What are our priorities?
In a recent question about President Bush’s contributions, someone brought up No Child Left Behind. Americans always point to the fact that we lag behind in education. Depending on your source, Americans rank 14th-18th worldwide in scientific knowledge and general literacy. We very seldom hear about other rankings that reflect quality of life issues like we are 37th in health care systems and there are 44 other countries with smaller infant mortality rates. We spend less on social programs than almost any industrialized nation. Tell me what really are our priorities?
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God, Family, Neighbor, Self
The priorities of the powerful I think are these: 1. to weaken the American population by educating them on religious issues, not scientific issues 2. to degrade the public education system thus bifurcating the population into 2 main groups: the educated wealthy, and the uneducated poor 3. to evicerate the middle class by degrading middle class access to education. 4. creating a mass population of retail workers who are too poor and undeducated to participate in a Democracy. 5. perpetuate hog-like consumerism of cheap Walmart Style Chinese made crap.
SCOTTY, BEAM ME UP—NOW SCOTTY, NOW!
More money, more power, more, more, more…
It’s so hard to decide what the order of our priorities should be. There are so many pressing issues. It seems to me that healthcare reform and tackling the issue of poverty would naturally improve our education stats in the long run. The less one worries about living and dying, the more one can concentrate on ‘silly’ things…like Algebra.
Personal priorities: help my family get through this depression; support legislation that works in favor of long run solutions to social and economic problems, not just band-aids; increase the standard of living of all people; I am more of a world view person.
I firmly believe the infant mortality rate is caused by the lack of universal health care in this country, along with alcoholism and drug addiction.
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