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Thursday, April 3, 2014

'Evil' Charles Koch: 'I'm Fighting To Restore a Free Society'--But 'Collectivists Engage In Character Assassination'

April 03, 2014 Charles G. Koch , Daniel Patrick Moynihan 0 Comments
Charles G. Koch
By Charles G. Koch, Apr. 2, 2014, The Wall Street Journal
I have devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It is those principles—the principles of a free society—that have shaped my life, my family, our company and America itself.
Unfortunately, the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the law and personal freedom are under attack by the nation's own government. That's why, if we want to restore a free society and create greater well-being and opportunity for all Americans, we have no choice but to fight for those principles. I have been doing so for more than 50 years, primarily through educational efforts. It was only in the past decade that I realized the need to also engage in the political process.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value. In a truly free society, any business that disrespects its customers will fail, and deserves to do so. The same should be true of any government that disrespects its citizens. The central belief and fatal conceit of the current administration is that you are incapable of running your own life, but those in power are capable of running it for you. This is the essence of big government and collectivism.

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

"Sheriff Milwaukee County: 'Liberal Policies Have Destroyed the Black Family'" --An awakening?

March 27, 2014 Black America , Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1 Comments
Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr.
By Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., Mar. 24, 2014, Washingtontimes.com

 The latest attempt by liberals to help black people is underway in our K-12 urban public schools.

 These do-gooders are now defining down socially acceptable behavior for black students in school. Bad behavior is being excused and attempts to hold black kids accountable by enforcing codes of conduct are called racist.

 Having a sense of discipline has always been considered a virtue, a redeeming quality, but now its roots are claimed to lie in racism.

 White liberal elites have chimed in about school codes of conduct.

 The Capital Times newspaper of Madison, Wis., recently chronicled bad behavior by black students in its public schools. In the story, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that racial discrimination in school discipline codes “is a real problem today.”

 The white superintendent of the Madison public schools believes that “we need to address head-on our racial bias and the assumptions we make of students who are in the classroom.”

 Really? Where I come from, bad behavior has always been unacceptable and is codified not by race but by societal norms to keep chaos from reigning.

 These watered-down student codes of conduct sweeping across urban public school systems will not help black parents, kids or communities. Like every other display of liberal empathy, they will have a reverse effect, and it will not be positive.

 All anti-social behavior and social pathology is normalized, and to disagree is racial stereotyping.

 What these race provocateurs do not want to admit is the reason we are seeing more disruptive behavior in schools is because of poor and ineffective parenting, manifested by liberal policies.

 There is a government program today for everything in the black community that used to be the responsibility of the individual, such as parenting. Because of this system, many parents have abdicated what is their most important responsibility and turned it over to the government.

 Uncle Sam is now raising their kids.

 We take kids out of the home with early childhood education programs, and the government feeds them breakfast, lunch and dinner, and provides after-school programs.

 Who needs parents in the black community anymore?

 It is a sad reality that more and more parents have turned over their duty to raise their kids to federal and state government programs.

 As a result, large numbers of black kids arrive ill-prepared for a social setting such as a school. They simply do not enter a classroom in a state of readiness to learn.

 These kids suffer from a lot of emotional baggage spawned by ineffective parenting, which is worsened by white bleeding-heart liberals who use these troubled kids for their liberal agenda. Social liberalism is a sadistic ideology.

 White liberal social policies have become the new racism in America.

 According to liberal orthodoxy, no one is accountable anymore — except for conservatives, of course. Conservatives get blamed for all the failed liberal initiatives that were designed to help black folks.

 Notice how Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin received the dreaded R-word clubbing by the left when he pointed out in his 50-year review report how the failed anti-poverty initiatives started by liberals to help blacks have instead made their lives worse.

 Every attempt liberals have made to help black people, with their reliance on government-centered public-policy ideas, has worsened their lot in life.

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