What? Me worry. The government is in charge.

We are facing an educational crisis in our country of pandemic proportions. Accordingly, we may want to occasionally unstrap ourselves from the figurative thermonuclear catapults of our government educations, because this is not what you think and, fortunately, won't include any gratuitous boosts to your precious self-esteem(!)

The education we are in the process of receiving is a timeless, harsh reality; greed, and laziness, an ill brew by themselves, combined with ineptitude creates a dangerous and self-perpetuating chain reaction.
Unlike what we faced prior to the Great Depression, however, this perfect storm is foundational and unprecedented in our history, not the financial unraveling which predicated October 29, 1929.

How long can our foundering economy and home-grown labor markets expect to absorb the seasonal harvest of societal flotsam produced in abundance by our self-serving educational bureaucracy. When did learning to read, write and converse fluently in English become tertiary to just showing-up and assuring 'no child left behind'?
Having once been a child, and knowing a few in my time, I can assure you; some of them need to be left behind(!)

Well, here we are, and who knew?
The hamsters, (or gerbils, for those that choose to swing that way) that run in the little wheel powering the economic engine have finally come home to roost...if you'll pardon the mixed metaphors. The immediacy of wants and needs of generations who've been taught money does indeed grow at the tree of the ATM, actions today don't really have consequences later, and no matter how bad things get, there will always be someone wealthier and therefore of greater visibility on whom you can blame your insidious woes.

Watch carefully now, as Fed Chairman Bernanke ponders yet another rate cut in an ever escalating spiral downward. He is desperately chasing the inevitable, trying to stabilize credit, and hence, equity markets built not on productivity but on overheated, irrational speculative exuberance. But, never mind all that because we have our on-board DVD's, McMansions and political correctness. What could possibly go wrong?

In a productive society or sustainable civilization, as in general accounting theory, assets must equal liabilities. For far too long we have been padding the wrong side of the balance sheet.
If an entitlement mentality combined with insolence and a keen knowledge of "American Idol" can be considered assets, then we're on the right track.
As if this weren't enough to convince you, we now have Senator 'wide-stance',
'Larry ToiletHands' out in, of all places, Idaho(!)
I couldn't make-up this kind of material...well, maybe I could.
Perhaps it's time for Sen Craig to 'reach-out' to his constituency....uh, I mean maybe Craig should put this disgrace 'behind' him. ....OK, that's enough.

And while we're on that track, put your head back in the sand, because that train coming around the bend has a "Made in China" stamp right in clear view. DR