Moved to Idaho, any regrets?

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Originally Posted by martialcanine45

I haven't finished reading the posts in this thread and will do so tonight, but I don't need to in order to respond to this one.

The education system in this country is a joke because it is public education. It is designed for the median, not for those who struggle and not for those with excellent natural abilities.

The best education system is at home...whether you take the role in supporting their public education or actually pony up and educate them yourselves. You'd be surprised how much better of a job you could do than any school, because you have so much more at stake.

My 58 year old mom home-schooled her daughter to 4.0GPA public university performance and is doing a fine job with her 12 year old son. All while she is working full-time.

So get rid of your sports cars, your career that dominates your life above family, your over-priced home, your cookie-cutter vacations, your dependence on government, or whatever it is that keeps you sucking on the government teet, and take responsibility for yourself and your children's education.

I'm so sick and tired of these calls for good schools, good health care, good welfare systems, good roads, etc. Are we such a fragile society that we can't manage anything but a hotel reservation, a fast-food drive through, and an IRA?

Idaho is attractive to me not because of the good GOVERNMENT programs, infrastructures, and institutions, but because of the opportunity to die a self-made, self-reliant man who has made real men and women out of my children, not allowed someone else to do it.

And until you witness, firsthand, Islam consume multiple cities from the ground up in a short period of time - spawning dozens of hate-spewing IMAMS who call for terrorism publicly with no response; completely REPLACING Christian history lessons in public schools with Islam religious 'education'; banning church bells from ringing while permitting mosque calls; prohibiting pro-Christian shirts in public transport sites while permitting full Muslim headresses, etc., etc., etc.; don't blindly trudge into preaching about sensitivity and understanding.

Folks, this is happening all over Europe right now, culturally, religiously, and socially there is troubling instability boiling. Trust me when I say I am not some radical kook out from la-la land. I was what you could consider a very moderate, religiously-apathetic Republican when I moved over to Europe for work, but my jaw hit the ground over time.

I have more Muslim, Hindu, Wiccan, Christian, Mormon, Agnostic, Athiest, whatever friends than I could list here. But I can only forewarn you that to deny the U.S.'s Christian heritage and to REPLACE IT with religious diversity is to attack the very core of our nation. I am not saying that we should restrict or attack others from practicing their religion in private, but once you cross the line from this field-hopping, everyone-loves-everyone, we can all get along ideology to the reality of religious struggle and human nature, you'll understand.

Spend some time here with me in my work...try Paris, Berlin, or London, Birmingham, Petersborough, Manchester, on and on, in the UK. Heck, even the smaller cities and towns here. It's a problem in the large metropolitan areas in the U.S. and sparsely among some cities, but the UK is only 10-20 years ahead of us.

I tie this all in to this thread because of my disgust with people attacking Idahoans (I am from Michigan) for their traditional Christian values all the while others proclaim how beautiful it is to understand and celebrate Islam. Two sides of the same sword.

I am all for Muslims practicing Islam in their mosques, gays sleeping with one another in their homes, and hippies smoking dope, but it's not who I am, what I believe in, or how I want to live. Expecting me to understand it (which I do oh so well), be sensitive to it, or support it in law is a different matter.

America dies when our heritage dies. Sorry if this is off-subject and extreme. I'm pissed off at ignorance and naivity tonight. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....where is a pile of moose crap when I need it for a projectile. My apologies for the rant. I'll humbly accept my ban.

(Not from Idaho but sure as heck hope to be an Idahoan someday)

I salute you sir. I may not agree with all of what you said, only most of it, and I will defend your right to say it! It's best to ignore the ignorant trolls that posted in this thread. Once you read the rest of it you will realize that no one responded favorably to his post. It's just some hate monger from California probably. Some of the most hateful people I've ever met reside in this state of mine....looking forward to moving next year....

Idaho or bust!