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“… the two largest unions in America, the National Education Association(NEA) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees(AFSCME).. . organized labor had a commitment to a permanently, large and growing government and into public schools: those employees-operating Monopoly outside the free market-now represented unions only hope of a long time survival.”

“The academy always tended toward liberalism, but were kept in check by religion, government, and society to render a relative degree of political balance for more than a century. In the 1930s, the artistic and intellectual elite, rejected capitalism, many going so far as to endorsed Stalinism.“

“It began in 1958, when the national defense education act not expanded the federal education budget, but also marked the key shift by making uncle Sam’ the financial dynamic of education.’ during the great society, Washington earmarked still more money for education, particularly for the less of affluent students. The flood of money was as usual, well intended.“

“In the process of appreciating the genuine benefits of education, however, Americans defy the college degree, and dealing with magical powers of transformation that it never possessed. This nearly religious face and education spending, accounted for the second major factor that helped foster student riots in the 1960s: money, especially federal dollars.”

“Later surveys would show the 1950s generation to be in many ways one of the least religious groups in American history, and this may end part count for why they’re success-while genuine and admirable in many cases-was fleeting. Sooner or later, a safety foundation of civic virtue, unsupported by deeper spiritual commitments, would crumble.”

“. . . allowed the government to conceal the total tax burden from the public and make it easier to steadily raise taxes, not just during the war, but for decades. it was the burden of laying aside money that had focused the public attention on taxation levels.“

“Other insidious changes in the taxation found their way into the code, the most damaging of which involve the introduction in July 1943 of withholding taxes from paychecks of employees. That subtle, described sympathetically by one text as ‘an innovative feature’ where ‘no longer would taxpayers have to set aside money to pay their total tax bill… at the end of the year. . .’l

“Virtually every one of the new deal programs in someway made the people more dependent on government-not more independent, or self-sufficient-and when the government was run by Democrats, the logical conclusion voters had to draw was whatever they got from government ‘came’ from the Democrats.

“Americans showed they need a chicken soup for this soul-stories of courage, hope, and optimism-not another application of leeches or dose of castor oil masquerading as social commentary.“