Deliberate Dumbing Down of America Public Education

415 and the New World Order Are Officially Instituted by Congress” by Jim Day appeared in the August, 1998 St. Louis Metro Voice monthly. Excerpts follow: “Few bills which we consider will have a greater impact on more Americans than the Work force Investment Act (H.R. 1385) we pass today.”—Sen. Edward Kennedy ( Congressional Record , July 30, 1998, p. S 9490). [PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Truer words were never spoken in relation to gaining total control of the citizens of the United States and turning our nation into a fascist state. If you think this is an outlandish statement, read this article. What you are about to read is the absolute truth which is backed by more documentation than you could ever hope to read.] On July 30 Senators Edward Kennedy (D) MA, Jim Jeffords (R) VT, Mike DeWine (R) OH, Paul Wellstone (D) MN, Christopher Dodd (D) CT, and Jack Reed (D) RI, unanimously passed by a voice vote the Conference Report on H.R. 1385—the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 —the latest version of “The CAREERS Act.” A voice vote only requires a majority of those present to pass or reject a bill. The report was then sent back to the House of Repre sentatives for review. According to the Congressional Record , only six senators spoke on the floor. Due to the fact that no roll call vote was taken, it is not known if any other senators were present in the chamber at the time. Late in the afternoon the next day, July 31, without any notice, when most congressmen were on planes headed home, five congressmen, again by a voice vote, unanimously ap proved H.R. 1385, paving the way for President Clinton’s signature on August 7. The five congressmen were William Clay, Sr. (D) MO, Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R) CA, William “Bill” Goodling (R) PA, Dale Kildee (D) MI, and Matthew Martinez (D) CA. Again, due to the fact that no roll call vote was taken, no one knows how many other, if any, congressmen were present at the time of the vote. These 11 men and President Clin ton have just created and signed into law legislation which converts America’s free market economic system to a controlled or managed market system—the same type of economic system which was established by Nazi Germany. [Ed. Note: President Clinton, on August 7, 1998, signed this controversial school-to-work/job training bill, the final version of the infamous CAREERS Act which grassroots activists had worked hard to kill for over four years and had thought they had put to rest in the summer of 1996 when Senator Trent Lott refused to bring it up for a vote. These same activists were taken by surprise when Rep. Howard P. (Buck) McKeon, proclaimed conservative from California, appeared out of nowhere like a stealth bomber, reintroduced and assisted to pass similar legis lation in April 1997—this time titled The Employment Training and Literacy Enhancement Act of 1997 . Activists had little time to mount an effort to down this nasty stealth missile, allowing it to go on to the Senate which, in turn, passed it in August of 1998.] T HE N ATIONAL A CADEMY OF S CIENCES AND THE U.S. D EPARTMENT OF E DUCATION - FUNDED Pre venting Reading Difficulties in Young Children , Grant No. 0235501 (National Academy Press: Washington, D.C., 1998), was critiqued by Ann Herzer of Arizona, M.A., reading specialist. Herzer literally lobbed a well-justified grenade at those so-called “experts” involved in the research and writing of the book, whose credentials indicate their long-term involvement in programs for special education and in the promotion or development of Skinnerian operant conditioning programs to teach reading and other subjects. Mrs. Herzer’s critique follows in its entirety: The Noxious Nineties : c. 1998