Nation has lost its way
It’s no wonder many are unhappy with the U.S.A. Has it already become the Owned States of China? China is buying up the debt. The United States allows our jobs to go to China.
We have the war, killing our men and women so we can have freedom. We have given up our freedoms: the right to privacy, to pray. We still have freedom of speech. It is OK to have nudity and violence on TV as long as someone remembers to warn it’s in there.
We can’t afford fuel to go to work, medical and dental care, food and decent clothing. We send aid daily to foreign countries. We donate to save whales or turtles. We have starving, homeless people right here in our midst.
Everyone wants to spend billions on research to find out what our problems are. I can tell you: Lack of conscience, morals, inability or desire to punish criminals.
Look at statistics. It doesn’t take billion-dollar research to figure it out. We need to fix what is wrong now before we wake up and find ourselves living in a communist-capitalist regime. Look to your Congress and your Senate. Ask for a cure, not a cover-up of the symptoms.
Debra Turner
Summerfield
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Billions? I ain't got it, despite my Great Grand Uncle John ..
... but I'd pay a buck to hear a reasonable way to stop jobs from going to China.
Posted on July 19, 2008 6:05 AM
JDR: "...I'd pay a buck to hear a reasonable way to stop jobs from going to China."
Send your buck to my favorite charity: NumbersUSA.
The best strategy to "stop jobs from going to China" is indirect. The thrust of the strategy is indicated in a remark I made in the Wall Street Journal:
"America's great social, political and innovative strength is in decentralization. But that strength, the American spirit, is shackled, to disastrous effect, in the field of education, where the key tenets of socialism, central planning and state monopoly prevail." - Wall Street Journal, August 2, 1996
The horrors we've inflicted/are inflicting on ourselves by our embrace of socialism as the guiding principle for organizing the schooling of the young are unimaginable to most, but real enough.
China has largely cast off socialism as the organizing principle of its explosively growing economy. We can no longer count on socialist dullards to run that country.
But we could compete at a much higher level IF we could provide early retirement for the socialist dullards in legislatures and in state departments of education that run our vast government schooling monopolies.
Posted on July 19, 2008 7:09 AM
First step in competing with the emerging Asian nations is to teach our children MATH. The nation that sent men to the moon is producing kids who can't count back change.
The public school textbooks are a big part of the problem--especially the NC version of the geometry text. Yes, NC has it's very own version of the geometry book--because all NC cares about is being able to say they gave a kid a year in geometry class, not being able to actually teach kids geometry.
All the newer math books are big and brightly colored, with lots of sidebars "linking math to other curriculum areas." Unfortunately, they are weak when it comes to an actual, logical, systematic presentation of math concepts.
The Dept. of Public Instruction website lists the math curriculum, and it uses big, impressive word to describe what the kids are supposed to be learning, but why do these kids still need to be taking remedial math in college if they are truly learning these skills?
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/mathematics/scos/
Posted on July 19, 2008 8:25 AM