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Teaching Your Children About ObamaCare

Blogger Bookworm has already experienced ObamaCare indoctrination through her middle school age child. 

My daughter’s history teacher, when pressed by her students about Sunday’s health care vote, couldn’t keep her mouth shut.  (Keeping her mouth shut would have involved saying, “This is a history class, not a politics class.  You should ask your parents these questions.”)  Instead, she blithely opined that “all civilized societies have universal health care.”

Fortunately, despite years in the public school system, my daughter is still amenable to logic.  In the face of her teacher’s certitude, I challenged my daughter with a few facts and asked a few questions.

Follow the link to read the conversation Bookworm had with her daughter.  More from Kim Priestap.

I Wish More Americans Knew as Much About the Way the Economy Works as My Kid

If you caught Rush Limbaugh on Jay Leno tonight you know that Rush gave a great little lesson on capitalism.  I don't have the transcript, but Leno was talking about excessive corporate compensation for those who don't "deserve" it, Wall Street, the bailouts, etc.  It is amazing to me that so many have bought into the idea that someone who earned their money legally should not be entitled to keep it if they are not "deserving."  The very thought is chilling.  I mean who is going to decide who is deserving?  How much of their money should they have taken from them, in taxes, forced government mandates, etc.?  Instead of school children singing praises to Obama they should be learning some basics about how the government and the economy work.

Tonight driving my nine-year-old daughter to a school event, we passed a new community center that has not opened yet.  We started talking about whether or not it might have a pool, or a gym or what else might be hidden behind the cool modern glass facade.  My daughter asked if it would cost a lot to go to it.  I told her since it is a community center (it is adjacent to a city park) that it would most likely be free, like the park is. 

My daughter told me it was not free -- that if the city built it then we all paid for it with our tax money.  I asked her how she knew that and she said last year her third grade teacher explained to the class that their families all paid her through their taxes and that when the teacher paid her taxes she was even paying part of her own salary.  I am thankful that my child is learning something so fundamental and valuable in her public school.  I was especially impressed that she took that lesson and applied it to the community center we were talking about.  I just wish the same thing could be said for all the schools in the country.

UPDATE:  Watch Rush's full interview with Leno here.  He gave a really good little primer on capitalism and it was well received. The audience was fired up and sounded like they agreed with Rush on most things.

UPDATE II:  In my latest column at American Issues Project I discuss some reasons people don't seem to understand the American economy better -- including the misinformation and spin they get on a day to day basis from politicians and the news media.  Read the column at AIP.

Part of the entry above is crossposted at Wizbang.

Unbelievable Indoctrination of Children to the Cult of Obama

If before the election we had warned that our children in our schools would be required to learn songs in praise of Barack Hussein Obama, we would have been called paranoid lunatics. Well, it has happened more than once already, but this latest case of Obamadoctrination takes the cake. Just watch the video. The kids are not singing the praises of this great country, or even the President. They are singing the praises of "mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama."

Michelle Malkin has lots of details. Be sure to read her post with updates.

Update: Worse than the fact that these kids are being told to praise "Barack Hussein Obama" or that all the time on this could have been spent learning math or science or reading or even a decent song, is this one line:

"He said red, yellow, black or white. All are equal in his sight."

Anyone who says those of us critical of this Obama worship are overreacting, read that one line that was taught to schoolchildren. I learned a remarkably similar song when I was a child, but it was in "Sunday" school in church, not in my elementary school -- "Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world."

This creeps me out beyond belief. If my kids were in this school they would not have stayed there ten minutes after I found out about this. I wonder how those on the left would have reacted had a similar song, except with George Bush as the idol of worship, been taught to their kids in school. Rewind a few weeks and tell me again how those on the right overreacted to the news that Dear Leader was going to be addressing the nation's schoolchildren directly.

Update II: Pierre Legrand thinks back to the school speech and writes about a test posted at Smart Girl Nation that was given in one school which suggests the original content of the President's speech, before the uproar, was very different from what he said in the speech he ended up giving.

Update III: Bookworm makes an excellent point that as bad as this is, at least it is out in the open. For too many years indoctrination has gone on in the public schools where it was not so apparent.

Crossposted at Wizbang.

If before the election we had warned that our children in our schools would be required to learn songs in praise of Barack Hussein Obama, we would have been called paranoid lunatics. Well, it has happened more than once already, but this latest case of Obamadoctrination takes the cake. Just watch the video. The kids are not singing the praises of this great country, or even the President. They are singing the praises of "mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama."

Michelle Malkin has lots of details. Be sure to read her post with updates.

Update: Worse than the fact that these kids are being told to praise "Barack Hussein Obama" or that all the time on this could have been spent learning math or science or reading or even a decent song, is this one line:

"He said red, yellow, black or white. All are equal in his sight."

Anyone who says those of us critical of this Obama worship are overreacting, read that one line that was taught to schoolchildren. I learned a remarkably similar song when I was a child, but it was in "Sunday" school in church, not in my elementary school -- "Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world."

This creeps me out beyond belief. If my kids were in this school they would not have stayed there ten minutes after I found out about this. I wonder how those on the left would have reacted had a similar song, except with George Bush as the idol of worship, been taught to their kids in school. Rewind a few weeks and tell me again how those on the right overreacted to the news that Dear Leader was going to be addressing the nation's schoolchildren directly.

Update II: Pierre Legrand thinks back to the school speech and writes about a test posted at Smart Girl Nation that was given in one school which suggests the original content of the President's speech, before the uproar, was very different from what he said in the speech he ended up giving.

Update III: Bookworm makes an excellent point that as bad as this is, at least it is out in the open. For too many years indoctrination has gone on in the public schools where it was not so apparent.

Crossposted at Wizbang.

Obama Follower Practices Indoctrination, Intimidation and Ridicule in the Classroom

I am just now seeing this video of the little girl who dared say she supported John McCain to her teacher. I don't know what is scarier -- that a teacher in my state is so blatantly indoctrinating her students or that a teacher in my state is so blatantly stupid and ignorant. WATCH THIS.

Michelle Malkin posted the video and the transcript.

Michelle calls it ghastly and says, "The 'educator' should be disciplined, fired, forced to apologize publicly, and banned from the classroom." I agree and if this was my kid I would go farther than that. A transcript follows, but it is not complete. In the video, following the exchange with the students, the teacher is interviewed and says if a student tells her they support John McCain she says "Oh that's good" and moves on. The woman is not only an ignorant propagandizer, and hateful beyond belief for telling the child her dad is going to be in Iraq for a hundred years, but she is a liar to boot. I wonder what the Obama people think of this representative of his followers.

Partial transcript:

Harris:We want to talk about the presidential election. I want to ask you, who are you pulling for? Raise your hand.

Student: Obama.

Harris: You pullin for Obama. Who you pullin for?

Student: Obama.

Harris:Any of you pullin for John McCain? That's fine, say him as well.

Student: Obama.

Student: Obama.

[Cathy, the daughter of an American soldier answers McCain.]

Harris:John, oh lord, John McCain.

Oh Jesus, John McCain.

Ok, now I wanna axe you somethin.

Why are you pullin for John McCain? It's ok, but why are you pullin for John McCain?

Cathy: I thinks it's because my parents are going for him too.

Harris: Ok, your parents are going for him. Why are you pullin for Ba-RACK. Barack.

Student: I just want a black president sometimes.

Ok, you want a black president.

Student: The reason why I want Barack Obama is because he's making good changes in the good country and stuff like that.

Harris: So, he's making good changes for our country. Now can you tell me just a little bit more, like what type of changes?

Student: Like not having big fights between Iraq and having soldiers killed.

Harris: So in other words, Barack is going to end that war in Iraq. What do you all know about that war in Iraq?

[Harris addresses Kathy] Talk, cause yo daddy in the military. Talk. It's a senseless war! And by the way, Cathy, the person that you're picking for president said that our troops could stay in Iraq for another hundred years if they need to!

[Camera pans to Cathy, in near tears.]

Harris: So that means that your daddy could stay in the military for another hundred years!

Uncle Jimbo had the same reaction I did.

Getting Good Teachers

Betsy Newmark should be in charge of finding a solution to North Carolina's shortage of good teachers.  She has better ideas than anyone else I've heard.

Storm Tracking

Being in North Carolina, and having been through a few hurricanes, I was happy to find a link to this cool new storm tracking blog at Instapundit.

How History Should Be Taught

Katie Newmark wrote a wonderful tribute to her mother, who also happened to be her French teacher for three years.  Katie points readers to her super blogger mom's piece on how history should be taught.  What a shame there aren't more Betsy Newmarks in the schools.   (I didn't know that Betsy speaks French.  Maybe I can get her to tell me how you say "surrender monkey" in French.)