Condensing the Austin American-Statesman

the complete article can be read here
Central Texas students' absences cost districts millions

My condensed version below.

 Central Texas students' absences cost districts millions

Central Texas school districts are being denied unearned money because of their inability to drive human behavior.

"They can't learn unless they're sitting in class," blatantly lied Amy Wiseman, senior research associate for the project.

Improving Increasing Compelling attendance brings money to those who run the schools.

Absences might also be an indicator of poor academic performance. Ya think???

A few local districts have started campaigns to increase attendance rates force people aka S-L-A-V-E-R-Y to do something the would rather not do. 


"As early as fifth grade kids aren't coming to school", said Paul Cruz, chief schools officer. "That's where the intervention comes in.  It never crosses our minds that compulsory schooling sucks and that even an eleven year old can discern this fact."


"There's no question that the money component is a factor because everyone LOVES free money ... but it can't be emphasized enough that until we get them here, we don't have a shot at educating them and without ME, no one would be educated :))."

We keep a lot of statistics separating the kids by race because racial separation is a major part of our programing educating of the kids.

Get Schooled also hires celebrities to convince kids to pick cotton attend government schools.

The Freedom Revolution by Dick Armey

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SNSGXGQ1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://goo.gl/O4CNH

.... when someone says, "Put your life in my hands and I'll make you free," he or she is lying.

Freedom works.  Central planning does not.

President Reagan understood that what most bothered average citizens was not the sense that they could not trust government... but the sense that the government doesn't trust the average [citizen].

Ronald Reagan ... did nothing but withdraw government influence from people's private economic decisions.

The Soviet government was quite simply the most murderous regime in human history.  Joseph Stalin on average killed roughly two thousand people each day of the thirty-one years he reigned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Communism_Memorial

The communists in Poland had no trouble finding 50,000 Polish policemen to impose martial law to extinguish the Solidarity movement.  By the time the Socialists reached their terminal crisis ten years later, they apparently could find no one willing to pull the trigger on their countrymen.

The free market alone entrusts each one of us with a leading role and calculates that, given the chance, the average person is always a little better than average.

Societies ruled from above enjoy only the benefit of whatever knowledge and common sense the rulers happened to have but when people make decisions for themselves their knowledge becomes society's capital.  Freedom liberates the intellectual capital squandered by tyranny. 

Chapter 5 How Republicans Almost Blew It (I find this hilarious.)


I have often wondered why a man who had been elected President of the USA gave a hang what the New York Times or any other paper said about him.

At some point government becomes so large that it begins to smother prosperity and thus erode our general welfare and our liberty.

Does anyone really imagine that most women oppose having the freedom to choose the best school for their own kids?

I will never forget watching a congressional hearing on agricultural policy.  The witnesses: Jane Fonda, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek.

I could never return to the battles of the academy. Dealing with congressional politics for ten years has left me too soft.

Genuine charity will thrive as we move away from the compulsory compassion of Big Government.

The poor's greatest nutrition problem is not hunger but obesity.

I'm always surprised to find conservatives who believe in free trade but adopt a protectionist attitude toward human beings.

The key to being a popular minister -- "Talk about the sins they don't commit."

The U.S. government owns 700 billion acres of land.

Liberals don't care what you do as long as it's mandatory.

In 1998, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, a reporter asked Dick Armey what he would do if he were in President Bill Clinton's position.  Armey replied ...

"If I were in the President's place I would not have gotten a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood, hearing Mrs. Armey standing over me saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'"

From the Comments

I found this comment at Free The Animal.  I have reblogged, perhaps only to give myself the chance to reread it occasionally.

 


Amy Haines // Jul 5, 2012 at 18:46
 

I’m looking forward to the Commie dissection tomorrow. I find it interesting that people who are pro-socialism/collectivism assume that those who are anti-collectivism, or individualist, libertarian, minarchists, whatever you want to call them, are just selfish assholes. Ultimately, the collectivists are the selfish ones, desiring to live a life of safety and security and at a level of comfort that they could not provide for themselves, so they attach themselves like parasites to a wealthier, healthier host in order to suck the wealth from the productive ones.

I am selfish. Selfish enough to breed, so MY genes are furthered along. Selfish enough to be certain we have a roof over our heads, food in our bellies, and love in our home. Selfish enough to want my parents and siblings and their kids, my aunts and uncles, my surviving grandparent, and my friends to have the same comforts I have. But I will refer back to my belief in the correctness of Dunbar’s number theory: we are only capable of supporting and nurturing so many people. We may feel compassion or sympathy for others on an emotional level, but there is little we can do to directly affect their lives unless we make a choice to take away from our families and give to others – and that is the crux of collectivism. What are you taking from you and yours so that others can have the same or better treatment? What are you taking from productive people so that others who are unproductive can have better lives?

America is far from a poor nation. When welfare recipients have iPhones, internet connections, EBT cards, cars, money for alcohol and drugs, and housing all at the expense of the taxpayer, I cannot say there is real “poverty” here. Not that some might not live in outright poverty, but at some point, where does their selfishness for other people’s money end and their own hand in their fates begin?

But even the need to be altruistic or to help improve another person’s life is ultimately selfish: the hubris that you can make a difference and the dopamine rush you get from being thanked for your kindness is something you feel good about – SELFISH. Some people do good works and don’t expect to be thanked, but they still have the satisfaction of going to bed at night feeling good about their mission – SELFISH. If it is in your own self-interest to be altruistic, that is fine, but don’t pretend altruism is always 100% all about the other guy. People help others because they get a genuine good feeling from it – if it isn’t forced.

And the coercive force of taxation prevents me from feeling good about the altruistic intent of our welfare system, et. al. I have gladly helped poor people get educations (that they did not want and spat in my face over it, in an inner-city school where I lasted two years), get food at soup kitchens and food pantries, and get clothing for job interviews and their kids when I volunteered to distribute goods at a local charity. I give toys to local churches and civic organizations for poor kids at Christmas time. I get a good feeling from those things. I don’t get a warm fuzzy from seeing 30% of my husband’s income go to taxes to feed the local welfare queens and their thugs-in-training and provide medical care for people who have no desire to keep themselves healthy and out of harm’s way.

Sorry, Richard. Your blog, not my place to rant. But it feels sooooo good – SELFISH!

Don’t Lose Any Sleep Over Your Motives.

Don’t let others convince you that there is something wrong with you because you don’t want to use the power of the state to try to improve the lives of others. Their strategy has a very mixed track record. They are always saying this time will be different. Unlikely, because of the knowledge problem and because the other side centralizes power. Centralized power doesn’t attract nice people - just the opposite.

http://cafehayek.com/2012/07/motives-vs-results.html

http://mercatus.org/russell-roberts

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