Disastrous Iowa Education--Briefing to Legislators--2002

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MAJOR WEBSITE UPDATE

  This website has been updated to rigorously discuss Radical Liberal Behavior and its impact on an organization's productivity and integrity, and more--based on the contents of Dr. Lyle Rossiter's book, The Liberal Mind.  

The author will appear on WHO radio's, Michelson in the Morning program, at 10:00 on Friday, May 9th.   Some of the following topics could be discussed--time and listener interest permitting.   

   HOW TO RECOGNIZE RADICAL LIBERALS

Radical Liberals and their behavior etc. are clearly described by Dr. Lyle Rossiter, MD, in his outstanding book, The Liberal Mind, available for $19.95 (paperback)  or $9.95 (E-book) at http://www.libertymind.com/index.php?page_id=220 .  

Since discussing the book's contents in describing the integrity of 2008 IA legislative action farther below, and in several emails to Iowans, people have been telling us they have been exposed to radical liberal behavior, and didn't like it, but didn't know what it was--or what caused it.  Now they are finding out more about it.   The following table was prepared by Iowalive net workers--based on Dr. Rossiter's book.  

The table is Iowalive net workers' attempt to put Dr. Rossiter's theories to practice, with the best, but not claimed to be perfect, numbers available, derived and provided at no cost by volunteer Iowalive net workers.  The table's contents make it much easier to recognize radical liberal behavior and beliefs--even though some, who are so afflicted, try to hide or disguise it.  Those of you who work with, or associate with radical liberals, are aware of the havoc they can raise with others--and with an organization's morale and productivity.  They can inhabit a business or a church congregation, as well as a public institution.  They are not limited to activities in politics alone--as you can easily observe from the descriptions in the table, and the ensuing discussions. 

When you observe individuals behaving with any single behavior described in the table with red or orange numbers--you can be reasonably sure you are dealing with a radical liberal.   For example, extravagant demands, political or otherwise, readily identify a radical liberal.  Here are some typical, radical livereal extravagant demands made by:

• Business CEOs deviously demanding compensation in excess of 100 or more times the compensation of the lowest paid employee

• Teacher unions and teachers blatantly demanding higher teacher pay for teaching smaller class sizes--and for delivering less student achievement

• The public school monopoly fighting to avoid competition, from even home schoolers, who just had their funding cut by radical liberals in IA state government

• Environmentalists to stop oil exploration and certain kinds of energy generation and use

• Environmentalists to stop what they claim to be 'manmade' global warming

• Politicians and others who want to force others to use ethanol made from food grains--as fuel for automobiles

• People wanting it legal and morally legitimate to kill fetuses in the womb

• Politicians limiting the right of property owners to use their property in pursuit of legal commerce

• Business executives for severance compensation--known as golden parachutes

• Public officials raising tax rates, fees and taxes paid for equal or diminished services provided by public schools, city, county and state governments

• Federal Reserve Board officials authorizing the inflationary printing of more money

• Educrats forcing a statewide constructivist 'core curriculum' on local school officials (Constructivism and constructivists are discussed farther below)

• Those deviously seeking front door parking privileges, corner offices, or the very best office furnishings etc. 

• Those trying to blame others for their failure to meet expectations or promises made--such as educrats blaming parents for poor student  performance

• IA  Department of Education officials demanding Federal officials accept Iowa's 40th National Percentile Rank as the student achievement standard for Iowa.  The standard is the lowest in the Midwest and allows IA educrats to claim students as Proficient (Expert) when scoring nearly two grades below enrolled grade level.  

Numbers in the table were derived from observations, conversations and advanced statistical methods.  Anyone claiming to have better numbers is asked to provide them for evaluation and comparison.  You can expect the table to be updated as more information and data become available.

HOW TO RECOGNIZE A RADICAL LIBERAL
RADICAL LIBERAL'S BEHAVIOR	% OF PEOPLE HAVING THIS BEHAVIOR WHO ARE RADICAL LIBERALS	% OF RADICAL LIBERALS HAVING THIS BEHAVIOR
The radical liberal’s neurosis is evident in his extravagant ' political ' demands, in his furious protests against economic freedom, in his arrogant contempt for morality, in his ruthless use of force to control the lives of others.	98%	98%
Believes others are conspiring to harm him and hold him down	95%	97%
Believes others deliberately ignore, neglect, deprive and exploit him	87%	89%
Is self righteous, arrogant and grandiose in his demands for indulgence and exemption from accountability--and in his claims to entitlements, in what he gives and withholds, and in his protests that nothing done voluntarily is enough to satisfy him.	86%	95%
Lacks deep seated confidence in himself	72%	75%
Feels disadvantaged, frustrated and deprived	70%	76%
Paranoid--Believes he must defend himself from others	62%	66%
Forces others to meet his needs	52%	75%
Pessimistic	51%	98%
Cynical	23%	65%
Skeptical beyond reason	22%	81%
Cannot trust others	15%	99%

     RADICAL LIBERALS' IMPACT ON ORGANIZATION'S PERFORMANCE

Once you have determined there are radical liberals in your organization, it is reasonable for you to become concerned about any impact they are apt to have on your organization's performance or integrity--for which you might be held accountable.  People are telling us they don't trust people behaving as described in the table above--nor do they want to be around them.  We doubt few people would argue that this lowers morale and performance in the workplace.   

The following table is the first attempt to quantify how much of an impact radical liberals are apt to have on large organizations.  It is understood that one radical liberal could break up a partnership or a small organization.  The numbers in the table below will be improved as time goes along and more data is obtained.  Anyone claiming to have better numbers is asked to provide them for evaluation and comparison.  

Before you study the following table, please compare the radical liberal's behavior in the table above to what Dr. Rossiter says about the "competent citizen", who is often expected to cooperate or work with radical liberals.  The contrast of radical liberals with competent citizens strongly supports the numbers in the following table--that show the harm radical liberal behavior does to organizations.  

THE COMPETENT CITIZEN DIFFERS GREATLY FROM THE RADICAL LIBERAL

This is how Dr. Rossiter describes a "Competent Citizen".

• The competent citizen obeys the rules that temper human destructiveness, deter human negligence and aspire to human excellence.

• What the competent citizen wants, in contrast to the modern liberal, is a coherent and dependable structure for ordered liberty, secured by a limited government that respects the autonomy and sovereignty of the individual and protects his property rights against the constant invasions of collectivism.   

Clinical treatment methods for radical liberals are beyond the scope of this discussion.  

RADICAL LIBERALS' IMPACT ON AN ORGANIZATION OF COMPETENT CITIZENS
DESCRIPTION	CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS ' PRODUCTIVITY	CHANGE IN ORGANIZATIONS ' INTEGRITY
DECREASE OF 2 RADICAL LIBERALS PER 100 EMPLOYEES	20%	10%
ELIMINATION OF LAST RADICAL LIBERAL FROM 100 EMPLOYEES	15%	10%
EFFECTIVE CLINICAL TREATMENT OF 2 RADICAL LIBERALS PER 100 EMPLOYEES	15%	10%
ADDITION OF THE FIRST RADICAL LIBERAL TO 100 EMPLOYEES	-10%	-5%
INCREASE OF 2 RADICAL LIBERALS PER 100 EMPLOYEES	-30%	-20%
ADDITION OF THIRD RADICAL LIBERAL TO 100 EMPLOYEES	-30%	-30%

 

  DESCRIPTION OF 12 RADICAL LIBERAL MINDS NOW CONTROLLING IOWA LEGISLATURE

Iowalive has been asked to release the names of the 12 legislators, some who are Committee Chairs, but believes it to be unnecessary at this time since they can be identified by anyone paying close attention to Dr. Rossiter's description of their public tax and spend behavior etc.  Despite their litany of school failures--smaller class size, mandatory kindergarten, higher teacher pay, New Math, Whole Language, Social Passing, Feel Good about Failure, teacher training and Phases I, II & III, the Radical liberals just passed a mandatory, constructivist Core Curriculum--that will fail as well.  

Excerpted from Dr. Lyle Rossiter's book, The Liberal Mind--The Psychological Causes of Political Madness

   Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr. received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago and served for two years as a psychiatrist in the U.S. Army. He is board certified in both general and forensic psychiatry. For more than forty years he has diagnosed and treated mental disorders, with a special interest in personality pathology and its developmental origins. He has been retained by numerous public offices, courts and private attorneys as a forensic psychiatrist and has consulted in more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases in both state and federal jurisdictions. He has lectured to various groups on subjects ranging from psychotherapy to the prevention of suicide.

 The Cynicism of the Radical Liberal Mind

“Based on his early deficits in trust, the radical liberal’s skepticism about life is deep seated and cynical. It undermines his ability to be hopeful, leaving him at least pessimistic and often depressive in his outlook on life. Indeed, the radical liberal is not optimistic about himself and the world: he lacks a deep-seated confidence in his and others’ abilities to manage life’s problems, achieve security and feel contented in a framework of individual freedom. Not only can he not trust that other persons will cooperate with him for his and their benefit, he also believes that they will deliberately ignore him, neglect him, deprive him or exploit him.

 The radical liberal believes that he has to defend himself against this basic fact about the human condition by getting power over others. He must force other persons to meet his needs or he will remain deprived, frustrated and disadvantaged. When his early trauma has been especially severe, his conviction that he is deprived and abused rises to the level of paranoia. He is then convinced that his suffering is not only painful but intended. He believes that others are conspiring to harm him and keep him down. In adult life this paranoid development finds a home in the politics of victimization

 All of this and more will of course be adamantly denied by the radical liberal, who must defend against his deficits by projecting them into the outside world. He will not realize that he misinterprets the present through perceptions from the past. He will not understand that his cynicism flows from the traumas of his childhood. He will insist instead that in a free society under the rule of law, he and many others like him will be deprived, neglected and abused by villains who use freedom to exploit their victims. He will not understand that by projecting his mistrustful perceptions into the world around him he distorts the realities of human relating. But this denial will not withstand scrutiny.

 The radical liberal’s neurosis is evident in his distortions of human nature and human relating. It is evident in what he seeks and what he fears, in what he praises and damns, in what elicits his sympathy and pity, in what stimulates his rage and outrage. It is evident in the values he celebrates and in those he scorns, in the policies he promotes and the principles he opposes, in the responsibilities he rejects and the obligations he shirks, in what makes him envious and jealous, in what agitates him and calms him, in what humiliates him and makes him proud. His neurosis is evident in his ideals and fantasies; in his self-righteousness, arrogance and grandiosity; in his self-pity; in his demands for indulgence and exemption from accountability; in his claims to entitlements; in what he gives and withholds; and in his protests that nothing done voluntarily is enough to satisfy him.

Most notably, the radical liberal’s neurosis is evident in his extravagant political demands, in his furious protests against economic freedom, in his arrogant contempt for morality, in his angry defiance of civility, in his bitter attacks on freedom of association, in his aggressive assault on individual liberty. And in the final analysis, the irrationality of the radical liberal is most apparent in his ruthless use of force to control the lives of others. As will be noted in more detail below, the radical liberal’s obsession with force against others is the child’s solution to developmental failures in the first six years of life.”

* The Book is available for $19.95 (paperback)  or $9.95 (E-book) at http://www.libertymind.com/index.php?page_id=220

 INTEGRITY RANKING SUMMARY OF ISSUES PASSED AND FAILED IN IOWA'S HORRIBLE 2008 LEGISLATIVE SESSION  controlled by 12 Radical Liberal Minds.   

Iowalive net workers have completed their assessment and analysis and have ranked the Integrity Index Levels of Legislation passed, and not passed, in the 2008 session.  The levels are based on moral and ethics principles of Iowans.   Anyone claiming to have better rankings or numbers is asked to provide them for evaluation and comparison.  

Like the 2007 Legislative session, 2008 is again the least integrous of the many sessions evaluated by Iowalive net workers.  It is the second legislative session in several years that was controlled by Radical Liberals, and a Democrat governor.   The table shows only 6 of 23  issues scoring above the 300 threshold for significant integrity.

   

INTEGRITY RANK	ISSUES PASSED	INTEGRITY INDEX LEVEL ON SCALE OF 0 TO 1,000  TOPS.  SIGNIFICANT INTEGRITY STARTS AT LEVEL 300.
1	INCREASED VETERANS BENEFITS	410
2	DOG FIGHTING PENALTIES	400
3	END OF GIFT CARD FEES	320
4	$200,000 for maternity homes, pregnancy centers and adoption agencies	260
5	CHILD HEALTH INSURANCE	201
6	CUT HOME SCHOOL FUNDING TO SCHOOLS	180
7	ENVIRONMENT FUNDING	170
8	SMOKING BAN	110
9	BONDING FOR NEW PENITENTIARY	95
10	INCREASED VEHICLE LICENSE FEES	60
11	EXPANDED PRE-SCHOOL FUNDING	10
12	SCHOOL ALLOWABLE GROWTH	2
13	INCREASED TEACHER PAY	2
14	MANDATORY CORE CURRICULUM	0
15	LABOR UNIONS IN CONTROL OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS	0
16	SCHOOL SALES TAX	0
17	$750,000 Family Planning--Abortions	0
	AVERAGE	159
	ISSUES NOT PASSED
1	TEEN DRIVER USE OF CELL PHONES	350
2	INCREASED BOTTLE DEPOSIT	310
3	STRICTER OPEN RECORDS LAW	0
4	END CORPORATE TAX LOOPHOLE	0
5	STIFFER ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT EMPLOYMENT	0
6	PROPERTY TAX RELIEF	0
7	TOUGHER SCHOOL PERFORMANCE STANDARDS	0
	AVERAGE	94

 CEDAR RAPIDS CITY GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE NOT IMPROVED  

The following table shows the operating efficiency and integrity index levels of Cedar Rapids' 39 City Departments has not improved since the formation of the City Manager form of government.  Changes have been made, but they did not result in significant improvement, nor are they apt to.  Two Radical Liberals in the Mayor and Council positions appear to hold performance down at this time--as the Council is only 10% efficient and ranked 38th--and the City Manager's department at 30% is ranked 24th.  Neither demonstrate the leadership or an example for improved performance.  As usual, for poorly performing organizations, they want more and more money to sustain present performance levels.   

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA CITY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT ' S OPERATING EFFICIENCY AND INTEGRITY RANK.  OVERALL CITY EFFICIENCY IS 28% AND INTEGRITY INDEX IS 280, WEIGHTED AVERAGE.
EFF. RANK, OF 39	INTEG. RANK, OF 39	39 CEDAR RAPIDS DEPARTMENTS	AVG. OPERATING EFFICIENCY, YEAR-TO-DATE 3-30-07	AVG. INTEGRITY INDEX LEVEL BASED ON ETHICS AND MORALS PRINCIPALS, ON A SCALE OF 0 TO 1,000 TOPS, WHERE SIGNIFICANT INTEGRITY STARTS AT 300.
1	5	Veterans Memorial	67%	570
2	2	Treasurer’s Office	66%	670
3	4	Purchasing	62%	620
4	13	Ushers Ferry	54%	360
5	11	Information Technology	52%	415
6	15	Riverfront Services	51%	325
7	6	Parking	48%	530
8	21	Recreation	47%	270
9	18	Traffic Engineering (Division of Public Works)	47%	315
10	1	Water	44%	720
11	7	Animal Control	43%	520
12	3	Assessor	43%	640
13	19	Transit	43%	310
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