Free summer economic training by FEE for high school students at SLU

The Foundation for Economic Education, a free-market think tank and publishers of Bastiat's "The Law," is bringing a high school seminar to St. Louis this summer (July 12-15). Application deadline is March 31st. As far as I know, these seminars are still free to liberty-minded students.

(College seminar "True Costs of War" is also coming to StL - http://www.fee.org/seminars/detail/the-true-costs-of-war#axzz2OO70LlAm)

Perhaps you know students who should attend? Highly recommended!

http://www.fee.org/seminars/detail/free-the-world#axzz2OO70LlAm

Free the World

July 12-15: St. Louis, MO - St. Louis University

 

Are you a high school student who loves freedom?  Do you wonder if America really is the land of the free?  Do you want to learn about what makes some countries freer than others and what that freedom means for the people living there?  Then come to "Free the World," July 12-15, 2013, at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri!

Schedule:

 

July 12

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Opening Remarks

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm: Introduction to Economic Ideas (Anne Bradley)

5:30 pm – 6:45 pm: Dinner

7:00 pm – 8:15 pm: Hey, What's Your Number? (Matthew Mitchell) 

 

July 13

7:00 am – 8:30 am: Breakfast

8:30 am – 9:45 am: Size of Government (Patrick McLaughlin)

10:00 am – 11:15 am: Property Rights (Brennan Brown)

11:30 am – 12:20 pm: Activity

12:20 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00 pm – 3:15 pm: Rule of Law (Anne Bradley)

3:30 pm – 4:45 pm: Regulation (Patrick McLaughlin)

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Dinner

6:30 pm – 7:45 pm: Sound Money (Anne Bradley)

 

July 14

7:00 am – 8:30 am: Breakfast

8:30 am – 9:45 am: Trade (Brennan Brown)

10:00 am – 11:15 am: Activity

11:30 am – 12:20 pm: Choice: The Good, The Bad, and The Public (Matthew Mitchell)

12:20 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00 pm – 3:15 pm: Case Study- Regulation (Matthew Mitchell) 

3:30 pm – 4:45 pm: Case Study- Free Trade (Brennan Brown)

5:00 pm – 6:30 pm: Dinner

6:30 pm – 7:45 pm: Faculty Q&A

 

July 15

7:00 am – 8:30 am: Breakfast

7:00 am – 11:30 am: Students Depart

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Home School Rally on Tuesday, March 26 in Jefferson city

Home School Rally

 

Parental Rights & Home Education

 

Missouri State Capitol

Jefferson City

 

Tuesday, March 26^th, 2013 - 2:30 pm

 

Sponsored by:

Families for Home Education

 

In our generation Parental Right have come under attack like never before in America and Missouri!

Various levels of the federal government and even many influential activists in State government

have been working to label you and I as suspect, even a threat to national security,

just because we home school our children!

 

Just as the Missouri Department of Revenue has (secretly) begun compiling a massive

database of citizens and your source documents, the Department of Elementary and

Secondary Education has conspired to begin a massive data collection on children and

families through local schools.  By adopting the Common Core Standards initiative

DESE has demonstrated the plan for Missouri to join with other States to provide

as much detailed information as possible with the federal government.

How long do you think home schoolers can stay free?

 

Home Education is a foundational rights that stems from the natural rights of the Family!

Those who seek to undermine this right also work to fracture Parental Rights.  Here in

our Great State of Missouri the fundamental principles of Parental Rights are not

recognized even in State Statutes, much less in the Constitution!  It's no wonder

everyone lives in the fear of government coming to take away your children.

 

Worst of all, the vast majority of child abuse accusations are treated under the law as "civil"

violations rather than "criminal".  As a result parents have NO Constitutional Rights that would

help protect against false accusations.  Under most child protections accused parents are NOT

assumed innocent until the government prove that you are guilty.  Instead, you are assumed

to be guilty until YOU prove that you are innocent.  The State Children's Division treats all

such cases without affording you the basic rights respected of outright criminals!

 

Parental Rights are too important to leave unprotected.  Please come to the Missouri State Capitol

for this important rally.  With almost half of the 163 House members being new to the Legislature,

and the remaining members serving only a few years (thanks to the impact of "term limits")

they must see and hear from you!  Of the 34 Senators and House members (197 in all) only

a small fraction have ever seen a large organized group of Home Schoolers. 

 

In 2009 3,000 home schoolers packed out the Capitol,

but since then 80% of the General Assembly has

been replaced and only a few have seen more than

a tenth of these numbers at any given time.

 

Go to:

http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills131/biltxt/intro/HB0513I.htm

and check out HB 513, Sponsored by Representative Kurt Bahr, and

 

http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills131/biltxt/intro/HJR0026I.htm

to see HJR 26, Sponsored by Representative Todd Richardson

 

Come thank these men and the many co-sponsors of these important bills.

Come and visit with your Representative and Senator to ask for their support also!

 

Without your involvement Parental Rights will continue to be eroded until your grandchildren

and great-grandchildren will no longer have the home schooling rights you enjoy today.

 

 

Senate Budget Committee Minority Summary Of Murray Budget Proposal

March 13, 2013

For Immediate Release

Senate Democrats' Tax-And-Spend Plan Grows The Government—Not The Economy

After Four Years, Senate Democrats Stunningly Fail To Identify Reforms, Enriching The Bureaucracy At Workers' Expense

A Budget That Never Balances—Ever

Senate Democrats had four years to come up with a plan to balance the budget and grow the economy. Four years to develop a proposal to make government less wasteful and more productive, and to reform failing government programs that have trapped millions in poverty and joblessness. But after four years and $6 trillion in debt since a budget was last passed, their vague proposal leaves America with a budget that never balances and a government that never stops growing.

$7.3 Trillion In New Debt

The Senate Democrat plan offers $7.3 trillion in new debt in the first 10 years, with interest payments climbing to $791 billion in the tenth year and total debt rising to $24.4 trillion. Debt remains permanently elevated above the danger zone of 90 percent of GDP, resulting in slower growth and lost wages. Excluding war spending gimmicks, net deficit reduction is only $279 billion. In the Senate Democrat plan, the deficit in 2023 is $566 billion; the House Republican plan, in contrast, produces a surplus in the tenth year.

$1.5 Trillion In New Taxes

Chairman Murray and Senate Democrats have proposed a $1.5 trillion tax hike on the American people in order to subsidize wasteful spending and shield failing government programs—in the process sabotaging the principles of bipartisan tax reform that lowers rates and creates growth. This consists of the $923 billion advertised in their tables, plus $480 billion to eliminate the sequester, and $100 billion to offset stimulus in 2013.

Net Spending Increase Of $645 Billion Above Projected Growth

Today's budget is $3.6 trillion. Democrats propose raising that to $5.7 trillion by 2023—an increase of 62 percent. (As a reference point, the budget in 2007 was $2.7 trillion). Relative to CBO's current-law baseline (minus phony war savings and inflated disaster spending), the Democrat budget increases spending $645 billion above projected spending levels.

Four Years Of Waiting And No Reforms

Amazingly, after four years, the Democrats were unable to identify any real reforms—no tax reform and no entitlement reform. The budget also contains no welfare reform, resulting in a roughly 80 percent increase in means-tested support and poverty programs, growing the government instead of the economy. The Democrat plan reveals its supporters' apparent belief that our massive federal government—whose budget has increased 30 percent since 2007—is essentially perfect and, instead of reforms, simply needs ever-more taxpayer dollars.

Enriching The Bureaucracy At The Expense Of The People

The Democrat budget protects the stale federal bureaucracy while presenting millions of Americans with a future of poverty, dependency, and joblessness. Instead of empowering the individual spirit of human freedom, the majority plan empowers the bureaucracy. Instead of creating good-paying jobs for those who want them, the majority plan destroys those jobs and hires more people to staff the local welfare office. Republicans will fight for a more optimistic future—a future of strong families and thriving communities in which our society, and not our bureaucracy, is the center of American life.

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School Board Forum: Mehlville High School Library, March 18 at 7 PM

Mehlville High School Library, March 18 at 7 PM.  I've heard that Lori Trakas is a good candidate. If you go, leave comments in the comment section for others to read!