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jack8007 -> RE: Don't criticize the educatonal system or students (2/19/2011 12:17:46 PM)
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So why then do you defend thoughtless people, when somebody stands up and calls them?
Thoughtless people have the same right of free speech as anybody - but they don't have the right to be free of criticism. Indeed, if we do not point out obvious errors, and we accept them as worthwhile, we endanger our country. And I think that's a bigger risk than hurt feelings or general bad vibes.
If anybody wants to make the point that the educational system has failed, the best argument is to point to those leaders who don't believe that thinking about what we're doing is worthwhile - and the people who elect them.
And I'm particularly thinking of the president and his party who told the CIA that they had covered their ass when they warned in August 2001 that Al Qaeda was determined to strike in the US, and ignored FBI warnings of flight students who didn't want to learn to land, and ignored strategy games using aircraft as bombs, and ignored the fact that the WTC had been attacked before - because they knew that blowjobs in the Oval Office were way more important.
So they put us in a couple wars (one of which had NO connection to 9/11 - oops!) (and just guess how much wars cost? To begin with, I saw an ad yesterday to pay Arabic translators more than a general officer, and that doesn't begin to count the beans, bullets, bandages & fuel oil) that we still have no clue about ending - and then they let Wall Street go all Enron, and told us (truthfully) that they had us by the balls, and we had to bail them out. Yes, they had us by the balls, but welfare isn't socialistic if you're paying corporations, because corporations aren't real people. We wouldn't want to be socialists like the Swedes - much rather have a population of dentally-challenged diabetics without health care. Because they're FREE - free to be abused by their whoring politicians.
And so all we hear about is liberals and socialists, and no matter what you think about a teacher's free speech, it's always the liberals and socialists - specifically the people who want to look before we leap - who are to blame. What a liberal socialistic thing to do, asking where all the lemmings are headed!
And that is why the Democrats will never amount to anything - they have no ambition. All they want is to fuck a couple interns, while the Republicans are determined to fuck the entire country - and I will grant, they have done a pretty good job so far.
THAT's how our country got screwed up. We were doing fine until we let the Religious Right vote Wall Street's stooges in, and now we're in an EPIC, Guinness-Book-of-World-Records mess. The Romans lasted what (depending on how you count) around a millenium, maybe 2 - but here we are, trying all this democracy stuff we're so proud of, and we may not make it 300 years. Whose fault is that?
Yeah, let's blame the teachers. And let's find some Mexicans selling oranges on the freeway onramps, and blame them too. Hell, they're the ones who should have known not to believe what Goldman Sachs was selling, it's all their fault. Can't blame the people in charge - the educational system failed them. We can't expect leaders who actually do what they want everybody else to - like actually do military service - because they have other priorities! like the proles don't.
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