Story Of Obama

"The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet."

 

Agree. But who's swift and strong in life? Not the richest among us. At any rate, the State doesn't know it and can't really find out. Or else, the State tries to get too much power... the Obama phenomenon.

 

The race may not always go to the richest, but that's the way to bet.

 

Just a bit a annecdotal evidence.

I grew up in greenwich.

some my really wealthy friends got sent off to boarding schools for high school.

They left good athletes with good grades.
They came back with phds in bongs.
They were like wtf why are my parents sending me off to these schools to be bored out of my mind.

 

I doubt if your core beliefs will drive the "liberals" nearly so crazy as they will the well educated.

You are proposing to turn education on its head where the goal becomes not to educate but to make the most money from the education business as possible without regard to the results, to make traditional liberal arts education accessible mainly to the well to do, to open the door to all manner of political influence and political control of what is taught, to blur the lines between religion and government, to make job training rather than education the primary function of our schools, and to virtually eliminate any consideration of academic standards.

God help us if the majority starts thinking as you.

Where did you get your education? The University of Phoenix or Antonelli College I suppose.

www.antonelli-college.com
"We offer quality career education that can help you acquire the skills you need for today's marketplace. With programs in the fields of Allied Health, Business and Information Technology, Creative, and Massage Therapy, you can gain the practical, career-focused knowledge and skills to pursue a new career with confidence!" -- It's not clear to me what the field of "Creative" is all about, but it's apparently a money maker for them.

www.phoenix.edu/
"Courses and Degree Programs for Today’s Marketplace."

 

That's not what I say at all. Reread my original post. Don't distort my words and meaning.

 

Quote from Yannis:

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whenever I state my core beliefs on this, liberals go crazy... For example:

* Replace state funding of education with a solid/well run voucher system.
How does that actually fund education? Where does the initial money come from?


* Do away with/buy back pension/health care obligations of the state.

Break contracts, doesn't sound too business like. Sure, negotiate things better going forward, but if you made an agreement to pay your employees based on healtcare etc, and then you screwed up and lost money, so you think it's right to steal their money to cover your losses?

* No tenure system.
Sure, just hire new people who will work for no money and no insurance and no retirement. Those are the smart people you want to teach your kids?

* Make all schools for profit, let them compete for customers, take care of special cases, inner city challenges etc through loan and tax incentives.

So everyone goes to ITT, what about K-12? and how will you take care of those challenges ?

* No federal or state support of any kind for state or private institutions that do not support a politically balanced philosophy and practice.
* Faith based education to be protected and encouraged, let them operate on their own terms.

And I suppose you should determine what is a politically balanced philosophy, right ? Might get a few objections there.

And whose Faith should be encouraged? Muslims, Catholics? Yeah, that supports the Constitution.


* Stop this nonsense about special support of student loans: those who borrowed $100,000 to get a BA in geography from a private college are now asking their peers, who took three jobs to complete a BS in Engineering without loans, to pay for their folly... Or, those who borrowed $200,000 to get a JD from Harvard and then got a job that pays that much per year and more, are getting a break in interest rates at the expense of the taxpayer... How's that fair?

Well, that last one is simple. Discourage anything that doesn't agree with your bias bent on the Universe, how's that fair.

 

Dick Morris to Newsmax: Rubio Is the ‘Only Choice That Makes Sense’
By Paul Scicchitano

With The New York Times reporting that Mitt Romney has made a decision and could announce his running mate as early as this week, political guru and best-selling author Dick Morris tells Newsmax.TV that he is convinced Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will get the nod, but not necessarily before the Republican National Convention.

“It’s the only choice that makes sense,” insisted the Fox News analyst in an exclusive interview on Monday. “It would be a mistake to announce it this week, or next, or next. He should save it for the convention because the key question is how many people will watch the convention? We need that suspense to be hanging in the air. But in an effort to kill the suspense, I believe that it will be Rubio, and I believe that he decided that a while ago.”

In a wide-ranging interview, Morris also said:

• President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could try to pull an “end-run” around the Second Amendment and Congress by approving a United Nations treaty on international arms sales that restricts gun ownership by private citizens.

• Egypt is likely to become a worse ally to the U.S. than Pakistan despite receiving $1.3 billion each year in military foreign aid.

• Bain Capital is an “overwhelming success story” for Gov. Romney and the Republican challenger must start making that case to the American people.

• Republicans are likely to pick up 11 seats in the Senate, which would give the GOP an all-important majority.

Speculation about Romney’s running mate has become an ongoing guessing game for political journalists with the Drudge Report pointing to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the front-runner, and The Times suggesting that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman stand out among the hopefuls.

“I wrote a book called “Condi vs. Hillary” in which I urged her to run for president. She’d be a great president. But it would be a mistake to put Condoleezza Rice on the ticket because it would permit Obama to run against the Iraq war again, and it would bring that whole range of issues into focus,” explained Morris. “That cost us the ’08 election and we don’t want to re-litigate that.”

The author of the new book: “Screwed!: How Foreign Countries Are Ripping America Off and Plundering Our Economy — and How Our Leaders Help Them Do It,” Morris said that while both Portman and Rubio were elected to the Senate at the same time, Rubio can help deliver something that Republicans need — not only in this election, but for years to come.

“I think he brings charisma, strong conservative values, Florida, and a very good handle on the Latino vote which will probably help us carry Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada,” observed Morris. “Plus, the future of the nation is the Latino vote, and if the Republican Party loses the Latino vote by 2-1 all down the line, we’ll never win another national election.”

While Latinos only make up 8 or 9 percent of today’s electorate, “in 10 years, they’re going to be 18 or 20 percent,” Morris predicted.

Rubio would also help counter the president’s recent public pronouncement that he will not enforce immigration laws in the case of children of illegal immigrants.

“What we have to understand for the election is that this is a crucial issue with the Latino vote, and that we need to get back with the Latino vote and nominating Rubio as vice president is the best way to do that,” said Morris.

While treaties require approval from two-thirds of the Senate to become law in the U.S., Morris said that Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could try to pull an “end-run” around the Second Amendment and Congress by approving a United Nations treaty on international arms sales that restricts gun ownership by private citizens.

“The shocking thing is it won’t have to pass the Senate. Under the Vienna Convention, which the United States had signed and ratified, once Hillary Clinton signs this treaty — which she’s going to do on July 27 unless we can stop her — that treaty remains in effect until a subsequent president renounces it,” declared Morris. “If Obama’s re-elected, he won’t. And (Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid will probably never bring this treaty up for a vote. We’ll be bound by it simply by Hillary’s signature, unless President Romney can renounce it.”

On Sunday, Clinton’s motorcade was pelted by tomatoes and shoes in Egypt, which benefits from $1.3 billion in military foreign aid each year from the U.S.

Morris, a former political advisor to President Bill Clinton, sees Egypt becoming much more like Pakistan in the future than the reliable ally of years past.

“In fact, probably worse than Pakistan because it will overtly oppose the United States,” he charged. “We have to realize that the United States Congress cut off aid to Egypt. It ruled that there should be no more aid unless Congress released the funds. And then Hillary Clinton unilaterally released the funds despite the congressional prohibition on doing so. So she deserves all the tomatoes she gets thrown at her, but they should be throwing flowers instead.”

As the election winds down to the final months, Morris believes that Romney must do a better job defending his record as CEO of Bain Capital, a record that has come under increasing fire from the Obama campaign.

“The important thing to know about Bain Capital is that it was an overwhelming success story. And Romney needs to be pointing that out more,” he said.

“There is a company for example, named Steel Dynamic. It was failing; falling apart . . . He got the investors. He lined it up. He switched the company’s focus and now it’s the fifth-largest steel maker in the United States — 6,500 jobs. The average salary is $85,000. We need to put those kinds of stories in front of the American people.”

A Romney victory in November is only part of the equation for Republicans if they are to break the Washington gridlock.

“Oh we’ve got to take the Senate. Yes, if you leave the Senate in Democratic hands, you’re just going to have a 2-1 gridlock as opposed to a 1-2 gridlock,” he said. “It doesn’t help you much. You need all three pushing in the same direction, and I think we are going to win the Senate.”

Morris predicted Republican senatorial wins in Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Virginia.

In addition, he predicts that the GOP will be competitive in New Jersey, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts.

Technically, Republicans need to win only four seats to take control of the Senate — and only three if Romney is elected president.

“We need to win a lot more than four seats because we need to win a lot more than nominal control,” Morris added. “We need to get up into the mid 50s so that it really isn’t feasible for the Democrats to stall us without 60 votes if we fall short of 60 votes.”

 

The problems with public schools are extremely complex and difficult to solve. My wife and I have two school-age children and have been studying these problems for several years now.

Problem #1 -- Bad Parents: Too many parents are uninvolved in their kids' lives and educations. They're either unavailable (some practically invisible), and/or don't value education enough to make it their highest priority. The other type of bad parent is one who's involved in their kid's life, but in the all the wrong ways. Usually that means they're more interested in being their child's friend rather than doing their job and being their child's parent.

Problem #2 -- Bad Teachers: There are many good teachers in public schools. Unfortunately there are even more mediocre and incompetent teachers. In California, it's nearly impossible to get rid of bad teachers.

Problem #3 -- Bad Administrators: School systems are packed full of useless, politically-protected adminstrators, most of whom do little more than consume resources that could otherwise be used to educate children.

When you combine all 3 of the above problems, you get the mess we currently have in California.

The only solution we could find was to enroll our children in a private school.

 

I'm with you. But you can't do much with #1 above... Working the system, states like NJ and WI are addressing the other two issues, #2,3, by trying to reduce the exhorbitant power of those unions. If one were able to fire bad teachers and administrators, schools would have a chance. But fire them why? Who in government cares, really?

I still think that the ultimate solution is a good voucher system that gives control to the parents to choose the best school for their children.

This can be coupled with gradual privatization of all schools, let them compete for students by pursuing excellence themselves, not only pretend that they teach it. If suitable standards are set by the state, the private sector would do fine and solve this problem.