Comments on Advance Indiana™: Star's Tim Swarens Starting To Like Pence Because He's For Pre-K Education

Pre-K is really nothing but state-funded daycare t...

2014-09-28T20:04:33.046-05:00

Pre-K is really nothing but state-funded daycare that attacks the family core by luring women who should be at home raising children into the workplace.

The fact that Ballard tried for various reasons to...

2014-09-28T13:44:18.454-05:00

The fact that Ballard tried for various reasons to eliminate the local homestead credit before dreaming up the Pre-K idea shows that this is about money that they can play with. I asked what the status is of HeadStart and what the results of that program has been and cost only to be ignored. We are supposed to forget that it even exits. Even though Pence has included Marion County in this it was met with a snippy -the state funds 800 children while his plan funds 1300. So, the state uses all taxpayer dollars while the city uses the select property tax payers. Lest they forget the uprising over excessive property taxation. It is not the job of the City Council to instigate school programs nor to get around property tax reform.
They are still pushing this which makes me realize that it is not about pre-k it is about wresting more money out of stressed citizens budgets. I am still waiting for the glorious report on HeadStart. So all you movers and shakers pushing this, backing this, maybe profiting from it, you fund it and leave us out of it. We are tapped out.

On the probability that Pence will at least be in ...

2014-09-28T11:51:56.706-05:00

On the probability that Pence will at least be in the conversation for the 2016 ballot in some capacity the Star needs to keep him on speaking terms with its reporters, because there's going to be a lot of page inches there. Truth be told, how these folks on the right adopt plausibly moderate positions, while saying they're consistent with the positions they took to get elected at home is pretty interesting, as will be the flip back to the right for those who don't make the ticket andstill have to run back in Mayberry.

Faux-gressives are simplistic in what they call &q...

2014-09-28T10:58:15.448-05:00

Faux-gressives are simplistic in what they call "thinking" by defining wealth & poverty in material terms, confusing it as a cause rather than a result; of self determined lifestyle.

Words like rich & poor belong to the PC'd terminology of condescension; wink & nod political scheming that claims to identify but never solves any "problem." Wealth & poverty are more spiritual than material conditions or socialized "consensus" thereof.

Having descended into what they prefer to call a brand, "republicans" at the establishment level, are experiencing poverty of principle, intellect & spirit. Those in or who formerly identified themselves as the republican base, no longer consider branding over principle to be an investment grade idea (GOP donations), as Karl Rove is beginning to acknowledge, however witting.

Given what's really illogic, expect faux-gressives to continue backing up, attempting to fund the virtues of in vitro education...

Mike Pence’s support that Indiana taxpayers should...

2014-09-28T07:26:30.984-05:00

Mike Pence’s support that Indiana taxpayers should have an additional tax burden to pay for baby-sitting services (a more honest and accurate name for “pre-K ed”) for low-income children in light of his previous opposition to federal programs such as Head Start again vividly substantiates the politician is an intellectual light-weight. As equally a lightweight thinker flip flopping his earlier rhetorical daggers at any opponent to this issue is Mr. Tim Swarens- the opinion editor of the highly esteemed and much beloved Indianapolis Star whose readership and online subscriptions soar with each passing month.

Pence wants us to believe he was wrong before he was right about taxpayer paid programs of which research and the literature clearly indicated do not provide measurable results in the Utopian goal of “overcoming the effects of poverty”. Mr. Swarens, and now comes Mr. Pence, wish us to believe that only “government” can raise a child out of the misery of low income and poor circumstances.

Call my crazy, call me old-school, call me a clear thinker but isn’t that the job of something called “parents”? True, not all parents are imbued with the ability to instill in their progeny the tools to rise about any challenge life tosses but fools like Pence and Swarens wish us to believe “government” can and must.

I look back on the huge measurable success of The Great Society Program- for which taxpayers continue to toss millions at to this very day with yet about zero program success- and the numerous expensive social programs (most of them rife with fraud) both the Democrats and its wing the Establishment Republican Party enacted since the 1960’s- and well, I am just filled with certainty that this time another government program is the answer and will be as effective as proponents Swarens and establishment RINO Pence say it will.