Actually, Cap'n Bob, I have a hard time blaming the degradation of our
educational system and the dumbing down of society in general entirely
on politicians. I place a great deal of the responsibility for this
travesty squarely in the lap of people like Dr. Spock who led several
generations of parents to believe that it was somehow wrong to have
expectations of your kids. As a result, the attitude of parents toward
the educational system became "Don't make Johnny do things he doesn't
like, or things that are really hard to do. Also, don't make Johnny
feel bad when he cannot excel for the above reasons. It's perfectly
acceptable to be *below average*". That and a whole lot more tripe of
the same ilk. The quality of our educational system is driven more by
the oversight of parents than it is by politicians. Since parents pay
their salaries through taxes, and since they see the parents much more
often, educators respond to parents wishes far quicker than those of
politicians.
I'm not arguing that there isn't run-away political correctness in
government... Quite the contrary. As a public servant myself I see
the rot and fester daily. It ain't a purty sight, my friend! If the
general public only knew the BS that goes on within the government
bureaucracy the'd nuke everything inside the beltway and start over
again. I've been back and forth between field offices (where things
work pretty well) and the ethereal halls of bureaucratic privilege
inside the beltway for nearly 40 years and I can tell you that nothing
that is happening between Fredericksburg MD and Delaware Bay is worth
the powder to blow it to kingdom come!! Any federal agency that shows
relative efficiency does so mainly because the federal employee
minions have enough pride in their work to ignore the maniacal
dictates of the bureaucracy and instead do what they know to be right.
Obligatory LBC material:
My midget is in the garage with a busted tranny. I'm trying to figure
out how to entice Frank the Whop and the rest of the O.S.H.I.T. crowd
to pack up and come west for a few days...;-)
Cheers!!
Jim - gearless in Dodge City
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1964 R60/2 BMW
1968 MG Midget
1976 R90/6 BMW
1990 K100LT BMW
**Don't underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.**
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