Pathetic and creepy on so many levels.
First of all, since when has it been okay to have politicians directly indoctrinate kids in the classroom? We’re not talking about loving America or learning about civic duties. We’re talking about selling a specific piece of partisan legislation — legislation that not even all Democrats support — to schoolchildren. In a public, taxpayer-funded school.
Biden actually told the schoolchildren that, in order to rehire some 400,000 teachers nationwide, along with thousands of police officers and firefighters, all that needs to be done is tax wealthy individuals at a higher rate than they are currently taxed.
Second, what does it say about Joe Biden when the administration thinks the most he can handle is the wisdom and fiscal knowledge of fourth-graders? I remember when we heard about how Biden was going to be the wisdom and experience on the ticket. Now he’s charged with selling legislation to public school children. My how the faux mighty have fallen.
How desperate is the administration to sell its unfunded, $450 billion boondoggle? This:
Take about $500 in additional taxes from someone who makes a million dollars – “a million dollars,” Biden stressed – and those jobs will come right back.
“They can pay for all the teachers and all the police and all the firemen to come back,” Biden enticed the young, captive audience.
Before handing out stuffed animals resembling Biden’s dog “Champ,” to the entire class, there was even a point where Biden hinted that, without rehiring additional teachers, students might not be able to realize their dreams of becoming either congressmen or senators one day.
They’re now relying on the innocence and fiscal ignorance of young children to push their massive tax-and-spend legislation. It’s like a bad parody. But the worst part is how our children are being indoctrinated by left-wing politicians in classrooms where they’re supposed to be learning math and science. The public school system has become a left-wing indoctrination machine.


by Stephan Tawney on October 19, 2011