If you haven't read the Huffpo blog of the Bill-Maher-Endorsed-Alan Grayson (otherwise known as the Proud Progressive (TM)), we highly recommend it as a humorous lesson in how the crazed liberal mind makes emotional leaps over logic to settle upon the absurd.

Author: Oxner Staff

One of the ads to promote Mark Oxner's first campaign video, "Turn This Ship Around," was banned yesterday on Facebook. Here is the graphic and text for it...

Ship of Fools.

This pointed to our web video called Turn This Ship Around. Mark truly believes that the spending by President Obama and his former enabler Alan Grayson (on corporate subsidies, Obamacare, bailouts and more) are enslaving our children and grand children with stifling debt. This is a message that statists would rather not hear: sure, your "free" healthcare or bank bailout sounds good, until you ask how it's paid for. But as President Obama says in the video, "No questions on this ship!"

This message enrages statists.

Alan Grayson once again contributes to class warfare and uses the race card to do it. On his Huffington Post blog, he comments about the disparity of household income between whites and minorities. He asks how, in a country where we are "all created equal", one group ends up with more than another.

Mr. Grayson, I will be happy to explain this to you.

The concept of "created equal" is a special one in our American history. It is meant to indicate that under the eyes of the law, no man or woman is better than another under their Creator. Rich and poor alike must be treated by the government and its judicial system equally and fairly. This phrase was crafted by our founders to specifically oppose the rigid class system under British colonial rule, which held royalty as "more equal" than others.

Since then, it has become vogue to somehow twist this phrase into attacking America for not having equality of income, especially by progressives, socialists, and communists. They attempt to show that this phrase somehow indicates that America is a hypocritical nation. Mr. Grayson and his ilk prey upon the uninformed.

The real problem for Mr. Grayson is that the U.S. Constitution favors the individual over the group, over the collective, over the mob. It does so because there is no ethical or moral way to ensure equal income for all. The best that society can do is create a government system that allows individuals freedom to achieve their potential. Shall the state take from free individuals to ensure equal outcome for the mob? According to progressives like Grayson, the answer is, frighteningly, yes!

The problem with this answer is that the progressive state never ends up creating what it claims to desire.

Let us take education as an example, which is the surest way for anyone to work their way out of poverty, as my family and I have done.

Despite of (or rather, because of) the efforts of Grayson's progressives, Americans are not given equal access to good education -- even when the government controls that access with a monopolistic iron fist. The middle class and the poor are forced to attend sub-standard schools by progressive union leaders and politicians like Grayson. The poorest in our society are given almost no opportunity to get a good education. They are forced into government-run schools with none of the options that are restricted to Grayson's wealthy friends, who are free to donate to Alan Grayson's campaign coffers, and then send their children to posh Beverly Hills boarding schools.

In 2008, the graduation rate among African-Americans was 61.5% compared to 81% for whites. 17 of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50% (nearly all of these cities, mind you, are run by Democrats with the same "progressive" tendencies as Alan Grayson). Children of poor families are up to six times more likely to drop out of school than wealthy children.

Alan Grayson's progressive government, which attempts to level outcomes for all, oppresses the poor through this horrible progressive education. Were these children given a good education at a good school, perhaps they'd learn the true meaning and context of the phrase "all men are created equal," and as informed adults boo Grayson off the national stage as an intellectual charlatan and vulture preying upon the uninformed.

The terrible devastation of New Orleans wiped out most of the city's school facilities. In order to rebuild quickly, charter schools were allowed to develop. Out of the 88 public schools in New Orleans, 61 are now charters, which means that 70 percent of New Orleans students now attend charter schools of their choice, not schools dictated to them by the government.

Another change in New Orleans was the removal of collective bargaining agreements for the teachers' unions. Reformers have praised this for giving schools more flexibility on salaries and work hours. Many new teachers have flocked to the city. In fact, New Orleans was named most "reform friendly" for education recently by the Thomas B Fordham Institute.

The number of seniors who made it to graduation in New Orleans rose from 50 percent in 2007 to 90 percent in 2010. On the 10th-grade Graduate Exit Exam, students performing at or above the basic level in English rose from 37 percent to 52 percent. Students attending low-performing schools have fallen by half, from 67 percent to 34 percent.

The schools there are no longer run by a government central board that breeds corruption. In fact, the former president of the old New Orleans school board now sits in jail for bribery. Unfortunately, the government that Mr. Grayson pines for always ends up rotting from the top. A government should never be "in charge" of winners and losers in society, for there will always be greedy men and women who will lust for that power for personal gain.

Cuba, for instance, has almost 99.9999% income equality - with only Fidel, Raul, and their cronies preventing that country from reaching a full 100% income equality. Should America aim for the income equality of Cuba, Mr. Grayson? How about North Korea? I'm sure their income equality is even better than Cuba's. The only problem, of course, is that North Koreans are on average two inches shorter than their counterparts in South Korea due to malnutrition. Meanwhile the Jong clan is pleasantly plump. Power corrupts, absolutely.

Even here in Central Florida, our Osceola school board has been involved with corruption charges over school uniforms. Power corrupts, even in small doses.

Mitch Landrieu, the current Democrat mayor of New Orleans, has said, "If reform were to fail, it would be precisely because politics, perhaps especially racial politics, had eclipsed the commitment to improve the education of children."

Unfortunately, the transformation of the New Orleans school district is in great peril. The progressive union United Teachers of New Orleans states, "There is also disturbing evidence demonstrating that our poor and minority students are attending schools with the least experienced teachers. But education reform in New Orleans has become less about the quality of education and more about cost cutting measures in the name of privatizing public education."

The union seems to not desire better education for the students in New Orleans, who are 90 percent African-American. The union is more interested in protecting low performing teachers than providing high quality education to the students of New Orleans. Like Alan Grayson, they are content to prey like vultures upon the uninformed via the power of the state.

Today we oppress the minorities and poor of this country by limiting their education options through progressive policies, which Alan Grayson is proud to endorse. Big government and union rules have drowned the dream of equality of Dr King, a great Republican. Let us free the education of our children, of the poor and middle class, from the chains of government and unions. Let our children flourish.

This is how we will truly bring equality to our nation. Our children, regardless of race, creed, or color, deserve equal access and choices to education, free from the yoke of government corruption to achieve their potential. Mr. Grayson, why should the children of the rich like you be the only ones with access to great opportunity?