So Vital!

Everyone knows the definition of an honest politician – one who stays bought.

I’m running for governor primarily to make a big deal about an issue no democratic or republican party candidate would dare mention – getting money COMPLETELY out of our politics.

No other issue is so vital to the health and quality of government.

What is needed in government is a commitment to work for the public good above special interests. That’s not what we have.  EVERY illness in our body politic stems from this one root-cause.  I intend to stop it in its tracks by Executive Order. No more bribes, no more gifts, no more favoritism for those seeking or holding office.

Candidates for public office can publish their resumes and beliefs in an expanded voter’s guide. Nothing else is needed. The best IDEAS for improving society should determine our votes, not the advertising agencies that sell us candidates like they sell us soap.

We don’t allow those who judge our laws to be conflicted by money.  The same should hold true for those who make and enforce our laws.

I’m embarrassed…

…that many of us are on the streets reduced to penury, in this, the richest country in the history of the world. I’m embarrassed that each child isn’t provided an income so they might share in the riches of our inheritance.

I’m embarrassed that our most difficult, tedious and valuable kind of labor, motherhood, goes completely unremunerated. Being a factory owner, I view things from that perspective. The real product of Factory America is the next generation.  That’s the bottom line and that’s where we should all focus our attention.

I’m embarrassed that we spend more on caging people than we spend on higher education. I’m embarrassed that we have a government for sale. I’m embarrassed that we torment our children and teachers with a Prussian Military education system that teaches them to obey and believe instead of learning to question. I’m embarrassed that we’ve allowed ourselves to become subservient to a nanny state as a consequence of this education system.

I’m embarrassed that our country  has been so intimidated by demagogue politicians that we devote half our industrial output to protect it, from what I can’t discern. I’m embarrassed that we fund this spending by printing paper money instead of raising taxes, shifting the debt to our kids and hyper-inflating our currency. That shows a serious lack of character.

We owe it to our children and grandchildren to do something about these embarrassments. Ralph Waldo Emerson says the state is a trick. Clearly it’s time for a new trick. Nothing should be off the table to get this factory humming again, justice demands it.

What should kids learn in school?

It will come as no surprise to those who’ve read my previous blogs on our education system that I think it stinks, a Prussian military invention that has produced a fearful nation of non-readers and non-thinkers. Pouring more money into more of the same will only make things worse. We need to totally rethink what an education should be, and whether government should have any role at all in providing it. We need diversity in education, not all be stamped out like sub-standard parts on a Chinese assembly line.

Our schools do not teach us how to grow, preserve and safely handle food, the most important thing anyone can learn. Our schools do not teach us how to eat properly, what to eat and what to avoid. It is ruining our health. The information is out there but it isn’t being passed along.

Our schools do not teach anything about the law, an amazing fact considering we’re a country founded on law.

Our kids are not taught how to diagnose illness. Africans were taught that with a yes/no chart and could diagnose as well as 99% of American physicians after three months of practice.

Our schools do not teach us how to build or fix things electrical or mechanical, so remain ignorant of such things in an electro-mechanical world.

Our schools do not teach the practical aspect of ethics. No person can rise above the level of his own character.

What the teacher’s union IS allowed to teach is very strictly dictated by competition, so nothing one can earn a living with is allowed to be taught. Of course, the real point of our education system is to act as babysitters, while parents, both of them, are working at mostly boring and irrelevant jobs, working twice the hours necessary just to feed an overblown military/welfare/police/prison state that doesn’t even resemble what our founding fathers imagined.

It isn’t the state’s responsibility to educate your children; it’s a parent’s responsibility. The whole point of an education is to teach people the art of providing for themselves. Does that sound even remotely like what public education does? No wonder the kids and teachers hate it.

All the other candidates in this governor race say education is their top priority but all just want to spend more doing the same thing, digging us deeper into this trench. Delegating someone else the responsibility for educating your children is like having another guy take your wife on her honeymoon.  Some things you must just do for yourself.

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html