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	<title>Comments on: Obama and Marx’s Ten-Point Platform (Part II)</title>
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		<title>By: RLJR1</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-hendrickson/obama-and-marxs-ten-point-platform-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-5254721</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ITS ABOUT TIME PEOPLE ARE CALLING THIS GOVT. FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS COMMUNIST]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ITS ABOUT TIME PEOPLE ARE CALLING THIS GOVT. FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS COMMUNIST</p>
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		<title>By: Cold_Drake_80</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cold_Drake_80]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now try comparing Marx&#039;s plans to Obama&#039;s PLANS. Deeds are far more illustrative than words. Granted you can&#039;t distinguish between the two and will rant and rave about some pet conspiracy or another.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now try comparing Marx&#8217;s plans to Obama&#8217;s PLANS. Deeds are far more illustrative than words. Granted you can&#8217;t distinguish between the two and will rant and rave about some pet conspiracy or another.</p>
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		<title>By: Cold_Drake_80</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-hendrickson/obama-and-marxs-ten-point-platform-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-5253828</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 04:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*sigh* Try to focus and actually read what I posted. I didn&#039;t say these things were actually implemented. I am comparing the lies Hendrickson told vs the actual facts about what Marx wrote. You don&#039;t have to agree with anything Marx wrote to realize Hendrickson has not been honest enough to correctly copy/paste from Marx&#039;s actual 10 points.
Now to smack down you pathetic argument: Gee, maybe it&#039;s because those regimes weren&#039;t actually communist! Wow, that was easy sport.
Look, I know some right wing blow hole has been standing in front of you pointing and screaming COMMIE at every other person that&#039;s walked by. You don&#039;t have to belief it. Look at the list as a start point and compare it to what these various governments have done, not what they&#039;ve said, and see if it matches. If it something doesn&#039;t match the definition of a thing then it is not that thing. This is grade-school stuff]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*sigh* Try to focus and actually read what I posted. I didn&#8217;t say these things were actually implemented. I am comparing the lies Hendrickson told vs the actual facts about what Marx wrote. You don&#8217;t have to agree with anything Marx wrote to realize Hendrickson has not been honest enough to correctly copy/paste from Marx&#8217;s actual 10 points.<br />
Now to smack down you pathetic argument: Gee, maybe it&#8217;s because those regimes weren&#8217;t actually communist! Wow, that was easy sport.<br />
Look, I know some right wing blow hole has been standing in front of you pointing and screaming COMMIE at every other person that&#8217;s walked by. You don&#8217;t have to belief it. Look at the list as a start point and compare it to what these various governments have done, not what they&#8217;ve said, and see if it matches. If it something doesn&#8217;t match the definition of a thing then it is not that thing. This is grade-school stuff</p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
		<link>http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/mark-hendrickson/obama-and-marxs-ten-point-platform-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-5253803</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 02:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#039;s take #7: name one marxist regime that bothered to preserve &quot;wilderness.&quot;
Now on to #10: name one marxist regime that abolished child labor, not actually expanded it,like, say, USSR, China, Cambodia and North Korea did.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s take #7: name one marxist regime that bothered to preserve &#8220;wilderness.&#8221;<br />
Now on to #10: name one marxist regime that abolished child labor, not actually expanded it,like, say, USSR, China, Cambodia and North Korea did.</p>
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		<title>By: Cold_Drake_80</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, now we have something to work with. You have proven that you at least glanced at point number seven.  So here is the actual point:

7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.

Here is what Hendrickson wrote:

#7. Increase state control over means of production.

Gee, that is very different don&#039;t you think. Even if you can&#039;t read it properly - almost certain based on your poor interpretations so far - you can clearly see it is different. 

The part that was dropped by Hendrickson was the increase of land cultivation by eliminating &quot;waste&quot; land. That&#039;s going to be wilderness you know. Environmentalists get a bit spiky when removing wilderness gets brought up which is why Hendrickson chopped it. The facts didn&#039;t match his ranting so the facts had to change. 

His most glaring omission, as well as the one you are too big a coward to deal with is:

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.

Instead what we get is:

#10. Education for all children in public (i.e, governmentally controlled) schools.


Hendrickson not only cut out the parts of the point that he could address but actually added to it.  Presumably he added the comment about gov control because he assumes FPMers are too stupid to know what &quot;public&quot; means. What makes his cowardice and dishonesty most offensive is he ignores the salient point found in #10. Abolition of child labour! This is very obvious but it would seem Hendrickson has no problem with child factory labour since he doesn&#039;t bother to even mention it.  This speaks very poorly of his character. It would take a special kind of monster to wish to see the return of sweat shop labour for children.


So now I have tried to make this as simple and clear for you. If you can&#039;t understand it by now you are either an idiot or a beast.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay, now we have something to work with. You have proven that you at least glanced at point number seven.  So here is the actual point:</p>
<p>7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.</p>
<p>Here is what Hendrickson wrote:</p>
<p>#7. Increase state control over means of production.</p>
<p>Gee, that is very different don&#8217;t you think. Even if you can&#8217;t read it properly &#8211; almost certain based on your poor interpretations so far &#8211; you can clearly see it is different. </p>
<p>The part that was dropped by Hendrickson was the increase of land cultivation by eliminating &#8220;waste&#8221; land. That&#8217;s going to be wilderness you know. Environmentalists get a bit spiky when removing wilderness gets brought up which is why Hendrickson chopped it. The facts didn&#8217;t match his ranting so the facts had to change. </p>
<p>His most glaring omission, as well as the one you are too big a coward to deal with is:</p>
<p>10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.</p>
<p>Instead what we get is:</p>
<p>#10. Education for all children in public (i.e, governmentally controlled) schools.</p>
<p>Hendrickson not only cut out the parts of the point that he could address but actually added to it.  Presumably he added the comment about gov control because he assumes FPMers are too stupid to know what &#8220;public&#8221; means. What makes his cowardice and dishonesty most offensive is he ignores the salient point found in #10. Abolition of child labour! This is very obvious but it would seem Hendrickson has no problem with child factory labour since he doesn&#8217;t bother to even mention it.  This speaks very poorly of his character. It would take a special kind of monster to wish to see the return of sweat shop labour for children.</p>
<p>So now I have tried to make this as simple and clear for you. If you can&#8217;t understand it by now you are either an idiot or a beast.</p>
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		<title>By: Jsjk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 20:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To begin with, you have not made it clear as to *why* you believe the author is &quot;lying.&quot; Let us look at Karl Marx&#039;s point number 7 in his Manifesto. What Marx is advocating is for greater state control (ownership) of the means of production. What are the &quot;means of production&quot;? In Marxist lingo it refers to factories, machines, infrastructure, raw materials, etc. Furthermore, Marx is advocating for a decline in private property ownership, to be replaced by state ownership. What has Obama said with respect to coal mines? He has said that someone can go ahead and buy one, but Obama will see to it that the coal mine owner will go bankrupt. Obama dictates to the private energy sector what business meet his approval and which do not. He is not a neutral bystander, but someone interfering and tipping the scales for his pet projects (tyrannical, dictatorial). Ditto for Health care -- it will reduce one&#039;s options, limiting access to private plans, and enlarging the federal sector. (The Communists are also, btw, routinely advocating for stringent environmental laws which would limit enjoyment of private property, along with denying industrial &quot;development&quot;. Obama opposes the Keystone Pipeline (that private enterprise might provide jobs to Americans is too much to bear for an Obama.) The upshot is this -- yes, Obama honors point 7 of Marx&#039;s Manifesto.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To begin with, you have not made it clear as to *why* you believe the author is &#8220;lying.&#8221; Let us look at Karl Marx&#8217;s point number 7 in his Manifesto. What Marx is advocating is for greater state control (ownership) of the means of production. What are the &#8220;means of production&#8221;? In Marxist lingo it refers to factories, machines, infrastructure, raw materials, etc. Furthermore, Marx is advocating for a decline in private property ownership, to be replaced by state ownership. What has Obama said with respect to coal mines? He has said that someone can go ahead and buy one, but Obama will see to it that the coal mine owner will go bankrupt. Obama dictates to the private energy sector what business meet his approval and which do not. He is not a neutral bystander, but someone interfering and tipping the scales for his pet projects (tyrannical, dictatorial). Ditto for Health care &#8212; it will reduce one&#8217;s options, limiting access to private plans, and enlarging the federal sector. (The Communists are also, btw, routinely advocating for stringent environmental laws which would limit enjoyment of private property, along with denying industrial &#8220;development&#8221;. Obama opposes the Keystone Pipeline (that private enterprise might provide jobs to Americans is too much to bear for an Obama.) The upshot is this &#8212; yes, Obama honors point 7 of Marx&#8217;s Manifesto.</p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 17:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please spare us from the usual marxist schizophrenia about nobody understanding marx but the drones like yourself, and the reason marxism is an utter failure everywhere it&#039;s tried being that it&#039;s not the true marxism that is being tried everywhere. Marx was a loser by any measure, and that&#039;s part of the reason that he attracts losers like you. As for the content of what he wrote, I can go head to head with any of you, drones, because back in the day I was force-fed this crap more than you ever hope to do in your pitiful life time.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please spare us from the usual marxist schizophrenia about nobody understanding marx but the drones like yourself, and the reason marxism is an utter failure everywhere it&#8217;s tried being that it&#8217;s not the true marxism that is being tried everywhere. Marx was a loser by any measure, and that&#8217;s part of the reason that he attracts losers like you. As for the content of what he wrote, I can go head to head with any of you, drones, because back in the day I was force-fed this crap more than you ever hope to do in your pitiful life time.</p>
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		<title>By: Cold_Drake_80</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cold_Drake_80]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course you had such a teacher. So what University did you go to, what year and what professor was it exactly. I get sick of right extremists constantly whining about all these evil commie teachers they supposedly had yet NEVER providing any support.
Now, try to focus (I know it&#039;s hard) and actually respond to my post. Explain to us all why Hendrickson lied about his source material and also explain to us all why you have no problems with that.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course you had such a teacher. So what University did you go to, what year and what professor was it exactly. I get sick of right extremists constantly whining about all these evil commie teachers they supposedly had yet NEVER providing any support.<br />
Now, try to focus (I know it&#8217;s hard) and actually respond to my post. Explain to us all why Hendrickson lied about his source material and also explain to us all why you have no problems with that.</p>
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		<title>By: Jsjk</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jsjk]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 15:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once had a &quot;world history&quot; prof who was a devout Communist. I found it fascinating yet horrifying to listen to his multiple excuses exonerating Stalin. About midway through the course, there was the assignment (you were to pick out a topic, then creatively explore it in any manner you chose, and do a presentation for the class. Everyone knew that to pass this course you had better heap on the praise for dear old Marx, Engels, and Lenin.  Anyhoo, the presentations were nearly all mind numbingly dreary and as per propagandistic expectations. But then, there was a Chinese student. She gave a slide show. Her family had been persecuted during Chairman Mao&#039;s Cultural Revolution and she had the slides from her village. There was the irrefutable, historic evidence of what took place under Chairman Mao. (She broke down during the presentation -- weeping inconsolably). The prof&#039;s response? As to be expected -- a yawning indifference. (I believe she dropped the course). Anyway, when you speak about liars and being impervious to facts, history, evidence I&#039;m reminded of that Commie. He wore his ideological blinkers -- just like Obama -- and like a religious devotee, cannot and will not be persuaded differently. At the end of the course, the prof had us singing that commie song Internationale, falsely convinced that he had brain washed yet another group of gullible students. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I once had a &#8220;world history&#8221; prof who was a devout Communist. I found it fascinating yet horrifying to listen to his multiple excuses exonerating Stalin. About midway through the course, there was the assignment (you were to pick out a topic, then creatively explore it in any manner you chose, and do a presentation for the class. Everyone knew that to pass this course you had better heap on the praise for dear old Marx, Engels, and Lenin.  Anyhoo, the presentations were nearly all mind numbingly dreary and as per propagandistic expectations. But then, there was a Chinese student. She gave a slide show. Her family had been persecuted during Chairman Mao&#8217;s Cultural Revolution and she had the slides from her village. There was the irrefutable, historic evidence of what took place under Chairman Mao. (She broke down during the presentation &#8212; weeping inconsolably). The prof&#8217;s response? As to be expected &#8212; a yawning indifference. (I believe she dropped the course). Anyway, when you speak about liars and being impervious to facts, history, evidence I&#8217;m reminded of that Commie. He wore his ideological blinkers &#8212; just like Obama &#8212; and like a religious devotee, cannot and will not be persuaded differently. At the end of the course, the prof had us singing that commie song Internationale, falsely convinced that he had brain washed yet another group of gullible students. </p>
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		<title>By: Richard Orlick</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 04:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If not Communism then what other historical parallels are there. Anton Drexler at a workers union meeting said, &quot;I am a socialist like yourselves, and want manual workers to gain equality…&quot; and with this, the Union members bought in to the populist rhetoric ignoring what direction this was going to take them. Former locksmith Anton Drexler and Karl Harrer founded the German Workers Party (DAF). Adolf Hitler joined The German Workers Party making a note of his similar ideology to gain power and with Hitler being a distinguished speaker who drew large crowds. Anton Drexler and Adolf Hitler went on to write the 25 points of the Program of the NSDAP – The National Socialist Workers&#039; Party from a Labour Union. They created the German Labor Front and on that day the Nazis seized the Free Trade Unions, they publicly announced a &quot;united front of German workers&quot; with Hitler as honorary patron. Then an &quot;Aryan paragraph&quot; was installed, and all Jews and any others were expelled as Citizens and were labeled dissident. The most notable organizations that had to follow this procedure were the unions. The vanguard program of The National Socialist Workers&#039; Party was “national interest before self interest” (anti individualism) and the same words spoken by Andrew Stern at a workers union meeting, former president of SEIU, close friend of distinguished speaker President Barack Obama and most frequent visitor to The White House. Andrew Stern, a socialist that wanted “workers to gain equality” or as many other democrats would say, “Level the playing field.” This s not to say anyone is a Nazi or Hitler but establishes how good intentions can and will be corrupted when they have too much power as does Obama, leader is now a Dictator. Communism is only a name that means concentration of power within a particular doctrine and this concentration of power covers most of the political spectrum, it is not a fringe element.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If not Communism then what other historical parallels are there. Anton Drexler at a workers union meeting said, &#8220;I am a socialist like yourselves, and want manual workers to gain equality…&#8221; and with this, the Union members bought in to the populist rhetoric ignoring what direction this was going to take them. Former locksmith Anton Drexler and Karl Harrer founded the German Workers Party (DAF). Adolf Hitler joined The German Workers Party making a note of his similar ideology to gain power and with Hitler being a distinguished speaker who drew large crowds. Anton Drexler and Adolf Hitler went on to write the 25 points of the Program of the NSDAP – The National Socialist Workers&#8217; Party from a Labour Union. They created the German Labor Front and on that day the Nazis seized the Free Trade Unions, they publicly announced a &#8220;united front of German workers&#8221; with Hitler as honorary patron. Then an &#8220;Aryan paragraph&#8221; was installed, and all Jews and any others were expelled as Citizens and were labeled dissident. The most notable organizations that had to follow this procedure were the unions. The vanguard program of The National Socialist Workers&#8217; Party was “national interest before self interest” (anti individualism) and the same words spoken by Andrew Stern at a workers union meeting, former president of SEIU, close friend of distinguished speaker President Barack Obama and most frequent visitor to The White House. Andrew Stern, a socialist that wanted “workers to gain equality” or as many other democrats would say, “Level the playing field.” This s not to say anyone is a Nazi or Hitler but establishes how good intentions can and will be corrupted when they have too much power as does Obama, leader is now a Dictator. Communism is only a name that means concentration of power within a particular doctrine and this concentration of power covers most of the political spectrum, it is not a fringe element.</p>
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		<title>By: Cold_Drake_80</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 02:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#039;re such a coward that all you can do is nitpick typos? Really? That&#039;s what you&#039;ve been reduced to? This is sad but typical of FPM. 
Okay, little boy I&#039;ll explain this one more time. Hendricks holds you in such contempt that he lied about made up the list in order to make his job easier. Worse still you are so feeble minded that you can&#039;t even be offended by what he did to you.
Go back and actually read what I posted then talk about that. The change might do you some good but I doubt it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re such a coward that all you can do is nitpick typos? Really? That&#8217;s what you&#8217;ve been reduced to? This is sad but typical of FPM.<br />
Okay, little boy I&#8217;ll explain this one more time. Hendricks holds you in such contempt that he lied about made up the list in order to make his job easier. Worse still you are so feeble minded that you can&#8217;t even be offended by what he did to you.<br />
Go back and actually read what I posted then talk about that. The change might do you some good but I doubt it.</p>
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		<title>By: labman57</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 01:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh boy, where to begin ...

It&#039;s a curious position being taken by representatives of the social conservative movement -- the idea that a college education is a waste of time and that intellectuals are elitists and should be shunned.  Reality-challenged politicians and pundits --  especially those affiliated with the tea party movement -- have embraced ignorance of the modern world, and they regard a distrust of the well-educated as an attribute to be used in their desire to be perceived as &quot;just one of the common folk&quot;.

Lord knows we don&#039;t want our children to go to college and have their heads filled with all kinds of IDEAS. Before you know it, they&#039;ll be thinking for themselves, challenging the status quo, and developing new points of view.

And we certainly don&#039;t want our national leaders to be eloquent, scientifically literate, and generally well-informed about the world in which we live.  Much better to derive scientific theories based on the teachings of the Bible, and to form national public policy based on the rumors, gossip, urban myths, and unverified anecdotal accounts described in supermarket rags and online blogs.

Furthermore, these same conservatives who are so fond of labeling progressives as &quot;elitists&quot;have suggested that students who must obtain low-interest federal loans are unworthy of a college education.

With respect to the silly fear-mongering and nonsensical Marxist association over the belief thatALL children in the United States are entitled to a public school education:

Many Republicans would love to see the public education system be financially gutted and instead have the private education system be government-subsidized.   One reason:  they regardany form of public education (k-12 or college) as part of a subversive left-wing plot to corrupt and brainwash our youth.

Unlike the public school system, private schools would not be restricted from propagating right wing revisionist history in their social studies classes, nor proselytizing religious ideology andpromoting corporate-funded anti-environmental propaganda in the science classroom.

Vouchers are intended to allow students from (once again) highly motivated families attend costly private schools which they would otherwise not be able to attend. The funding for the vouchers comes from the state or federal government, i.e., the government is essentially subsidizing the private school industry.  Since private schools can select student admittance based on the family&#039;s financial status and academic ability, this would create a further divide between the &quot;haves&quot; and &quot;have nots&quot; in our society.

Since vouchers only account for a portion of the cost of tuition at a private school, families in the lower third of the economic range would still be excluded from attending, resulting in the public school system being further saturated with the poorest students, the lowest achieving students (including ELD and learning disabled), and those that are least motivated to attain academic success.

Furthermore, comparing performance data between public and private schools is not scientifically valid -- the latter can select students for admission based on entrance qualifications, and they can remove students from their programs based on poor conduct or academic performance. Therefore, the performance data becomes extremely skewed compared with public schools which legally must accept anyone who resides within its residency boundaries.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh boy, where to begin &#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a curious position being taken by representatives of the social conservative movement &#8212; the idea that a college education is a waste of time and that intellectuals are elitists and should be shunned.  Reality-challenged politicians and pundits &#8212;  especially those affiliated with the tea party movement &#8212; have embraced ignorance of the modern world, and they regard a distrust of the well-educated as an attribute to be used in their desire to be perceived as &#8220;just one of the common folk&#8221;.</p>
<p>Lord knows we don&#8217;t want our children to go to college and have their heads filled with all kinds of IDEAS. Before you know it, they&#8217;ll be thinking for themselves, challenging the status quo, and developing new points of view.</p>
<p>And we certainly don&#8217;t want our national leaders to be eloquent, scientifically literate, and generally well-informed about the world in which we live.  Much better to derive scientific theories based on the teachings of the Bible, and to form national public policy based on the rumors, gossip, urban myths, and unverified anecdotal accounts described in supermarket rags and online blogs.</p>
<p>Furthermore, these same conservatives who are so fond of labeling progressives as &#8220;elitists&#8221;have suggested that students who must obtain low-interest federal loans are unworthy of a college education.</p>
<p>With respect to the silly fear-mongering and nonsensical Marxist association over the belief thatALL children in the United States are entitled to a public school education:</p>
<p>Many Republicans would love to see the public education system be financially gutted and instead have the private education system be government-subsidized.   One reason:  they regardany form of public education (k-12 or college) as part of a subversive left-wing plot to corrupt and brainwash our youth.</p>
<p>Unlike the public school system, private schools would not be restricted from propagating right wing revisionist history in their social studies classes, nor proselytizing religious ideology andpromoting corporate-funded anti-environmental propaganda in the science classroom.</p>
<p>Vouchers are intended to allow students from (once again) highly motivated families attend costly private schools which they would otherwise not be able to attend. The funding for the vouchers comes from the state or federal government, i.e., the government is essentially subsidizing the private school industry.  Since private schools can select student admittance based on the family&#8217;s financial status and academic ability, this would create a further divide between the &#8220;haves&#8221; and &#8220;have nots&#8221; in our society.</p>
<p>Since vouchers only account for a portion of the cost of tuition at a private school, families in the lower third of the economic range would still be excluded from attending, resulting in the public school system being further saturated with the poorest students, the lowest achieving students (including ELD and learning disabled), and those that are least motivated to attain academic success.</p>
<p>Furthermore, comparing performance data between public and private schools is not scientifically valid &#8212; the latter can select students for admission based on entrance qualifications, and they can remove students from their programs based on poor conduct or academic performance. Therefore, the performance data becomes extremely skewed compared with public schools which legally must accept anyone who resides within its residency boundaries.</p>
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		<title>By: Jsjk</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 01:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quote: &quot;It is to bad...&quot; Yet another grammatical error! And then people who point out your Grade school errors, you label &quot;retarded&quot;? You need to go look in mirror.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quote: &#8220;It is to bad&#8230;&#8221; Yet another grammatical error! And then people who point out your Grade school errors, you label &#8220;retarded&#8221;? You need to go look in mirror.</p>
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		<title>By: Buck Roeser</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Buck Roeser]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 23:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He&#039;s closer to Idi Amin, methinks.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He&#8217;s closer to Idi Amin, methinks.</p>
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		<title>By: Buck Roeser</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Buck Roeser]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 23:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow--since you have told me that Communism is no longer anything to worry about, I won&#039;t worry about it any longer.  BTW--radical Islam is not a threat to the US, it has been relegated to the dustbin of history.  No need to worry about it, it is about as relevant as the vast number of crank leftists who troll this site.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow&#8211;since you have told me that Communism is no longer anything to worry about, I won&#8217;t worry about it any longer.  BTW&#8211;radical Islam is not a threat to the US, it has been relegated to the dustbin of history.  No need to worry about it, it is about as relevant as the vast number of crank leftists who troll this site.</p>
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		<title>By: Buck Roeser</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Buck Roeser]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 23:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#039;re clearly retarded. It is to (sic) bad how huffpo sinks its claws into the weakest minds and twists them with a message of evil.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re clearly retarded. It is to (sic) bad how huffpo sinks its claws into the weakest minds and twists them with a message of evil.</p>
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		<title>By: reader</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[reader]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 12:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, the stormfront bit came a bit late in the game here, I must admit. Usually, stuff like &quot;fascists&quot; and alike pop up immediately - as an indication of intellectual prowess, of course. The proven winner.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, the stormfront bit came a bit late in the game here, I must admit. Usually, stuff like &#8220;fascists&#8221; and alike pop up immediately &#8211; as an indication of intellectual prowess, of course. The proven winner.</p>
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		<title>By: g..man</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[g..man]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 11:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[so wrong]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>so wrong</p>
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		<title>By: John_Sellers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John_Sellers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 06:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a news flash to all you people who are worried about Communism.  Today, Communism is the fringe&#039;s fringe&#039;s fringe.

That is to say, Communism today is about as relevant as the vast number of crank opinions that dominate these dialog.

In other words, you have nothing to worry about.  For the most part, Communism is in the dust bin of history, and so are your pervasive crank opinions...with the exception that history will not even notice your crank opinions.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is a news flash to all you people who are worried about Communism.  Today, Communism is the fringe&#8217;s fringe&#8217;s fringe.</p>
<p>That is to say, Communism today is about as relevant as the vast number of crank opinions that dominate these dialog.</p>
<p>In other words, you have nothing to worry about.  For the most part, Communism is in the dust bin of history, and so are your pervasive crank opinions&#8230;with the exception that history will not even notice your crank opinions.</p>
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		<title>By: Cold_Drake_80</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cold_Drake_80]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 05:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stormfront and FPM have turned your brain into puss. I pointed out how this hack misquoted Marx. Then you claim that someone who can&#039;t even be bothered to copy/paste has a better handle on Marxism. That&#039;s a good one.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stormfront and FPM have turned your brain into puss. I pointed out how this hack misquoted Marx. Then you claim that someone who can&#8217;t even be bothered to copy/paste has a better handle on Marxism. That&#8217;s a good one.</p>
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