Dear Gullible Friends: Who Needs Money? How Do You Know? Investigate, Please.

Ari L. NoonanEditor's Essays

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While angry Democrats pound their 7½-year-old theme – you are racist if you don’t vote for Swishy Obama (see the pitiable race-baiting Sandy (Feel Sorry for Me) Banks’s latest racist screed on page 2 in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times) – that is only the second largest hoax pulled on California voters.

The No. 1 scam is Prop. 30.

Every promise and every threat contained in the ballot explanation and the entirely predictable newspaper publicity is a black and blue lie.

Cunning legislators in Sacramento know a mark when they see one among the millions of illegal and multiple-registering California voters.

The mark, like all puppets, consumes gullibility for breakfast, for lunch, for dinner.

Anyone who votes for 30 is admitting he enjoys being fooled.

Hit me again, Murgatroyd. It feels good.

What matters to a liberal more than all other values is that he feels more noble after “saving our schools.”

He is not more noble. But by golly, he feels he is. To a liberal, that is a man’s quintessential contribution to society.

Every public pitch the childless, devious Gov. Flat Tire has made about slanty-legged Prop. 30 is a lie, from conception to his murky meanderings this afternoon.

Here is a message to the lovely but spectacularly naive moms and dads who have been tirelessly, sincerely roaming the sidewalks of Culver City for months, pleading for strangers and friends to rubber stamp the phony Prop. 30:

Why, people? Why? Have you examined beyond your nose?

Don’t Be Irresponsible

Have you read a newspaper in the last six months? Gone online? Seriously studied the context and contents of Prop. 30, then bothered to conduct any critical thinking?

All you heard, dear gullibles, was the word “school,” and away you dashed. How irresponsible. This crude scam works every time. Legislators bellowing “schools” is like a slick fellow telling a starry-eyed girl, “I love you,” and she replies, “May I be putty for the rest of your life?”

If the lawmakers had ordered you to “Save our banks,” neither liberals or normal persons would support it.

But bark “schools,” and millions of California mommies and daddies morph into puppy dogs. Obediently, they come panting after their intellectual betters in Sacramento.

Are You That Rich?

Save our schools? From what? Aren’t any of you Prop. 30 cheerleaders serious voters?

Save our schools from the legislature is more like it. The legislative crooks receive and distribute the money. Now there is a plan. Do you want their oily hands in your wallets? Why not sail your green out a window?

If I told you dinosaurs were returning to Culver Boulevard in the morning, would you gulp, run home and warn your neighborhood? Or investigate?

If you are north of 10 years old and able to tie your own shoes without a GPS, dear reader, why would you believe that when $6 billion of your tax money flows like the Great Wine River into Sacramento every year, 120 fundamentally dishonest boy and girl legislators will turn to each other, smile into an alcoholic fog and mutter:

“Buford, why don’t we save our schools again this year? Spending it on immigrant lesbian single mothers, under 5 feet tall, from countries ending in “q,” strikes me as a waste, don’cha think?”

Prop. 30 is a fool’s errand.

How is it that schools need even more of your involuntary tax money if vastly underpaid teachers – you know, those permanent breadline candidates who annually plead poverty – have enough loose change in their homes to contribute a whopping $22 million of the $52 million that has been tabulated so far to defeat Prop. 32?

Closely read that sentence again:

How is it that schools need even more of your tax money if (overpaid or underpaid) teachers have enough pin money lying around to contribute an obscene $22 million to a campaign to defeat Prop. 32?

Do they need a raise so that next time they can involuntarily contribute $42 million to defeat a measure designed to help them?

This is a beautiful study in illogical irony. Only a Disneyworld academic could admire such chaotic nonsense.

If you can digest the following without choking, congratulate yourself:

Teachers unions involuntarily subtract, we are told, $100 monthly in dues from (overpaid or underpaid) members to defeat Prop. 32

Meanwhile, Prop. 32 would forbid those heaven-sent, lopsidedly rich labor unions from involuntarily deducting monthly dues from slow-thinking members and donating those millions to the dishonest leaders’ favorite political causes.

On the subject of evaluating teachers, who needs a further test of dedicated teachers’ utter mindlessness?

You flunk, boys and girls.

The light is green, gullible friends. Vote away on 30 and 32.