Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 1, 2023
ONLY A TEACHERS’ UNION AND THEIR ENABLERS WOULD CALL THAT A SHORTAGE: Colorado pupil-to-teacher ratio remains steady during educator shortage.
Colorado’s pupil-to-teacher ratio of 17.1 in 2022-23 was the second lowest rate dating back to 2013. It was the same as last year’s ratio. Only in 2020-21, the first year of the pandemic, was the ratio lower at 16.6.
In 2014-15 and 2015-16, the ratio was 17.5. The highest year was 17.7 in 2013-14, according to data from the Colorado Department of Education.
The number of teachers in the state has remained relatively the same over the past four years. There were 55,197 teachers in 2022-23. The number of teachers the past four school years ranged from the low of 55,197 this past school year to a peak of 55,842 in 2020-21.
Enrollment in Colorado’s public schools reached 913,223 in 2019-20, but has dropped during the pandemic. There were 883,264 students this past school year in 2022-23.
The lockdowns taught a lot of parents what the real value is of an education in so many of our public schools.
BLUE CITY BLUES: Portland’s Multnomah County lost $1 BILLION from 2020-2021, as high earners left city amid riots, pandemic.
According to an analysis of data from the Internal Revenue Service by The Oregonian from income tax returns filed in 2020 and 2021, Multnomah County lost a net 14,257 tax filers and their dependents, many of whom were high earners who could do jobs remotely, resulting in a net income loss of over $1 billion.
The outlet reported that the average income of those who left in 2020, the most recent year available, was 14 percent higher than those who moved the previous year, yet the average income of those who remained in or moved to the county declined during the same time frame.
The golden geese are deciding to leave before they can be gutted.
Previously: The Five States Sending the Most High Earners to Florida All Have This One Thing in Common.
On the off chance Democrats do decide to ditch Biden, they’d likely use the creepy personal stuff as the justification while they sweep the corruption (that virtually all of Washington is in on) under the table.
THE NOMENKLATURA WILL NOT GO QUIETLY: The National Scandal That Is Too Big To Break.
Conservatives looking to expose the full extent of the Biden family’s corruption have a problem: the scandal might be too big to break.
Typically, there are three main entities involved in taking down a politician over a corruption scandal. First, there is the media, which broadcasts the details of the scandal, eroding public support. Second, there is law enforcement, which investigates and, if necessary, presses criminal charges. Third, there is the party establishment, which ultimately abandons the politician as a matter of self-preservation, signaling that it’s “game over.”
But what happens when a scandal is so big that the people responsible for breaking it are implicated in it as well?
That is the situation which now faces the mainstream media, the federal intelligence bureaucracy, and the Democrat Party. For years, they have all parroted Biden’s lies and created an echo chamber of denial about wrongdoing by the president and his family. Now, with it all beginning to crumple around them, they’re seeing that the downfall of the president spells the end of their own reputations and careers as well.
Earlier: Biden’s crime family is all of DC.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: San Francisco hardware store owned by same family since 1955 has lost staggering $700,000 in a single year to ‘organized shoplifting.’
Dale Hardware’s owner Kyle Smith described the helpless situation in Fremont – and said his grandfather, who founded the shop in 1955, would ‘roll in his grave’ if he knew about the unbridled shoplifting.
The uncontrolled looting in San Francisco has occurred for a number of reasons – including the accelerating organized retail theft and increased homelessness.
Widespread drug addiction and the move away from incarceration for less-serious crimes are also contributing factors, according to experts.
Smith told the San Jose Mercury News: ‘You’ll go, “Sir, sir, sir!” and they don’t even turn around. Or they’ll give you a look, like, “Do you want to go there?”
‘How do we run a small business with $1,800 of loss every day? It ends up costing the consumer more money because we can’t survive without raising prices.’
Fremont was never the most “desirable” part of the Bay Area, but it used to be a very nice community.
FROM EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR ABILITY…: Brilliant! Chicago Mayor Floats Property Tax Hike To Pay for Homeless Shelters.
THE LOWER NUMBERS AREN’T REAL: Smuggling cartels raking in cash despite lower border numbers.
The Biden administration has celebrated a drop in the number of illegal immigrants attempting to sneak across the border over the past couple of months. Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has characterized the decline as a blow to the smuggling cartels that control the market.
Yet those who make the attempt are paying more, according to The Washington Times’ database of smuggling cases, which tracks payments in near-real time and which suggests that the cartels aren’t taking as big of a hit as Mr. Mayorkas would like.
A Mexican crossing into the Laredo area of Texas is paying an average of $9,500, up from about $7,400 earlier this year, before the end of the Title 42 border pandemic expulsion policy in May.
A Mexican sneaking into Arizona is paying an average of nearly $10,000, up from about $9,300.
Central Americans pay even more. Mr. Salazar-Estrada’s $17,000 payment is on the high side but by no means extraordinary. The Times has tracked several recent cases of Guatemalans paying 150,000 quetzals, or more than $19,100, to be smuggled into the U.S.
Those from farther afield can pay more, as the Chinese migrant’s case suggests.
Related: Number of migrant families with kids crossing U.S. border nearly triples in two months.
And: Biden’s Border Crisis Is As Bad As Ever, His Admin Is Just Better At Hiding It.
2024: DeSantis Reveals Pro-American, Anti-Global Elite Agenda: ‘We Win, They Lose.’ “Is Monday’s big reveal enough to reboot the DeSantis campaign? On its own, no, not even close. But DeSantis is working, belatedly, to change the conversation to something much more appropriate to a presidential race.”
BIDENOMICS IN ONE LESSON: Biden Gaslights Americans With Fake ‘Manufacturing Boom’ As US Production Plunges.
Biden appears to be basing his assertions on one stat in particular, factory construction. And yes, if you look at that stat alone then it might seem like domestic manufacturing is experiencing new life. But, where are these new factories coming from?
The majority are government subsidized green tech factories as part of Biden’s “Inflation Reduction Act.” Meaning, they are jobs created using your tax dollars through socialist programs, not free market demand. Not only that, but a number of these factories are being built by foreign companies, not American companies. For example, JA Solar, a Chinese company, plans to build factories in Arizona while benefiting from Biden’s subsidies. Meyer Burger Technology, a company out of Switzerland, is also building solar factories in Arizona.
And what happens when the government props up an industry without equal market demand? What happens when a manufacturing “boom” siphons American cash to foreign interests? It ends up destroying wealth, not creating wealth. In other words, Biden is using billions in taxes to falsify economic numbers in the short term as a means to get re-elected.
In other news, water remains wet.
More seriously, Biden’s wealth destruction comes at the expense of profitable and innovative investments that would (but now won’t) generate the growth necessary to get out of our debt spiral.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Surprise—Joe Biden Was His Idiot Son’s Calling Card and Closer. “If one takes a close look at Joey Scranton’s boy Hunter, it doesn’t take long to figure out that the kid wasn’t headed for anywhere but a taxpayer funded state hoosegow if he didn’t have a famous and connected daddy.”
OUR SOVIET PRESS IN ACTION:
This is creepy. pic.twitter.com/oyebYpAWiQ
— Kate Hyde (@KateHydeNY) August 1, 2023
Just like the USSR’s Pravda and Izvestia, the intent is not to inform the public but to dispirit any potential opposition.
NYT, THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT YOU: Biden Spoke With Son’s Associates, but Not About Business, Former Partner Says.
Mary Katharine Ham found this gem buried in the 20th paragraph (out of 22) in the New York Times report on Monday’s congressional hearing:
It has long been known that the elder Mr. Biden at times interacted with his son’s business partners.
Long been known, eh? Winston Smith couldn’t have rewritten history any more smoothly.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: John Kerry Wants You Dead (and Several Billion Other People, Too). “John Kerry’s servants can’t make him an omelet without breaking a few billion eggs.”
July 31, 2023
WHAT A SAD, TERRIBLE WAY TO GO: Vegan raw food diet influencer Zhanna D’Art dies of starvation.
CHRISTIAN TOTO: Can Tina Fey Save ‘Saturday Night Live?’ “Fey has the experience and comic chops to earn the gig, but she’s also as relentlessly liberal as your average ‘SNL’ sketch. Her biggest ‘SNL’ moment came when she repeatedly played Gov. Sarah Palin, mocking the Alaskan’s mental acuity in the process.”
PAGING NATHAN THURM:
Rep. @danielsgoldman: "Preposterous premise" to say Joe Biden shouldn't be talking w/ Hunter's business associates pic.twitter.com/QtL4XZflBt
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 31, 2023
Classical reference in the headline.
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Why Did a Muslim Stab a Shirtless Gay BLM Dancer to Death in Brooklyn?
UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: Joe Biden: Sexy, Sexy Beast. “Presidentish Joe Biden went to the beach this weekend and blew up Twitter. Or X. Or whatever we’re supposed to call it now.”