As head of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen deserves to be
lambasted. As a human being we should treat her nicely, but I'm
thinking she missed her calling in life.
Instead of being head of the
FED, she should have been head of the Centers for Disease Control. Her policies at the FED have put the economy into a complete recession, essentially world-wide. Good for her banker friends, bad for the other 7 billion of us.
What she
needs to be doing is cancer research. Her policies could put cancer into
complete recession (remission). She simply missed her calling
in life. She doesn't know what she's doing as the head of the FED, but she could
use those same policies that are so effective in putting our economy into
remission at any Cancer Research Unit. She's just missed her calling, that's
all!
I have admired Lew Rockwell for some time. He is a great thinker and visionary for liberty. You don't believe me? Just watch this:
If you disagree with me or Lew, please explain why we should prefer war, propaganda, central planning, and lies to peace, prosperity, truth and liberty!
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an evil and stupid bureaucratic spy organization, basically the private army, not of the president of the United States, but of the establishment. (The president is the PR front, the poster child of the establishment.)
Its headquarters is named the George Bush Center for Intelligence. Is that ironic or what? Is that supposed to be funny? I know that it is named for George H. W. Bush, not Dubya, but still, who connects the name George Bush will intelligence????? What the heck?
And, how about their unofficial motto?
"And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free."
Is that blasphemous or what? Or optimistically, we will come to know that the CIA is evil and that may eventually make us free.
Oh, and another thing about the half wit, Dubya. He went to Yale and got a degree in history. Later, as POTUS, he invaded Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires. Obviously he didn't learn a darn thing at Yale, much less about history!
I used to believe that curriculum was an objective thing. I assumed that smart people got together and concretely put together a list of things that one should learn to be educated.
I could not have been more wrong. For example, Gary North enlightened me as to the genesis of a four year college education:
In the twelfth century, the
University of Paris developed a four-year undergraduate curriculum, and
nothing since then has shaken that decision. There is no particular
technical reason today for a four-year curriculum, but it has always
been the worldwide standard for undergraduate education. Similarly, the
basic structure of the university's pedagogy has not changed. Professors
still lecture to students, still grade examinations, and still exercise
almost total autonomy within the classroom.
Common Core, now fashionable in the US because of the federales in DC, is also purely an invention. The educrats in those 10 square miles on the Potomac do not and cannot know what your child should learn. Most likely, Common Core will teach kids the proclivities of the educrats themselves, or other damaging baloney.
My beef with public schools is not a beef with education, but with who controls education. Schooling can never be neutral. What is taught is engineered to the desires of those paying the bills. He who pays the piper picks the tune.
As the US and world slip into another recession (or an extension of the 2008 recession), we desperately need more entrepreneurs and creative people, two things most definitely not taught in public schools and more likely stamped out by public schools.
Each child's parents are in a far better place to develop a curriculum individualized for that child than any educrat.
Maybe the mother of a modern Moses or another Newton will read my blog and become convinced that she will direct the learning of her child and not defer to a system that doesn't have the best interests of that kid in mind. She doesn't need to be a genius or even formally educated. She just needs to be tenacious, like most mothers are.
What is the alternative to public schools? There are a billion alternatives, each one tailored to the individual needs of a child by the parents. Homeschooling, online schooling, apprenticeships, self directed learning, infinite combinations of each and so many more that haven't even been thought of yet.
Mitt Romney has been hating on The Donald. Some of you may not have
had the chance to read his comments, so I will summarize for your
convenience
Mitt would rather Hillary become POTUS than have The Donald. Maybe he is hoping to throw the Republican convention and get the nomination himself? Anything as long as The Donald is not the GOP's choice. His machinations will likely mean Hillary will become the next president. That will be fine by me, since she will hopefully get 4 full years of grinding recession blamed on her and the Democrats. Then, maybe the great default will be here and the feddle gummint will have shrunk mightily. One can daydream.
