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Welcome to Mad Hampshire, Beyond Thunderdome

by: Dean Barker

Wed Mar 16, 2011 at 06:15:31 AM EDT


Our Galtian overlords in the Bill O'Brien House have remade the "state" of New Hampshire for us.

First, the bad news.  Looks like your kids might still be forced to go to kindergarten.

After that, though, it's gravy.  Post-kindergarten, a simple permission slip will keep them out of school and ready for work in your field or factory.

If by chance they find themselves with parents who force them to go to school, however, they can get out at sixteen.  And really, who would go to a place the state has determined it is required to support not at all?

Don't worry about higher education - even if you do get a high school diploma, you won't be able to afford it.  The NH public university system will be in effect all but privatized.

Perhaps the best part: if you need to turn to a life of crime in the absence of having any kind of employable education, the state plans on reducing its ability to prosecute you by one third.  Plus, the resources of the remaining two-thirds will be drained in teaching "Constitutional Conservative" legislators what the separation of powers is.

Your chances of becoming a successful crook have just increased!

(birched; on Twitter @deanbarker)

Dean Barker :: Welcome to Mad Hampshire, Beyond Thunderdome
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Welcome to the 1800's (4.00 / 2)
in the Wild, Wild West.  
I really, really want to go all Freudian on this gun stuff.  I am so glad my men friends don't feel the need to carry guns to make them feel...whatever it is that these guys need to feel.

The post-modern Republican party platform. (4.00 / 4)
The Republican Party.  We're for:

Child labor.  Sweatshops.  Baby farms.  Freedom to Bully.  Company towns.  Private thugs.  Slumlords.  Shoot first, ask questions later.  Inflexible dogma, except for when the loud minority complain about being forced to be equal.  Fagin's School for Kids.  Permanent Siberian vacations.  Eliminate permits for concealed weapons.  Deregulate all food & drug industries.  Implement menstruation permits (catchy title tho, Period Permits), Shoot wolves and immigrants from helicopters, Corporate tax breaks, taxes on Girl Scout cookies, and death to institutions that provide a collective voice to people.

Apologies for the omissions, which I'm sure are great.

     

"It has become Appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity"
   - Albert Einstein


Mad Hampshire (4.00 / 1)
Some commenting in the UL put it well, "A bunch of morons creating another bunch of morons."

Mr. Speaker, why the double standard? (0.00 / 0)
What is rather remarkable is the arrogant ease in which Speaker O'Brien pursues his extreme legislative agenda. The impudence in which he scolds NH citizens about what is best for them goes well beyond simple temerity. He lectures us with reckless abandon never considering that the social standards he wants to apply to our lives are ones that he considers inapplicable to himself.

Consider his approach to educational "reform." According to Boss O'Brien, NH apparently has no responsibility to educate its children, teachers are greedy, school administrators are bad, judicial enforcement of educational laws is wrong, kindergarden is unnecessary, dropout rates are irrelevant, yada, yada, yada,  all under the heading of "protecting taxpayers from the excesses of the liberals."

What he doesn't tell you is that he has a daughter teaching at ESCUELA AMERICANA, an international coeducation institution for grades pre-kindergarden (4-year olds) through 12th Grade located in San Salvador. She apparently is there as an English Teaching Fellow being a recipient of a US Government international aid grant. English Teaching Fellows are appointed in one year increments and receive a salary stipend, living allowance, health care benefits, and transportation expenses. Now that in itself is not really an issue; she is probably a very nice person and perhaps even a talented teacher.  

What is troubling is O'Brien's double standard. He apparently has no problem with tax payers funding (in part) a school in Central America which is, coincidentally,  providing employment for a member of his own family but when it comes to the people of NH - cut it all to the bone!

When is he going to get up on his soap box, pound the podium, order his daughter fired, and demand the defunding of the school?  What else is Boss O'Brien neglecting to tell us - what else is he lecturing us about but not abiding by in his own personal situations?  Hmmmmmm!



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