The Twelve-Year Sentence
Nov 4th, 2011 | By Jeffrey Tucker | Category: Featured, PoliticsYou look at the parade of mindless dopes and dopers that make up the Occupy protesters and think: What is wrong with these people? They are mostly kids. They don’t have jobs. Most don’t even look employable. Those who are employable can’t find work at a wage they are willing to accept. Instead, they meander around in a mob at all hours, spouting inanities and imaging themselves to be radicals.
They don’t even know what they are protesting, not precisely, anyway. They oppose injustice, inequality and they like, but what does this mean? It means: The people in the buildings have money, and they do not. They are against that.
Meanwhile, they walk around with iPhones and Androids with fat data contracts paid for by moms and dads, all while agitating against the capitalist system that put these miracles in their palms in the first place. They claim to be against the suits, but they demand that the suits have more power to regulate, tax, redistribute, inflate, interfere and centrally plan.
What is going on here? Let’s speak the unspeakable truth that is still nearly taboo in today’s world. They were raised by government. From the ages of 6-18, they were tended to by the state in a system they were forced to join...
And it’s just the beginning. There are tens of millions of victims of this system. They were quiet, as long as the jobs were there and the economy was growing. But when the fortunes fell, they become a marauding mob seeking a father figure to lead them into the light.
Think of the phrase “12-year sentence.” The government took them in at the age of six. It sat them down in desks, 30 or so per room. It paid teachers to lecture them and otherwise keep them busy, while their parents worked to cough up 40% of their pay checks to the government to fund the system (among other things) that raises their kids.
So on it goes for 12 years, until the age of 18, when the government decides that it is time for them to move on to college, where they sit for another four years, but this time, at mom and dad’s expense.
What have they learned? They have learned how to sit in a desk and zone out for hours and hours, five days per week. They might have learned how to repeat back things said by their warden…I mean, teacher. They’ve learned how to sneak around the system a bit and have something resembling a life on the sly...
Americans were the most-educated people in the world, approaching near-universal literacy, and without a government-run central plan, without a 12-year sentence. Compulsory education was unthinkable. That only came much later, brought to us by the same crowd who gave us World War I, the Fed and the income tax....
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They don’t even know what they are protesting, not precisely, anyway. They oppose injustice, inequality and they like, but what does this mean? It means: The people in the buildings have money, and they do not. They are against that.
Meanwhile, they walk around with iPhones and Androids with fat data contracts paid for by moms and dads, all while agitating against the capitalist system that put these miracles in their palms in the first place. They claim to be against the suits, but they demand that the suits have more power to regulate, tax, redistribute, inflate, interfere and centrally plan.
What is going on here? Let’s speak the unspeakable truth that is still nearly taboo in today’s world. They were raised by government. From the ages of 6-18, they were tended to by the state in a system they were forced to join...
And it’s just the beginning. There are tens of millions of victims of this system. They were quiet, as long as the jobs were there and the economy was growing. But when the fortunes fell, they become a marauding mob seeking a father figure to lead them into the light.
Think of the phrase “12-year sentence.” The government took them in at the age of six. It sat them down in desks, 30 or so per room. It paid teachers to lecture them and otherwise keep them busy, while their parents worked to cough up 40% of their pay checks to the government to fund the system (among other things) that raises their kids.
So on it goes for 12 years, until the age of 18, when the government decides that it is time for them to move on to college, where they sit for another four years, but this time, at mom and dad’s expense.
What have they learned? They have learned how to sit in a desk and zone out for hours and hours, five days per week. They might have learned how to repeat back things said by their warden…I mean, teacher. They’ve learned how to sneak around the system a bit and have something resembling a life on the sly...
Americans were the most-educated people in the world, approaching near-universal literacy, and without a government-run central plan, without a 12-year sentence. Compulsory education was unthinkable. That only came much later, brought to us by the same crowd who gave us World War I, the Fed and the income tax....
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