...BUT THE HORSE ISN'T GOING TO LEARN VERY MUCH EVEN IF IT EATS IT.

Over the vast majority of my adult life I have heard the mind numbing ad phrase..IF YOU WANT A BETTER JOB, GET A BETTER EDUCATION.

As well over the vast majority of my adult life I've seen hundreds of billions of tax payer dollars pumped into education, most of it in buildings and school administrator wallets.

The biggest bucks that can be spent on any system of education isn't worth the paper its written on, if students don't show up for class, and/or if politics takes classroom control out of the hands of teachers.

I think, in my one man opinion, that one of the major reasons kids are bringing guns to school with them, which is on the news regularly nowadays, is because teachers are afraid to even try to maintain disipline in the classroom for fear of being attacked by parents and their superiors, and/or get sued if they do disipline a child, and schoolyard and classroom chaos becomes the norm.

I personally know two highschool teachers that say flat out say that they are afraid to even try to disipline one of their students out of fear of getting shot to death...how about that for a revolting to teach in educational environment atmosphere.

I never dreamed of a time in my life until about ten years ago, that schools would have their own, seperate from municipal, police forces. But its reality and not just at highschools.

Along with ripping control out of the hands of teachers, parents have also lost a major part of their control over their own children, because if mommy or daddy "spanks," the kid is just as likely as not to report them to the cops or one of the child welfare agencies as parents being abusively cruel to their child, and the parents wind up paying fines and/or both going to jail...and that happens with regularity now!

Here is another product of that "IF YOU WANT A BETTER JOB, GET A BETTER EDUCATION" has created and brought about, and one of the reasons, if not THE reason, so many aliens of ALL types are taking over farm work, construction, manufacturing, warehousing, and other similar jobs where you have to sweat.

All these U S Citizens getting those better educations and higher degrees, some of them spending over a hundred thousand bucks to get it...aren't going to go in to jobs where they earn their bread by the sweat of their brows and who can blame them, and all of this which brings up an entirely different seperate set of problems.

Jobs for higher educated people in the U S A get more scarce, which can't even help but be noticed already, this in conjunction with job offshoring, and then just who among the people that achieve all these higher degrees in education if they can't find work suitable for all their efforts to achieve higher education, are going to be willing to jump in with both feet into the sweat for a living pool to build all the new roads, highways, homes, and buildings and all the other ancillary things that facilitate our way of life. This is one of the major reasons many highly educated U S Citizens are moving to other natins to get those better jobs. This means we are not only losing citizen that could be productive right here if it were not for the greedy corporations and other greedy employers, we are also losing much of U S born and bred intellectual property products when these highly educated folks feel compelled to leave and work in foreign lands. In essence we are all being forced by the greedy in this nation to commit societic and economic suicide.

Nobody in their right mind that gets just an Associate's degree, much less a bachelors or masters degree or even higher, after taking the time and spending all the money desires to swing a pick and shovel or hammer for a living.

So who does that leave left to perform those dirty sweat of the brow jobs....and why has work ethic and work quality taken a nosedive in the past twenty years? Unless the reader is a dithering idiot they aready know why.

It's "the bottom line almighty dollar and how much of it can I get with the least amount of effort."

At some time this nation had better wise up to the fact that some of "us" will have to sweat to earn, and the employers of those who sweat to earn had damned well better wise up to the fact that they are going to have to pay much higher than survival wages to get U S Citizens to do it. If it takes unions then I say let unions thrive, until they too get too greedy as some of the unions already have.

What we are doing to ourselves in this nation is rapidly completing cutting off our own noses to spite our faces while painting ourselves into ever tighter corners and "WAKE UP" isn't close enough strong a warning people.

Not by a long shot strong enough.