Six of ten black babies are aborted. 75% of black children are born out of wedlock.
You are about to be inaugurated for a second term. Why can't you concentrate on these problems and accomplish something great for our nation?
This is not about money. This is not about programs. This is not about politics. We all support the formation of loving black families. We all support the care of black children.
This effort will benefit our entire nation. There is no greater problem that you can help begin to solve.
President Obama we have a problem. Please step forward.
Obama supporters shocked, angry at new tax increases:
"Shocker. Democrats who supported the president’s re-election just had NO idea that his steadfast pledge to raise taxes meant that he was really going to raise taxes. They thought he planned to just hit those filthy “1 percenters,” you know, the ones who earned fortunes through their inventiveness and hard work. They thought the free ride would continue forever."
"So let’s explain something to our ill-informed Democratic friends. In 2009, Mr. Obama enacted a “holiday” on the payroll tax deduction from employees’ paychecks, dropping the rate from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. But like the holidays, the drop ended, and like New Year‘s, the revelers woke up the next morning with a massive hangover and a pounding head.
“Bake,” who may have been trolling the site, jumped into the thread posted Friday. “My paycheck just went down. So did my wife’s. This hurts us. But everybody says it’s a good thing, so I guess we just suck it up and get used to it. I call it a tax increase on the middle class. I wonder what they call it. Somebody on this thread called it a ‘premium.’ Nope. It’s a tax, and it just went up.”
Some in the thread argued that the new tax — or the end of the “holiday,” which makes it a new tax — wouldn’t really amount to much. One calculated it would cost about $86 a month for most people. “Honeycombe8,” though, said that amount is nothing to sneeze at.
“$86 a month is a lot. That would pay for … Groceries for a week, as someone said. More than what I pay for parking every month, after my employer’s contribution to that. A new computer after a year. A new quality pair of shoes … every month. Months of my copay for my hormones. A new thick coat (on sale or at discount place). It would pay for what I spend on my dogs every month … food, vitamins, treats.”
The Twittersphere was even funnier.
“Really, how am I ever supposed to pay off my student loans if my already small paycheck keeps getting smaller? Help a sister out, Obama,” wrote “Meet Virginia.” “Nancy Thongkham” was much more furious. “F***ing Obama! F*** you! This taking out more taxes s*** better f***ing help me out!! Very upset to see my paycheck less today!”
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/6/obama-supporters-shocked-angry-new-tax-increases/#ixzz2HxwNGYuJ Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
How Many Students Really Graduate From High School?
D.C. sees huge drop in graduation rate under new calculation
New calculation has widespread impacts
So why does D.C.'s graduation rate appear to have plummeted nearly 20 percentage points in a year? Because until now, D.C. used a formula researchers consider generous to calculate graduation rates. Now, for the first time, the federal government is requiring states to follow a standardized method.
In some states, graduation rates are in free fall. D.C. appears to be in this category; one D.C. school, Ballou STAY (School to Aid Youth) boasted a gradation rate of 99 percent two years ago; last year, under the new calculation, their grad rate was just 12 percent.
Former rates based on flawed data
To determine how this new method could result in such a steep change for the District’s graduation rate, one needs to look at the extremely complicated system for calculating graduation rates, which has historically involved a lot of fuzzy math.
Just a decade ago, the percentage of students completing high school was measured using a survey conducted by the U.S. Census, and the reports were always positive, according to Robert Balfanz, a Johns Hopkins University professor and one of the nation’s top experts on dropouts.
When the national graduation rate appeared to hit 90 percent, Balfanz says, researchers decided to take a closer look.
"And then you recognize that that was based on a telephone survey that doesn't include people in prison, for example, doesn't include people who don’t want to talk to people who call them at night," he says. In addition, people know it's important to graduate high school, so they may say they graduated when they didn't.
"So on all sides, sort of inflating it and sort of all agreeing we don't have a problem when we really did," Balfanz says.
"You would see wild celebrations at the end of the year, when 150 kids would graduate," he says. "And then you would look and say, but they said they had 600 kids in 9th grade. And they are wildly celebrating 150 kids graduating."
"The first step to reducing the dropout rate might be to finally count those teenagers who researchers call 'America's forgotten children.' Because often, what you don;t count, you don't see on paper. And if it's not on paper, it's as if the problem doesn't even exist."
What is really sad is that to ensure more graduates they are lowering the standards in our high schools and many kids cannot pass. Here in CA we have an exit exam called the CASSY which is made up of and English test and a basic math test. At my daughter's school more than 80% pass it the first time they take in their sophomore year.. many of those who do not never do... to address this they have classes to pass the CASSY at our junior colleges which take away resources from the productive children. Let's face it, if one cannot master 1/5 + 2/5 = 3/5 after 12 years of school then we should not be spending anymore money on them. ...Of course we will via prison yet let's not take resources away from those who can benefit society.
Can't the surveyors simply call a random sampling of high schools in the study area and ask what percentage of seniors graduated? Doesn't speak well for a teaching institution if it is incapable of providing that data accurately and promptly, no?
High School Drop Out earns $X dollars. High Scool Graduate earns $Y dollars. College Graduate earns $Z dollars. Z>Y>X
They assume that they very act of graduating qualifies them for a higher salary but the real world doesn't work that way. The real world is based on results.
Thank God today's HS Grads don't have to calculate change. Give them $5.01 to pay for something that costs $4.26 and it blows their mind.
Of course liberals recognize this, that's why they have proposed the next step, everyone categorized in one job title will earn the same pay rate regardless of skill etc...
Prof, we are a century and a half past the civil war. We have spent untold billions of dollars on educational and remedial programs. We have spent untold billions of dollars on housing programs. We have spent untold billions of dollars on various forms of assistance. We have spent untold billions of dollars on planning parenthood (Abortion mills; Six out of ten black babies are aborted by the way).
When are we going to hold those who established and ran these programs accountable? When are we going to bring the failures to the light of day? When are we going to cut off funding for those failed programs and utilize our limited resources more efficiently?
When are we going to reform and find real solutions to the terrible lives that these and future black children face?
Your comment, especially as a former educator and brilliant mind, I find reprehensible. We are talking about children, not some numbers on a form. I challenge you to dispute my figures above and be a part of the solution, not one who by silence is extending this human disaster.
LS. Why offer $5.01 to pay a bill of $4,26. Do you still have one cent pieces in America? Smallest unit here is a five cent coin and the smallest note five dollars. Yes most of our high school graduates would have trouble with the mental calculations. In fairness however they do have cash tills to do the calculations for them. Your problems however are our problems concerning numericy and literacy. A few weeks ago I went to the supermarket and asked for 350Grams of king prawns (Perhaps shrimps to you). The young man put a quantity in a bag and weighed them. "That’s 510 grams,that allrite innit"?. I was very calm as I asked him what was the percentage difference between what I had asked for and what he had weighed. His comment sent me over the edge "sorry mate, this machine don’t do decimals". In common with all other taxpayers, I had paid for the education of this young man. I believe we were badly short changed and so was he. Cheers from Aussie. (I have tried to recount the mispronunciation of words exactly as they were delivered)
Wow, you really asked for a percentage difference? I can only imagine the look I would have gotten if I asked that here.
You brought up a good point: everyone paying for public school education. I didn't go to public school, yet like everyone else, my parents were assessed taxes to pay for the public school system. I never could understand what was fair about that. But that may be a stray from your point, yes?
Jean In a supposedly egalitarian society, perhaps it is correct to tax everyone who can pay for the education of those who cannot afford the cost of educating their own offspring. I think of the times of Dickens and the conditions then obtaining in the so called civilized world. In America the great universities flourished and were receiving grants from past alumni. In the mainstream, the population, Lincoln and Garfield included, were uneducated but making supreme sacrifices to get some” book learning”. The two cases in point, Lincoln and Garfield; both to become president and both to fall victim to a gun, fired by an assassin permitted to own the gun under the second amendment. . In Britain and in Europe, allegedly the heart of civilization, the same situation existed. It was not until free schooling and then compulsory attendance was introduced can we trace the rise in income and accomplishment and the decrease of poverty. Somehow I think now, as we watch personal standards fall away and a more “Me first” mentality take over; we need to address the vote winning practice of the “entitlement society” others here have also spoken against this but in the end, it is us, the people of America or Australia who hold the key to our future. Taxation will be always with us and it is probably more important than ever ,that we wisely supervise the way they are used, rather than how they are raised. Cheers from Aussie
"it is us, the people of America or Australia who hold the key to our future. Taxation will be always with us and it is probably more important than ever ,that we wisely supervise the way they are used, rather than how they are raised."
Six of ten black babies are aborted.
ReplyDelete75% of black children are born out of wedlock.
You are about to be inaugurated for a second term. Why can't you concentrate on these problems and accomplish something great for our nation?
This is not about money. This is not about programs. This is not about politics. We all support the formation of loving black families. We all support the care of black children.
This effort will benefit our entire nation. There is no greater problem that you can help begin to solve.
President Obama we have a problem. Please step forward.
"In black families today a child has only a six percent chance of being raised by a mother and a father under the same household."
ReplyDeleteUSA 2012 Data:
ReplyDeleteInmates By Race
White: 129,467 (59.4 %)
Black: 80,962 (37.2 %)
Native American: 3,974 (1.8 %)
Asian: 3,412 (1.6 %)
USA 2011 Data:
Population
White persons 78.1%
Black persons 13.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native persons, 1.2%
Asian persons, 5.0%
"Somebody need to pay for my 15 kids......"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4477524217303
Our well informed electorate.
ReplyDeleteObama supporters shocked, angry at new tax increases:
"Shocker. Democrats who supported the president’s re-election just had NO idea that his steadfast pledge to raise taxes meant that he was really going to raise taxes. They thought he planned to just hit those filthy “1 percenters,” you know, the ones who earned fortunes through their inventiveness and hard work. They thought the free ride would continue forever."
"So let’s explain something to our ill-informed Democratic friends. In 2009, Mr. Obama enacted a “holiday” on the payroll tax deduction from employees’ paychecks, dropping the rate from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent. But like the holidays, the drop ended, and like New Year‘s, the revelers woke up the next morning with a massive hangover and a pounding head.
“Bake,” who may have been trolling the site, jumped into the thread posted Friday. “My paycheck just went down. So did my wife’s. This hurts us. But everybody says it’s a good thing, so I guess we just suck it up and get used to it. I call it a tax increase on the middle class. I wonder what they call it. Somebody on this thread called it a ‘premium.’ Nope. It’s a tax, and it just went up.”
Some in the thread argued that the new tax — or the end of the “holiday,” which makes it a new tax — wouldn’t really amount to much. One calculated it would cost about $86 a month for most people. “Honeycombe8,” though, said that amount is nothing to sneeze at.
“$86 a month is a lot. That would pay for … Groceries for a week, as someone said. More than what I pay for parking every month, after my employer’s contribution to that. A new computer after a year. A new quality pair of shoes … every month. Months of my copay for my hormones. A new thick coat (on sale or at discount place). It would pay for what I spend on my dogs every month … food, vitamins, treats.”
The Twittersphere was even funnier.
“Really, how am I ever supposed to pay off my student loans if my already small paycheck keeps getting smaller? Help a sister out, Obama,” wrote “Meet Virginia.” “Nancy Thongkham” was much more furious. “F***ing Obama! F*** you! This taking out more taxes s*** better f***ing help me out!! Very upset to see my paycheck less today!”
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/6/obama-supporters-shocked-angry-new-tax-increases/#ixzz2HxwNGYuJ
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
And on the educational propaganda front:
ReplyDeleteHow Many Students Really Graduate From High School?
D.C. sees huge drop in graduation rate under new calculation
New calculation has widespread impacts
So why does D.C.'s graduation rate appear to have plummeted nearly 20 percentage points in a year? Because until now, D.C. used a formula researchers consider generous to calculate graduation rates. Now, for the first time, the federal government is requiring states to follow a standardized method.
In some states, graduation rates are in free fall. D.C. appears to be in this category; one D.C. school, Ballou STAY (School to Aid Youth) boasted a gradation rate of 99 percent two years ago; last year, under the new calculation, their grad rate was just 12 percent.
Former rates based on flawed data
To determine how this new method could result in such a steep change for the District’s graduation rate, one needs to look at the extremely complicated system for calculating graduation rates, which has historically involved a lot of fuzzy math.
Just a decade ago, the percentage of students completing high school was measured using a survey conducted by the U.S. Census, and the reports were always positive, according to Robert Balfanz, a Johns Hopkins University professor and one of the nation’s top experts on dropouts.
When the national graduation rate appeared to hit 90 percent, Balfanz says, researchers decided to take a closer look.
"And then you recognize that that was based on a telephone survey that doesn't include people in prison, for example, doesn't include people who don’t want to talk to people who call them at night," he says. In addition, people know it's important to graduate high school, so they may say they graduated when they didn't.
"So on all sides, sort of inflating it and sort of all agreeing we don't have a problem when we really did," Balfanz says.
"You would see wild celebrations at the end of the year, when 150 kids would graduate," he says. "And then you would look and say, but they said they had 600 kids in 9th grade. And they are wildly celebrating 150 kids graduating."
"The first step to reducing the dropout rate might be to finally count those teenagers who researchers call 'America's forgotten children.' Because often, what you don;t count, you don't see on paper. And if it's not on paper, it's as if the problem doesn't even exist."
http://wamu.org/news/12/01/30/how_many_students_really_graduate_from_high_school
What is really sad is that to ensure more graduates they are lowering the standards in our high schools and many kids cannot pass. Here in CA we have an exit exam called the CASSY which is made up of and English test and a basic math test. At my daughter's school more than 80% pass it the first time they take in their sophomore year.. many of those who do not never do... to address this they have classes to pass the CASSY at our junior colleges which take away resources from the productive children. Let's face it, if one cannot master 1/5 + 2/5 = 3/5 after 12 years of school then we should not be spending anymore money on them. ...Of course we will via prison yet let's not take resources away from those who can benefit society.
DeleteWilliam,
DeleteCan't the surveyors simply call a random sampling of high schools in the study area and ask what percentage of seniors graduated? Doesn't speak well for a teaching institution if it is incapable of providing that data accurately and promptly, no?
Jean
Activists have all seen the statistics.
ReplyDeleteHigh School Drop Out earns $X dollars.
High Scool Graduate earns $Y dollars.
College Graduate earns $Z dollars. Z>Y>X
They assume that they very act of graduating qualifies them for a higher salary but the real world doesn't work that way. The real world is based on results.
Thank God today's HS Grads don't have to calculate change. Give them $5.01 to pay for something that costs $4.26 and it blows their mind.
Of course liberals recognize this, that's why they have proposed the next step, everyone categorized in one job title will earn the same pay rate regardless of skill etc...
livestrongest,
DeleteThe same pay rate? I thought the 'living wage' notion was that everyone should get paid according to their need.
Jean
The obvious solution to your problems is to bring back slavery.
ReplyDeleteProf, we are a century and a half past the civil war. We have spent untold billions of dollars on educational and remedial programs. We have spent untold billions of dollars on housing programs. We have spent untold billions of dollars on various forms of assistance. We have spent untold billions of dollars on planning parenthood (Abortion mills; Six out of ten black babies are aborted by the way).
DeleteWhen are we going to hold those who established and ran these programs accountable? When are we going to bring the failures to the light of day? When are we going to cut off funding for those failed programs and utilize our limited resources more efficiently?
When are we going to reform and find real solutions to the terrible lives that these and future black children face?
Your comment, especially as a former educator and brilliant mind, I find reprehensible. We are talking about children, not some numbers on a form. I challenge you to dispute my figures above and be a part of the solution, not one who by silence is extending this human disaster.
LS.
ReplyDeleteWhy offer $5.01 to pay a bill of $4,26. Do you still have one cent pieces in America? Smallest unit here is a five cent coin and the smallest note five dollars. Yes most of our high school graduates would have trouble with the mental calculations. In fairness however they do have cash tills to do the calculations for them.
Your problems however are our problems concerning numericy and literacy. A few weeks ago I went to the supermarket and asked for 350Grams of king prawns (Perhaps shrimps to you). The young man put a quantity in a bag and weighed them. "That’s 510 grams,that allrite innit"?.
I was very calm as I asked him what was the percentage difference between what I had asked for and what he had weighed. His comment sent me over the edge "sorry mate, this machine don’t do decimals".
In common with all other taxpayers, I had paid for the education of this young man. I believe we were badly short changed and so was he.
Cheers from Aussie. (I have tried to recount the mispronunciation of words exactly as they were delivered)
Kingston,
DeleteWow, you really asked for a percentage difference? I can only imagine the look I would have gotten if I asked that here.
You brought up a good point: everyone paying for public school education. I didn't go to public school, yet like everyone else, my parents were assessed taxes to pay for the public school system. I never could understand what was fair about that. But that may be a stray from your point, yes?
Jean
Jean
DeleteIn a supposedly egalitarian society, perhaps it is correct to tax everyone who can pay for the education of those who cannot afford the cost of educating their own offspring.
I think of the times of Dickens and the conditions then obtaining in the so called civilized world. In America the great universities flourished and were receiving grants from past alumni. In the mainstream, the population, Lincoln and Garfield included, were uneducated but making supreme sacrifices to get some” book learning”. The two cases in point, Lincoln and Garfield; both to become president and both to fall victim to a gun, fired by an assassin permitted to own the gun under the second amendment. .
In Britain and in Europe, allegedly the heart of civilization, the same situation existed. It was not until free schooling and then compulsory attendance was introduced can we trace the rise in income and accomplishment and the decrease of poverty.
Somehow I think now, as we watch personal standards fall away and a more “Me first” mentality take over; we need to address the vote winning practice of the “entitlement society” others here have also spoken against this but in the end, it is us, the people of America or Australia who hold the key to our future. Taxation will be always with us and it is probably more important than ever ,that we wisely supervise the way they are used, rather than how they are raised.
Cheers from Aussie
"it is us, the people of America or Australia who hold the key to our future. Taxation will be always with us and it is probably more important than ever ,that we wisely supervise the way they are used, rather than how they are raised."
DeleteBINGO!