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Free State Project "1st 1000 Pledge" - Only 50 signers & 24hrs from SUCCESS

pledgebank.com — What if 20,000 liberty-minded people gathered together in one place their concentrated activism - Could it make a real difference? At the 5,000 participant benchmark, a vote was cast which resulted in the selection of New Hampshire, the Live Free or Die state. Many of us don't want to wait until we have 20,000 participants to be freedom pioneers.

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  • nusteve, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I've signed it, I'm moving in 2008, and I couldn't be more excited!
  • slimat420, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I have decided that I am tired of big government not respecting my rights and stealing my money. I have signed the 1st 1000. What other state can you choose to wear or not wear your seat belt and not be fined?
  • ThatGirlTasha, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2We signed up a couple of years ago but opted out should New Hampshire should win (which, of course it, did),
    Congrats on almost hitting the 1,000 mark!
  • Cyphase, on 10/12/2007, -1/+113 left! Come on everyone!
  • Cyre, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1ROfL, who'd want to live in that craphole of a state?
  • nuclearpenguins, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Nah, you silly Libertarians (yes I know that the Free State Project isn't affiliated with any political party, but a majority of the supporters of it are) aren't into funding education. No thank you.
    • FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6That's totally and completely incorrect. Libertarians want to create the best education system in the world. We want to restore the united states education system to it's former glory producing the best and the brightest. We believe that funding anything by taking money through threat of force (taxes) from the middle class and poor is wrong.

      The way to create a successful education system is not to give failing schools more money to spend so that they can waste it on things like Olympic pools that never get used, and million dollar computer labs with no teachers that know how to teach in them.... The way to succeed is not to simply lavish money to schools that waste it order to keep their budget requirements. We want to see schools COMPETE for your FAVOR in sending your child to them.

      We want to see you have the choice to send your child to 15 or 20 different schools (or more), and to keep the sometimes 10,000+ a year in taxes that you are paying for education now... and send your child to a school that costs perhaps a 1/3rd of that... but yet also outscores your current school system by leaps and bounds.

      We want 100% of high school graduates to be LITERATE... We would like to reduce the statistic that currently states that OVER ONE MILLION kids graduate the GOVERNMENT education system each year FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE (especially neglected minorities) to ZERO. We feel that high schools should actually be held RESPONSIBLE for providing an education, or that they should receive NO MONEY WHATSOEVER. (not simply be given money by our foolish and wasteful government who doesn't care what happens to YOUR money which they stole. http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-billingsley081203.asp

      We would like to see schools funded by the 1,084,897+ charity organizations in the united states. (considering the # of people who would actually NEED this money once we reduced the tax burden so significantly would be very small... schools would be much better off being paid for by user fees and charities for supporting the poor) (after all, people currently give money to the poor and homeless - who spend it on booze and drugs... any red blooded American would be more than HAPPY to give to a charity they know is going to put an inner city child through school.

      and MOST OF ALL, we want to see education saved from the LOSERS WIN system of NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND, where LOSER KIDS who have NO DESIRE to be educated hold back ENTIRE classrooms with indignant ATTITUDES, and where entire education programs are geared to the LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR.

      We would like to see an education system where the kids compete with one another to LEARN, and where getting an education is the priority because the students and families WANT IT again... because they have made it a priority. America is getting stupid. It needs to be fixed.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRUMmTs0ZA Above all my other links, I recommend a person like you watch this video.
    • CurtHowland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Nuclear,

      Go watch _20/20 Stupid In America_, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRUMmTs0ZA

      Then notice that even a chronically flunking student, when subjected to _for-profit_ education, learns more in 2 weeks than they did in years in the public schools.

      Government funded education fails because bureaucracies have priorities that are insane by "free market" standards.

      Bureaucratic success is measured only by bigger staffs and larger budgets. Actually teaching students has nothing to do with it.

      Failing schools are awarded more money for special programs, counselors, administrators, assistants, etc etc etc. All those things have to be paid for, too. A school which actually graduated happy and well educated students wouldn't get all those perks.

      The NEA is the largest labor union in the US, adding yet another layer of bureaucracy and more of bureaucracy's perverse incentives.

      So, by bureaucratic standards, failure is success and success is failure. Orwell was an optimist. Libertarians do not argue for de-funding _education_, what we argue are the benefits of de-funding the education _bureaucracy_.

      By removing government bureaucratic rule from education, not only are all those funds freed up to be spent on what people actually want, but the _demand_ for education is freed up as well.

      People can demand results, and entrepreneurs will scramble to supply those results because where there is a demand there is a profit to be made.

      Right now, churches supply social services and allow a cohesion of a community. I see no reason why churches and other such social entities won't also provide educational services to those who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford it.

      But seriously, the cost of education is fantastically small compared to what is being spent by the largest industry in all of the US, Education. With one instruction book and one 98 cent pack of 3x5 cards, I taught my 3 year old to read at better than first-grade level. Homeschoolers all over the world discover this same fact every day, that the basics of reading, writing and mathematics don't require huge outlays of resources to teach.

      So once the demand for basic education is freed, entrepreneurs will cut the cost of education the same way that they cut the cost of that computer you're using right now, that would have been considered a pie-in-the-sky supercomputer just 20 years ago.

      Libertarians argue the benefits of freedom in _every_ field of human endeavor. Just ask, or just do a search at http://www.mises.org/ on any particular subject you're curious about.

      Try "warlords" and see what you get.
  • AmishRefugee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It says 1000 people have signed now, good for them

    I hope their efforts come to fruition
  • positron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I'd like to encourage people to continue signing up regardless of the 1000 mark having now been met. There are many reasons to do so, among them the possibility that some of the new signups may be fakes (which has happened already).
  • Stonedonkey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1^^ Where in the holy hell did all you guys above me come from? I feel I just walked into a cult meeting.

    I probably get dugg down for saying that, but seriously.
    • FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1No, actually, you did just walk into a cult meeting... Would you like a glass of babies blood? It's fresh. ^_^
  • FTLJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1
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