Government-ruined, theft-funded schools – Stupid people
School Moms Not Happy with U.S. Public Education System
(Friedman Foundation) Sixty-one percent of K-12 school moms believe that U.S. public schools have “gotten off on the wrong track”…

Nathan: No wonder we are in such sad shape if not even 2 in 3 mothers think the “public schools” are okay.  Of course, since most mothers are themselves products of the GRTF schools…  This isn’t the only way in which we are being stupid, as the next story reports.

Theft by government – Stupid people
Unlike Boomers, Millennials Appear to Be Super Savers
(USA Today) A new survey shows that just under half of Millennials (those ages 19 to 34) indicated plans to rely on public programs for retirement, down from 63 percent of Millennials who said the same in 2011…

Nathan: Public programs, of course, depend on the government stealing the money from people in the first place.  The theft was done by fraud as well as threat of violence, of course.  For decades people were told that it was “their money” put into a trust fund called “Social Security.”  That lie was as big as AmerInd people told that their remaining land was “in trust” with the BIA so that it wouldn’t get stolen by the government or their neighbors.  How is that, again?  But about HALF of the Millennials STILL have not learned what a scam SS is?  Sure, 14 percent have supposedly learned in just two years, but…

Mama’s Note: The big problem is that most of those seniors now dependent on Social Security no longer have any other option. Even if they are healthy enough to work and save more for retirement, there are no jobs available for most of them… regardless of their talents or education. A true “catch 22” situation for millions of hard working Americans.

Theft by government
IRS Won’t Say If It Will Comply With Congressional Demand for All Communications and Names Involved in Discriminating Against Tea Party Groups
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Why should they?  First, the only purpose of this organization is to steal money – an immoral activity that taints it and everyone in it.  Second, their putative boss (the guy at 1600 PA) doesn’t respect or obey Congressional demands – so why should they?  Just one more Executive Branch agency telling Congress (and us) that we don’t have a republic any more.

First Citizen – Tyranny
Obama Hailed ‘World Press Freedom Day’ As His DOJ Was Seizing AP Phone Records
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: “War is Peace” and “Slavery is Freedom” – so what is odd about this?  Typical Tranzi hypocrisy, or just the usual debasement of the language.  If a man and a man can “marry” then press freedom is protected by seizing their records and suppressing their dissent.

The “messiah”
Obama: Republicans Won’t Work With Me Because They’re Afraid of Rush Limbaugh
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: So let me get this right.  If the man who is putatively “the most powerful man in the world” is stalled in his agenda because Limbaugh has all these fearful GOP types, then WHO is the “most powerful?”  What a joke!

Theft by government
$406.7B: Monthly Federal Tax Revenues Hit All-Time Record in April; Individual Income Taxes Up 36%
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Isn’t inflation wonderful?  Let us ALL celebrate how much we allow government to steal from us.  Elsewhere it is reported that the deficit is down to “only” $640 billion for this year: just think, that is ONLY $2,000  for every man, woman, child, and border jumper in the US.  Just for THIS year.  Yet, despite all this wealth, we are being told that children must go without school, elders must go without food, the poor must go without shelter and heat, because only government – vast and expanded even more – can provide all these things.  I know who needs to be institutionalized, and it is NOT “American Spirit.”

Stupid headlines -Islamic wars: Canaanite front
Muslim Brotherhood Stokes Anti-Israel Sentiment: ‘Israel Is Our Enemy’(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This shocking headline was right there on the front page along with such other surprising stories as “Dog bites man” and “Water flows downhill” and, of course, “MY granddaughter is the sweetest child in human history.”

The “messiah” – Tranzi spirit
Obama Wants to ‘Institutionalize’ the American Spirit He Saw in Boston and West, Texas
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: A funny choice of words.  And no doubt he is speaking the truth as he sees it.  There can be (in his worldview) no place for Americans to respond to disaster and attack and crisis EXCEPT as part of an “institution.”  And he wants to lock up the “American Spirit” in any number of institutions where it won’t bother him and his buddies:  “public schools” and insane asylums and prisons…

Congress in action – Stupid people
Mark Sanford to be sworn in Wednesday
(Washington Post) Rep.-elect Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) will be sworn in Wednesday as the new representative of South Carolina’s 1st district, his spokesman announced Tuesday. In the House chamber, Sanford will be sworn in approximately 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, spokesman Joel Sawyer said. The Republican will rejoin Congress a week after he defeated Democratic nominee Elizabeth Colbert Busch by nine points, even as he was barraged by Democratic outside spending.

Nathan: Just when you thought that the Congress couldn’t get any more despicable.  Of course, the “good people” of South Carolina have demonstrated their lack of responsibility, morality, or common sense.

Corruption in government
Texas businessman and con man Billy Sol Estes dies at 88
(UPI.com)

Nathan: Today, most people don’t even recognize the name. The man hailed from Pecos, and he was a well-known and popular member of a conservative church, and a real rags-to-riches story even in Texas.  His corruption and trial, conviction, and imprisonment was a shock (even to a ten-year-old) at the time.  How naive we were!  The depth of his involvement and corruption, and of the government itself, is explored at Lew Rockwell, but I am thinking more about what didn’t happen in the 1960s:  ordinary people failed to take action to do something about this sort of thing, in part because they failed to recognize that government did not PREVENT these kinds of things: instead, government PROMOTED and ENABLED the commission of crimes like Estes.  And does so even more today.