The Tax Supported Socialist School System (Issue 177)

I’m a clipper of news articles and have a large box of news items about the tax-supported school system.

I’ll begin with an article from December 2008, which states, “education represents more than 55 percent or nearly $8.2 billion of Georgia’s fiscal year 2009 budget, according to the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget.”

That’s a whopping amount of money. It is a requirement for payment by everyone, even those who have no children in the system. I personally have no idea how much schooling another requires, needs nor wants, and definitely have no interest in paying for it.

I have no children in the tax-supported system and have no children who have children in the system.  However in one form or another all of us are required to dole into the system.

As far back as the fifties when I did have children in the schools I began an inkling of understanding what they were all about. I attended PTA meetings, read the books they brought home, carefully went over the themes of required lessons and etc. I even formed a textbook committee of parents to go over the text in the books used to teach.

It was in the sixties, living in Nevada, I began seeing the creeping socialism expressed in the textbooks. My little group developed reports on our discoveries and I presented our findings and objections to the material to a large meeting of textbook committee in Carson City which meant nothing and changed nothing.

It was at that time I realized there is absolutely nothing anyone can do to improve the system of so-called education, which in essence is indoctrination into socialism.

And here is why: Because the system operates on taxes, paid by everyone, and taxes being, by definition, an involuntary relinquishment of one’s property[money], hence legal plunder and a system of thievery, its base of operation is immoral. I suggest this because I unequivocally, believe thievery is immoral. There may be some who justify this in their thinking and belief system but I can’t.

After concluding this, I realized there was nothing neither I nor anyone else could do to create a moral system of education based upon the immorality of tax-funding.

Lo these many years later, as I hear more and more cries for more money for schools, and the force from politicians, the lobbyist, teacher’s organizations, textbook companies and the millions who support this system, it is futile to think it will change.  There are billions spent on the project of so-called, “public education” and yet it remains what it is. The thousands it cost for just one student to graduate from hi school, still some emerge who can’t even read.

In this year 2009, we are experiecing the pit-falls of the road to socialism we travel down, loss of jobs, loss of homes, many busineses tanking and a long list of tradgdies in our every day american way of life. But out of the rubble of all the losses, For me, I think the most tragic is the screwups we have tolerated and supported relative to the waste of young minds and the past and next generation.. The greatest squandering of wealth in this country is the squandering of the young minds of innocent children..

Still we do nothing and sanction the  cost of the billions, directed by the powers at be, the politicians, collecting and filtering into a system of socialistic compulsory  schooling.

Stop and think about how we have diverted our thinking, beliefs and way of life away from the very Principles upon which this great nation was founded. With no let up in sight, like all politicians before him, the new president calls for more money directed towards, “education” and we listen and abide and no-one lifts a finger to change the system and direction.

Now I know there are millions of good, decent hard-working, producing,generous, and smart people in this country.Therefore the question is why have we allowed, and supported this happening? Why have we allowed ourselves to become victimized by a system of socialism, replacing the the free market, capitolistic system?  Schooling and education should be a free market entereprise.

We can recognize it or not we are now into several generations who are products of the socialistic system of schooling.

The one bright light on the horizon is the fact hundreds have recognized the fallacies and wrong doings and removed their children and home-schooled while still being taxed to support a system they reject. It’s to those I admire, that I take my hat off to and cheer on.

But is that enough to lead us out of the bondage of socialism we are so mired down in? I doubt it.

I for one take the bold position, this country will never return to the freedom we once knew, which valued private ownership of property, and the free market system of voluntary exchange of goods and services, we once knew and enjoyed until there is a recognition and rejection of the socialized school system.

I’m not fabricating, nor pulling numbers out of thin air. It’s reported in daily news, over half the billions of dollars collected is spent on schools. This is a socialistic system which indoctrinates young minds into that concept. And I remind the reader, socialism is that system which totally rejects ownership of private property.

It does not require a PhD to realize what is happening. All one has to do is stop and use a little common sense to understand the difference in freedom and Socialism.

Pardon me for quoting an old southern saying that “All one needs is one eye and half sense to know the difference!!”

I have been delaying for sometime writing this article. An opinion, we’re not going to turn this downward spiral around until we do something about the billions poured into the horrors of this socialistic school system.  I’m not making this up, it was front page news in December, here in the state of Georgia, over half the budget, over eight billion dollars goes into this miserable school system.

A system I recognized as immoral and did not educate but indoctrinates as far back as the sixties. I withdrew my children and home-schooled them when it was unheard of.  I faced arrest for that decision. Fortunately, now the government allows home-schooling, but they did not back then.

Usually I write on subjects that flow and I enjoy but admittedly this is painful to write about and I have procrastinated writing this article for two months. The subject of the truth about the school system is the nitty-gritty of where the rubber hits the road.

Here is a quote from escaped slave, Fredrich Douglas, abolitionist, author and editor, who wrote: “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will. Find out just what people will submit too, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those they suppress.”

No quote I have read so embraces the tolerance we have shown relative to the socialized school system as this one by Fredrich Douglas.

Let Freedom Ring

Just me,

AC

Email: annecleveland@bellsouth.net

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