Education

I think Education should be a much bigger concern than it is. These days it seems to me that we have told ourselves so often and for long that we are the greatest in the world.  We started believing it and stopped trying. Don’t get me wrong we are great and there is no place that I would rather be.
We have enormous potential for future greatness but only if we open our eyes and look around with without the patriotic bias thats killing us. For instance everybody knows the saying
Everything is bigger and better in Texas. If don’t live in Texas you may disagree, but you cant say that to someone from Texas without a fight.

The same thing goes for America. watch your mouth or someone will try to shut it for you.
Remember the dixie chicks all they said was we should make sure we bomb the right people and they were slammed for supporting tearorism. 

Most people think that we are at least in the top five for educating of our citizens everyone wants to believe their children are smart. And they may be smarter than the kids in their class. But we are failing our children as a whole and future generations to come if we don’t open our eyes and look around.
At one time we were at top of the heap I wish that was still true. click this link and see where are now           http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0923110.html

The fact is we aren’t even in the top ten anymore and that needs to change before its too late.
If you compare our students in the world classroom we are becoming the special ed kids.
I'm angry our kids aren’t the brightest anymore, I’m angry my neighbors kids don’t see a positive future and I’m angry our politicians aren’t doing anything about it.
They seem to be all waiting around for everything to go horribly wrong so they can say LOOK at what those other guys did you should elect us instead.

The sad fact is they All have a job, they are all getting a paycheck and they don’t care about us.
They only pander to us to get reelected and once elected they dont work for us they work for the lobbyest. Their pay should drop if the average pay drops or unemployment goes up, or if the trade deficit goes up. After all without tax dollars how can we Afford to pay them.

             They need some incentive to do a good job ya know no countrymen left behind.