Power of the Parent Vote - May 10th, Hour 3

Published May 11, 2022, 12:38 AM

Freedom Foundation's CEO Aaron Withe, takes on the teachers union led by Randi Weingarten who has spent her career pushing indoctrination and leftist agendas. With midterm elections around the corner, parents’ votes will play a big role in who takes office

All right, news round up, information overload our Sean Hannity Show eight hundred and nine for one, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, if you look at what's happened with our educational system. There was once a landmark study. Ronald Reagan did it in his administration, a Nation at Risk, and that study actually concluded something that's applicable even to this day, and it said, what has happened to America's school system public school system? If it were done by an outside entity of some kind or country of some kind, it would be tantamount to an act of war. That's how bad America's American schools have been. Maybe if we stuck to reading, writing, arithmetic, science, computers and get the kids proficient in those topics, then if you really care about gender identity issues, human sexuality classes, I don't know. Awokeism one O one it happens to be. How about we use the school buildings and let parents if they decide maybe they're uncomfortable talking about issues of sexuality with their children, well maybe, and they want to look at the curriculum, they can have an opt in system. And the parents want to send their kids after school after reading, writing, math, science, and computers. They can opt into all the sex A gender identity classes that they want to opt into, and then leave the other kids alone and let the parents do their job, which is instill the values they believe is important in their own children. Parents are not potted plants. We saw how effective this was as an issue in Glenn Junkin's race in the Commonwealth of Virginia. You know the idea now that we're hearing Joe Biden say that they are all our kids. No, they're not, Joe, They're not your kids. The kids have mommies and daddies, mothers and fathers that produce them, and you're not it. And when we trust our children to an educational institution, we don't expect them to be brainwashed. Parents don't expect the values they hold near and dear to be contradicted either. Just as a side note anyway, but that's not how the Teachers Union sees it. Here's Randy Winegarden, who is the Winegarden ahead of the teachers Union, saying parental rights bills are the way in which wars start, and then saying our kids are in mental health crisis from not having a routine for two years. The teachers unions they wanted these kids massed up and they didn't even want them in the classroom. A lot of these teachers listen this notion and look where you know, we've been very lucky in America and we in some ways live in a bubble for a long time. This is propaganda, This is misinformation. This is the way in which wars start, This is the way in which hatreds starts. Our kids are in crisis, and we had a mental health crisis before COVID. But with and doctor Ang we'll talk about this far better than I do. But within but for two years of disruption, two years of looking at the screens, two years of not having a normal kind of routine and rhythm recovery is really tough. Joining us to discuss this is the Freedom Foundation CEO Aaron with us and he takes on teachers unions led by Randy Weingarten, who spent her career pushing in indoctrination and these leftist agendas. Thank you for being with us, Aaron. How are you hey, Sean? Yeah, thank you for having me on. Well, I think I tried to accurately describe what's going on in our school systems. I mean, we spend a fortune on the education of our kids. We've got these horrific results, and you got the Democrats and the teachers unions married at the hip, and I'm I don't see how we break that on holy alliance. Yeah, I mean you summarized it well. Teachers, everyday teachers are heroes and we shouldn't get that confused with the teachers unions agenda. You're everyday teacher gets into the teaching profession. My wife is a public school teacher to go teach kids, to go teach him reading, writing, math. They don't go in there to teach critical race theory and all the other things that the teachers unions are pushing onto them. Teachers unions today are not trying to create the next generation of workers. They're trying to create the next generation of liberal voters that will go out and ensure that liberals will continue to win at the highest level, and they'll continue to fund them off the backs of teachers that they're taking about eleven hundred dollars a year from every single year. So she's the president of the American Federation of Teachers Union, and that very union adopted a resolution saying that they and with planned parenthood and millions who depend on its healthcare services for safe abortions. She described her union as a beacon of hope on climate change. In the fight for environmental justice. Much of the leadership is coming from students and their teachers could not be more proud. She threatened to boycott Walmart, vowing them unless Walmart stopped selling guns and supporting candidates opposed to curtailing Second Amendment rights, teachers and students should reconsider doing their back to school shopping at their stores. She's even used her position to spew very controversial remarks, one saying American Jews are now part of the ownership class. Whatever that means those in the ownership class now want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those that don't have it. That got a lot of eyebrows raised. So obviously she has an agenda far different than educating our kids. Yeah, her agenda is repulsive. But the thing that we're seeing in America today amongst teachers is they're opting out of their unions in drops. The teachers don't agree with the agenda of Randy Weingar. The AFT and the other teachers unions, like I said, they care about teaching kids. So Randy's union, for example, had a net two percent decline in union membership last year. We're seeing teachers all across the country start talking with their dollars. They're starting to opt out of the unions at significant levels. And if Randy continues to go down this route, then more and more are going to continue to do so. That's why the Freedom Foundation runs a campaign to tell every single one of these public employees that they can get out of their unions and stop paying union dues. And if Randy keeps creating this rhetoric, the radical liberal rhetoric that she's creating, then we're going to see more and more opt out. Okay, so they do now have the opportunity to opt out because usually rank and file monies are used to fund these political campaigns and candidates that many teachers probably don't even agree with. Yeah, the US Supreme Courts in two eighteen gave teachers and every public employee in the country the right to opt out of their union stop paying union dues. The major issue today is that most of them have no idea that that right exists, So it takes the Freedom Foundation to go and actually tell every single one of these public employees that they can get out, and like I said, when they learn about it, they do opt out. Oh. I think it's great that when they get the opportunity. How much money do they save a year? What's the opt out cost to them? The average, the average cost is between eight hundred and eleven hundred dollars ago. And that's money that's getting back into the pockets of working families, back where it belongs, and out of the campaign coppers of people like Joe Biden. You know, it's pretty unbelievable to me. Now, let's talk about the amount of money. I saw an interview that you had given and it was pretty interesting because it was a number that I had never seen before. And that is that the federal government gives one hundred and ninety billion dollars to schools across the country for what they gave for academic recovery. How much is that per student? Did you ever extrapolate that out? I know there are fifty million students in America, so whatever the map on that works out to be right. So that's that's a lot of money. We've got a new study from Harvard showing remote learning during the pandemic quote widened racial and economic achievement gaps. I see more and more parents that I talked to. They're now going to home schooling options because they don't they don't feel they're going to get a quality of education at home, and parents and grandparents and concern people and kids' lives are devoting hours of their day every day to give them the education that they don't think the public schools can give them. Yeah, that shouldn't be a foreign concept to anybody. That's the way capitalism works. If there's a service that's failing you, then you leave that service. The problem is with public education is the teachers unions have had a monopoly on being able to essentially deliver this quote service to our students. And in a lot of places, especially in liberal cities and liberal states, this education system is failing them, and the teachers union has made it almost impossible for parents to take their kids out of these schools so they can continue their monopoly. That's why we need to advocate for school choice, so the parents can take their kids into schools and places where there will deliver a quality education. And that should be what we're aspiring for the one thing that I think is the answer is competition. The way you have competition. For example, New York City, they spend over forty thousand dollars annually per student. If you gave parents a check for forty grand and they got to pick the school their choice first, the first thing that would happen in schools would start opening everywhere. But the schools that offered the best education, the safest environment, the most discipline in terms of kids having rigorous academics, those are the schools I would argue that would you know, parents would be banging on their door begging them to get in. Yeah, exactly. And that's what we should be advocating for, is taking our kids to schools that provide quality education services. We shouldn't be mandating the kids go to specific schools based on their zip code, and the taxpayer certainly shouldn't be funding this failing education system. So, yeah, you're absolutely right. The way out of this is that we take that money that post student is being spent and we put that into schools that are going to actually help these kids achieve. Well, we really appreciate your time, Aaron, with thank you so much for being one of us. Eight hundred and nine four one Shaun is a number if you want to be a part of the program. I'm so glad my kids are out of getting out of school quick. One has done and one is two years to go. All right, let's go to our phones here. Eight hundred nine for one. Shaun is on number. Uh David, South Carolina, next Sean Hannity Show. What's up, David? How are you? I'm good, Thank you for taking my call. Um, I wanted to talk about fertilizer. UM. I was sitting in my tractor working one hundred acre field and UM I heard over the radio. By the way, what do you what do you farm? You farm something? Well, we have cattle and it takes a lot of um hey, and it takes a lot of you know, pastures for you know them to graze on. And I want to tell you that we're not farming like our grandfathers farmed. In fact, them, according to Clemson University, will produce far more animals on far less land, and we do it far cleaner than ever. Um. You know, for example, I bought all new tractors in um. The tractors burn about one eighth the fuel they used to burn, and they produced nothing but clean air when they come out because they got those those filters on them. Um. So it's amazing how much I can do. Yeah. Um, But going back to the to the pasture I was in, I was working, um to cut hay, and I heard over the radio a woman named Samantha Powers and she was the farmer un ambassador for Obama, and um, she was saying. UM. I heard her say, never let a crisis go to waste, and she was talking about farmers and she said that, um, you know, she realizes that we can't get fertilizer and that we just need to go green, that we need to it's you know, it's about time that we you know. Okay, so what what give me the green option? Is there any green option that's that's supportable for farmers. I'm not a farmer, so I don't know. Yeah, there is no green option. What she said is to start using the newer and composting. And I have to tell you, um, her way is actually going to damage the environment more than than the way it's being done currently. What I want to do is use a fertilizer called nineteen nineteen nineteen and what that is is nineteen percent nitrogen, nineteen percent phosphorus, and nineteen percent potassium. Nitrogen makes up seventy eight percent of theirs atmosphere. Phosphorus is a mintal that occurs naturally and it's in many foods. And potassium is a naturally current mineral that is also in foods. And potassium is used to make bones and teeth, and it's an electrolyte too. I mean, it's in everything that we drink. So the stuff that we're using isn't It doesn't damage the environment. And if I were to do it a different way, like I'm going to have to do this year, I have to cut hay everywhere I can find hey, and I have to tuck it back to my place. The amount of fuel I'm going to burn doing this is astronomical, the amount of fuel. The better work. Well, first, I'm running out of time. It's insane what they're trying to do. And meanwhile, you're doing everything possible in terms of keeping a healthy environ and being a good steward of the gifts God gives us. Uh, you're producing the food that nourishes our bodies. And uh, I can't thank you enough. I know how hard that work is. There are many days I'd love to just pack it in and just go join you on your tractor and get away from this insane world I live in. UM. I really admire the work you do. And when I go to the store, Uh, you know, you don't often think about it, but occasionally I do think about what it takes to get that piece of beef that I'm about to bring home and grill to that store. And it's people like you that make it happen. And I want to say thank you, and and my sons. I've got two young sons that is with me. And I wish you. I wish you the best. I really do. UM. You're the you, truckers, the people, nurses, doctors, You're the Americans that make this country great. UM. Anyway, we'll get back to the calls when we get back, I promise eight hundred nine for one. Shaun is a number, quick break right back, holding them accountable. Sean gets the answers no one else does. America deserves and know the truth about Congress. Right twenty five to the top of the hour eight nine, Shawn Sunny Houston over at that hard hitting news show the view on ABC defending pro abortion, protesting outside of justice's homes. And then you got the person that takes the cake. I want to make sweet love to the Supreme Court leaker, and then if I get pregnant, I will joyfully abort the fetus. Listen. And while I think it is terrible that a justice would have to go into hiding, I think it is really clear to the justices now that, as Anna mentioned, sixty four to sixty six percent of Americans believe that the Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade right. And so that being said, maybe these protests and maybe this outcry gives Chief Justice Roberts some leverage for a more moderate approach, because we saw during the hearing that he was looking for a way, a moderate way to handle this case. So do you agree that this is going against the undemocratic will? But this is the only way Republicans can achieve this? Yeah, I guess. So. I mean, here's the thing, here's my feeling about the lead. I would like to find out who the leaker is so I could make sweet love to that person, because that person is a hero to me. Okay, And if the leaker a lot of people are saying it could be a conservative if the leaker is a Republican, and if I get pregnant during our love making, I will joyfully abort our fetus and let them know. All right, let's get to our busy phones. You just you just cannot make this up. Ka Is in North Carolina, K, how are you glad you called? Thanks for me and Willis Hey, Sean, thank you a long time listener, FIRSTLF caller, and my comment right now will pale in comparison to what you just talked about that happened with the deep state. But that's one of the reasons I'm calling Every talk show host, TV radio commentator that I have listened too lately keeps talking about how we are going to absolutely wipe the Democrats out. We're going to beat them. It's going to be it's going to be a bloodbath for them. I'm not telling you that. Let me. Let me separate from the from the pack here. I am not taking anything for granted. Okay, good because because you being who you are, and I think other talk show hosts listen to you and follow you, is that we stopped doing that. We did that in twenty sixteen. It didn't work out. We know why. But they're just as the Democrats are just as diabolical now as they were then. And I think if we just let them be, if I understand correctly, Pelosi was quoted the other day as saying she was shocked that the Democrats were being blamed for the conditions in America today. If they are that out of touch, let's leave them out of touch. Would absolutely let them be just as shocked in November, and just as shocked two years from November, and let's get our country back. And I'm just asking that everyone stopped talking about what we're going to do and how we're going to beat them, and find a way to really beat them, because of my fear is that Republicans, if we keep hearing we're gonna win, we're gonna win, We're gonna win, they won't go vote. And I'm hoping that people will just start talking about we have got to get out and vote. And well, let me give you the good news and the and and reason to always be concerned. Okay, the good news is on every issue, Um, the Democrats have failed and failed miserably. I can't cite a I'm trying to be objective here, I can't cite a single policy that's successful. The transitory in plation. You know, we got to tax the rich rhetoric of Joey earlier today, which we discussed. It's not going to get them far. Democrats now are pinning all of their hopes on overturning Roe v. Wade, and that will motivate their base. Republicans. We're never going to get their radical base to vote for them anyway, and they were going out to vote anyway, and Americans will very quickly determine. Oh, all this fearmongering, all this hysteria, all this insanity that Roe v. Wade will outlaw abortion in America. Oh, none of it's true. And they'll separate fact from fiction, all right, So that's not going to be the issue issue. I think that propels them to overcome record high inflation, forty year record. You know, now we have new record high gas prices, record high diesel prices, chaos at the border. I mean, I can't cite a single thing they're successful at. So I agree, but here, but here's my trepidation. I want to tell you where my trepidation is a lot of states have not adopted election integrity measures that I believe need to be adopted. I'm like a broken record on this and I won't repeat it now, but every state needs to adopt election integrity measures just to keep everybody honest. And that has not quite happened. Many have, many have not, Many have only gone halfway. And the other thing that I will tell you is never underestimate Republicans ability to screw up an election. They can screw it up. Now here's a positive note. I do know what is being worked on behind the scenes. I do know that these this election is going to be nationalized. I do know that every Republican running, whoever wins these primaries, whether you like them or don't like them, we're going to end up supporting them because they're far, far better than giving Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi more votes for their block. I do know that they're going to run on the make America great again America first, you know, conservative agenda that we all know works. That is a huge positive. So stay tuned. There are things that I know that are happening, that are in the works that I think are going to be very very favorable to candidates and inspire people and give them some confidence that they're going to follow through them what they say they're going to do. Does that make sense? Absolutely? And I hope that we know the Democrats are diabolical. And while you said Republicans can screw up an election, the Democrats can cheat through an election. And that's my fear is that we're giving them time to do that because they weren't aware how badly they were going to be beaten. Perhaps listen, if I had my way, I would have only you know, absentee balloting and a stringent process for that, and every vote should be a day of vote. And there's got to be a way. They look they do a well in Florida, for example, they do a lot of mail in voting in Florida. They do it successfully. They had a disaster in two thousand, they had to fix their system. Twenty sixteen didn't go particularly well. They had to fix it again. Ronda Santis did. And I feel a lot better about our chances moving forward. But there, you know, all of the centeration, look at the look at these states we're talking about, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Nebraska, Missouri, Arizona, Nevada. I mean, all of these states, they're all Bell weather states here, and it'll give us a pretty good indication where the country's leaning in for twenty twenty four in my opinion. And the one thing we also have in our to our advantage in my view, is this modern democratic new Green Deal socialist party. They have no willingness to compromise. They are locked into stupidity. And as long as they're locked into stupidity, they're locked into failure. And if they're locked into failure, Americans they don't like to fail. Americans like prosperity. Americans like a ladder to success. Americans see the abject failure of this insanity. And they believe in law and order, and they believe in good education. They leave in safety and security. They believe in secure borders. They think it's idiotic that we're not energy independent anymore. So are those Those are the things that I'm looking at right now. But I always say, fight like you think you're five points behind, You got to okay, Thank you so much? Are you beat? Okay? Good call, appreciate it. Peter Indiana. Next Sean Hannity Show, What's Up Peter, how are you sean everything's well out here in Who's your land? I was just concerned about former Marshall. I'm concerned about how long these protests might go on. I know that the some of the Deputy marshals in that region, for instance, in Alito's neighborhood, they're concerned about walking that fine line between First Amendment rights of the protesters out in the street and the specific wording of eighteen USC. Fifteen oh seven. That's what they're faced with, and then they have to rely on the US Attorney, for instance, in the Eastern District of Virginia, to prosecute people if they if they get on the property and do any damage. Yeah, listen, the law couldn't be any more clear what they're doing. I mean, it's so transparent and obvious. They're trying to intimidate, harass in this case Juris Supreme Court justices and intimidate them. And I think we better enforce the law, and if we don't, we're making a big mistake. The fact that Democrats and even Joe Biden and the Biden administration has no willingness to stand up to them and say this is a really bad idea. It should shock everybody. Shocks me because I tell you one thing I would never do. I'm not giving out people's home addresses so they and their families can get harassed or some nut would go out there and possibly commit some type of atrocity or harm on innocent people. Whether you listen. We fight in the arena of ideas, we fight in the at the ballot box, we fight and during the election seasons. Uh, in terms of intimidating people you disagree with. Look, I'm a public figure. I've I've I've had these experiences. I don't talk about him very much, but I've had a lot of moments, if you will, in my life. Um where let's just put it this way. It's it's it's more than unpleasant. And um you know when, especially when your family's involved, it gets a little more difficult and and that's that goes with being a public figure. I get it. I can accept it. I don't think my family should have to suffer as a result of it. Well, real quickly before I know you run that out of time. But I just wanted to mention too that our son, who's a detective on the episode Police Department, that is the guy that actually spotted Casey White's car yesterday in that motel parking lot. So he got the got the chase started for for the fugitives. So oh now who did that? That was? Who? That's my son, our son, your son did that? Well? Good for I mean, it was tragic how it ended. It was tragic that did even happened. So yeah, he got it started. So I assume he was there to see what happened in the end, right, I think? So I had to read about it on Facebook. He didn't call me and tell me. But anyway, I've got I've got a phrase for Linda. I know she uh likes to use vs, but I had a law enforcement instructure years ago who wouldn't say a bad words if he had a mouthful of him. He always referred to it as bovine second stage alfalfa. So there you go. Let me. Let me tell you something Linda's incapable of, even when she's having dinner with her pastor. It slipped. Wait a minute, The mere fact that he incorporated bolvine means I'm going to try it, because you know, that's an intelligent, covid okay way to replace the bad words Peter, the odds are zero. It's never gonna happen. I mean, you, Peter, because clearly the lay system. We're on a delay system in radio, right, so I think we have like I don't know, thirty second delay, whatever it happens to be. And the person that we have to edit the most or or or hit the button and cut out the most is Linda. You know radio, I'm gonna do a check see if it's you or me, and I'm pretty sure it's you. I'm just gonna say, because even when you say Adam Schiff, sometimes it gets a little close. Do you know what I'm saying? It's a total shift show that does now, Peter. Is that not clear? I think that's very clear. Yeah. But I'll tell you what. On the listeners love it when you and Linda tibbots back and forth on some of these issues. I think maybe she helps keep you balanced sometimes. See that, And that's no bell line. Oh my gosh, I promise you, Peter, even in front of her new pastor, who has got the patience of job, who she doesn't let me talk to very often. I only talk to him once, and I've never got my my comments and I have a lot to ask this guy, because I'm gonna learn a lot about how you saves. Pastor Tim, Huh, you got a lot of questions. I do have a lot of questions for Pastor Tim. That's correct. Listen. I can be your vehicle to your answers. So I have to give me the questions. I'll pass them one, I'll get yours one. No, how about I talk directly to the pastor and a big competence between me and him. Yeah, I'm sitting there, you know, stalking the conversation like you did the one time I did it. Listen. I'm just you know, I'm just a facilitator, you know, I got to make sure it all goals, right, that's all I'm I'm not going to say anything horrible. I did ask the pastor in front of you. I said, you do know that she uses quite salty language, Pastor, and she's front signs at time. He was very diplomatic and he said, yeah, that's something we're working on. That so him. But in truth, I mean, I'm Mary Poppins around the kids. You know, I only use the band language around adults. But what happens is I hope and the kids I gotta get it out. You know, what do you think you Janko Witz and now going to do a TikTok? What do you call that word? Super califragilisticous, whatever, it's not doocious, it's just doocious. I know I was doing it on purpose. It was done on purpose. That's gonna wrap things up for today. Nine eastern Hannity on the Fox News Channel. We're loading up all of a full, complete investigation into Joe Biden's White House Press secretary, the idiocy and the insane statements U Joe Biden making about the economy, basically all the news you'll never get from the medium, mom, and the latest on doxing. Of course, Supreme Court justices. 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