Some decades back, some would argue after forced busing, the quality of public education in this country began to decline. The decline continues to the present and is about to bottom out. Students in America test well below students of most other industrialized countries and even worst in math and science. Our students are not well prepared for the economies of the future which will rely heavily on science, math, and engineering skills.This is the result of the pathetic quality of those in the teaching profession, or more ominously, those damn teachers unions. Right? Wrong!
At one time it was believed that an educated work force was necessary for our democracy to function satisfactorily. Additionally, it was reasoned, that to compete with the Soviets and to win the Cold War American students must be better educated and have a superior intellectual skill set than the Bolsheviks or the American way of life be defeated by the communist's. This proved to be correct. The Cold War is over and and American ingenuity proved to be the difference.
From that victory continuing to present day the cabal of political power and money mongers no longer deem an educated America a necessity. Hell, better yet, lesser educated people of this country are not even likely to participate in our electoral process and that is just fine for those fortunate enough to gain a quality reasoning ability through education. The assault on public education was on.
Budget woes abound these days from local and state governments all the way to the federal level. Spending must be reduced and revenues must be increased. One hardly needs a masters degree in math to manage this calculation. So where do we find the "fat" to cut? Politicians representing the money interests agree that one budget category that can afford to lose funding our public education system. I mean, after all, our education system is failing anyway so why fund it?
The governor of the great state of Florida has just announced that 1.5 billion dollars or so in education cuts is necessary to help balance his states budget expenditures for the nest fiscal year. Without hardly a spare breath of fresh air in his lungs the then announced about 1.5 billion dollars in tax cuts for businesses and property owners. Balanced budget my ass. Not hardly one penny of total deficit reduction. Right in line with the Wisconsin govenors' efforts to break the public employees' union in his state. He too says it is necessary for these unionists to sacrifice benefits to save tax payers' money to reduce the red ink. A ruse! Concessions were agreed to by those dastardly unionists but that wasn't enough. Breaking that pesky union is the only solution.
Sure. That's OK must be their logic. Idiots don't vote so what do the money interests have to fear? I'll tell you what is wrong with this tactic. There are still enough educated "idiots" remaining to kick their asses out of office this next election cycle.
What do you think?
At one time it was believed that an educated work force was necessary for our democracy to function satisfactorily. Additionally, it was reasoned, that to compete with the Soviets and to win the Cold War American students must be better educated and have a superior intellectual skill set than the Bolsheviks or the American way of life be defeated by the communist's. This proved to be correct. The Cold War is over and and American ingenuity proved to be the difference.
From that victory continuing to present day the cabal of political power and money mongers no longer deem an educated America a necessity. Hell, better yet, lesser educated people of this country are not even likely to participate in our electoral process and that is just fine for those fortunate enough to gain a quality reasoning ability through education. The assault on public education was on.
Budget woes abound these days from local and state governments all the way to the federal level. Spending must be reduced and revenues must be increased. One hardly needs a masters degree in math to manage this calculation. So where do we find the "fat" to cut? Politicians representing the money interests agree that one budget category that can afford to lose funding our public education system. I mean, after all, our education system is failing anyway so why fund it?
The governor of the great state of Florida has just announced that 1.5 billion dollars or so in education cuts is necessary to help balance his states budget expenditures for the nest fiscal year. Without hardly a spare breath of fresh air in his lungs the then announced about 1.5 billion dollars in tax cuts for businesses and property owners. Balanced budget my ass. Not hardly one penny of total deficit reduction. Right in line with the Wisconsin govenors' efforts to break the public employees' union in his state. He too says it is necessary for these unionists to sacrifice benefits to save tax payers' money to reduce the red ink. A ruse! Concessions were agreed to by those dastardly unionists but that wasn't enough. Breaking that pesky union is the only solution.
Sure. That's OK must be their logic. Idiots don't vote so what do the money interests have to fear? I'll tell you what is wrong with this tactic. There are still enough educated "idiots" remaining to kick their asses out of office this next election cycle.
What do you think?
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