Obama is hitting all of the right sound bites so far. I am expecting the president to soon announce a big push toward reforming education in America.
If he would listen to his own speech, he would realize what needs to be done.
The so-called crisis in education has come as a result of providing tax breaks to businesses to send jobs overseas, then we begin talking about how American workers are not educationally equipped to adjust to the changes in the workplace that were caused by policies that favored stockholders over the general public.
This emphasis on get-rich-quick has also seen many of the best and brightest, who might have become scientists or mathematicians in the past, become financiers so they can make a big killing and retire early.
Those people are the ones who are reaping the large bonuses from the same kind of machinations that have left this country in the financial condition in which it is in today.
We will hear tonight, I would guess, about how far America is trailing other countries in math and reading.
That lie has been propagated for years, so many times that even reasonable people have begun believing it. We are behind other countries, because the United States of America is the only country that makes a serious attempt to educate every child, no matter what the child's background, no matter if the child has a mental, physical, or emotional handicap. All of our children are competing against countries who steer most of their children away from the schools and into the workforce from an early age.
Obama is beginning the educational part of his speech now.
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