George Rebane
California’s Cris de Coeur continue. The state’s Democrats deny that the state has been steadily diving for the bottom, and has already reached it in the many sectors of fiscal and social performance. This Big Lie is dutifully picked up by all the local leftwing lackeys who must echo the narrative out of Sacramento. This morning we read a plaintive lament (here) in the 20nov19 Union by Alyssa Mayo, a native Californian who states, “I am as middle class American as they come. But because I live in California, I am surviving … far from thriving.” She goes on to list the nationally known grievances about our state, also highlighting that “every day, I watch people that I respect and love leave California.” (In the last decade the Rebanes have bid good-bye to 11 families of friends and relatives who have struck out from California for greener pastures.) Ms Mayo’s big concern as a “silently struggling” sufferer is shared by most, not progressively blind, that “California will get worse. I don’t know what the next downhill slide will be. But I’m sure that it will result in losing more hard-working Americans in this state. For those of us who remain, feebly bucketing out the ever-growing rising water, we will continue to hope for a miracle. A miracle to save our home. A miracle that may never come.” My suggestion to the ‘silent suffers’ is to abandon hoping for that miracle, and instead do something radically different next time in the voting booth. We don’t have to continue placing our futures into the hands of incompetent scumbags. Continuing to do the same thing and hoping for a different result has never worked.
In ‘The Big Lie About Charter Schools’ David Osborne of the Progressive Policy Institute (an established Democrat policy think tank) debunks the bamboozle that Democrat candidates have been foisting on their constituents for at least a couple of decades. This year the standard refrain that charter schools ‘siphon off the funds of public schools’ has reached crescendo from the throats of Dem presidential wannabes. First, charter schools are public schools, but of the type that don’t have fatten the wallets of teachers’ union leaders and staff. Charter schools set their own teachers benefit packages and curricula to create schools where parents want to send their children. We all should remember that the Democrats are bought and paid for by the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association whose income is diminished by every kid who leaves a broken unionized public school. The actual financial impact is negligible and/or minimized by various convoluted ‘make whole’ programs at the state level, but it all sorts in Osborne’s article. The bottom line that’s a shot in the shorts for the unions is their mismanaged and mostly unfunded teachers’ pension programs. These rely on more younger teachers paying into the expanding ponzi scheme from which the retiring teachers’ pensions will be drawn. And that’s where the under-performing unionized schools don’t have anywhere else to turn. So put the claims of Warren, Sanders, and even ol’ Uncle Joe about charter schools into perspective when they tell you (perhaps at tonight’s debate) that charters take money away from public schools.
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