Everything is Relative to the Strength of the Family

It’s time for both parties to get serious about education. The continued political posturing is only going to continue our downward trend against other developed and developing nations.

What is disappointing to me is that Democrats claim they are the party of Education and the Republicans claim they are the party of fiscal responsibility and strong family values.

From my perspective, the verdict is still out. If the Democratic Party truly values education then why are Democrats continuously writing legislation and/or ignore Children and Family Services and Family Law Legislation that is creating “generational poverty” and shattering traditional families like fine crystal? This generational poverty is decimating the family beyond repair and emotionally crushing children’s spirits.

These family legislative initiatives are directly impacting the classroom. What’s causing it? Performance and incentive measures, through the Title IV B-D programs and Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development's DWD chapter 44, which is the bounty on the family here in Wisconsin. This is why I have stated for years that the very lobbyist,special interest groups and Democrats that claim they strongly support teachers and education is the very same party that is slip-knotting many educators by writing Family Law and Children and Family Services Legislation that has for decades brought a counter-balanced crushing blow to education and test scores i.e. Milwaukee School Districts.

The above mentioned revenue streams flow directly back into county budgets for payrolls and admin. costs. All the matches, incentives and performance measures on the family are all paid for by the American taxpayers.

This conduct that has been taking place for the last two decades is directly impacting the classroom and education. The “Race to the Top” and performance-based-pay is the biggest insult you can inflict upon the educational system, under these unprecedented dynamics mentioned above. All the while, Arne Duncan is saying Obama really cares about education...really?

As a Fiscal Conservative Republican I ask my fellow Republicans, “What part of this you don’t understand”? If Republicans and Democrats had a meeting of the minds that created legislation to stop the incentives that shatter traditional families and children, in a bi-partisan fashion, it would only net a win-win for everyone. Immobilizing the lobbyist and special interest hang-over within education from both sides is paramount. Stronger families, elimination of generational poverty, and the positive impact on education would have a breathtaking result. Who doesn’t want to see America’s children be strong, confident, and prosperous? Isn’t that the American dream? Prosperity through the strengths of a traditional family and a great educational experience is the only way to achieve this.

This “dream” can happen, but policy makers need to take note. For starters, the funding that’s being generated through the Social Security Administration Title IV B-D and the incentives that both create generational poverty and shatter traditional families could be shifted over to education. Then the funding that is presently being created through property taxes would be significantly reduced by millions of millions of dollars because Social Security Administration Title IV B-D has billions...

The next step would be to put a huge emphasis on faith-based initiatives to strengthen traditional families, which only cost millions rather than hundreds of millions and billions. A faith-based initiative would then reduce the billions of taxpayer dollars being funneled in and out of the Social Security Administration Title IV B-D programs.

America we need to understand that “The Race to The Top” will bring many consequential and civil liberty concerns within the underlying agendas that have not yet been revealed. This education reform by both parties will have many of the same hallmarks of the health care reform cram-down. We won’t know the full extent of the damage until it’s too late.

The criteria set-forth within the “Race to the Top” creates compounding tension, when animosity is already high, towards many traditional teachers and administrators across America. This move by the progressives (From both parties)is a premeditated and very stealth-like move to give the perception that it’s appeasing the masses, while throwing the last remaining traditional teachers and administrators overboard in an effort to divert attention away from the real agenda.

The consequences for the unchecked and three tiered “Race to the Top”, through the performance and incentive push will overshoot its perceived intended target , thus having the potential to forever change the founding principles of American history, the freedom to say the Pledge of Allegiance and the little bit of Biblical history being taught within some schools.

It’s possible that once the majority of states have been injected with “The Race to The Top” anesthesia, there could be a full-on assault to strip out centuries of history that dates all the way back to our Founding Fathers and beyond. Under these present education reform measures it makes one wonder if textbooks and digital media publishing companies will be forced to leave out priceless historical content that will bring a hyper-censoring effect upon education.

Both parties need to pause for just a moment and reflect on past and present reform agendas that have gone without a challenge. If we don’t, greed and corruption, driven by incentives and performances measures, that have historically trumped logic and commonsense, will be the direct result.

Many of these unchecked education reforms will historically come with decades of rolling conflicts that are impossible to ever reconcile. Our present leaders have shown no matter your party affiliation, if you’re not on board, you will not be heard.

EVERYTHING is relative to the strength of the family and great traditional teachers and administrators are the launching pad to prosperity, not poverty.

Another Assault on Traditional Families

Many ask, what inspires you to continue to expose the underpinnings of the financial crisis? Most know my inspiration was influenced by the moral character and integrity of one ambitious community banker. This inspiration also deepens when I see the lack of compassion for American families, small business owners and taxpayers who are being forced to choke down 99.99% of the moral hazards created by the financial industry.

It’s seriously naïve to solely blame Wall Street banks for the origination and appraisal fraud. The hypocrisy and moral hazards are much broader. It’s feared that community banks and credit unions will cause a more serious financial crisis in the future. See link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35347057#35347057

Capitalism isn’t the problem it’s the lack of prosecutions. A return of trust and confidence in the financial system is a matter of setting a precedence .Think of it this way: You’re at the bank with a large deposit. Upon your arrival, you realize the bank is being robbed. Do you continue into the bank and become a part of the crisis, or return the next day when the bank is safe and sound? If Washington can’t trust banks and the banks can’t trust banks then how can banks expect American taxpayers to? My point is this, forcing American taxpayers into situations that will leverage future generations, is unthinkable, especially when the bad guys are still in charge and lobbyists and politicians are waiting in a gold-plated getaway car.

Presently the growing consensus is that strict accountability through prosecution would guarantee confidence within the financial system. It’s overdue for the good banks to force bad banks into a perp walk through the town square, American taxpayers deserve their “pound of flesh”. I understand the whole brotherhood thing, but seriously now, we can’t move on to systemic job creation until the financial system functions properly.

I’m curious to see which 2010 candidate for Wisconsin Governor will be courageous enough to protect Wisconsin families who have been inadvertently impacted by the moral hazards of the financial industry.

Hold true to your family, for they will offer a much deeper joy then any banker or bill collector. In the end the wisest “saving plan” through these unprecedented economic times will be your family. To see the wholesale assault on Wisconsin families go to W.C.C.A.; enter institution's name and brace yourself.

From Family Court to the Classroom

In the last twelve months we have heard a great deal about “Race to the Top” and performance-based pay for teachers.President Obama has even gone as far as praising Eastern Asia for their academic excellence. Could this phenomenon of academic excellence be attributed to their emphasis on the family? The “Race to the Top” sounds like a grand concept but here in America families are shattering like fine crystal every day.

For decades, Washington and The Republicans have failed miserably to connect the fracturing of traditional families, the Federal entitlement funding therein and its impact within American classrooms. Many American educators today are totally unaware of this Federal funding machine (Social Security Act Title IV –B & D Codes) that is waiting to decimate a traditional family. For decades, Family Law and the Democrats have been in direct conflict with the education system and certainly with both the proposed “Race to the Top” and performance-based-pay concepts. Additionally, we’ll never truly know how counter-productive the pro-poverty initiatives will be until we reach a crisis point within our educational system.

Presently, lawmakers seem to be placing blame squarely on the shoulders of many great Administrators & Educators across America, without making the connection to Family Law, Judicial Activism and Children and Family Services legislative agenda. I believe these are some of the main factors contributing to our declining educational ranking amongst developed nations… not just teacher performance. In order to really see an increase in organic test scores of American children we need to prevent incentivizing the shattering of traditional families that is creating generational poverty.

Many American educators are currently well aware of the emotional impact on children of divorce (ACE Study). Most often their emotional trials play out within the classroom. So I will depart on this thought: You have 35 children with varying emotional backgrounds in a classroom, 15 come from a traditional family, 15 from a “shattered” family and 5 at-risk children. A teacher has approx. 60 minutes to administer an effective curriculum experience @ $15 to $35 per hour (Includes Benefits). Let’s take a well-accredited Child Psychologist, and then put him or her in the same classroom for 60 min, not at $150-$400 an hour but for $15- $35 an hour for one school year and demand them to “perform”.

Many, if not all of these well-accredited Child Psychologists, wouldn’t make it past lunch on the first day! You ask why I use 35 children. It’s because in the next five years the “Race to the Top” and performance-base-pay will potentially run great traditional teachers right out of the education field if the connection fails to be addressed. This Exodus will in turn increase classroom sizes. We need to recognize that the judicial activism that takes place within the Family Courts is directly impacting many traditional educators and their beloved classrooms. “Everything” is relative to the strength of the family and educators shouldn’t be the punching bag for the improprieties of the Family Courts that generates huge revenue streams for state and county budgets on the backs of shattering families. We have known for centuries, educators are the launching pad to prosperity, not poverty. Eastern Asia may have schooled us once again.

Equality vs. Funding
Part 1


As we all know, for decades there have been long standing issues of inequality. In our most recent decade we have seen significant improvements, but the issue of equality still bares new and more complex challenges than ever before. One of the most perplexing challenges comes from within Family Law. It has been known for decades that significant and legitimate concerns of inequality have been leveled against the Family Courts. This imbalance has consequently shattered millions of children and families.

It has been thought for years that the custodial parent has all the power within a family court action. The truth of the matter is family court rulings are “weaponizing” the custodial parent, in order to procure Federal funding for administrative costs for county agencies through incentives and performance measures. I have stated for years, based on my facts and findings, that it is not the custodial parent that is causing the perception of inequality; it’s the aggressive pursuit by county administrators that shatters the family beyond recognition, thus creating generational poverty that maximizes this “funding machine”.

Over the years lawmakers across the United States have proposed revisions to Family Law that has come with significant resistance or has just flat-out fallen on deaf ears to the idea of equality. Many lawmakers are unaware of the judicial activism that hides behind the shadows of judicial discretion (Sword and Shield Precedent). This type of activism reveals the significant disregard for the emotional brutality inflicted upon shattering children and families in the pursuit of Federal incentives and performance measures.

Some of these well known funding mechanisms are known as: CSPIA Act of 1998; Title IV-D, Federal Performance Incentive Pool /Federal Entitlement Programs and DWD 44, not to mention the direct correlation to the CDC’s “Adverse Childhood Experiences Study” which creates impending cyclical dynamics that triggers a whole host of other State and Federal legacy programs.

The most recent phenomenon is the increasing number of non-custodial mothers. In this new phenomenon there looms potential for a monumental challenge within Family Law; these challenges will consequently up-end the funding mechanisms that have shattered families for decades. Where will the challenge come from? Based on trends, it’s most likely this legal challenge will come with the full- force and fury of a determined, strong, self -assured, non-custodial mother who has been subjected to paying an unprecedented child support order while being judicially silenced.

This legal challenge won’t be of Family Law itself, but of the forged underpinnings of judicial activism that has created this imbalance of equality in the pursuit of State and Federally funded revenue streams.

The charge of inequality would be difficult for an Appellate and/or Supreme Court to ignore. I believe a decisive ruling in favor of equality of this magnitude, not seen since the sixties and seventies would forever set an unequivocal precedent of equality, not seen within present family law. This will force legal, constitutional, and academic scholars challenging the constitutionality of decades-old family law decisions as well as Appellate and Supreme Courts questioning the many pareidolia characteristics of the continued inequalities beyond the equal and civil rights movement of the twentieth century.