Young Americans To be Sold Into Slavery

Moochers and Producers. Very nice.
Are their any police officers here? The freerepublic.com thing made me think of something that happened in my town. If there are, please message me as it's off topic from this thread.

 

All of this just reinforces the view that most of my friends and I (we are all 17-18 or so) have about the future our our nation and humanity as a whole. We have had this view for a many years now. We are all so screwed over it is pathetic. The public education system is a joke, people are arguing over the problems instead of fixing them (melting ice caps, food shortages, all the countries and organizations that want us dead, oil crisis, etc). They argue or just say 'I'll be dead when all that hits the fan so why should I care?' On top of all that, the world as a whole is slowly being dubbed down. Yes I am learning much more then the generation before me but at the same time, what we are being taught is no where near as the intelligence level that generations past were taught on. It's no longer about making sure that students understand it's about getting them to pass. At my school we had four levels of classes: General (those that aren't going to go to a college) College (College prep oriented) Honors (Those that know they are going to college for at least 4 years) and AP (Advance Placement) When I was in 9th grade they said they were going to cut the General level classes. That was a poor move for a few reasons. 1) The kids who are struggling in the General classes as it is are going to be even more frustrated and lost in the College level 2) they are going to have to bring down the intelligence learning level in the college classes to accommodate the general level kids. I took mostly college classes except for AP US History and Honors English 4 and I still am taking mostly college classes. In some classes I could tell who was in general and it was a long year for me in those classes because I'm a very intelligent kid and my teachers knew that. In many classes (like my English class last year-don't get me started on that atrocity of a class) we did almost nothing and kids still failed. I just can't stand the fact that the unions protect the bad teachers and don't reward the good ones and the fact that I know that I am not going to be fully ready for college next year and it is not just me many of my friends agree. Yes I know my parents could send me to a private school but the only ones in my area are all private religious schools and the fact that I'm doing well anyway in school. But back to what I was saying, the next 10-50 or so years will be the toughest that the human race will go through. We will either all die or billions will die but we will still make it, but there is more of a chance that we will all die.

 

Stefan, no ill not shiver at the thought of you being a Teacher-in fact, I give you double thumbs up on your chosen profession as well as I do wish you complete success with it. As long as your there only to teach and not push personal view points-I genuinely wish you complete success. Just don't turn into a: ward churchill.

Cheers--C.

 

If the banking system is so darned important to the health and well being of the global economy, and if we need to pump trillions of tax payer dollars into it when it goes pear shaped, why oh why don't we just make the banking system a department of the Federal government, rather than leaving such a vital part of our lives in the hands of @#%&ing private enterprise?

WHY should something so vital be left by the wayside for the greed of the execs to spoil? You cannot, in banking, just say "Oops! We goofed", and expect a Federal bailout every time.....or can we?

Seems to be that THEY can....and you and I must pay for it everytime.

Sort of makes you want to turn bloody socialist....almost.

 

Boatman
The main problem with your solution is that it's like giving your leg to the lion after taking it back from the tiger. They both suck at running things. Look at our deficits in Medicare, SS etc...... We need to be more selective of our leaders. Too many of them, ok, almost all of them, say one thing then do another and we don't hold their feet to the fire. We elect people on a sound bite!

Think I'll pass on the socialist thing. Lived through the Soviet era and that didn't look too appealing to me.

 

Volga,

Honestly, we should have let the banks go belly up. I believe in free-market economics. If your business makes bad choices, you go out of business. Simple as that.

Yours,

Bill

 

But by then I'll be a vet so my personal views will automatically be right

On a more serious note, I agree entirely. A teachers role is to educate, to encourage kids to expand their minds and question that which is placed before them, be that my viewpoint, a historical source or the policy of the government.

 

Cheers Stefan, I can see that you will do your job and in the correct way. That was something I liked to see you say. ;-)