Hey Kemosabe…, “jump on it, jump on it!” Elizabeth Warren is a fraudulent Native American!

Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren has now become the democrats’ presidential front runner it would appear.

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To celebrate her new standing in the polls, I think she deserves a little attention from MrEricksonRules!

First…, let’s quickly review Elizabeth Warren’s fraudulent Native American racial claims.

In April 1986, Warren listed herself as “Native American” on a Texas state bar registration form.

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Warren also identified herself as “Native American” at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she worked from 1987 to 1995.

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Harvard Law School, where Warren taught before entering politics, referred to Warren as “the school’s only Native American professor” as recently as 1996.  Harvard then identified Warren as “Native American” on federal affirmative action forms every year until 2004.

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I wonder if Harvard managed to avoid any tax penalties based on Warren’s designation?

Warren also listed herself as a minority in the Association of American Law Schools directory from 1986 to 1994.

Could you even imagine the outrage by “the media” if a similar discovery were made about President Trump?

There would be non-stop protests, a special prosecutor, Congressional hearings, more talk of impeachment, yada, yada, yada.

Am I wrong?

As it stands, the “mainstream media” has basically given Warren a pass on this, as have most of the other democrats.

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Google, of course, is doing its part as well.

When we “Google” “Elizabeth Warren’s Native American claims” we get these top 10 results:

 

“Elizabeth Warren Apologizes at Native American Forum: ‘I …”

https://www.nytimes.com › 2019/08/19 › us › politics › elizabeth-warren-nat…

 

“Inside Elizabeth Warren’s courtship of Native American leaders”

https://www.cnn.com › 2019/08/18 › politics › elizabeth-warren-native-amer…

 

“Elizabeth Warren confronts handling of Native American … – Vox”

https://www.vox.com › policy-and-politics › elizabeth-warren-native-ameri…

 

“Warren Apologizes at Native American Forum – The Wall …”

https://www.wsj.com › Politics › Election 2020

 

“Elizabeth Warren apologizes over Native American heritage …”

https://www.latimes.com › politics › story › elizabeth-warren-native-americ…

 

“Sen. Elizabeth Warren at Native American forum: ‘I am sorry …”

https://abcnews.go.com › Politics › story

 

“Warren apologizes for heritage claim, woos Native Americans”

https://www.apnews.com › …

 

“Democratic hopeful Warren apologizes for Native American …”

https://www.reuters.com › article › us-usa-election-warren › democratic-ho…

 

“Elizabeth Warren releases plan aimed at uplifting Native …”

https://www.usatoday.com › story › news › politics › elections › 2019/08/16

 

Boy…, nothing really too critical of Warren there…, mostly apologetic and in the best light possible.  None of the sources would be considered “conservative” either.

Quite different from the search results that would show up for President Trump, I imagine.

Some of the keywords that would show up in a search like that, if it were President Trump, would be:

“LIAR,”

“RACIST,”

“FRAUD,”

“PHONY,”

“IMPOSTER,”

“CHEATER,”

“CON ARTIST,”

…, just for starters.

Am I wrong?

Recently, according to The Daily Caller, Warren said, “I am sorry for harm I have caused.  I have listened and I have learned a lot, and I am grateful for the many conversations that we’ve had together.”

Oh…, well, alrighty then!  Say no more, Elizabeth!  Your sins have been officially absolved by the “biased, liberal propaganda, fake news media!”

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This absolution is, of course, reserved for liberals…, especially white, privileged, establishment, liberals. Being a woman on top of it all doesn’t hurt either.

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Black, Hispanic, and especially Native American liberals do not normally receive this level of consideration.

As they say…, “you could look it up.”

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Are the people at the UN “crying wolf” when it comes to global warming?  Does it even matter?

According to a recent UN report on the world’s oceans, they say “we’re all in big trouble.”

In case the people at the UN and these contributing scientists were not aware of it…, we all are going to die at some point.

Nobody lives forever.

No one make it out of this life alive.

Don’t get me wrong.

Do I think we should reduce our levels of air pollution?

Yes.

Do I think we should pressure those countries who are the worst air pollution offenders (China) to reduce their levels of air pollution?

Yes.

Do I think we should reduce our polluting of the oceans and work to clean-up our oceans?

Yes.

Do I think we should pressure those countries who are the worst ocean pollution offenders (China) into reducing their polluting of the oceans and encourage them to help us clean-up the oceans?

Yes.

Okay…, that being said…

Chris Ciaccia of Fox News reports, “A damning new report from the United Nations says that the world’s oceans are undergoing drastic, accelerated change. And the risks associated with these changes to the climate are getting ever greater, threatening hundreds of millions of people and the global economy itself.”

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“The report, issued by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), highlights the changes that are happening as a result of increased emissions from greenhouse gases, including: sea levels rising by three feet by 2100; significantly fewer fish in the oceans; stronger hurricanes; and regular flooding in coastal cities such as New York.”

Hmmm?

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So are they saying our world is not going to come to an end in 12 years?

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I’m confused.

Where is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez getting her information from?

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Over 95% of the people on the planet right now will not be around to see the year 2100.

Just sayin’.

‘“Global warming has already reached 1 [degrees Celsius] above the pre-industrial level, due to past and current greenhouse gas emissions,’ a press release issued in conjunction with the report said. ‘There is overwhelming evidence that this is resulting in profound consequences for ecosystems and people. The ocean is warmer, more acidic and less productive. Melting glaciers and ice sheets are causing sea level rise, and coastal extreme events are becoming more severe.’”

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This all may be true, but there is no way of directly tying any planetary climate change to pollution caused by people.

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Our planet has, as a matter of fact, experienced many extreme climate changes in its past, without people playing any part in them at all.

The special United Nations-affiliated oceans and ice report released on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2019, “[Also] projects three feet of rising seas by the end of the century, much fewer fish, weakening ocean currents, even less snow and ice, and nastier hurricanes, caused by climate change.”

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“The report, which was worked on by more than 100 scientists from 36 countries around the world, was approved by the 195 IPCC member governments.”

100 scientists may sound like a lot…, but really it’s not.  What we basically have here is 1 scientist from every two of the 195 IPCC member countries.

Google says there are at least 7 million scientists in the world.

I think we can find 100 out of 7 million scientists who believe the Earth is flat!

‘“The open sea, the Arctic, the Antarctic and the high mountains may seem far away to many people,’ Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said in the press release. ‘But we depend on them and are influenced by them directly and indirectly in many ways – for weather and climate, for food and water, for energy, trade, transport, recreation and tourism, for health and wellbeing, for culture and identity.’”

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“The press release notes that ‘without major investments in adaptation,’ rising flood risks are likely, some of which could cause ‘some island nations’ to become uninhabitable ‘due to climate-related ocean and cryosphere change.’”

I notice quite often in this report that “this or that” is “likely to happen,” and that “this or that” “could happen.”

It’s hard to push all of your chips in on man-made climate change with these types of shaky assertions.

They say that “New York City COULD see once-in-a-lifetime floods every five years.”

I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that New York City MAY NOT see once-in-a-lifetime floods every five years.

Hey!

Look at me!

I’m a scientist!

“The changes, which previous reports have said could shrink ‘virtually all’ economies around the globe by 2100, will affect people, plants, food, societies, infrastructure, in addition to the global economy.”

Oh…, these scientists are economists too?!

“The IPCC report adds to a previous report from the U.N. that some coastal cities and those in the Arctic region will have to adapt. The previous report, published on June 25 from the United Nations Human Rights Council, warned that a potential ‘climate apartheid’ could fracture the global population, splitting the planet between the wealthy and the rest of the world who will be ‘left to suffer.’”

And there we have it.

The splitting of the world’s population between “the wealthy and the rest of the world who will be left to suffer.”

And that’s different from the world’s current economic structure how?

And when I said “does it even matter?” at the top of this article, here’s what I mean.

Let’s take a quick survey here.

Raise your hand if you would be willing to stop using your own personal car, truck or motorcycle in order to reduce fossil fuel emissions.

Raise your hand if you think it would be acceptable to do away with commercial airlines, and severely limit the energy use and production of manufacturing companies of all types.

Hmmm.

I didn’t notice a lot of hand going up.

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That’s exactly what I mean when I say “does it even matter?”

Regardless of what may or may not be going on with the climate, and regardless of who is or who is not responsible for it, 99% of us are really not willing to do anything serious about it, because………

NO MATTER WHAT WE DO, IT WON’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE!

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And do you seriously think we could get everyone in the world to agree to living like people did before the industrial revolution?

When these elite liberals say “we” have to do this and “we” need to do that…., what they really mean is “we,” NOT THEY, need to make sacrifices.  THEY aren’t willing to sacrifice anything.

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“Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” – Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

Yes my friends…, it’s true…, the democrats have adopted this Nazi strategy…, along with others.

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If you stand back and objectively view what is going on in American politics…, it’s hard to deny that the democrats have morphed into a sick,  “new Nazi party,” with the propagandistic mainstream media as their partners is crime.

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The democrats, of course, in keeping with their strategy, attempt to attach the “Nazi” moniker to the conservatives, and label President Trump as “Hitler.”

During the 2016 election, the democrats questioned whether the conservatives and Donald Trump would accept the results of the presidential election.

We now see that the democrats are the ones unwilling to accept the results of the 2016 election.

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Donald Trump is accused of “Russian collusion,” and hounded about this for over two years.

We now see that it was Hillary Clinton and the rest of the democrats who colluded with Russia. It was the Clinton campaign that financed the phony Russian dossier.

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Donald Trump is accused of “rigging” the 2016 election.

We now see that it was Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration, and the democrats who attempted to “rig” the election.  The Trump campaign was spied on by the very people who should have been protecting the campaign.

We have also learned how the liberals at Google and Facebook attempted to influence the election by directing users to pro-democrat sites and anti-conservative sites.

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The President’s spokesperson, Kellyanne Conway is accused of violating The Hatch Act, which is a law designed to prohibit employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice president, and certain designated high-level officials, from engaging in foreign discussions and negotiations independent of the government and its policy.  This was a baseless accusation.

We see these disingenuous charges as we see former Obama Secretary of State, John Kerry, in discussions with the leaders of Iran for some unknown reason, in violation of the Logan Act. The Logan Act is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized persons with foreign governments having a dispute with the United States. The intent behind the Act is to prevent unauthorized negotiations from undermining the government’s position.

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Donald Trump is accused of obstruction of justice.

We now know that various members of the Obama administration (his DOJ, FBI and CIA) basically tried to establish a coup to take down the newly, and duly, elected President of the United States.

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We saw the Obama administration illegally use the phony Russian dossier as a basis for obtaining FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign.

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We also saw Obama Attorney General, Loretta Lynch, meet with former President Bill Clinton in order to get Hillary off the hook for her shady and illegal email handling.

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Donald Trump is accused of illegal dealings with Ukraine…, by someone who apparently has no direct knowledge of what supposedly occurred here.  How does that work, and what the hell does that mean?  This “twice removed whistle blower” is now apparently going to testify before Congress.  Isn’t hearsay inadmissible?

We now learn it was Joe Biden and the Obama administration who had the corrupt dealings with Ukraine.

“Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty,” then sit back and let the “biased, liberal propaganda, fake news media” take over…, focusing on the democrats’ charges, while basically ignoring and covering-up the democrats’ sins.

It is somewhat effective with those who aren’t really paying attention…, and those who choose to look the other way.

What will be the next false accusation?

And the false accusation after that?

Keep your eyes open.  We have over a whole year to go until the 2020 elections.

The “fake news,” liberal propaganda has only begun to hit the fan!

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This is what the “Occupy Democrats” posted when Barack Obama was President. I wonder if they would apply the same beliefs where President trump is concerned?

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Hey…, little drama queen from Sweden…, here’s a quarter, call someone who cares!

According to Kalhan Rosenblatt of NBC News, “Teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg delivered an emotional and scathing speech at the United Nations on Monday, accusing world leaders of stealing her dreams and her childhood with their inaction on climate change.”

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First of all, who exactly invited a 16 year old to speak at the United Nations about “climate change?”

How exactly do you get on this docket?

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We’ve got almost 8 billion people on this planet, and we have to put up with a 16 year old lecturing us all on “climate change?”

How about some scientist, who would at least have some semblance of a little credibility?

This kid still has two years left of high school!

I think we can all recall how stupid and immature sophomores in high school are.

But hey…, let’s have this ignorant little girl, who still hasn’t even passed high school biology or chemistry, lecture us about how irresponsible, stupid and evil we are regarding the environment.

Won’t that be fun?

Maybe we could have her lecture us on our sexual and reproductive issues next week?

‘“How dare you!  You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,’ Thunberg said.”

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Hey Greta…, how dare you?!  And newsflash…, your childhood IS basically over already, and you are the one who has allowed your dreams to be hijacked, if you had any besides allowing yourself to be tool, to be used by these globalist climate whackos.

‘“I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back at school on the other side of the ocean,’ the 16-year-old from Sweden told the United Nations Climate Action Summit.”

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Here, here!

These are the only two sentences you said that I agree with!

‘“Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!’”

Uhhh, who exactly is coming to you for hope?

We’re not a tad delusional are we?

“Thunberg slammed the members of the U.N. for caring more about money and ‘fairytales of eternal economic growth’ than collapsing ecosystems, mass extinctions and people suffering due to climate change.”

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“Fairytales of eternal economic growth?”

That’s a nice line, Greta…, who came up with that for you, and what video game world are you living in?

‘“You say you hear us and that you understand the urgency, but no matter how sad and angry I am I do not want to believe that because if you really understood the situation and still kept on failing to act, then you would be evil, and that I refuse to believe,’ Thunberg said.”

What exactly would you have us do Ms. Thunberg?

You seem to know exactly what is going to happen to our planet.

Please, please tell us we need to do…, I mean besides going back to living like we did in the stone ages.

I don’t suppose that would even suffice you, as I believe they ate quite a bit of meat back in those days.

And you know, they burned wood to keep warm as well.

Perhaps we should all just kill ourselves in order to save the planet?

“She also said that the ‘popular idea’ of cutting emissions by 50 percent in 10 years only yields a 50 percent chance of keeping the earth’s warming trend below the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold, which could set off ‘catastrophic chain reactions beyond human control’ if breached.”

Ha!  Another newsflash for you Greta!

THE EARTH IS BEYOND HUMAN CONTROL!

The idea that you and your whacko friends have that WE can somehow control or change the earth’s climate is the real “fairytale” here.

‘“A 50 percent risk is simply not acceptable to us — we who have to live with the consequences,’ she said.”

You speak of these theoretical possibilities as if they were forgone conclusions…, just like you’d expect a child would do.

“Thunberg said the earth’s remaining CO2 budget was rapidly dwindling — citing a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that said the planet has experienced a more than 70 gigaton deficit in the earth’s remaining CO2 budget since January 2018.”

The only “deficit” we are experiencing here is a deficit of logic and historical global climate understanding.

“But Thunberg said leaders from the United Nations wouldn’t suggest more radical plans to reduce emissions because they are ‘still not mature enough to tell it like it is.’”

And you’re still not mature enough to understand that “what it is like” is a matter of perception.

‘“You are failing us but young people are starting to understand your betrayal,’ Thunberg said. ‘The eyes of all future generations are upon you and if you choose to fail us, I say we will never forgive you.’”

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Oh, I say…, how will we all live without your forgiveness?

Late on Monday, President Donald Trump retweeted a video of her speech, saying, “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO  — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019”

“Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, said countries ‘must honor our commitments and follow through on the Paris Agreement,’ in a clear [jab] at the Trump administration.”

‘“The withdrawal of certain parties will not shake the collective goal of the world community,’ Mr Yi said, to applause.”

Oh yes…, please applaud Wang here from China, as he pokes at the U.S., while his country of China is FAR AND AWAY the most egregious environmental violator on the planet.

Zip it, Wang.

And I’ll tell you what Ms. Greta…, I’d like to invite you back to the United Nations in 2032, so you can explain to us all why we’re all still here and why the earth and all of its creatures have not yet perished.

At least you’ll be an adult by then who may know a little something about something.

WINNING!

 

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Teacher student loan forgiveness…, now you see it…, now you don’t!

In an attempt to lure people into public service, Congress designed the public service loan forgiveness (PSLF) program in 2007 to reduce the student debt burden for borrowers with a decade of service in government or nonprofit jobs.

That seems like a pretty decent deal.

You go to college, get your degree, get a job as a teacher, or some other job that serves the public, work at that job for at least 20 years, faithfully make at least 120 monthly payments on your student loans, and then get the remainder of your loans forgiven.

The only problem is Congresses’ program is a sham.

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This would seem to be a clear case of what we call “adding insult to injury.”

99% of the people applying for this loan forgiveness, even though they qualify, are denied loan forgiveness.

Oh…, and I forgot the part about going through the painful process of documenting and submitting everything to the Department of Education before being unceremoniously denied.

Then, according to Aarthi Swaminathan and Reggie Wade for Yahoo! News, “Responding to this extreme denial rate of the program in 2018, Congress approved funding to expand the number of borrowers in an initiative called the Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF).”

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So Congress, performing at a level of ineptness only it could achieve, doubled down on its ineffectiveness.

We stupidly went through the painful process of documenting and submitting everything…, again…, to the Department of Education (DOE) before being unceremoniously rejected…, again!

“As of May this year, the DOE had received 54,000 requests for TEPSLF and only approved 1% of these requests.”

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‘“We recognize that the many restrictive eligibility requirements of PSLF and TEPSLF make the program difficult for borrowers to understand and navigate,’ Jeff Appel [an administrator for] Federal Student Aid [via] the U.S. Department of Education wrote in his testimony. ‘We are absolutely committed to helping borrowers navigate this complexity.’”

Yes, Mr. Appel, we are all thoroughly impressed by your commitment.

The question is, why does it have to be so complex?

The whole process seems like it should be pretty clear cut.

Like I said earlier, “You go to college, get your degree, get a job as a teacher, or some other job that serves the public, work at that job for at least 20 years, faithfully make at least 120 monthly payments on your student loans, and then get the remainder of your loans forgiven.”

If you can document that you meet all of these requirements, they should hold up their end of the bargain.

Am I right?

Illegal immigrants don’t seem to have any problem “navigating” their way through getting all of their freebies and federal benefits, which they so richly deserve!

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“One of 99% was Kelly Finlaw, a public school teacher in New York who recently testified about her experience with FedLoan Servicing.”

‘“I was misled. Not just by FedLoan, but by other servicers. I was lied to,’ Finlaw testified to Congress last week.”

‘“I did what I was asked to do. I called, I made my payments on time. I paid every month,’ Finlaw said, later adding: ‘After 10 years of making student loan payments, October 2017 was my month — my light at the end of the tunnel. I remember standing in my living room when the light at the tunnel went dark.’”

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“This summer, Finlaw joined the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the second-largest teachers union in the U.S., in a lawsuit that calls on the U.S. government to fix the PSLF program.”

‘“Large numbers of borrowers have pursued careers in public service, sometimes at lower pay than in the private sector, with the hope of one day achieving loan forgiveness through the PSLF program,’ Melissa Emrey-Arras, the Government Accounting Office’s (GAO’s) director of education workforce and income security issues, wrote in her testimony. ‘Education needs to take action to better serve these borrowers and help smooth their long road towards loan forgiveness.’”

This sounds good Ms. Emrey-Arras, but we all know these are just more empty words.

Just another example of how much we value our educators.

I’ll keep you posted on when…, if ever, this situation gets resolved.

I wouldn’t hold your breath if I were you.

 

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As far as support for educating our children goes…, actions (and money) speak louder than words.

No one would deny that educating our children properly and effectively should be one our society’s highest priorities.

Right?

I mean, every election cycle, isn’t “education” always a hot topic?

Isn’t the education of the country’s children a priority?

Many of us talk a good “education” game, but then when it comes to putting money where our mouths are, we drop the ball.

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We can talk about the importance of “education” all we want…, but the numbers don’t lie.

If we value “education,” then don’t we have to value our teachers as well?

After all, what is “education” without teachers?

Effective learning and effective teaching go hand in hand.

But the numbers don’t lie…, and apparently, we don’t value our teachers very much at all.

If we look at the top 25 paying jobs in America, per the Glassdoor website, we won’t find any teaching jobs here.

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But they must be fairly close to making the top 25 list, right?

I mean in order to even be hired as a teacher, a bachelor’s degree in “Education” is required, along with a “teachable” minor degree. State competency tests must be passed, and a background check must be passed as well, before someone can then be “certified” as a “teacher.”

On-going professional training and college level courses must then be completed prior to being re-certified every five years.

Note: Glassdoor is a website where current and former employees anonymously review companies. Glassdoor also allows users to anonymously submit and view salaries as well as search and apply for jobs on its platform.

So where do teachers come in?

Well, according to the United States Department of Labor, with data as of 2018, the highest ranking teaching position would be a college law professor.  Ranking at number 37, with an average annual salary of $130,710.

Next on their list would be a college medical professor.  Ranking at number 46, and averaging $122,320 annually.

We continue to see more college level positions scattered throughout the next 64 positions…, which then brings us to Elementary and Secondary Education Administrators, ranked at 110, earning $98,750 annually.

But that’s the “Administrators.”

So our regular old “school teachers” should be coming up soon, right?

As we continue through the list, I don’t see them as we go all the way down to number 200.

I then continue down the list, and I still don’t see teachers listed in the top 300!

Then finally…, there…, all the way down at position 370 are our elementary and secondary teachers, with an average yearly salary of $62,200.

Yes folks…, we value our children’s education so much that we are willing to pay their teachers an average of $62K per year.

We value our children’s education so much that their teacher’s salary ranks 370th on the list of highest paying jobs in our country, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

370th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s hard to believe isn’t it?

But the numbers don’t lie.

But 370th?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That means that there are 369 jobs out there that are apparently more valuable than being a teacher.

Off the top of your head…, could you list 10-15 jobs more important, or more difficult than being a teacher?

How about 15-25 jobs more important, or more difficult than being a teacher?

How about 100 jobs?!

200 jobs?!

300 jobs?!

369 jobs?!

Well, I think you get my point.

Teachers being ranked at number 370 on this list is absolutely ridiculous and a slap in the face to all of our teachers out there.

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I have to admit that I have personally been an elementary teacher and a high school teacher in my life, so I do carry some bias here…,

But number 370?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously?!

Believe me, it’s not easy managing the behavior of a classroom full of kids, while managing to instruct them across a curriculum with multiple subjects, not to mention all of the life lessons teachers impart regarding communicating, getting along with others, manners, etc.

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And many, many teachers have to pay for many of their own classroom supplies and snacks on top of it!

And yet, some individuals will still say that teachers are overpaid!!!!

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Yes…, some say that Teachers’ salaries are driving up their taxes…, and that they only work 9 or 10 months a year on top of it!

Some people feel that Teachers are just glorified babysitters and that they should be paid as such.

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Okay…, well, let’s look at this scenario and see how much money we’d all save!

We can get a “babysitter” for way less than minimum wage, right?

That’s right!  Let’s give these “teachers” $3.00 an hour, which isn’t bad at all for your average babysitter…, and only for the hours they actually are in class; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school on grading papers, attending special programs, parent conferences, or running clubs or coaching sports.

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That would come to $19.50 a day (7:45 A.M. to 3:00 P.M., with 45 min. off for lunch and planning.  That equals 6 1/2 hours).  Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children.

Now how many students do they teach in a day…maybe 30?  So that’s $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day.

However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!!

Aha!!!

We’re not going to pay these teachers for any vacation days!

So, let’s see…, that’s $585 X 180 then, or…, $105,300 per year?

Wait…, what?!  That can’t be right!  That’s way more than their making now!

How could that be?!

(That would move teachers all the way up the list to number 83!  That’s much better, but still quite low in comparison.)

But wait!

What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master’s degrees?

Well, we could be extra generous and pay them minimum wage ($7.75), you know…, like if they worked at Taco Bell or McDonald’s, and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8.00 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year!

I think we just lost a few of our complaining taxpayers!

I also think it’s time for us as a nation to get serious about our children’s education.

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Here are some recent poll numbers regarding Americans’ beliefs regarding UFOs.

According to a recent article by Christopher Carbone of Fox News, “Two-thirds of Americans say the government knows more than it’s saying about UFOs.”

Well that’s a pretty safe assumption to believe the government knows more about something than it lets on.

“In a Gallup poll released Friday, 68 percent of respondents said the government is not leveling with the public about what it knows, however, it appears that the public remains skeptical of actual sightings of unidentified flying objects.”

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“Only 33 percent of U.S. adults believe that some UFO sightings over the years have in fact been alien spacecraft visiting Earth.”

“The remaining 60 percent are skeptical, saying that all such sightings can be explained by human activity or natural phenomenon.”

“The poll also has a demographic breakdown of which Americans are more likely to believe that UFOs are alien spacecraft.”

Of course…, they had to go “there.”

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“Residents of the West rate the highest, with 40 percent, compared with 32 percent for those in the East and 27 percent in the Midwest. Americans of a lower socioeconomic status are more likely to believe UFOs are real, as well.”

“Socioeconomic status” is the new politically correct term for “how rich you are.”

It sounds like they are entertaining doubts about the intelligence of people based on a lack of wealth.

Far be it for us lowlifes to question the intelligence of all of these well-to-do people who become alcoholic, and drug addicts because their life is so hard.

Far be it for us lowlifes to question the intelligence of all of these well-to-do people who feel the need to go into therapy or rehab on a regular basis because their life is so hard.

Far be it for us lowlifes to question the intelligence of all of these well-to-do people who feel the need commit suicide because their life is so hard.

It must be such a terrible burden to be so intelligent and so rich.

“Intelligence” is a relative term I guess.

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” – Epictetus

“True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know.” – Confucius

“The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

Are you getting the picture?

“Whether or not Americans believe the government is being honest, it’s clear from the poll that the topic has entered the country’s consciousness, since 86 percent of adults say they have heard of or read about unidentified flying objects.”

WAIT, WHAT?!

I believe we have stumbled across the most important statistic of all here!

The poll says that “86 percent of adults have heard of or read about unidentified flying objects [UFOs].”

I would hope so, since “the country” has been dealing with UFOs for well over 100 years now!

It kind of started with H.G. Wells’ novel “The War of the Worlds,” then Orson Welles’ famous radio broadcast, “The War of the Worlds.”  Then the Roswell incident, then Project Blue Book, followed by thousands of books and hundreds of movies and TV shows on the subject.

What about all of the interest in “Area 51,” intermittent news reports on the subject and the many documentaries that are out there?

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How about the movie series “Alien?”  How about “Star Trek,” “E.T.,” “Close encounters of the Third Kind,” “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” “Independence Day,” “Men in Black,” “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Contact,” or “The Thing?”

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How about TV shows like “Ancient Aliens?”  How about shows like “The X-Files,” “The Outer Limits,” “Lost in Space,” “Star Trek,” “3rd Rock from The Sun,” “My Favorite Martian,” “The Invaders,” “Star Gate,” “Alf,” “Mork and Mindy,” or the many others?

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That means that 14% of the adults in the poll have NEVER HEARD OF and are NOT AWARE OF UFOs or aliens at all!

WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?!

Who are these 14% of people who have never heard of UFOs before?!

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I believe this is virtually impossible.

I mean, you may not believe in UFOs, and that’s okay, but surely you’ve heard of UFOs!

So, what does this mean?

My theory is that these 14% are not telling the truth!

It means this 14% are actually aliens who do not want to give any credence to the whole UFO topic, thus blowing their cover!

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It’s either that or we have 14% of adults out there who are too stupid to even imagine.

On second thought, I guess I could go either way.

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Stay thirsty my friends!

But remember…, don’t drink the “fake news’” Kool Aide!

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Let me introduce you to the five kinds of liberals, or democrats, as I see them.

Saying someone is a liberal or a democrat is an over generalization that doesn’t do many of these people justice, or on the other hand call them out for what they really are.

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Here are my five liberal/democrat sub-groups:

The Architects, or The Puppet Masters – People like George Soros, Saul Alinsky, Thomas Steyer, and Donald Sussman.  For the most part you don’t know much about these people, and that’s the way they like it.  Their goal is to destroy America as we know it, and they have the money to finance their vision.

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The Tools, or The Puppets – Most politicians and activists like Barack Obama, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Nancy Pelosi and Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, for example. They are the upper level “tools” used by The Architects to advance their agenda and narrative.  They believe they are more important than they really are.  This group would also include other members of “the swamp,” “the deep state,” and the “biased, liberal propaganda, fake news media.”

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The Confused, or The Sheep – This is the biggest group.  This group contains many well intentioned people who are just naïve, misinformed, misguided, looking to find their way or just looking to belong.  Many splinter groups are in this category as well, like various sex and gender groups, as well as many other special interest groups.

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The Militants – These people are driven by race, religion and/or ethnicity, and profit by keeping these divisions amongst us alive.  They are activists, extremists, and radicals.  Many of the leaders in this area graduate into being a “tool.”

The Freeloaders – These are people who don’t really care about issues or our country.  They’re just lazy, and they want the government to take care of them and give them stuff for free.

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Did I miss anyone?

Please let me know what you think about my list.

 

“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia…could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”

― Abraham Lincoln

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