TANSTAAFL except for Liberals
by
Matt Giwer (c) 1995 <3/10>

      It is a sad comment upon the state of education in this country when everyone from Congressrats to school teachers show they could not pass a simple 4th grade arithmetic test. Here is the test.
      Mohammedette (a PC test) has forty apples. She is given four and one half percent more apples. Does she have

      a) An increase
      b) A cut
      c) no apples at all

      I know, that telegraphs the punch line. First off you have to understand that a) is the only completely wrong answer. Now liberal Congressrats and teachers and of course the media mavens are hotly debating whether the correct answer is b) or c).
      One school in Louisiana (that state being the only state with lower school achievement than Arkansas) is firmly convinced the answer is c) and is teaching that to the children. I hope no one is surprised by the school achievement in that state given this being taught as true. Where do they get such stupid teachers? Where I charged to hire such stupid people I could guarantee results.
      To his credit, and I am certain in what was in burst of insight after a long struggle, President Clinton realized that Mohammedette would at least have some apples left so he said the correct answer was b). Of course his is from the second worst educated state in the country so we should give him as many plaudits as possible for getting that close to the correct answer. It may encourage him to study hard and learn and perhaps do better next time.
      His fellow Democrats in Congress do agree with him that b) is the correct answer. But what excuse do they have? They come from states with better educational standards than Arkansas. So what excuses their obvious inability to grasp basic arithmetic. I will grant the only educational group that gave them a majority in the last election was the group that did not finish high school. But still this is a fundamental concept not limited to arithmetic.
      It is one of those very fundamental concepts one uses to test the development of two and three year olds, whether or not they can distinguish between less and more. Children who are not able to grasp such concepts are considered to some degree retarded. An adult that can not grasp that distinction is either considered retarded or to have some other mental problem.
      Thus we find the Democrats in Congress are either retarded or perhaps suffering from some degenerative brain dysfunction or perhaps they have suffered a serious head injury. It is quite surprising to find so many of them with the identical problem all the in the same place and in fact in the same party.
      So I propose this. That the Center for Disease Control immediately be assigned the job of determining the cause. This could be some new contagious disease. It could escape the limited circles of liberals and into the healthy population at any moment. Liberals have been known to consort and even mate, consider the Maitlan -- Carvell marriage. If it is contagious Maitlan is certainly at great risk not to mention the general population.
      I can not adequately express the seriousness of the danger of this disease. Drivers with it will be speeding up believing they are slowing down. Investors will be throwing themselves out of windows when they make a fortune in the stock market. There are other consequences too horrible to contemplate and certainly not suitable for publication where children might read.
      We are all at risk of losing our ability at basic reasoning as have so many liberals. Should this be contagious we are all lost. I can not imagine these people were all born retarded. If so it is hard to understand how they could have gotten to their positions in life.
      And above all a cure must be found. More is more and less is less. We can not have people actually believing that more is less. As I have shown above it is very dangerous to permit them loose in society. It is only a matter of time before they hurt themselves and others. For their own good we much restrain them.