Tommy Robinson's BANNED speech: "The British Police State"

Watch this video to see the lengths the UK Gov has gone to harras #TommyRobinson and his family solely because he dares to speak out.

The foxes are watching over the hen house.

 The teacher's lobby has a stranglehold on Frankfort. In many districts, the various boards of education are the largest employer and they have a huge influence on the legislators from their districts. So is there anyone looking out for the taxpayers? If Teachers and other State employees aren't converted off of the current Defined Benefit Plan and onto a Defined Contribution Plan, the taxpayers of the Commonwealth will continue to be on the hook for the Teacher's pension plan for generations to come.

 And why can't the teachers be responsible for their own retirement savings? The taxpayers already pay teacher salaries, why should they also be responsible for their retirement years? Unlike the majority of the taxpayers in the state, these teachers are highly educated people. Many have multiple degrees including multiple Masters degrees, even Doctorates. I think they can figure out how to be responsible for their own retirement savings.

 The teacher retirement system is a holdover from the progressive socialism of the 1930's when it was thought that the government was the best choice for ensuring an individual would be taken care of in their retirement years. Retirement years that, at that time, usually only lasted 15 - 20 years. Things have changed since then and now people are living longer in retirement; well into their 80's and 90's, 25 - 35 years or more into retirement.

 The system wasn't designed for that longevity.

 Just like social security, the number of retirees will continue to grow while the number of working taxpayers required to fund the system will continue to decline. And then where will we be? Looking to raise taxes. Squeezing more and more out of the taxpayers. Hurting the working poor most of all; because those school taxes are pernicious little buggers. They're in utility bills, phone bills, auto tag registrations, property taxes, etc. Many don't even require a vote of the taxpayers to authorize an increase.

 Yes, converting current teachers to a 401k style plan may have more upfront cost now, but it would be far less costly in the long run. Remeber, it's $80 mil in the hole now. It'll take that much just to bring it up to date, plus more and more to keep it going.

 I guess it's easier to continue a Ponzi scheme than to unwind one.

The Misdirected Feminist Rage of The Handmaid's Tale

I've just started watching the Hulu series The Handmaids Tale and there are a few things that bother me about it that I thought I'd share with you dear reader. There are spoilers here so bail out now if that bothers you.

It seems regressive leftists and feminists are writing (here and here for example) about how this new adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel is some prescient commentary on our society under Trump. Apparently, the country has 'swung conservative' and the authoritarian society depicted in the series is just around the corner.

However, nothing could be further from the truth. Every leftist regulation and court ruling is still in place and congress is too busy trying to oust Trump from office to actually implement any of his agenda. Rowe v Wade, that most sacred of feminist ideology, is still firmly entrenched in our legal code. 

But back to the new Hulu 'original' series. I don't know what it is that these feminists have against this fictitious society. It has everything a good regressive feminist could want - they execute rapists by allowing the Handmaids to beat them to death (something all good real life feminists would like to do) and the Handmaids are forced to wear burka/hijab-like outfits, which is all the rage these days with regressives for their 'Womyn empowering' qualities.

(Read Is hijab really a symbol of liberation when millions are oppressed into wearing it? for a Muslim woman's perspective on this phenomenon.)

Then in Ep. 3 they perform Female Genital Mutilation on the Handmaids (another of the now suddenly womyn empowering practices of a certain 'repressed' religious minority ignored by today's regressive feminists) so they 'don't want what they can't have'.

Except for forcing the Handmaids to bear children (that most horrid of concepts to true feminism) this place is a regressive feminist's utopia!














But what is really mistaken about the whole premise of Ms. Atwood's novel and the two movies/series adaptations made from it, is the belief that it's Conservative Christians who are going to be the movement in this country that subjugates them in such an authoritarian way.

The regressive left refuses to acknowledge it but there are real-life examples of this very type of theocratic, authoritarian society already in existence around the globe. Islam and Sharia Law. It objectifies women in the real sense; that of being objects and property of the men and the system that repress them and it is the stated aim of this system to spread and dominate all the nations of the earth.

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