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Dumbest Generation Getting Dumber

by Walter E. Williams

The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international comparison of 15-year-olds conducted by The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that measures applied learning and problem-solving ability. In 2006, U.S. students ranked 25th of 30 advanced nations in math and 24th in science. McKinsey & Company, in releasing its report "The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America's Schools" (April 2009) said, "Several other facts ...

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Posted by: Tom E. Snyder
Comment: #1
Wed Jun 3, 2009 11:38 AM

Every public school should be a charter school.

Posted by: Shirley deLong
Comment: #2
Wed Jun 3, 2009 6:54 AM

Dear Walter Williams, there will never be a balance in public schools, let alone learning anything. It's too government controlled and all the puppets from the National Education down to local ones, are there, as you and I know, to earn a big salary and retirement. Take all the 'Public Schools', 'No Child Left Behind', 'Title Programs', 'Social and Welfare Programs'! What have they created? A society of illegitimates that's causing more terrorism on American soil. Taxpayers cannot afford the jails/prisons, let alone the tax paid attorneys, food, medicine, etc. it takes to keep them alive. When politicians created all these programs, so they could get elected, I'm sure they were thinking they were 'Royalty' and Taxpayers were real fools! The following examples are some of the politicians 'Cart before the Horse' programs with no common sense applied. ‘Pair ready to tackle health care overhaul', states Ms. Sebelius and Ms. DeParle! Taxpayers would like to know why they haven't already ‘fixed' these things, since they've been around the block a time or two! Taxpayers say ‘thanks, but no thanks!' Politicians have too much time on their hands. It's obvious this led Freddie, Fannie, HUD, AIG, Automakers, and anyone else taking Taxpayers' money into bankruptcy! Folks, these seasoned politicians are all alike! As stated before, Taxpayers need to go back to the ‘pay as you go' for doctors and hospitals, cutting out the government/insurance offices that have their hands in your pockets. Their business as usual, lies and deceit have to stop; therefore, ‘Fair Tax', to include property, should be top priority! Everyone must pay their share, including politicians! Otherwise, it's ‘Discrimination against Taxpayers!' Politicians salaries and retirements should be cut to $12,000.00 yearly! If this isn't acceptable, then Taxpayers will sell them a one-way ticket to the foreign country they sold America to, take assets to pay the trillions they've borrowed without Taxpayers' consent! After bankrupting America, these are the only options; unless, of course, they prefer to be sent to Guantanamo, along with all of Americas' killers, rapists, thieves, and illegitimates, of all races, who roam Americas' street, stealing, maiming, raping, and killing ,who have made the prison system their way of life, because they get free attorneys, food, housing, and medication! Since some politicians are no better than the ones sitting in prisons, they should be put to work together, out of America, making their own clothes, growing their own food, building their own shelters, and have nothing extra, as this is what they've done to America! “Putting the cart before the horse”! Thunder Road comes to mind when thinking of politicians taking over, for the revenue of course, for the Moonshiners, ‘smashing of the stills in them hills, started bottling and selling the booze, locking you up for drinking it, and furnishing, with Taxpayers' money, an attorney for you, furnishing you clothes, medicine, food, and a roof over your head. Exorbitant costs and an endless money pit! Politicians, now, want to build infrastructures without having textile and manufacturing jobs in America! Surely, they're joking! Critical issues Taxpayers demand be addressed by the new administration! Since Obama agreed he'd go 'line by line' and eliminate all these 'endless money pits' - Well, what is he waiting for?

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