Davante Lewis, Trapped Inside His Failed Narrative, Objects to Financial LITERACY

Individuals possess no agency

Jun 19, 2023

The man is trapped. True Believer in government programs that he is, Davante Lewis cannot see outside the window of The House that Big Brother Built. He is “All Government; All the Time: Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow.”

Davante objects to financial literacy taught in high school.

So married is he to government as the agency of each person’s life.

Teach young people how finances work… sounds pretty reasonable, doesn’t it?

Not to an anti-capitalist Marxist, it’s threatening to Davante’s state of mind…

BATON ROUGE, La., June 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 9, Governor John Bel Edwards signed into law Louisiana House Bill 103, bipartisan legislation that makes Louisiana the 22nd state to guarantee a stand-alone personal finance course for high school students. Advocates, including the Next Gen Personal Finance Mission 2030 Fund, applaud the effort. Louisiana joins West Virginia, Indiana, Minnesota and Connecticut in passing laws in 2023 that will guarantee personal finance courses for future high school graduates.
"In a world where your credit score means more than your character in some cases, financial literacy is more important now than ever before," said Representative Nicky Muscarello, author of HB 103. "In 2023, Louisiana was the second least financially literate state in America. We had to address the problem. This legislation will change lives for our students."
Research shows that high school personal finance courses positively impact student debt decisions and credit scores, help graduates avoid predatory lenders, increase savings rates among teachers, and generate positive spillover effects on parents.
"As I have traveled the state, financial literacy has been a major topic of concern across all walks of life," said Dr. Cade Brumley, Louisiana State Superintendent of Education. "This was priority legislation for us and I was thankful to support Representative Muscarello in ushering it across the finish line."
Louisiana will require students graduating high school in the 2026-27 school year to take a one-unit personal finance course.

And to this wonderful development in young people’s lives, Davante replied:

So to put this in some perspective: The City of New Orleans can “Midnight Basketball” its way out of murder and violence, but an individual cannot “literacy his way out of poverty.” Only government programs can “eradicate poverty.”

Yes, Davante: Personal responsibility fixes systemic problems, precisely so.

Congratulations for tossing aside the solution to what ails you!

It’s not that person by person, family by family, poverty is eradicated for them as a consequence of their efforts… no, no, no… Government programs “eradicate poverty,” all of it, for everyone, in a fell swoop. Poverty exists because government hasn’t done enough to “eradicate” it, you see.

You individuals have no agency over your own lives. Your success is the consequence of government programs. “Personal responsibility” without a government program is useless to you.

Setting aside the fact that literacy has evidently been a challenge to Davante, he’s become so beholden to “government programs” that he cannot see any path forward without them.

Davante Lewis is ambitious and he is already imagining himself sitting in the Governor’s Office. He will run for that office some day.

And your children had better not be financially literate!

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