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I've had this story for a couple of days here, and I just have not gotten to it.
So today's is as good a day as any.
This is from the State Control Associated Press, facing potential bankruptcy.
The board that governs the once flush with cash Kansas City, Missouri Schruel District is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half of its scruples.
And this is going to be happening more and more and more out there.
I remember, I remember the big, all the lawsuits and the all the federal judges telling the Kansas City School District how they had to run themselves, basically taking over the Kansas City School District.
I mean, years and years and years.
It's been an absolute mess.
Forever.
Administrators say the closures are necessary to keep the district from plowing through what little is left of the $2 billion it received as part of a groundbreaking desegregation.
That's what it was, groundbreaking desegregation case.
The Kansas City Schruel Board narrowly approved the plan to close 29 out of 61 scruels last night at a meeting packed with angry parents.
Although other districts nationwide are considering closures as the recession ravages their budgets, Kansas City's plan is striking.
In rapidly shrinking Detroit, 29 schools closed before classes began this fall, but that still left the district with 172 of them.
Most other districts are closing just one or two schruels.
Emotional board member Dwayne Kelly told a crowd of more than 200 people last night, this is the most painful vote I've ever cast in 10 years on the board.
Some chanted for the removal of the superintendent while one woman asked the crowd, is anybody else ready to homeschool their kids?
Kansas City Councilwoman Sharon Sanders Brooks said the closure plan had prompted some housing developers to consider backing out of projects.
The urban core has suffered white flight post-the 54 U.S. Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education, block busting by the real estate industry, redlining by banks and other financial institutions, retail and grocery store abandonment.
Well, I wonder what that's all about.
What do you think that's all about?
El Snurdbow, what is that all about?
I'll tell you what this is all.
This is all going to be because of racism.
That's where this is headed.
There have been years and years of abuse.
I mean, total budgetary abuse.
Spending on public schools, it was ridiculous.
And the liberals are having a cow now because to them, the gravy train should never end.
So it's happening in North Carolina, too.
People voted against busing and for neighborhood schools, and that's being called racist.
And this move in Kansas City, it's going to be seen as a racist move, too.
Under the approved plan, buildings will be shuttered before the next school year.
Teachers at six other low-performing schools will be required to reapply for their jobs.
And the district will try to sell its downtown central office.
It also is expected to cut about 700 of the district's 3,000 jobs, including about 285 teachers.
Superintendent John Covington has spent the past month making the case to sometimes angry groups of parents and students that the closures are necessary.
Once the district had enough desegregation money to build such amenities, listen, this is all coming back to my memory now.
Because I remember I lived in this place for 10 years, although the rubber didn't hit the road until after I'd gone, so they can't blame this on me.
Which party runs Kansas City?
You want to take a wild guess?
I mean, for most of the time, it has been no, St. Louis is where they keep the polls open all night.
You're confusing Kansas City and St. Louis.
But still, Kansas City has been run by Democrats, the mayor for the longest time, has had St. Louis.
Anyway, at one time, the district had enough desegregation money to build, that means fines, to build such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool.
But the effort to use upscale facilities and programs to lure in students from the suburbs never worked quite as planned.
Now, I wonder why this is.
Do you know what the biggest problem in the public school system today is?
Aside from money, but I mean, that's universal.
Here you had a school district that built up all these amenities, an Olympic-sized pool.
Who the hell knows what the cafeteria look like?
And they probably had a special little room where you go buy your marijuana before school, too.
Another student comfort.
Just kidding.
But I mean, they did all these things to lure students from the suburbs into the city.
It didn't work.
You know why?
Well, I'm not saying inner-city snird.
Just the city, but it's not just that who wants to travel there.
Oh, that's a big part of it.
Who wants to travel there?
It's not what the building looks like.
It's not that they've got an Olympic-sized pool.
It's what the hell goes on in the building, and there's no education going on in these buildings.
It's the curriculum.
It's the curriculum.
It's all out of whack.
Self-esteem curriculum.
The self-esteem curriculum.
George Will had a column yesterday.
I wish I still had it here.
I think I still got it in a stack.
He's got a name for all these wuss boys that still live at home with their parents, the basement boys.
The basement still living at home with their parents up to age 35.
Self-esteem school.
You know, all this, they're not teaching things as they used to.
And that's why parents didn't flood the city with the kids from the suburbs.
And always it said, it never does.
It never worked quite as planned.
You notice?
Nothing ever works out when liberals plan them.
Whatever liberals' plans are, they never work.
Never.
It's not that they never work.
It's just chronicling how much damage they do.
Covington, the superintendent here, has stressed that the district's buildings are only half full as its population has plummeted amid political squabbling and chronically abysmal test scores.
The district's enrollment of fewer than 18,000 students is about half of what the Scruels had a decade ago and just a quarter of its peak in the late 60s.
So holy cow.
Now we know the population hadn't gone down.
Fewer than 18,000 students, half of what they had 10 years ago.
So they had 36,000 students and they had almost 80,000 students back in the 60s.
And they have any of these problems.
They didn't have any of these problems.
80,000, well, 72,000 versus 18,000 now, and they can't keep them open.
Well, a lot of people took flight.
Now, here's a companion story out of St. Louis.
Well, it's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but it's in Springfield, Missouri.
After failing last year to persuade the legislature to raise taxes for the good of Illinois' fiscal stability, Springfield, Illinois, sorry, Governor Pat Quinn has turned to a more personal and politically explosive argument.
Raise taxes for the good of the kids.
It's an argument that is already infuriating some lawmakers who may now have to decide in an election year between hitting voters with a major tax increase or letting the schools languish.
How much money have we spent on these?
How much over our lives has obviously now just been wasted or siphoned off as graft, bribes, kickbacks, payoffs, fraud, whatever it is.
The amount of money here is staggering.
And here they're coming again.
We've got to raise taxes.
And this also, as they close schools, they're going to raise taxes on the ones that survive.
This coming to a state government near you.
Do it for the children.
My question is, what happened to the stimulus?
What happened to the porculus bill?
The porculus bill was going to save the schools, and it was going to save the teachers.
Ah, sorry.
That was just a stopgap, and it was to save union workers in state governments.
You people in Illinois might want to look at closing some schools.
Now, I know you're saying, Russia, if they close the schools, where are the kids going to go?
No, no, no, no.
I should explain these schools are half full.
The schools are half full.
They're going to have plenty of buildings to absorb the students when they shut these things.
That's the point.
They got buildings that they don't need.
They're not being used.
Audio soundbite quickly before we go to the break.
An NBC reporter actually stumbled upon an economic truth.
It was an accident.
It wasn't intentional, but still the NBC reporter got it right.
Andrea Mitchell was talking to the correspondent Rahima Ellis about schools closing in Kansas City and elsewhere because of budget shortfalls.
And Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, said, this is not just Kansas City.
This is the most drastic case we've seen so far, but this is a ripple effect we're seeing from the recession.
What is going to happen to the students there and elsewhere across the country?
It's simple too, Andrew.
You know, we hear a lot of people complain about the excesses of Wall Street here in New York and people getting big bonuses.
But when they get those bonuses, that money then is taxed.
That tax goes into state coffers.
Those states then are able to give money to the schools.
When it's not there, guess what?
That means the money's not there for the schools and education.
So that ripple effect comes down and it's starting to hit a lot of people at home and it's starting to hit our kids in the schools.
This info babe, Rahina, Rahima Ellis, is going to be embarrassed when I point out that she's just defined Ronald Reagan trickle-down economics.
She's just defined supply-side economics.
Well, you know, we hear a lot of people complaining about the excesses of Wall Street here in New York and people getting big bonuses.
When they get those bonuses, that money's taxed.
And that tax goes into state coffers.
We love that, Andrew.
We love people's tax money going to the state coffers, but they have to earn the money first, Andrea.
And if they're not earning the money, then there's no tax.
And we love tax and we love the state coffers, but if there's no money being earned, there's no taxes.
There's no money in the state coffers.
So those states then are not able to give money to the schools.
And when it's not there, guess what?
That money's not there for the schools.
Meaning the more you tax people, the less they're going to have.
And unemployment, no jobs, no state tax revenue.
So Rahima Ellis of NBC probably will be assigned with CHICOM journalists who are being sent into retraining sessions to learn Marxist news reporting techniques because this babe explained her egonomics here pretty well.
Now, let me just clarify something here, ladies and gentlemen, about this whole Kansas City school situation and why it is that they're closing these schools and how it happened.
Now, Randall Hovind at the American Thinker describes this as a case study in liberal stupidity.
And of course, the AP reports today that it got to close 29 of its 61 schools due to budget problems.
They have a $50 million shortfall.
And they quote the KC Councilwoman Sharon Sanders-Brooks in the background.
Well, the urban core has suffered white flight post-Brown versus Board of Education, blockbusting by the real estate industry, redlining by banks and other financial institutions, retail and grocery store abandonment.
There might be another explanation, though, one that the AP barely mentions.
The court decision that brought about the Kansas City school's demise was not Brown versus Board of Education.
It was one that happened in 1985.
And that case was summarized by the Cato Institute in 1998.
And here basically in a nutshell, hang on, a little tickle in the throat here.
I'm going to swing some Zykam.
Okay, excuse me, folks, but I had no choice.
I can't go to dead air to do this because some of our stations are automated and it would trigger commercial break.
So I know it's rude, but I feel better.
I just stopped a cold dead in its tracks.
Now, in 1985, a federal district judge took partial control.
A federal district judge took partial control over the troubled Kansas City, Missouri School District on the grounds that it was an unconstitutionally segregated district.
With dilapidated facilities and students who performed poorly in an effort to bring the KC District into compliance with his interpretation of federal law, the judge ordered the state and the district to spend nearly $2 billion over the next 12 years to build new schools, integrate classrooms, and bring student test scores up to national norms.
The judicial branch ordered the legislative branch to spend money and told it exactly how.
What happened was Kansas City ended up spending as much as $11,700 per student, more money per pupil on a cost of living adjusted basis than any of the other 280 largest districts in the country.
The money bought higher salaries for teachers, 15 new schools.
The much-referenced Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, no less, television, animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, field trips to Mexico and Senegal, all of this ordered by a federal judge.
The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major district in the country.
How did it turn out?
Where are we today?
The results were dismal.
Test scores did not rise.
The black-white gap did not diminish, and there was less, not greater, integration.
That's not all.
That's 1998.
In 2000, the L.A. Times reported a Reuters story.
Kansas City Public School District has become the first in the nation to lose its accredited status by failing all Missouri's performance standards and could be abolished unless it improves.
Now the KC school system is broke, has to close down half the schools after a court-ordered $2 billion injection.
You could call it a $2 billion stimulus.
And look what happened.
That's where we are now.
To the phones, to Atlanta.
Keith, I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Keith.
How are you doing today?
Hey, pretty good, sir.
How are you?
Good, good.
I found some more of our stimulus money and jobs.
They sent me a letter in the census letting me know that in a week I'll be getting the census.
Yeah, a lot of people, I've been reading, a lot of people have been getting this letter warning them that in a week they're going to be getting the official census form.
I have not received mine because I only get, well, I have not.
I'm going to let you know you're going to get it.
Well, we'll see.
Well, no.
When was the last census, 2000?
I believe so.
Right.
I didn't get one then.
Well, he's trying to spend the money.
Well, everybody's, wow, why didn't you get one?
No, I didn't try not to get one.
I did.
No effort on my part.
I just didn't get one.
Well, I know why.
I know why.
But nevertheless, what was your point about this, that they're wasting a lot of money telling you something's coming?
Just they're wasting a lot of money.
Yeah, dear resident, about one week from now, you're going to receive a 2010 census form in the mail.
When you receive your form, please fill it out and mail it in properly.
Let me give you some advice on this thing.
Okay.
I want you to listen up and listen close.
Because the way they are asking respondents or participants here to identify their race, you're going to laugh yourself silly when you see the options for race.
What I want each and every one of you to do, because remember now, all this, this, Obama's using this, this is going to be used for reapportionment.
This is going to be used for congressional delegation reapportionment.
It's going to be used for welfare spending entitlement.
It's going to be used for all kinds of stuff.
They have got races I've never heard of identified on this.
So I want you to check the box that says other and write in American.
You got it.
Will you do that for me?
I certainly will.
Check the box that says other.
What possible other races could there be?
They got everything but Martian on there.
Hey, Rush, you think I could buy an autographed copy of one of your books?
Well, if you can find somebody that has one and willing to sell it.
Oh, you mean from me?
From you.
Oh, from me.
You know, this is a tough thing.
Come on, Rush.
You just, you know, well, he violated the slaughter rule, but he might not have known about the slaughter.
I haven't announced a slaughter rule for this show in a long time.
See, the problem, when you ask me, everybody hears my answer.
And if I say yes, you know what's going to happen.
You just let me know off the air.
It's too late for that now because then everybody will be asking Snerdley off the air to do the same thing.
We got to go.
Or do we all?
All right, have a good day.
Are we on time or not?
Are we long or not?
We're on time?
50 seconds.
No, 45 seconds now.
Yeah, okay.
That's a tough.
You know, I would love to send a guy a book, but I mean, I don't have enough to send everybody who would want one.
How do you do that?
Now, see, Snerdley is in there.
He's being a real hardbut about this.
You just say no.
You say no.
Well, I did say no, but I feel guilty about it.
Nice guy who offered to buy.
I wouldn't sell it anyway.
Just don't forget on the census form.
When you check off your race, check the box that says other and all caps, write in American.
There's a campaign out there.
I guess we just started it.
A campaign out there to get this done.
Have a little fun with it.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
You know, this really is amazing.
I very seldom am impressed by the thing I do.
I've become used to it.
But this, this one that's happened here with Waldo de los Rios at Amazon is mind-boggling.
Now listen to this.
We played Waldo de Los Rios, Mozart Symphony 40G Minor yesterday.
It was right after the third hour of the program began.
You know, just to, because people may ask me what am I playing the air violin to here on the Ditto Cam.
So yesterday, at the time we played Waldo de los Rios on Amazon, he ranked this, the CD from the, that we played the song from, ranked number 136,288.
100, 136,000 place.
At the moment, Waldo de los Rios is in 31st place.
He is up 439,000% with that song being played one time yesterday, mentioned by me one time on this program.
In addition to that, Waldo de los Rios is now number one on Amazon in the classical music imports Latin music category.
After playing the song one time through the flamethrower setting of our Apex MK 2020 hot dog compressor.
I mean up 486,000%.
Stunning.
And they sit there they talk about Oprah.
All right, here's Bernie in Chicago.
Bernie, welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Great to have you here.
Thank you very much.
You know, forget about the stimulus package, saving the schools.
Here in Illinois, 30 years ago, they started a state lottery to save the schools.
Millions and millions of dollars every day are collected to quote unquote save the schools.
I'd like to know where that money is.
Yeah.
Same thing.
You know, went through these places I've worked.
California, they set up a lottery, did the same thing.
Same thing in Florida, it's for the express purpose of sending the money to education.
Right.
You're exactly right.
We spend more money on education in this country.
We don't have any idea how much.
That's quite a lot.
That's quite a lot, Fox, isn't it?
And who's running all these districts and schools?
It's just a bunch of liberal Democrats.
What are they doing?
I've got a story here that the highest paid, damn it, I didn't print it out.
Now I've got to find it.
Here we go.
Here we go.
2007 compilation, 100 highest paid teachers in Illinois, number 100.
A guy named Thomas Padgin, $199,530 a year total compensation.
He teaches PhysEd.
Now, wait, wait a minute.
Now, people are going to say, but rush, but rush, but rush, aren't you in favor of people earning all kinds of money?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
But wait a minute, folks.
You have to understand here that we are paying these salaries and these school districts are broke.
They are bankrupt.
All of this money is taken out of the private sector.
Public sector employment, some of it's necessary.
I mean, clearly, you have to have people at the DMV.
You have to have people at these agencies.
But all of that money taken out of the private sector doesn't, there's no productivity.
There's no economic growth associated with this.
It's all about all about priority.
It's a $200,000 a year for PE teachers.
More power to you if you can get it.
But if that kind of stuff is going to bankrupt your school district, the school district's doing fine.
Everybody's doing no problem here.
Well, nobody's.
It's not.
Everybody.
I'm in the private sector here, folks, and whatever it is I earn, there are gazillions of people benefiting from it as a result.
As always is the case in the private sector.
All right, let's see.
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Ron, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello, sir.
How are you today?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
You sound very well.
I'm calling.
I was watching by channel surfing last night.
I believe it's a woman, maybe off the View, that has a cable show.
And she had Jesse Ventura on.
And the point was just she was going to interview him about his book on the 9-11 stuff and so on.
Yeah, yeah.
You came up.
No big surprise.
I usually do.
Mentioned how you, which I know didn't start, the Brock, the Magic Negro.
He didn't catch that, though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We've got the soundbite.
You're talking about Maude Behar.
Is that who it is?
She's annoying.
Maud Behar, right.
But she was, you said something the other day, evidently.
And he didn't know what it meant, and I don't know what it meant.
And it related to MASA or something like that that's made some criticisms of you again.
And she kept at him for a while going, well, what do you think?
And, you know, he's saying, well, you know, Rush is, he calls himself an entertainment.
And, you know, and so Ventura is trying to figure out how to answer this question.
And she comes at him again.
He's, well, she's no, Rush, you know, he's got so much influence.
You know, starting the thing about Brock, the Magic Negro.
And again, she mentioned it.
And Ventura just kind of is still thinking, what is this word she's asking me to comment on?
He just finally said, this is going right over my head.
I don't know what you're even talking about.
What did you mention that has stirred something up?
Let's listen to this.
I'll answer the question, but let's listen to these soundbites that you're talking about because we have them here.
I wasn't going to use them, but you called.
And now you're talking about this, and people, I mean, nobody watches a Maude Behar show, so you're probably the only guy.
Oh, I didn't watch it.
I mean, I just had to stop.
Well, okay, but you still saw it.
You did.
Okay, so you're channel surfing, but it was still enough of a circus that you stopped to look at it.
Right.
Right.
So let's.
Ventura.
I kind of, he's interesting.
And I stopped.
Yeah, okay.
Well, let's listen to the soundbites here, and then I'll answer your question.
What did I say?
Actually, it would be less time if I just said, what didn't I say that upsets them?
But here we go.
We've got three of these.
This is the Maud Behar show last night.
She played a piece of audio for my program and then had this exchange with Jesse the Body Ventura.
Let's talk Limbaugh.
Rush, that is.
This whole MASA controversy gave him an excuse to make a racial slur against New York Governor David Patterson.
Not that Rush needs an excuse to make a racial slur.
Listen.
So David Patterson will become the MASA who gets to appoint whoever gets to take Massa's place.
So for the first time in his life, Patterson's going to be a MASA.
Is this satire?
Now, what was racial about that?
Well, I guess to call David Patterson Massa because he's a black guy.
Kind of like he referred to Barack once as Barack the Magic Negro.
It's like the most insensitive and thoughtless and stupid.
But what does MASA mean?
He means that guy.
But he's doing a play on words on the MASA.
He must be flying over my head.
Yeah.
You're getting it, and I'm not.
Jesus, I believe.
This is actually on American television.
You know, this is, we had, it was about this time yesterday that we had that audio of poor old Harry Smith having his colonoscopy.
And Katie Courick sitting there saying, hey, I'm in a splash zone here, Harry.
And the doctor said, I'm sorry about that.
Boy, Harry, you've got the longest colon I've ever seen Katie Courick's.
She's in a splash zone.
And Larry Kings is, are you gay?
Talking to Massa.
Oh, no.
I'm like, hey, no, there's anything wrong with being gay, but you said he groped you, and you groped him.
Are you gay?
So now we got Maude Behar with me supposedly being insensitive by saying Patterson gets to be a Massa.
And it turned out to be wrong anyway because it's a special election.
Patterson does not get to choose the replacement.
But you got to understand something out here, Ron.
David Patterson is being forced out of the governor's office in New York by a bunch of Democrats, and he's black.
And I'm saying, you know, you've got to listen to this program in context.
And Maude Behar and none of these others do.
So here you've got Carl McCall.
They wouldn't let this guy run for office, black for governor.
They don't want Harold Ford, a black guy, running for the Senate in New York, and they're trying to force another black guy.
The Democrats are doing this, trying to force out David Patterson.
So forth.
At the same time, she's trying to take a word name and make a racial slur out of it.
Well, the guy's name is Massa.
And I'm simply saying, for once now, Patterson in the middle of all this gets to be the boss while they're trying to force him out.
And of course, these people think that that's terribly insensitive and racist.
And I didn't create the term Barack the Magic Negro, as you yourself, Ron, testified.
A black columnist of the L.A. Times did that.
It continued, by the way, Maude Behar and Jesse the Body.
Maude finally gives up trying to convince Jesse the body that I've done something racist here.
All right, but I mean, I miss, he made a comment called these girls nappy-headed hoes, and he got thrown off the air.
But Rush Limbaugh gets a pass.
He's still on the radio.
Not for free speech.
It all comes down to money.
That's true.
He makes a lot of money.
Absolutely.
And he brings in ratings, so he's going to get a pass.
Unfortunately, that's the truth of the business.
No, that's Snerdley.
Don't you're going to waste time and energy starting to get specifically into analyzing these people as to why I'm a success rating and so forth.
So let's go back.
Let's go back just a day before her whole panel.
Maude Behar's panel gave Dan Rather a pass for saying of Barack Obama he couldn't sell watermelons on the side of the road if a state trooper stopped traffic for him and sent him over to the watermelon shop.
Of all the fruits to choose, why would he choose watermelon?
There's an orange, there's a Yocanteloupe, any other fruit.
Why that?
If you drive through Texas in the summer, it is watermelon that is sold by the side of the road.
Dan Rather is almost 80 years old, and you can hear Chris Matthews and the other guests on that show jumping in to interrupt him like you would to interrupt great grandpa at Thanksgiving.
I don't think Dan Rather is a closet race.
So it's a rather far.
I'm from South Carolina and people do sell watermelons on the side of the road.
No, no, no, not at all.
So rather running around there and say, hey, Obama couldn't sell watermelons on the side of the road, and state troopers were directing traffic.
And I say, oh, so Patterson gets to be a MASA.
And I am horrible and evil and insensitive.
But I get away with it because it's all about money and ratings.
Folks, this is incredible here.
What's happening with Waldo de los Rios?
Yesterday, I played Mozart Symphony 40 G Minor one time.
Yesterday, the CD containing the tune at Amazon was in 136,705th place.
20 minutes ago, it was in 31st place.
Right now, it's in 19th place.
It is up 719,400%.
Now, you got a figure here.
Waldo de Los Rios passed away to the great conductor's pit in 1977.
He's got to have family.
His record companies, what the hell is happening here?
And in fact, there are three Waldo de los Rios CDs that are number one, two, and three in Amazon's Movers and Shakers in Music, all categories.
After playing that tune one time, and now people didn't hear it yesterday.
Well, what is it?
Pot it up, Brian.
Pot, I got it playing behind me right now.
Here's a little sample of it.
Go ahead, we're going to play it out of my computer for my tunes.
So you're going to let it rip.
Here we go.
Hey, lucky right at the top here.
This is the beginning.
No, it's the end.
It's the end.
The end sounds like the beginning.
It'll just be, here we go.
Hear that?
Can you hear that compression?
Suck up that beginning one.
You should feel happy.
Okay, folks.
Now, here comes a good part.
Deimos Rios, Symphony 40 G Minor leads.
The CD is called Grandes Exitos.
It's just a shame.
There wasn't Zycam when Waldo de los Rios was alive.
Who knows if there had been?
We'll be back.
If you were not here, ladies and gentlemen, at the beginning of the program, the ChiComs want to crack down on press freedom, introduce a new training system that requires journalists there to retrain in Marxist and communist theories of news, also known as American journalism schools.