push as much liberal-fascist legislation down the throats of Americans before he’s booted out of office in 2012. This man should be impeached, prosecuted for violating his oath of office to defend the Constitution of the United States, and deported to Cuba.
Cops Violently Attack Man Who Reported Son’s Suicide
07-20-2010 • Fox 5 Atlanta
“I left the garage, walked to the front door. One of the police officers came up behind me, grabbed my arm, and said, ‘You need to sit down.’ I jerked my arm away from him and said, ‘Don’t touch me.’ That’s all I said to the man, and he tackled me,”
Read full article at: http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/loganville-man-alleges-police-brutality-071610
Harvard Professor: ‘Exploit Gulf Disaster For Carbon Tax’
07-08-2010 • Prison Planet
Bilderberger Rogoff openly embraces nightmare scenario of hurricanes pushing oil onshore as a way of “exploiting tragedy” to create political momentum behind Obama’s dreaded green economy
Read full article at: http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/071543-2010-07-08-harvard-professor-exploit-gulf-disaster-for-carbon-tax.htm
Comment: Let’s examine this environmentalist’s fondest wish. We have an environmental disaster that is destroying the jobs and businesses of tens of thousands of Americans on the Gulf Coast and causing billions of dollars in damages. In response, this Harvard professor (Obama was also a Harvard professor) proposes that we use this disaster and human suffering as an “opportunity” to push for carbon taxes that will put the entire energy industry under the thumb of the Federal government, and sharply raise our electricity, heating oil, and gas prices. All in the name of a fraudulent fantasy called global warming.
There is something far more slimy than an oil spill. This slimy proposal to use the oil-spill disaster to push for more taxes and government controls reveals the radical-environmentalists’ REAL agenda — to use the concocted “global warming” or environmental disasters as an excuse and smokescreen to tighten the noose around the necks of our liberties, our free economy, and the American dream.
John Stossel — Much of ‘Going Green’ Is Pure Bunk
Wednesday, 26 May 2010 10:18 AM
I ride my bike to work. It seems so pure.
By: John Stossel
We’re constantly urged to “go green” — use less energy, shrink our carbon footprint, save the Earth. How? We should drive less, use ethanol, recycle plastic, and buy things with the government’s Energy Star label.
But what if much of going green is just bunk? Al Gore’s group, Repower America, claims we can replace all our dirty energy with clean, carbon-free renewables. Gore says we can do it within 10 years.
Read full article at: http://www.newsmax.com/Stossel/green-renewable-energy-carbon/2010/05/26/id/360160
Hurricane Katrina’s Silver Lining: The School Choice, Charter-School Revolution in New Orleans
Filed under: Public Schools Are Un-American, School Choice, Socialist Public Schools, Why Kids Can't Read, Why Public Schools Are Bad
Comment: Finally, one city has realized that the solution to giving our kids a great education is to GET RID OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, and make all schools CHARTER SCHOOLS. Get rid of government and union control of our kid’s education, permanently. Charter schools are almost the best solution for giving our kids the education they deserve. A totally free-market school system would be the best solution. But, turning ALL current public schools into Charter schools is the next-best solution. It seems that Hurricane Katrina did have a silver lining for the children of New Orleans. I congratulate the farsighted parents, educators, and education administration in New Orleans for finally understanding that government-controlled public schools are education poison for their children, and they had to get rid of them in favor of charter schools.
Choosing healthy foods now called a mental disorder
Mike Adams | If you focus on eating healthy foods, you’re “mentally diseased” and probably need some sort of chemical treatment involving powerful psychotropic drugs.
Read full article at: http://www.infowars.com/choosing-healthy-foods-now-called-a-mental-disorder/
Read also at Ukiah Blog: ”The Disease Mongering Fraud,” at http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ukiahcommunityblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/p.jpg&imgrefurl=http://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/the-disease-mongering-fraud/&usg=__XxI14lPpKpBsN2bPdOMJfvjJTXo=&h=356&w=400&sz=27&hl=en&start=9&itbs=1&tbnid=nacxjZY0SzhwJM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dinvented%2Bpsychiatric%2Bdiseases%26hl%3Den%26gbv%3D2%26tbs%3Disch:1
“CHILD ‘PROTECTIVE’ SERVICES DESTROYED MY FAMILY”
CHILD ‘PROTECTIVE’ SERVICES DESTROYED MY FAMILY
State and federally funded Child Protective Service agencies are seizing children from non-abusive homes in the absence of evidence or realistic cause to believe that the child is in danger of harm, and in gross violation of their own protocols, State and Federal regulations, and the Constitution of the United States. Children failed by the system have died while in the protective custody of the State, in the care of CPS and in foster care.
Each child in your family has a 1 in 25 chance of being the subject of a child abuse/neglect investigation this year. The chance of getting a flat tire on the family car is 1 in 70 (including Firestones).
Many children are taken from fit and loving parents solely based upon false allegations reported anonymously to a hotline, or as a result of a caseworker’s own personal judgment, or even by someone with a vendetta as in our case.
The State gains entry into private homes following the filing of a report of suspected child maltreatment. This report may be filed anonymously by anyone: a vindictive neighbor, a teacher, a day care provider, or an unstable busybody. You can lose your children from an anonymous phone call, with NO involvement from law enforcement, and NO charges of any wrong-doing. CPS controls the courtroom and employs the tactic of delay and “hide the ball” to keep families separated. This can go on for months and even years while children are separated from their families.
Actual acts of child abuse or severe neglect are not the primary allegations used to seize children from their families, meaning deliberate acts, willfully committed with the intent to harm – contrary to public assumption. CPS employs a method known as the “Clinical Model”, in which the behaviors of the child are used to claim that there is some sort of obscure psychological abuse in the home that has traumatized the child.
“Child protection is one of the biggest businesses in the country. We spend $12 billion a year on it. The money goes to tens of thousands of state employees, collateral professionals such as lawyers, court personnel, court investigators, evaluators and guardians, judges, and CPS contracted vendors such as counselors, therapists, more evaluators, junk psychologists, residential facilities, foster parents, adoptive parents, MSPCC, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, YMCA, etc.”
Nev Moore, Founder of Justice for Families.
Service providers, called vendors, hold multi-million dollar contracts with CPS. Families are ordered to engage in “services” with these contracted vendors, all of whom bill Medicaid at enormously inflated rates for “services” that are often inappropriate, unnecessary, and completely irrelevant to the families situation, or to child maltreatment.
Behind the money is the socialist ideology that children should be raised by the state. This agenda was promoted by Dr. C. Henry Kempe (author of the Battered Child Syndrome) in the 1970’s. An open supporter of the Communist party, he stated “We must remove children from the crude influence of their families and, frankly, nationalize them.” Dr. Kempe emphasized the need for a “stealthy, incremental approach” to implementing the agenda to make families obsolete.
Families are coerced into participating by intimidation and the threat of losing their children. In return for fraudulently collected profits, the contracted vendors provide manufactured “evidence” of child maltreatment to support the claim that they need to keep the child in foster care. In return for this they receive more federal funding. Now this is truly job security.
Nothing in our life experience is more devastating than the abrupt, brutal, and unwarranted forced separation by strangers. The parent-child bond is our strongest instinct, superceding all else. To have this bond severed by state agents who possess unhindered power, and give no thought or consideration to the fear, anxiety, and trauma that their actions cause, is a crime against humanity. This is happening to 4,600 children per day, right here in the United States of America.
The law states that a child can only be removed from their home as a last resort, and only when the child is at imminent risk of serious harm, but CPS does not follow established law and policy, and nobody makes them.
I home schooled 7 children and raised them in the Christian faith. My middle daughter Bijou—who calls herself Jewel, (then 19 years old) walked across the street in January 2006 and told neighbors Carol Evans and Carrie Roper that she was sexually molested with power tools, beaten with crow bars and burned alive. This all supposedly took place between the ages of 8 to 16 years. Never mind that there is no physical evidence of any of this (because it never happened). Not one of these neighbors bothered to come to my door to ask me if these things were true. My husband was arrested but subsequently released on bond.
The ‘protective’ order drafted by Jewel disarmed us for 2 years. We live out in the country where predators threaten our livestock. None of us has ever pointed a gun at a human being, yet, Jewel “dreamed” that her father pointed a shotgun at the family and told them to get on the floor or he would kill us all. Jewel later mentioned that the dream seemed “so real”. Yes, it was real enough to make sure we wouldn’t even be allowed to have ONE bullet in the home without fear of arrest.
My 2 youngest children (Beaujolais and Colette) were taken away from me without a warrant. CPS actors MariJo Shearin and Lisa Moore just walked in…and took them—NOTHING was done to keep them in the home. REMOVAL was the first and only choice of CPS. The law states that a child can only be removed from their home as a LAST resort, and only when the child is at imminent risk of serious harm. Removal of my two daughters, non-abused children, from their home was perceived by them to be an act of emotional and psychological terrorism. CPS does not follow established law and policy. They face no consequences for their illegal behavior. Law enforcement routinely submits to the whims of social workers as they did in our case when Caldwell County officials David Brent and Ms. Amaya accompanied CPS into the home and told everyone to get out of the house so CPS could “interview” me alone.
Normal, innocent people do not tend to be suspicious and defensive, so they usually cooperate when social workers knock on their door. This mother offered no resistance, foolishly believing that truth and justice would prevail and that we had done nothing illegal and therefore had nothing to hide. Citizens should NOT be removed from their homes and family members based on nothing more than hearsay.
Federal statistics say that there are approximately 3 million reports of suspected child abuse and neglect each year. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services documents 900,000 as “substantiated”, leaving over 2 million families per year FALSELY ACCUSED. Of the “substantiated” cases, 68% do NOT involve child maltreatment, according to the federal authorities. This figure is escalating at an alarming rate each year as over zealous reporting and frivolous intervention by CPS spins out of control.
Here in Texas, we have a similar rate of unsubstantiated cases of child abuse. “In 76.4 percent of investigations, investigative caseworkers either rule out abuse or neglect, or are unable to determine whether it occurred.” (Protecting Texas Children, Health and Human Services Commission, CPS Reform Recommendations 1.5 Screen Out Unnecessary Investigations…page 22 January 6, 2005)
The case dragged on with Jewel feeding CPS all kinds of lies…and they believed her. I asked her HOW did she come up with these horrifying events that she told the authorities about. She responded that she did research on the internet and read case histories of sexual abuse. Then she said she “fantasized about it” to “make it more real…more believable”. Well, her lies, fantasies and dreams destroyed our lives. And she has been rewarded for it as well. She is going to school to become a social worker so she can join the ranks of CPS and “save abused children”: her words, not mine.
Jewel even perjured herself multiple times during our trial but there were NO consequences. At least they arrested Rozita Swinton for making false calls that resulted in the FLDS raid in April 2008. There were also NO consequences when Jewel failed to show up for the final day of our trial, even though she was under a subpoena. A legal system that tolerates perjury and the subornation of perjury can NOT produce justice.
Judges should not blindly go along with CPS and allow them to control court process, but fulfill their judicial canons by insisting that due process is followed, laws adhered to, and that procedural error is not tolerated. Parents are subjected to a highly irregular “civil” proceeding that makes a complete mockery of our judicial system. They are often told they may not speak or present exculpatory evidence as we tried to at the June 21, 2006 hearing regarding anonymous e-mails sent to our CPS caseworker Kristin Thompson.
The case degenerated into an exercise in character assassination and slander by neighbors who we have never met. Actual acts of child abuse or neglect that place the child at “imminent risk of serious harm” were not even discussed. Vague, obscure, and distorted allegations about our personalities and hearsay comprised the bulk of the “evidence”, including our “being in denial” and “anger problems”.
Our family was put under a powerful, and distorted, microscope. Social workers asked bizarre and invasive questions. We were asked whether or not we had “explosives and missile launchers”, whether I intended to “run the pick up truck thru the public school, kidnap my daughters and take them to New Mexico and drink poisoned Kool-Aid and commit suicide”. One neighbor that we’ve never met, Barbara Huff, even wrote on a police statement that I come from a long line of devil worshippers. Perhaps this is why I was asked by the prosecuting attorney for CPS during the trial on the merits in June 2007, “did you ever drink blood?” I’d laugh my head off if this weren’t so serious…but unfortunately TRUE!
Under the CPS microscope every word, inflection, and action is attributed with the most bizarre and outlandish “meanings.” If you have ever bounced a check, you have a “criminal record”; if your child is shy, they are “fearful and withdrawn”; if they are outgoing and active, they are “acting out due to the trauma.”
Do the parents ever argue? Do they ever raise their voices? This is then documented as “domestic violence.” The majority of the funding for domestic violence programs is channeled through CPS so this was no revelation to us. If parents deny domestic abuse or child abuse, they are told that they are “in denial”, and this is all “part of the syndrome.” Admitting – confessing – is one of the requirements. Truth and reality are not important. Saying the right things to keep federal funding flowing, is.
Federal law gives CPS 15 months to seek Termination of Parental Rights and have the child adopted out (and collect hefty adoption incentive bonuses—did we mention the money?) So, children are being put up for adoption based on the timeline, even when parents have not had a chance to answer the initial allegations, and in the absence of any evidence or charges that they have harmed their child. Social workers routinely perjure themselves under oath without ever facing any penalties or admonishment.
Meanwhile, children who have been removed from their grieving families are placed in state contracted foster homes and institutions which receive federal benefits. Residentials and other institutions hold multi-million dollar contracts with the social service agencies. Children are drugged, restrained, put in straight-jackets, some are sexually, physically, and emotionally abused. In Texas, 12,000 foster youth received psychotropic drugs in 2004. Each child averaged 21 psychotropic drug prescriptions a year. ALL are tormented by a system out of control.
One of my daughters CPS took from me “aged out” and returned home in April 2007. At one minute after midnight on her 18th birthday, she was driven by her Attorney Ad Litem Karen Langsley, to the parking lot of a grocery store where we gratefully received her back into our arms. No one from CPS came out to our house to make sure it was “safe” for her to return. The day before she turned 18, she wasn’t even allowed to receive a phone call from us. The day after she turned 18, none of them cared. They don’t care because the Federal funding ceased when Colette turned 18. Her 16 year old sister Beau is not allowed to receive or make phone calls to us either. I am “allowed” a one hour a week, heavily supervised (by CPS) visit. She is not allowed contact with her brothers and sisters at all with the exception of Colette (the sister who was abducted along with her back in January 2006 and returned home to us recently).
If social workers “care” so much for children, I have 2 questions for them:
1. Would you work without pay and sacrifice for the child? I did. No one paid me to be a mother, to carry the child for 9 months under my heart, to be there many sleepless nights when they had teething pain or were sick, prayed for them, taught them right from wrong, fed them, clothed them, educated them, gave up my time, and put off buying things for myself because I always put them first, just to name a few things that come to mind.
2. If a life-or- death situation arose, would you give your life for the child? I would. No questions asked.
Which of us REALLY has the “best interests of the child” at heart: parents or Social Services?
The financial incentives for shredding families, warehousing children until the barriers to adoption (parents) can be eliminated and children adopted out, are lucrative. CPS is part of a $14. billion dollar a year, tax payer fueled, child abuse industrial complex which provides jobs for caseworkers, judges, lawyers, bailiffs, various court personnel, psychotherapists, foster homes, pharmaceutical vendors and a host of others.
This is a HUGE growth industry that provides private profit through Medicaid. Service providers (vendors) hold multi-million dollar contracts with the social service agencies. Families are ordered to engage in “services” with the contracted vendors, all of whom bill Medicaid at inflated rates for “services” that are often inappropriate, unnecessary, onerous, and completely irrelevant (not to mention unconstitutional) to the families situation, or to child maltreatment.
This writer is 57 years old and has been married to the same man (the biological father of our 7 children) for 32 years. I am a registered nurse, do not drink, smoke, never did drugs, don’t even have a traffic ticket. I have never abused my children nor has my husband sexually molested any of my children. My husband has worked for the State of Texas since 1979. WHY is this happening to us?
Do you, dear reader, have any idea WHAT it feels like to have a child taken away for NO reason? Can you imagine the pain and anguish that comes in unrelenting waves as you try to figure out why this is happening? How would you like to be falsely accused of child abuse with your name smeared all over public records for horrific events that NEVER OCCURRED? What would it feel like to have your reputation destroyed? How would you like it if neighbors driving by your house slowed down and stared…and took pictures of your house? And every time you walk in the gas station or the feed store where the ranchers gather for coffee, they suddenly stop talking and stare at you? Did it ever occur to any of you to come to my door and ASK me if these things were true? Or was it more fun to gossip and believe the madness because it’s more exciting than reality? Now, we’re just collateral damage in the war against children, just another family chewed up and spit out by the State.
Families are coerced into participating by intimidation and the threat of losing their children. In return for these fraudulently collected profits, the contracted vendors provide manufactured “evidence” of child maltreatment to support CPS claims that they need to keep the child in foster care. In return for this they receive more federal funding. Now this is truly job security.
On May 21, 2007 the CPS trial on the merits began in the Caldwell County Judicial Center in Lockhart, Texas with Associate Judge Karin Bonicoro presiding. It consisted of 6 days of persecution and mockery of my lifestyle and personal beliefs and made a complete travesty of our judicial system. Their “evidence” consisted of hearsay and e-mails allegedly authored by Jewel. Constitutional violations were rampant throughout this ordeal.
The Guardian Ad Litem, Phillip Wilson, testified that it wasn’t “safe” for my daughter to return home “(even if the father were removed)” because she would “suffer thru abuse rather than report it”—“even if she continued going to public school because when she got back home, her mother would deprogram her.” WHAT abuse? “DEPROGRAM”? Does CPS normally “deprogram” it’s victims by telling them—as they told my daughters– “your mother doesn’t love you”, “she abandoned you”, “your mother chose her husband over you”, “it’s all because of your parents that you are here in this emergency shelter now”, “your parents aren’t cooperating, it’s not our fault you are here”, “why don’t you pray to your God—see if He will answer your prayers and get you out of this place.” Your tax dollars at work. . .
Harvard psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce stated that “Every child in America entering school at the age of 5 is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It’s up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well by creating the international child of the future.” I guess the State of Texas and the public schools are just “making my sick daughter well”.
We USED to be Christian home schoolers. Evidently, the State of Texas has a resocialization program underway to destroy my daughter’s belief system since it’s a crime to be a Christian and to home school. It is socialist ideology that children should be raised by the State. Dr. C. Henry Kempe, author of the Battered Child Syndrome and an open supporter of the Communist party stated: “We must remove children from the crude influence of their families and, frankly, nationalize them.”
Home School Legal Defense Association was not able to represent us in court because we were hailed before the Judge because of allegations of sexual abuse, not home schooling. Warning Dads: put your porn magazines away. Possession of a porn magazine by a so called “Christian” father—my husband, was the reason Jewel flipped out in the first place as she wanted to “teach” her Dad a lesson and “bring him to repentance” for his porn magazine.
On June 26, 2007, after 6 days of “trial”, I was adjudicated as an unfit mother in spite of NO evidence of abuse and with the civil court’s full knowledge that “the criminal charges against my husband (which were fabricated by Jewel) would be dismissed any day now because of lack of evidence”. Indeed, criminal charges WERE conveniently dismissed June 28, 2007–2 days AFTER CPS court rendered their decision. This is CYA (cover your afterburner) in operation.
SOMEBODY in this universe needs to investigate the corruption going on in CPS.
Beau will remain in permanent managing conservatorship of the State and continue to reside in foster care against her will and despite her telling the judge, Guardian Ad Litem and all the rest of these people–on multiple occasions since her wrongful abduction by State actors known as CPS on January 11, 2006, –that she was never abused and just wants to return home. It doesn’t matter how many times you tell CPS there was no abuse, they just tell you that you are in “denial” and “not cooperating”. Children should NOT be held as indentured servants or held in thrall to others for acts they have not committed.
My daughter in CPS custody (Beau) has not been allowed to see her brothers and sisters since their visits were cut off during a court hearing in February 2007. Before that, they were allowed a one hour a week visit. No phone calls were ever permitted and still are not to this day. We tried to get permission to have some phone contact with her but the Judge denied it again as recently as August 1, 2007. The reason the siblings’ visits were cut off was that the CPS caseworker told the court that 2 of the siblings were passing notes to my daughter. Yes, my son passed her a $20. Federal Reserve note because she needed money to buy school supplies and clothes for school. Evidently, Caldwell County doesn’t have enough money to buy what she needs. When we home schooled, there was always food, clothes and supplies for the children.
My husband is not allowed to have a visit with Beau because he refuses to take sex offender therapy. He refuses to take it because he is not a sex offender. In retaliation for not cooperating with the court, the Judge is punishing him by cutting off his visits. CPS has gone above and beyond to punish us. The weekly one hour visit is held at CiCi’s Pizza, a highly public area next to the Army, Navy and Air Force Recruiting Stations. Apparently, the Judge thinks that my husband may leap over the pepperonis and molest our daughter, with a CPS agent sitting right next to us and 3 branches of America’s finest next door. He is however, allowed to be around my 15 year old grandson (same age as my daughter). The only difference between them is…my grandson was not incarcerated by CPS and pimped out to obtain federal funds.
After our trial, Judge Bonicoro said that “REGARDLESS of the outcome of the criminal case, my husband has to take sex offender therapy” and Beau can’t come back home unless recommended by THEIR CPS contracted, bought and paid for, psychologist, Dr. Matthew Ferrara. We tried to offer another expert opinion (Dr. John Watterson) to testify that it was safe for her to come home, but the Judge practically RAN him out of the court room. They don’t want to hear anything that doesn’t agree with their paradigm. They certainly aren’t interested in the truth. Citizens should NOT be censured by public officials for crimes they have not committed.
I’d like to know how Caldwell County even GOT an indictment in the first place. All the so called “evidence” is whatever my daughter told them. There is no physical evidence of “sexual molesting with power tools, beatings with crowbars and burning in the fireplace”…. BECAUSE IT NEVER HAPPENED. My husband’s criminal lawyer told us the “grand jury rubber stamps indictments presented to them by the District Attorney”. Maybe that’s why this D.A. (Chris Schneider) was voted out of office and replaced in January 2007 by Trey Hicks. This former D.A. indicted several people during the same time span (that my husband was indicted) that also never should have been indicted. One particular, well known individual that comes to mind, put an ad in the Luling Newsboy newspaper apprising the people of Caldwell County that his charges were dropped by the D.A.’s office.
My husband and I took all the court ordered parenting classes required by the State of Texas and attended weekly psychotherapy sessions thru CPS contracted vendors. These sessions consist of nothing more than coercive persuasion designed to interrogate, break down your will and cause you to believe the unbelievable. In the end, it’s all for nothing. CPS tells you that you’re “in denial” and being “uncooperative”. It feels more like Nazi Germany and the Soviet gulags every day.
Think I’m being too harsh comparing CPS to Nazis? Homeschooling was a basis for child endangerment charges under Hitler. The German High Court (Hamburg) ruled in 1936 that “Custody rights shall be terminated for parents who, as fanatical Bible students, cannot rear their children in accordance with today’s State and because this endangers the mental wellbeing of the children, who are thereby prevented from participating in the national community.”
CPS routinely employs unconstitutional actions, fraud, extortion, deceit, kidnapping, and conspiracy in an ongoing criminal enterprise designed to cheat the public and destroy families of the United States of America for profit, for agrandizement and to delude the public into thinking their actions are for the general welfare of this nation. Unconstitutional summary judicial proceedings designed to perpetrate for-profit crimes against humanity, family dismemberment and human trafficking, and to defraud the Federal Government for Social Services Agency operational funds have been perpetrated upon many families in America.
Child Protective Services, in taking children who do not meet the statutory definition of abuse or neglect from loving homes is creating more throwaway children than they are legitimately saving. CPS actors merely decide that children are “at risk” and that abuse or neglect may occur in the FUTURE. These are POLICE STATE TACTICS that are routinely deployed against citizens of totalitarian regimes. What happened to due process? What happened to the Constitution of the United States of America? Where is the Bill of Rights? Dismembering families and creating artificial orphans by means of fraud and/or deceptive trade practices is NOT legitimate government business.
CPS engages in for-profit crimes against humanity consequent to the unlawful dismemberment of families to create human trafficking victims from which the County earns Federal funds with which to fund it’s operations. The exploitation of men, women and children for financial gain is the definition of human trafficking, which the U.S. Secretary of State Condolleza Rice states is a modern day form of slavery. http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/global_issues/human_trafficking.html
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, in Fiscal 2003, 30 foster children died in our state’s care; in Fiscal 2004, 38 foster children died; and in Fiscal 2005, 48 foster children died. Data shows that while the number of foster children in our state’s care increased 24 percent from 26,133 in Fiscal 2003 to 32,474 in Fiscal 2005, the number of deaths increased 60 percent.
Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn Statement On Foster Care Abuse given Friday, June 23, 2006 in Austin, Texas
DFPS statistics themselves underscore the fact that my 16 year old daughter is in FAR GREATER DANGER in the custody of CPS than she is in the care of her falsely accused biological parents. The State of California published the following statement: called the “perverse incentive factor,” States and counties earn more revenue by having more children in the system – whether it is opening a case to investigate a report of child abuse and neglect or placing a child in foster care.” Facts-at-a-Glance, Child Welfare in California, 09-09-2003 www.dss.cahwnet.gov/pdf/facts.pdf
At the end of FY 2003, Texas DFPS had legal responsibility for 22,346 children. Of that total, 15,414 children resided in foster care. In the same time period, there were 6,932 children in the Department’s legal custody who were not residing in foster care. Texas, as does California, PROFITS FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKING, which is a deplorable manner by which to fund County operations.
Some statistics from the State and County where I live:
In FY 2003, CPS conducted 131,130 investigations of abuse and/or neglect in Texas and confirmed abuse and/or neglect in 32,792 cases. In FY 2004, the number of child abuse and/or neglect investigations is expected to increase by 10 percent over FY 2003. In FY 2005, the percentage is expected to increase by four percent over FY 2004. http://www.hhs.state.tx.us/StrategicPlans/HHS05-09/final/pdf/Chapter08.pdf
In 2005, the child population in Caldwell County was 10, 258. There were 510 intakes alleging abuse/neglect, 448 cases were assigned to CPS caseworkers, 329 completed cases alleging abuse/neglect, 539 alleged victims in completed cases, 101 confirmed cases, 153 confirmed victims, and 131 cases opened for in home services. (Source: The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services) www.capco.state.tx.us/Documents/inthenews/Caldwell_County_Community_Plan.pdf
CALDWELL COUNTY FY 2007 – 2008 COMMUNITY PLAN FOR COORDINATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
In 2006, the number of child sexual abuse clients served at Roxanne’s House (a program of the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center) was 73. 30 were from Lockhart, 17 from Luling, 4 from Maxwell, 5 from Martindale and 17 from other Caldwell County areas. 26% of the child abuse clients served at Roxanne’s House were from Caldwell County in that year. (Source: Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center 2006 Annual Report). www.capco.state.tx.us/Documents/inthenews/Caldwell_County_Community_Plan.pdf
CALDWELL COUNTY FY 2007 – 2008 COMMUNITY PLAN FOR COORDINATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
Two of my daughters are statistics in the 2006 report. NEITHER were EVER abused in any way, shape or fashion until they were abducted by the State of Texas. This was emotional TERRORISM and TORTURE of the highest magnitude, conducted under the pretense of keeping my daughters “safe” from imaginary “risk”.
It’s all about the money. And there’s no money in family reunification and returning my daughter home. We appealed the lower court’s decision and on Thursday, May 8, 2008, the Third Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas handed down it’s decision affirming the lower court’s injustice to us due to a technicality—we didn’t have a trial transcript. Obtaining one, at a cost of $50. per hour and $5. a page to transcribe will run approximately $14,000. How much “justice” can YOU afford? WE LOST OUR APPEAL.
For information about CPS, drugging foster children for profit, and the social engineering of our nation’s children, please check out my site at: http://texasroadrunner.spaces.live.com/
Citizens should NOT be more afraid of social workers than they are of criminals. To this end, I have uploaded several thousand documents in PDF format for your edification and enlightenment in the Public Folders section of my site (scroll down to the bottom of the page and you’ll see them).
My CPS horror story can also be read on MySpace at: http://www.myspace.com/texasroadrunner
Knowledge is power. Empower yourself so you don’t become the next victim of America’s SS (social services).
Thank you for your time,
Carmen Rodriguez B.S.N., R.N.
Nev Moore, Founder of Justice for Families.
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Mother Charged for Saving Baby
June 29, 2006
Doctors diagnosed baby Riley with a kidney problem requiring surgery to facilitate dialysis. The doctors concede that the baby was not in immediate danger of death, but there is not enough information in newspaper articles to ascertain whether the condition was one that could be treated alternatively by changes in diet.
To force the treatment against the mother’s wishes, Washington state child protectors took legal custody of Riley on June 9. In an effort to stave off her child’s surgery, the mother, Tina Carlsen, snuck him out of the hospital on June 22 and the pair became the subject of an Amber alert. Police found them the next day and sent Riley back to the hospital and Tina to jail.
This case differs from most of the forced treatment stories that get into the press, because the child was not faced with immediate harm without the treatment. The press continues to ignore the fact that the commonplace use of involuntary treatment is to compel parents to give their children psychotropic drugs.
The mother’s supporters have established a well-designed website Help baby Riley.
Rush Limbaugh — Another Outrage From The Public-School System
Filed under: Americans Finally Waking Up, Education News, Public School Excuses, Rush Limbaugh
Obama Issues Executive Order Mandating “Lifestyle Behavior Modification” For All Americans
Nanny State Liberation Front | Obama’s approximately 25-member “Advisory Group” will soon be present in every aspect of Americans’ lives.
Read full article at: http://www.infowars.com/obama-issues-executive-order-mandating-lifestyle-behavior-modification/
Solution: Vote out EVERY Democrat and liberal Republican come November. Only Congress can stop and repudiate Comrade Obama’s latest assault on your liberty. We see that Obama wants a totalitarian nanny state, and has utter contempt for your liberty and individual rights.
Food Stamp Rolls Increase 23.7 Percent in Last Year: What Recovery Obama?
06-08-2010 • Businessinsider.com/
Right now, everyone is focused on unemployment as the lead indicator of the U.S. economic demise. But the real concern isn’t unemployment, it is the other benefit schemes blowing up as a result of more people needing government assistance.
Read full article at: http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/069948-2010-06-08-food-stamp-rolls-increase-23-7-percent-in-last-year.htm
Study: Normal, Healthy Children Outgrow Socialism
by Tim Slagle, at BigGovernment.com
Read full article at: http://biggovernment.com/tslagle/2010/05/29/study-normal-health-children-outgrow-socialism/#more-126242
For a full, scathing explanation of why Socialism is a mental aberration, read the book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness,” by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr.
Elderly Chicago man saves family, self with ‘illegal’ handgun — Gun-control Laws Deny Americans The Right To Protect Themselves From Criminals
05-28-2010 • St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner
An 80-year-old Korean War veteran in Chicago faced an armed home invader, whose first reaction upon seeing the homeowner was to fire two shots at him. Fortunately, both missed. Also fortunately, his was not the only gun on the scene.
Read full article at: http://www.examiner.com/x-2581-St-Louis-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2010m5d27-Elderly-Chicago-man-saves–family-self-with-illegal-handgun
After bailing out Greece and now the euro, Germany is fed up with being Europe’s paymaster
‘Mummy’ Merkel battered as Germans lose faith in EU
05-17-2010 • Times Online
After bailing out Greece and now the euro, Germany is fed up with being Europe’s paymaster
Read full article at: http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/068956-2010-05-17-mummy-merkel-battered-as-germans-lose-faith-in-eu.htm
Comment: What a shock. Seems that German taxpayers are getting a little annoyed at having to bail out the rest of Europe. Even worse, American taxpayers are helping to bail out the Greek welfare state. YOUR tax dollars at work, thanks to Obama and the Federal Reserve.
Solution: Come November, vote out EVERY Democrat and liberal Republican in Congress. The socialists in Congress, and the Fed, won’t stop looting your hard-earned tax dollars until we get a Senate and House of Rep. majority that respects the Constitution and the money you earn.
Rep. Michele Bachmann — We Now Have A Total Gangster Government
Filed under: Americans Finally Waking Up, Land Of The Free?, Public Schools, Taxed To Death
Michelle Bachmann — According To Liberal-Socialist Democrats, Free Speech That Defends The Constitution Equals “Hate” Speech
If liberal-socialists in Congress (both Democrats and so-called “moderate” Republicans) are so offended by the “restrictions” of the Constitution and being called socialists, I suggest they run for office in Communist Cuba, where they would be welcomed with open arms. Perhaps they would appreciate the Cuban dictatorship’s “constitution,” with its “strong” protection of free speech and other human rights. Also, in Communist Cuba, the government owns or controls the media, so our liberal-socialist congressmen would be free from “hate speech” criticism. One suggestion for liberal-socialist congressmen who migrate to Cuba — don’t get sick, or you will personally experience the wonders of Cuban socialized medicine. Hopefully one of the Cuban doctors will give you an appointment within six months, and put you on their “list” to get your heart operation, in another six months.
You Have No Right to Violate My Rights — There Is No “Right” To Healthcare
All the problems related to medical care can be traced to a revised and perverse new definition of human rights. No slogan or idea has been used with greater detriment and influence than implying that there is a right to ‘free’ healthcare. A so-called “right” that requires you to steal my money to pay for your alleged “right” to housing, healthcare, education, etc., necessarily violates MY right to keep my hard-earned money. Such an alleged “right” is no different than a mugger’s claim that he has a “right” to your money because he is “poor,” and wants your money.
See full article at: http://www.prisonplanet.com/you-have-no-right-to-violate-my-rights.html
Income has fallen 3.2% since Obama took office
Washington Times | “Under President Obama, only federal spending is going up; jobs, business startups, and incomes are all down.”
See full article at: http://www.infowars.com/income-has-fallen-3-2-since-obama-took-office/
Comment: It’s going to get a lot worse under Obama. All socialists-marxists rulers wreck the economy they rule, and the standard of living of its people. That’s why the communist Soviet bloc collapsed, and why the people of Cuba are living in a time-warp in the 1950s, with a miserable standard of living. Do you want a miserable life for yourself and your children? Keep voting Democrats into office.
Solution: Vote EVERY Democrat and liberal-Republican out of office come November
Obama and His Marxist Cronies in Congress — The Constitution Is An Obstacle To Socialist America, So Just Ignore It
“Thomas Jefferson is rolling over in his grave.”
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
April 12, 2010
Article VI, clause 3 of the United States Constitution states the following:
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution.
Newly elected members of the House and Senate must recite the following oath:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
It is difficult, however, to support and defend something you do not understand. Consider the following video. It was posted on YouTube today and shows the response of a Republican congressman allegedly representing the 2nd district of New Jersey after he is asked about the Constitution:
See full article at: http://www.infowars.com/bush-was-right-the-constitution-is-just-a-g-d-piece-of-paper/
This Congressman, like MOST liberal-Democrats and liberal-Republican Congressmen and Senators, is obviously ignorant of the Constitution. These elected representatives who work for you and me, violate their oath to defend the Constitution every day with their votes for Obamacare, Environmental regulations, Cap and Spend laws, and thousands of other laws that violate the Constitution. These ignorant Congressman and Senators, if they told their employer in a private job, that they didn’t know the basic knowledge to do their job, would be FIRED. These ignorant representatives whose salaries you pay with YOUR taxes, need to be FIRED come November.
I think all Congressmen and Senators, as a requirement to hold office, should be continually tested to find out if they know every Article and Amendment to the Constitution. If they do not, they should be summarily FIRED. If they DO know the Constitution, and deliberately violate the Constitution with their votes, they should be prosecuted for violating their oaths to DEFEND the Constitution, because they have violated their terms of employment, and their duty to protect our fundamental rights.
Solution: Vote EVERY Democrat and liberal Republican out of office come November.
Judge Andrew Napolitano on Government and Your God-Given Rights
Links To Great Websites For Parents
* Legally Kidnapped Blog — http://www.legallykidnapped.blogspot.com/ — Great blog with lots of articles and resources about the abuses of Child Protective Service agencies around the country
* Home School Legal Defense Association —http://www.hslda.org — Excellent organization that provides homeschooling information and legal help to homeschooling parents being harrassed by local school authorities
The Eco-Fascists Are At It Again
Top Eco-Fascist Calls For End Of Freedom To Fight “Global Warming”
A renowned environmentalist, known for his avocation of population reduction as a means of offsetting climate change, has called for “a more authoritative world” where freedom comes second to tackling ‘global warming.’
Comment: Doesn’t matter that Climategate exposed the eco-freaks for the frauds they are about so-called global warming, these eco-freaks want world eco-dictatorship (”. . .put democracy on hold . . .”). That’s what they’ve always wanted, and the global warming fraud has always been their Trojan Horse to bring about their collectivist, eco-fascist paradise on Earth.
Read complete article at: http://www.infowars.com/top-eco-fascist-calls-for-end-of-freedom-to-fight-global-warming/
ObamaCare Day One — Companies are already warning about higher health-care costs
 ObamaCare Day One: Companies are already warning about higher health-care costs.03/25/2010 • The Wall Street Journal, online.wsj.com Democrats dragged themselves over the health-care finish line in part by repeating that voters would like the plan once it passed. Let’s see what they think when they learn their insurance costs will jump right away. Even before President Obama sig  |
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Read full article at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703312504575141642402986422.html
Businesses React to Rising Cost of ObamaCare —They’re Cutting Benefits
Filed under: Americans Finally Waking Up, Land Of The Free?, Obama -- Radical Socialist, Public Schools
If you were dumb enough to vote for Obama — watch what happens to your job, your standard of living, and the higher taxes you’ll be paying. It never pays to vote for a Marxist, no matter how bad Bush was.
Read full article at: http://tinyurl.com/ya4gznj
Medical Companies: Taxes In Healthcare Bill Will Kill Jobs, Businesses
One of the key selling points of the Obamacare health bill for the Democratic leadership was that it would provide tax breaks and credits for businesses to cover the cost of insurance for their employees. The Washington elite were somewhat less vocal, however, about huge tax increases that some companies now say may wipe them out altogether.
See full article at: http://www.prisonplanet.com/medical-companies-taxes-in-healthcare-bill-will-kill-jobs-businesses.html
Here Comes The First of Many New Taxes To Pay For The Marxist Obamacare
Filed under: Land Of The Free?, Obama -- Radical Socialist, Public Schools, Socialized Medicine -- Death Lists
Pelosi Confirms New Medicare Tax on ‘Unearned Income, Whatever Category That Is’
As expected from the socialist/fascist Democrats in Congress, here comes the first of many new taxes to pay for the Marxist Obamacare. This will be the first of many new taxes on individuals, small businesses, corporations, any one or any business that can fog a mirror.
Read full article at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/63036
Pelosi — We have to pass the health care bill so that you can find out what is in it!”
Translation — “Imbecile Americans, just sign this contract for the used car I’m selling you, then I’ll tell you what’s in the contract. Don’t bother reading the 2000-page bill that will wipe out your health-care freedom. We’ll ram the bill down your throats, then you’ll see what we’ve done to you.”
Does socialist Pelosi belong in the US Congress or on the unemployment line, come this Nov. elections?
Michael Savage Calls for Michelle Bachmann Presidency Ticket — She’s a True Conservative Woman
News Busted
Judge Andrew Napolitano — Your Liberty vs. the Patriot Act
The Census Is Getting Personal — and Unconstitutional?
Filed under: Americans Finally Waking Up, Land Of The Free?, Public Schools
Bachmann Rails Against Census On Beck
Obama’s Marxist Economics
Quote from Julie Pace, Associated Press Writer, On Monday March 8, 2010, 11:45 am
GLENSIDE, Pa. (AP) — President Barack Obama accused insurance companies of placing profits over people and said Republicans ignored long-festering problems when they held power as he sought to build support Monday for swift passage of legislation stalled in Congress.
“How much higher do premiums have to rise before we do something about it?” said Obama, making the first in an expected string of out-of-town trips to pitch his plan to remake the health care system.
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My translation of Obama’s statement:
These statements by Obama show his utter Marxist mentality. The insurance companies are PRIVATE companies who are in business to MAKE PROFITS. Just like any business, if insurance companies don’t make profits, they go BANKRUPT. So if Obama required the insurance companies to make little or no profits, they would soon be out of business. Every American who wants health insurance would then face the Obama-created alternative of NO health-care insurance companies to choose from (they could all go bankrupt if their profits were strangled), or government-controlled health insurance (socialized medicine).
It looks like marxist Obama would love to see the health insurance companies go bankrupt so he could then impose a fascist health-care system called Socialized Medicine on the American people, like they have in England and Canada. By the way, in the socialized-medicine paradises in England and Canada, they have long waiting lists to get treatment for life-threatening diseases, call ‘death lists.’ That’s right, many people DIE in England and Canada waiting six months or more for a heart operation or cancer treatment because the socialized-medicine system in these countries are overburdened, understaffed, lack the money for expensive surgery, or because of general government-bureaucratic incomeptence.
But it looks like marxist Obama would love to force every American into our very own socialized-medicine paradise by strangling the private insurance companies. Obama is ’shocked’ that private insurance companies demand the right to make profits from their private business, that they put ‘profits over people’. Only a blithering socialist whose main work experience was being a ‘community organizer’ and law professor, could condemn a for-profit private company for daring to want to make profits.
Perhaps marxist Obama might consider the shocking idea of allowing free competition between insurance companies throughout the United States, so insurance companies would be forced to lower their rates due to fierce competition. Perhaps he might consider removing the hundreds of thousands of Federal regulations now strangling the health-care industry and the health-insurance industry, regulations that are the main cause of high insurance rates. Perhaps marxist Obama might consider that GOVERNMENT regulations and strangulation of the heath-care industry is the problem causing high insurance rates, NOT the insurance companies.
No, I don’t think marxist Obama would consider such things. He has an agenda. That agenda is to push us into a socialist hell-hole that destroys our liberty and right of free choice.
by Joel Turtel
Think Obamacare Has Cut Out Death Panels? — Think Again
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Healthcare
The Last Straw: HB 3200 pg 429, line 13-25: Govt to specify which doctors can write an end-of-life o
03-06-2010 So Much for Choice. Check it out for yourself. Population control
See full article at: http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/065901-2010-03-06-the-last-straw-hb-3200-pg-429-line-1325-govt.htm
Why Obama, Pelosi, and Reid Won’t Quit Pushing Health Care Reform
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Why Obama, Pelosi, and Reid Won’t Quit Pushing Health Care Reform
3/07/10 • Pajamas Media
Why Obama, Pelosi, and Reid Won’t Quit Pushing Health Care Reform If they can impose government-run health care, they’ll establish the framework for Democratic do
Anonymous Watchman
Full article at Freedom’s Phoenix — http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/065905-2010-03-07-why-obama-pelosi-and-reid-wont-quit-pushing-health-care.htm
Glenn Beck — Marxist Articles of the U.S. Constitution You May Not Have Seen
The Global Warming Fraud
Daily Mail
Monday, March 1, 2010
The scientist at the heart of the ‘Climategate’ row over global warming hid data ‘because it was standard practice’, it emerged today.
Professor Phil Jones, director of the University of East Anglia’s prestigious climatic research unit, today admitted to MPs that the centre withheld raw station data about global temperatures from around the world.
The world-renowned research unit has been under fire since private emails, which sceptics claimed showed evidence of scientists manipulating climate data, were hacked from the university’s server and posted online.
(My translation — “We lied about global warming, because that’s what we do all the time. Is that wrong?“)
See full article at: http://www.prisonplanet.com/head-of-climategate-research-unit-admits-he-hid-data-because-it-was-standard-practice.html
Public-School Excuse No. 1 – Give Us More Money
Suppose that a contractor was building a house for you, and for some strange reason he convinced you to build your house on a garbage dump. The house was supposed to cost $150,000, but the contractor is having problems. Every time he tries to lay his foundations, the foundations sink into the garbage-filled earth. So the contractor keeps trying new ways to reinforce the earth to hold the foundations. He tries steel rods. He uses a different concrete mixture. But everything he tries fails because the garbage dump won’t support any foundation he pours. Every time the contractor tries something new, the price of the house goes up. His experiments push the price to $350,000.
Of course you become disgusted and start to think that the problem may be a structural one that can’t be fixed—that you’ll never be able to sink a solid foundation on a garbage dump. The contractor, who doesn’t seem to have a waiting list of other customers, keeps saying that if you give him another $100,000, then another $100,000, he’s sure he can find a way to lay your foundation and build your house. But you’re bankrupt by now, so you have to walk away from the house.
The same scenario has been running for the past fifty years in our public schools. To cover their embarrassment at their constant failure to educate our kids, school authorities endlessly demand more tax dollars. They point to all the alleged deficiencies of our public schools. They claim that the schools are overcrowded and run-down, and that good teachers expect high salaries. They demand more tax dollars to modernize the schools, reduce class sizes, expand programs for struggling students, and always, increase teacher pay to recruit and retain better teachers.
The problem with public schools, however, is not lack of money. The real problem is that many of these schools are, in effect, an educational garbage dump. No matter how much money we pump into them, they will not improve because their foundations are rotten. They are a compulsory government monopoly—that is the rot under their foundations. Just as the state-controlled food system in the communist Soviet Union produced failure and famine, so our government-controlled public schools produce educational failure for our children. In both cases, that failure is built into the system because compulsory government control wipes out free choice and competition.
The problem with public schools is not lack of money but that government control guarantees mediocrity in our schools. We have falling SAT scores, high dropout rates, and depressing math and reading scores across all grades. As we saw in Chapter 1, the grim statistics are endless. Yet school authorities have the nerve to continually ask for more money.
Giving more money to public schools is usually a waste of time. Paul Craig Roberts describes a 1984 Kansas City public-school experiment that eloquently illustrates this point. Because of a desegregation lawsuit, Roberts writes,
“Kansas City spent $2 billion building the most expensive school system in the world. Beginning teacher salaries rose from a low of $17,000 to a high of $47,851. Fifteen new schools were constructed and 70 had additions or renovations. The luxurious facilities include a planetarium, a vivarium [a little zoo for frogs], greenhouses, a model United Nations wired for language translation, radio and television studios, movie editing and screening rooms, swimming pools, a zoo, a farm, a wild land area, a temperature-controlled art gallery, and 15 computers per classroom. Students can study Suzuki violin, animal science, and robotics. Language instruction spans French to Swahili.
Despite the extraordinary facilities and massive sums of money, student performance is so low that recently the state had to strip the Kansas City School District of its accreditation. The school district has fewer students and is less integrated than in 1984 when Judge Clark took control of the school district in order to achieve “mathematical racial balance.”
If more money meant better education, our public schools should have vastly improved over the last 75 years. Yet the reverse is true. In dollars adjusted for inflation, public schools spent about $876 per year for elementary and secondary school students in 1930, when student literacy rates were close to 90 percent.2 In 2003, as we noted earlier, public schools spent about $7500 per student, while literacy rates fell to the 50-70 percent level (see Chapter 1 statistics).
In the year 2000, the five states whose students got the highest SAT scores were North Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and South Dakota. Yet, per-pupil spending in North Dakota ranked forty-first among the states, in Iowa twenty-fifth, Wisconsin tenth, Minnesota sixteenth, and South Dakota a lowly forty-eighth. In contrast, the District of Columbia had the fourth highest per-student spending of all the states but ranked almost at the bottom of the list (50th out of 50 states and the District of Columbia) in student achievement.3 Clearly, there is little correlation between money spent per student and student achievement.
Many studies have shown that most private Catholic schools do a better job educating children than public schools. A 1990 Rand Corporation study examined big-city high schools to find out how education for low-income minority children could be improved. The study compared thirteen New York City public, private, and Catholic high schools that had many minority students. In the Catholic schools, 75 to 90 percent of the students were black or hispanic. The study found that:
“The Catholic high schools graduated 95 percent of their students each year, while public schools graduated slightly more 50 percent of their senior class; Over 66 percent of the Catholic school graduates received the New York State Regents diploma to signify completion of an academically demanding college preparatory curriculum, while only about 5 percent of the public school students received this distinction; 85 percent of the Catholic high school students took the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), compared with just 33 percent of the public school students; The Catholic school students achieved an average combined SAT score of 803, while the public school students’ average combined SAT score was 642; and 60 percent of the Catholic school black students scored above the national average for black students on the SAT, and over 70 percent of public school black students scored below the same national average.4
Recent studies confirm many of the Rand report’s findings. A 1997 study by Derek Neal, then associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago, analyzed the effect of Catholic high-school education on high-school and college graduation rates. Neal found that when inner-city students transferred to Catholic schools, their probability of graduating from high school increased from 62 percent to at least 88 percent. He also found that hispanic and black Catholic-school students were more than twice as likely to graduate college than minorities students who attended public schools.
Also, Protestant-affiliated school students consistently show superior academic results compared to public schools. The National Center for Education Statistics (NAEP) administers the National Assessment of Educational Progress(NAEP) to test the knowledge and skills of the nation’s students in grades 4, 8, and 12.
The NAEP’s 2003 test results showed that students in the Protestant-affiliated schools (as well as Catholic-school students) consistently scored well above public-school students in math, reading, writing, history, and geography. At all three grade levels, a significantly higher percentage of Protestant and Catholic-affiliated school students scored at or above the Basic, Proficient, and Advanced levels compared to public schools. Protestant and Catholic-affiliated school students also consistently scored higher on both verbal and math SAT scores compares to public-school students. Similarly, as for Catholic-school students, hispanic and black students in Protestant-affiliated schools were more than twice as likely to graduate college than minorities students who attended public schools.
Yet, the average annual tuition costs for Catholic and Protestant-affiliated schools for the 2002-2003 school year were approximately $3500-$4000 per elementary-school pupil and $5500-$6000 per Secondary school pupil. The average public-school cost per pupil was approximately $7300. 5
These studies show that Catholic and Protestant-affiliated schools give a superior education to public schools, especially for inner-city minority students. They give a better education at half the cost for elementary-grade students and about 30 percent lower cost for secondary or high-school students. Something is clearly wrong with public schools if they do an inferior job educating children for almost twice the cost of religiously-affiliated schools. Obviously, more money does not mean better education.
When we compare the academic record of home-schooled vs. public-school students, the cost vs. achievement differences are even more startling. In 1998, the Home School Legal Defense Association commissioned Larry Rudner, statistician and measurement expert at the University of Maryland, to do a study on the academic achievement levels of home-schooled students. The study tested 20,000 home-schooled students on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS). The study found that home-schooled students did extremely well on the test compared to public school students. Home-schooled kids scored in the 75th to 85th percentile range, compared with the 50th percentile national average for public-school students across the country.
The study found that in every subject and grade level of the ITBS battery of tests, home-schooled students scored significantly higher than public and private school students. On average, homeschool students in the first to fourth grades performed one grade level higher than comparable public and private school students. By the fifth grade, the gap began to widen, and by the eighth grade, the average home-schooled student performed four grade levels above the national average.
Home-schooling parents not only give their kids a superior education, but spend, on average, far less than even Catholic or Protestant-affiliated schools to achieve these superior results. For example, the basic Alpha-Phonics program (see Resources section), which can help teach a child to read through several grade levels, only costs about $30, and is an excellent, easy to use program. Even if we assumed that an average parent spent about $1500 a year on learn-to-read or learn-math books, computer learning software, and other learning materials, that is about one-quarter the average $7500-a-year that public schools spend per student, and half the cost of tuition at the average Catholic school. Clearly, once again, it is obvious that more money does not guarantee a better education.
Michael Savage Interviews Michele Bachmann
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