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Never too young to indoctrinate - send your kids to tea party summer camp

Am I evil if I want some clever kid to troll the whole experiment with behavior that is arguably 100% in line with tea party talking points?

Such as objecting to the candies and bubble-popping tools being handed out without having to work for them...

Asking the counselors to stop enforcing rules and conditions because the participants can learn about capitalism better with government off their backs?

Any more? :P
 
My college economics professor was a huge advocate of the Austrian school of thought, and would frequently say that all economists were inferior to Van Mises. He also literally graded exams while listening to Rush Limbaugh. Certainly, the halls of higher learning are bastions of liberalism.
 
elbe said:
That just shows how valuable it is! The one kid who saves his "gold" will have wealth beyond avarice when, due to scarcity, it can by everything!
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Oh, they'll understand how valuable it is when the kid with the cut goes to the nurse and she says that band-aids cost 10 candies. When the kid with the sprain discovers that treatment costs 1000 candies, an exceptionally valuable lesson will be learned.

Of course, I joke. I am sure the counselors will offer every child a chance to use candies to buy insurance at the beginning of the stay. Well, not every child will have a chance, there will have to be some screening for pre-existing conditions - "oh you scraped your knee last summer, no, I'm sorry; people as clumsy as you are not eligible for insurance- you had better hope some kids set up a charity nurse's office to handle non-emergency treatments."



ETA: fixed some spelling errors. Although I was thinking about letting them stand and claim the represented all the misspelled words on Tea Party protest signs.
 
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A Laughing Baby said:
Those are clearly intended to be metaphors--
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Uh, yeah. I got that part. I thought it was worthy of note that as metaphors, they are tortured beyond reason and entirely inaccessible to children and probably most adults not living in the tea bubble.
 
hgc said:
Uh, yeah. I got that part. I thought it was worthy of note that as metaphors, they are tortured beyond reason and entirely inaccessible to children and probably most adults not living in the tea bubble.
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Like I said in the rest of the post you snipped, I think that you're partially right. I think that the "This is Europe" room one, while factually incorrect (I doubt most Europeans would tell you that their life is analogous to sitting in a boring room), is at least narratively consistent and easily understood by a child (Europe=boring=bad, America=fun=good).
 
I don't get the point of the charade.

Why not just have the parents drop the kids off and then proceed to beat them for a week while repeating "What we say about the founding fathers is correct! Liberals want to kill your dog!" and be done with it?
 
A Laughing Baby said:
Like I said in the rest of the post you snipped, I think that you're partially right. I think that the "This is Europe" room one, while factually incorrect (I doubt most Europeans would tell you that their life is analogous to sitting in a boring room), is at least narratively consistent and easily understood by a child (Europe=boring=bad, America=fun=good).
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...and then they go to Amsterdam for their first college spring break...
 
A Laughing Baby said:
Why would they go to a place they already know is boring? ;)
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To see the house Anne Frank hid in and learn about how the Nazis were trying to spread universal health care before a young Ronald Reagan shot Hitler with a blow dart expelled from a rolled-up copy of the Constitution and said, "Sorry, Fuhrer, but three Reichs, you're out!"
 
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A Laughing Baby said:
Like I said in the rest of the post you snipped, I think that you're partially right. I think that the "This is Europe" room one, while factually incorrect (I doubt most Europeans would tell you that their life is analogous to sitting in a boring room), is at least narratively consistent and easily understood by a child (Europe=boring=bad, America=fun=good).
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I responded only to the first part of your post because I was being petulant about being told what I already knew. ;)

The concepts laid out as simply as you stated at the very end of your post above is about the most that any child will take away from this exercise, but they will only get it by being explicitly told, not by understanding it from the experience of the exercise. You're sitting still in a room, forced to be quiet. Let's call that "Europe." Now do this fun obstacle course. Let's call that "going to America." You've learned a valuable lesson today, kids!
 
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TraneWreck said:
...and then they go to Amsterdam for their first college spring break...
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Why would they go to a place they already know is boring? ;)
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I don't care how boring they know something is. If they have legal hookers and weed, college aged males will want to experience it for themselves.
 
hgc said:
The concepts laid out as simply as you stated at the very end of your post above is about the most that any child will take away from this exercise, but they will only get it by being explicitly told, not by understanding it from the experience of the exercise. You're sitting still in a room, forced to be quiet. Let's call that "Europe." Now do this fun obstacle course. Let's call that "going to America." You've learned a valuable lesson today, kids!
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Wow! Thanks hgc. I finally understand why the TP is so enamoured of Palin.
 
TraneWreck said:
To see the house Anne Frank hid in and learn about how the Nazis were trying to spread universal health care before a young Ronald Reagan killed Hitler with a blow dart shot from a rolled-up copy of the Constitution.
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If we continue to elect Tea Party candidates this will be official U.S. history in fifty years.

Make that twenty.
 
A Laughing Baby said:
My college economics professor was a huge advocate of the Austrian school of thought, and would frequently say that all economists were inferior to Van Mises. He also literally graded exams while listening to Rush Limbaugh. Certainly, the halls of higher learning are bastions of liberalism.
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You attended Bob Jones University?
 
AlBell said:
Let us know when you figure out why the MSM are even more enamored. ;)
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That's easy. People are interested in her and will watch news shows that cover her. This increase in viewership results in being able to charge more for ads and thus increases revenues.

I shouldn't have to explain this you, as you are a champion of free markets and should already understand this.
 
AlBell said:
You attended Bob Jones University?
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I went to a publicly-funded state college. I can also tell you about my monetary policy professor who thought that expansion of supply was an idiotic idea and didn't even bother to try teaching it, and told us as much. Actually, I guess I just told you about him.
 
A Laughing Baby said:
And you forget that the pledge of allegiance wasn't composed until 1892.
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And that it was written by a socialist.
Bellamy was a Christian Socialist[2] who "championed 'the rights of working people and the equal distribution of economic resources, which he believed was inherent in the teachings of Jesus.'"[4] but he was forced to leave his Boston church the previous year because of the socialist bent of his sermons.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy#Political_views

Steve S
 
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