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They want power more than freedom.

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AND:

Education Has Been Whitewashed and We Are Seeing the Results Right Now...

10th Plank of the Communist Manifesto at Work https://www.courageouslion.us/p/education-has-been-whitewashed-and The only way out of this mess when it comes to edjewcashun is to homeschool. The sacrifice is too much for most to take. I did. My wife and I gave up over ONE MILLION in her salary so she could stay home and homeschool our four sons. She was a REGISTERD NURSE. Do you know what they are making these days? I say one million is a low estimate. How did we manage? Well for one, I'm a FIRM BELIEVER in the "law of attraction" as it has been operating in my life for over 45 years. I was able to support our four sons and her all those years with one request of my creator...Just give me enough to pay the bills every month and a little left over. And the creation has ALWAYS come through. Even to this day. The other thing we did was buy used cars and an older home rather than thinking we needed new cars and a new home. I drive BMW's that I paid 25%-30% of what the previous owner did with about 80K on the clock. Both were 6 years old when I purchased them. And our older 1960's home has been remodeled by myself as it isn't rocket science. I'm a retired plumber by trade. I don't save much because I hate to see the value of my savings go down so rapidly so I purchase "things" that maintain their value in the face of inflation.

Did you know that gasoline in 1964 was .25 cents and you could have bought it with a silver quarter dollar coin? Well today I can purchase TWO gallons for that same .25 quarter dollar of silver. So which would have been better to save? The silver quarter or Fed Notes? Check out my stack at http://courageouslion.us

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I remember 1964. If the rich

Had the same trust in the creator that you do things would be better.

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They place their trust in the destroyer. And typically got rich either from inheritance from a crooked family member or they got rich by some crony capitalist deals they were involved with. Nancy Pukeloosey is an example of insider trading crony capitalism that made her wealthy.

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Yup

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Oh, and not only did we give up her salary, but I also had to PAY for the monsters in my neck of the woods schooling though the FIRST PLANK of the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO. via the RENT I was extorted out of at gun point via "property taxes". The 1st plank calls it RENT which is WHAT IT IS people! And it should have never been that way. EVER. You want your brats to be taught somewhere, YOU should pay for it. What if we didn't have any children and never used the school system at all? Why should ANYONE think I should have to support it? Especially with what I know about it. Which Won? The LAW or the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO? https://www.courageouslion.us/p/the-law-or-the-communist-manifesto

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The eighth grade test was not just rote learning, the knowledge had to be applied to demonstrate how the knowledge would be useful.

Where examples were required such a requirement didn't just stop a a couple of examples. No multi guess questions.

A student getting a high score would feel proud and know that it wasn't just a subjective marking system.

Employers would know what abilities they were getting.

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Could not agree more! Well presented. Another attack on our education was removing the standardized testing, like SATs, for the false pretext about racism. They simply want the next generations of people to be as dumbed down and incapable of independent critical thinking as possible. They want compliers.

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They also prevented employers from giving IQ test with the pretext of racism.

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I think George Carlin summed it all up quite well...

But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed.

It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.

Because the owners, the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want:

They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. that's against their interests.

That's right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they’re getting f&$#%d by a system that threw them overboard 30 f&@&@%$g years ago. They don’t want that!

You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this f@&@%g place! It's a big club, and you ain’t in it! You, and I, are not in the big club.

By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care! Good honest hard-working people; white collar, blue collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means, continue to elect these rich cock suckers who don’t give a f%@k about you….they don’t give a f@%k about you… they don’t give a F@&K about you.

They don’t care about you at all… at all… AT ALL. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. that's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue d@&k that's being jammed up their a%@$#*s everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.

It's called the American Dream,because you have to be asleep to believe it. ~ George Carlin

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Decries higher education, can't spell populace...

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But can run a superconducting cyclotron.

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Nov 9, 2023Liked by David Poe

Touché

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Nov 9, 2023·edited Nov 9, 2023Author

Upon further examination:

https://grammarist.com/spelling/populace-populous/

and https://sapling.ai/mixup/populace_populous_populus

Tricky business, but I was incorrect. Glad I wasn't an English major.

That's why the spell checker didn't catch it.

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I've noticed the spell and grammar on substack isn't perfect, I imagine the native system isn't as good as the Microsoft we're all used to, and a lot of people probably write on their phones too.

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I donut no about u butt my gramar is ALWAZ purfect and I harlee ever haf to uwz a spell checker. Jus that sumtimz I furget two turn on mi spelin checker.

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Cool

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