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[gunman1960]

while taking classes in the 60s,i decided to take a class in sociology. the first day our prof. walked in wearing clothes from the soup lines in WW2. he started talking about the airlines on subsides, and how the industry would collapse if private enterprise would take over. i thought this was odd, being in a sociology class.
next he talked about how wonderful california was. their education system,health care,government etc. , calif. would lead the nation in everything. he went on to say we should all have to same language,yet to be introduced. the whole world should join together to have one central government. we would gain peace if this would happen. we need to get rid of all guns to rid evil from the world. also we should abolish all religion,and national pride. i was young, but a lot of this was soaking in,,well i joined the army after this experience, and kept thinking about what he said. the army taught me everything was wrong about his theories. when i came home on leave i was going to talk to this guy ,,but he had been removed from the campus. i found out he was a communist and was confronted about this,which he denied,however he was gone. the reason i am telling you this is because most colleges still have teachers like this, which are against the USA and all it stands for.

 

[BarbC]

California is also leading the nation in bankruptcy.

 

[perrazi]

this has been going on for many years. college isn't called liberal arts education for nothing.

 

[Dennis The B]

I finally finished my bachelor's degree in the 1970's. One of the requirements was six hours in the field of sociology. I ended up in a class titled "Urban Sociology", a senior level class. The instructor needed only her Mao/Stalin armband to complete her certification as a card-carrying communist. I've never sat through so much socialist drivel in my life. I was a finance/economics major, with a minor in poli sci. A couple of my friends were county cops required to take the course. Since we were socially conservative, we were considered "Attila's" by her sociology major toadies.

It's the same today.

 

[jframe]

I took a political science class in 1988 and 1989. I was about nineteen, and a die hard Reagan supporter. You can just about imagine how well THAT went with the instructor!

 

[feralmerril]

Thank God, I wasnt tainted with education!

 

[Forester]

Thank God, I wasnt tainted with education!

.

 

[paladin42]

I guess that shows that the educational system works. One gets exposed to new ideas and the ones that don't work get rejected.

 

[godlessgael]

the death of the california educational system (and most of the fiscal problems in CA) can be mostly blamed on prop 13. Of course, spending is amazingly out of control here , but with so many people, and property tax revenue so miniscule by comparison, the state was bound to slide the slippery slope into the red.

best memory of my lone sociology class was a project to "raise awareness" about the "Empire Building of the US." Of course, they mean to raise awareness and let someone else do the actual work. What they wanted to do was just make posters, wristbands, maybe a spoken word slam about how it makes them feel (puke). I asked where I sign up to build this empire, and they didn't like it too much.

Never let your schooling get in the way of your educaiton. (Twain I think)

 

[afriqueart]

I appreciate the fact that I was exposed to various views so I could make my own decisions and not have only one religious or political view shoved down my throat.

A diverse menu sates the palate.

 

[gunzebra]

most colleges still have teachers like this, which are against the USA and all it stands for.

Sir, back in the eighties I met a lot of US born commies around here in Poland. Generaly they were dreaming about getting a grant in the Soviet Union and study there, but failed to apply somehow, so instead they ended up here, probably thinking it wasnt that much different. At least being here was much closer to the former Soviet Union than when you stayed in Boston, Berkeley or Pittsburgh.
They were trying to talk us into their twisted ideas at the beginning, but soon found out that we were quite immune to their naive talk because we had to live in it while they only knew from fancy scholar books written by people who knew about the practice of communism even less then them and lived somewhere else, in much better world, though they simply did not know it.

Most of them after spending some time in a communist country eventualy revealed that their motherland was much better place than it previously seemed especially looking at it from a distance and that the idea of paradise on earth was in fact much closer to purgatory. You could even observe a general shift from Dems to Reps in a few moths time - quite a success of practical personal training I suppose.
The problem nowadays is different - a hardcore communism version disappeard around here, but a softer version of mind control flooded Europe and is here again with all global warming absurdity and above all - the gun control.
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[PMRet]

I was raised in the hills of Southwest VA. First semester at college I had a Religion class, so naturally I took my Bible. Imagine my surprise...

 

[feralmerril]

Prop 13 came loooong after the downhill slide in california. Hell, I lived in california when they came out with the lottery. That money was supposed to go to the schools. They should have gold plated school houses and desks way back in the early 80s when they came out with the lottery. Hey! How did the schooling system get by up to the late 70s before prop 13 and the lotto?
I moved to california in 1964. I dont know how far back it became a welfare state before that, but I seen the blacks burn their own town down at watts in 65. Guess who wants to be govenor again? I see jerry brown annouced he is going to run! That post handejector closed this morning on the san francisco pd should take away all doubt what and why california is in trouble!
Its a shame! California really is a beautifull state. The politics always sucked. I belive almost every gay and liberal in the country ends up in california and out votes the norm because they live either in san francisco or west LA. The state is huge, yet those two citys run and ruin the rest of the state. When I first moved out there it was rare to actualy find someone that said they were born in california, especialy in the aircraft industry!

 

[JcMack]

In every state I every resided in Lotteries were always pushed through as "school builders". That never seems to happen. Once state sponsored gambling is proposed you know trouble is ahead. Very soon after a Lottery is instituted the taxes on it, and profits from it, find their way to everything besides schools. This crap is no longer a joke.

 

[BarbC]

In every state I every resided in Lotteries were always pushed through as "school builders". That never seems to happen. Once state sponsored gambling is proposed you know trouble is ahead. Very soon after a Lottery is instituted the taxes on it, and profits from it, find their way to everything besides schools. This crap is no longer a joke.

At least PA is doing something right with the Lottery money:

The Pennsylvania Lottery was established on August 26, 1971, by a legislative act, Title 91. Proceeds were initially targeted to provide property tax relief for the elderly in the Commonwealth. Since its introduction, program benefits funded by the Pennsylvania Lottery have expanded to include rent rebates, administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue, and free and reduced-fare transit for older Pennsylvanians and reduced vehicle registration fees, programs administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT). The Pennsylvania Department of Aging administers a co-pay prescription drug program, the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE), and allocates funding for Area Agencies on Aging services, as well. The Pennsylvania Lottery is the only state lottery that exclusively targets its proceeds to benefit older citizens.

Even if they don't become millionaires, senior citizens in Pennsylvania love the state lottery -- it's the only state where lottery proceeds are used solely for their benefit.

Lottery-financed programs for elderly Pennsylvanians include property-tax relief, rent rebates, free and reduced-fare transit, co-pay prescriptions, meals-on-wheels, in-home care, and 52 area offices on aging.

Established in 1971, the lottery is required to dedicate 30% of every dollar to elderly programs and 40% to prizes, though the actual amounts have been closer to 40% and 50%, respectively.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

while taking classes in the 60s

A great deal of brainwashing went on during the 60's. With an elementary school book, my father pointed out how the pics of Russia were green fields of lovely pastures while the pics of America were ugly smoke stacks. I never forgot that lesson. I hope this post serves his memory well.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

What was it Ronald Reagan said:
"A Marxist is someone who espouses Marx and Lenin. An anti-Marxist is someone who has read Marx and Lenin."

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

I pity these "highly educated people".

Seriously, I do.
While I can't remember which one said it, either Lenin or Trotsky, but one referred to these kinds of people as "useful idiots"
Most of them do not actually believe in the system per se, they just want the power such a system promises them...the chance to be in charge...to "play God..." It is all about "I'm-smarter-than-you-are-so-I-should-be-in-charge."
They do not realize that if the communist/marxist-leninist system took power tomorrow morning, their "usefulness" would be at an end...they would be destroyed by the system they espouse so highly.

Sadly, I run into people with this kind of outlook all the time.

 

[perrazi]

jframe- i did the same thing only when nixon was president and wore my nixon button to class every day. it was a total hoot.

 

[jag312]

the death of the california educational system (and most of the fiscal problems in CA) can be mostly blamed on prop 13.

Those who owned property pre-Prop 13 know what a taxation nightmare there was in California. My house tax was increasing about 25% each year. It was murder paying the taxes. Retired people on fixed incomes were having to sell their houses because they couldn't pay the taxes. The politicians first figured out how much they wanted to spend in the budget and then raised the taxes accordingly, and the people be damned. I remember the Santa Clara County Tax Collector in 1978 laughing at the pro-Prop 13 people and telling us that we shouldn't complain about taxes. If we thought taxes were high this year, just wait until next year. Prop 13 was a wake-up call for the politicians.

Several years ago The San Jose Unified School District wanted money to pay for up-grading and remodeling class rooms. At Willow Glen High School, they spent the money on artificial turf and night lighting for the football field. The class rooms? Nothing changed.

Providing services to illegal aliens is what is sucking up all the money. Free medical, dental, social services, and jail is what is causing Santa Clara County to run a $200,000,000 deficit.