Same old leftist solutions; just let me rant
Just browsing through the Washington Post, I found an opinion piece entitled “A plan to cut poverty in half” by Mark Greenberg and Elisa Minoff. Man, I’d like to see that happen so I began reading. Turns out, it’s about a report from the Center for American Progress. Hey, I’m all for American progress, so I flipped over to the report. What did I find? The same old “progressive” clap trap. The same failed “Great Society” programs except with more money thrown in. How is that progress?
It was the same old drivel about raising the minimum wage, increasing child tax credits, the government providing more safety nets and pouring more money into our failing education system. All of the mediocre proposals the Democrats have been clinging to like grim death since the LBJ War on Poverty days.
I guess that’s what passes as research for Leftist think tanks – dust off some decades old failed program and multiply the cost figures by the inflation rate and add in a fat grant check.
Want to reduce poverty in this country? Put schools back in the business of teaching instead of indoctrinating. Put schools back in the hands of parents and pry them away from administrators whose only function is to expand local union membership. Make schools actually teach stuff that’s relevant to the workplace instead of just passing on students to colleges where they have to take remedial-fricken-English, f’pete’s sake.
You don’t need to raise the minimum wage if you make students employable and attractive to employers. If you educate them properly, students won’t be having so many children and they won’t need your paltry $100/year (that’s what your stupid $1000 tax credit works out to be – $100/year. Big damn deal, Leftist elistist scum). If you made students more valuable to employers, they wouldn’t be taking those minimum wage jobs after they graduate from high school.
Maybe if we shut down half of the colleges in this country and only sent people to college who needed to be there, we wouldn’t have so many Philosophy PhDs making important-sounding French-style coffee drinks at Starbucks. Maybe we’d have fewer Psychology graduates stocking shelves at A&P.
My current job required a college degree, but the skills I learned to perform at this job, I learned in high school – back when high school taught stuff. Why can’t high schools train our kids for jobs instead of teaching them to put condoms on a banana?
Instead of providing useless jobs at outrageous pay for over-certified teachers, teach our kids to read and write and to be part of a functioning society without all of the Leftist drivel about everybody pooping and some poor child’s two mothers.
If our schools did their job and educated our children, we wouldn’t be pulling our hair out worrying about job training programs for adults – adults would be smart enough to absorb employer-provided training when they started their new jobs.
The truth is; we already pay enough money to the Federal goverment to lift Americans from poverty, but it all gets funneled out to “experts” and “non-profits” to “study” the problem. Why do you think the Center for American progress did this study? They’re taking advantage of the Democrat-controlled Congress to siphon off some more money and perpetuate their own useless jobs.
Apparently, American Progress means “we cleave to the same old failed philosophies – but with a pretty website now”. And the problem is; we’ve lost two generations to Leftist indoctrination and those generations don’t realize what morons they’ve become.
EDITOR’S NOTE: I should have said something before, but please read the last line again and recognize how I might apply it to your emails. Sorry, for some of you it’s too late. My email server already sorted you into the moron file.
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