Cool Teachers' Resource - Classroom Videos on entrepreneurship, property rights, free trade, global warming, and personal responsibility

I found out about "izzit.org" reading a Heritage Foundation publication; it's for teachers of 4th - 12th grade students.

Ultimately, Chitester and Mead want to help teachers get their students to think for themselves about the role of government in their lives; they want the kids to always ask themselves: Who’s choosing? 

izzit.org provides teachers with high-quality educational videos and accompanying lesson plans on range of topics. These include entrepreneurship, property rights, free trade, global warming, and personal responsibility.   

Read an entire interview with the creators of izzit.org here.

Two Billboards on I-44 Highlight Troop Donations to Ron Paul

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Lloyd Sloan
lloyd_sloan@yahoo.com

Two Billboards on I-44 Highlight Troops Support for Ron Paul

Two bill boards--believed to be the first billboards of the presidential cycle here in Missouri--were installed along I-44 by Ron DeClue, the owner of Alpha Display Inc, a Missouri sign company. The signs promote Ron Paul, who during the last quarter, received more in campaign donations from Missourians than each of the other Republican candidates. These signs were not paid for by Paul's official campaign, however. A group of local supporters worked in conjunction with the American Liberty Coalition out of Wisconsin to design, place and fund the billboards.

One sign which is viewed by westbound drivers leaving Sullivan, MO reads “Our Troops Support Paul.” The sign uses a bargraph to show that Ron Paul is apparently the US Military’s choice for president. He receives more in donations from active troops than Obama and more than all of the other GOP candidates put together. In fact, www.supportthemnow.com, the website featured on the sign, links to OpenSecrets.org to show that the US Army, the US Air Force and the US Navy were the top three contributors to Ron Paul’s campaign during the 3rd quarter of 2011.

The other billboard, viewed by eastbound drivers just passing Leasburg, features the official campaign website: www.ronpaul2012.com where Ron Paul's "Restore America Plan" is outlined. This plan would balance the US federal budget by 2015, during the first three years of Paul's presidency, by cutting five federal departments and $1 trillion of spending--mostly US spending abroad. The plan would not cut Social Security or Medicare.

A recent Bloomberg poll shows Ron Paul statistically tied for first place in Iowa. Ron Paul won the NFRA straw poll a few weeks ago in the first-to-vote state of Iowa.

Hear from the pharmacist who took on Gov. Rod Blagojevich and won for Rights of Conscience

I'm looking forward to hearing Luke Vander Bleek, the pharmacist who took on Gov. Rod Blagojevich and won for Rights of Conscience, on December 1st out at Pillar in the Valley. Not only is it for a good cause, but it's a story worth hearing and knowing about.

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Wealth isn't Created by Government; It's Created by YOU

I remember as a kid talking to my brother about how the government should print money to pay for everything and get rid of the national debt. It's funny how some adults still think like children: wealth is just paper.

Wealth isn't paper: it's stuff people value enough to give up free time to work for. Even more, people that create wealth don't do it simply by wanting it, but by actualizing it--without nagging (or government subsidies).

Gary North writes in one of his weekly tips on "How You Can Earn a Bachelor's Degree from an Accredited College in 3 Years for Under $15,000":

I encourage you in your efforts to improve your skills. But the power of the Day Timer and the Palm Pilot to increase Americans' productivity tells us that it is not our skill sets that are our personal key to success; it is our ability to meet deadlines without letting things fall through the cracks.

This is why a college education really does pay off. College removes external nagging, which still exists in high school. College leaves the student on his own. If he survives this last test -- deadlines without nagging -- he is ready for adulthood.

Businesses hire college graduates, not because of their skill sets, but because of their ability to survive an inefficient bureaucratic system that imparts little formal knowledge that is as important as the ability to meet deadlines without being nagged. College is the first nagging-free environment for about one-third of Americans. Half of them don't graduate.

You can sign up for Gary North's tip of the week at http://garynorth.com/.

Steve Jobs, an entrepreneur who experienced winning and losing

NPR featured a great short piece on Steve Jobs's life, and one thing that strikes me: we live in a world full of businesses who "need" subsidizing, but he didn't.

The greatest enemy of the entrepreneur is government intervention.

Perry E. Gresham
Liberty and the Entrepreneur 

We keep hearing that businesses are "too big to fail" and about companies who "need" subsidies so they can "scale" production to "break in" to the market.

What if the companies that are "too big" are just sucking up capital that could be reinvested?

The entrepreneur, moreover, must be able to face failure and be resourceful enough to learn from it. Some of the most successful companies in America are the result of early entrepreneurial failures. The imaginative and creative business person learns by failure, as well as by success.

Perry E. Gresham
Liberty and the Entrepreneur

The best way to change government...

...is to change the people in government! 

(And keep the few willing to fight against status quo...)

I'm passing along a notice about a Missouri Precinct Project (MOPP) training session in Jeff City on Oct. 1, which focuses on teaching YOU how to meet your neighbors to find like-mind voters to influence, and ultimately, change (hold accountable) who is in Washington (and in all the other little offices too.)

MOPP is hosting a training session in Jefferson City on Saturday, Oct 1.,  and I encourage you to attend. We cannot rely on the Party system to pick and elect our candidates any longer. Change requires YOUR action. I'll be there and I hope you can make it too. 

Volunteers and friends of MOPP:

You probably have heard or seen the announcements by American Majority, a national non-profit, non-partisan political training institute and that they are starting national training seminars across the country on September 17, 2011. Well, the Missouri Precinct Project (MOPP) is one of the first organizations to have a joint training session with American Majority on Saturday, October 1, 2011 in Jefferson City.  Go to our website www.moprecinctproject.org - it also has a link to American Majority and sign up for this fabulous training online as soon as possible.

American Majority is a national organization that has developed state of the art training tools that our volunteers can use and they will benefit from the expertise that American Majority has developed. It would be well worth your time to come to this training and learn the latest strategies of how to take back our country one neighborhood at a time. I would love to see you there.

I know - there is a debate scheduled for that date between Ann Wagner and Ed Martin. They are both running for Congress from the 2nd Congressional District. But they'll have more debates. I know, because I already scheduled their debate for Bonhomme Township in December. So you won't have to miss our favorite candidate for this important office.

Hope to see you in Jefferson City on Saturday, October 1, 2011 and really find out how to walk your neighborhood.

Frieda Keough

Missouri Precinct Project (MOPP)

"Let's MOPP 'em up in '12"

www.moprecinctproject.org

missouriprecinctproject@gmail.com

for more information call:

 314-229-8720

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PS....to my friends who are elected officials, I hope you do not take offense to my suggestion that you should be removed from office. The point is not that everyoneshould be removed, but that the people in government are who shape its actions.

Video of "Protest" for Status Quo Outside of Sen. Blunt's Office

There were pre-printed (and a few hand written) signs and people, but not much energy. A couple of times the crowd started yelling "no cuts," but not full participation. Really, a call for "no cuts," is a call for status quo.

Someone handed me a little sheet that said "People Before Profits" and then listed opposition to "across the board cuts." My frustration with suggesting that there should be "no cuts" is focused on why I--or anyone else under 40--should pay into a broken system. At this point, we're not talking about providing a "safety net," we're talking about a national debt crisis.

By 2020, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will CONSUME the entire federal budget. Period.

The cuts will come. It's just a matter of on what terms. Period.

Money does not grow on trees--no matter how loud you protest.




Also check out footage at sharpelbowsstl.blogspot.com: http://sharpelbowsstl.blogspot.com/2011/07/leftists-rally-for-higher-debt-higher.html