What About "Poverty?"

    Ronald Reagan said, in a speech before Congress, "people are not poor because they have no money; they have no money because they are poor, and if their poverty cannot be removed, giving them money only adds to their misery."  This brought coals of fire from many of the poverty brokers in Congress and was blazoned across the headlines for weeks.  The sad thing about all of this was that he was exactly right.
    We are assaulted with a carefully crafted attempt to sell us all on the idea that wealth should be "redistrubuted" to achieve a more equitable society and remove the grinding poverty of millions of our citizens.  One cannot help but wonder why, after throwing trillions of dollars at so-called "poverty" programs, we have as many or more poor people today than when the "war on poverty" was launched 60 years ago.
   The answer lies in a very dark conclusion:  totalitarian governments need poor people.  When people have their own money, they are powerful and do not need government.  These people will not support the redefinition of our government as master in place of its constitutional role as caretaker of our "unalienable" rights.
   It should surprise no one that our educational system has been drastically altrered so that it produces poor people.  Consider the way our public schools "teach" our children:
   1. They are given "rights" to privacy, sexual orientation, freedom of speech, freedom from mention of our Christian roots, freedom from learning about our constitution, freedom from learning academic material such as math, english, reading, economics, ethics, objective history, freedom from learning usable skills. 
   2.  Our students are focused upon elements of "social" success such as appearance (including a whole host of curricula associated with race, obesity, sexual orientation, national origin, language, conflict management) and a very determined effort to guard students against any intrusion of  ideas that would tend to discredit any portion of these "educational" efforts.
   By contrast, a civil society based upon the principles contained in our constitution, not only does not produce poor people via education, but does not need poor people. 
   By focusing our children from kindergarten through high school in such a way that discourages independence, a large percentage of them will join the ranks of the poor and can be counted on to vote for politicians who promise to take money from working people and give it to them.  This is such a universally held educational philosophy in our public schools that one must conclude that it is done by design.
   I look at the institutionalized poor rioting on Wall Street and other places against the "rich," and I feel an overpowering sadness for them, because they are powerless to help themselves.  It is not surprising that the people who have created this tragedy are now embracing their futile efforts.
   The very first order of business in any new order in Washington should be to shut down the whole scheme of funding local schools through federal taxes.  This has given a corrupt and perverse federal government a strangle hold over what is taught in our schools.
   What about it, seekers?  Can anything be done to save our kids from poverty?