"The report found that only 54% of college graduates can correctly identify a free enterprise system as one in which individual citizens create, exchange, and control goods and services.Of course, this statistic reflects the civic understanding of college graduates. Those without a college degree fare even worse"
And, even better, our "leaders" are not even that smart:
"Most damning of all, perhaps, is that self-identified elected officials score lower on average than the general public. So not only are our politicians illiterate in matters of political history and economics, they are less knowledgeable than the already lamentably ill-informed average citizen. Fifty-four percent do not know that the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. They tested worse than everyone else in the subjects of First Amendment freedoms, international trade, abortion, and many more. "The blind leading the blind" has never seemed more appropriate."
In the past, when I've said that I doubt lawmakers have ever read the Constitution, I was making a snarky point, not speaking literally. Apparently, however, it appears I was speaking the literal truth. Boy, there's some cold comfort.
Every single sphere of life in which Liberals/Leftists have control is in ruin. And obviously, one of them is EDUCATION.
We are so fucked.
Read the Joseph Lawler article, Civically Illiterate.
The Gunslinger
I've been banned from NPR blogging.
ReplyDeleteI spoke on too high an intellectual level. It hurt their brains.
All the same, a large percentage of Obama voters (over forty percent of Americans) pay no federal income tax.
They pay no federal income tax because they not only do not work, they know nothing about how to run a business.
And these are the voters who somehow fantasize they know what's the best route to saving the American economy.
In the meantime, in between time, those of us who have some savvy need to hunker down for the bad road ahead.
The poor will suffer a lot more than we will..........fred call
Sorry to hear,"marcy",tho I'm not surprised.Too many of the spineless dweebs commenting on NPR that I checked out are the usual so-called "intellectuals" who do not THINK for themselves,they just recite pablum.They know not how precarious their spoiled little lives are,or what enemies we are dealing with.I'm hunkered.ANYWAY...I took that test,just missed 2 questions (I answered "Life,Liberty,and Pursuit of Profit" on one of them,just because it was the original statement,and I rushed thru the damned thing (my bad!).I watched C-SPAN in the 90s...THAT clued me in on how stupid our Congress is/has been for awhile.Tho reading Brookhiser's bio on Governeur Morris (and other tomes) evidenced to me that morons/hacks have been with us from the very beginning.It's amazing America lasted this long.Didn't Marx (or Engels) say the key to capitalist down-fall was in "re-(or de-) educating the young? Our (Tennessee)Governor wants to further strengthen "pre-k" budget,tho studies show dat shit don't help one damn bit.Jeez,why not just take 'em directly from the womb into Gov't. "care"?!? I think we're turning Chinese,I really think so...
ReplyDeleteI'm beginning to wonder that the entire world must be catatonic.
ReplyDeleteMost every other country is more catatonic than America.
Which explains how America has survived. Russiams and Chinese are more catatonic than our average citizens.
Which brings us back to the Illuminati Equation. You don't have to be intelligent if you are a billionaire.
America has traditionally had the most numbers of billionaires.
Russia is catching up with their numbers of billionaires.
I suppose a handful of billionaires can successfully run either America or Russia.
They let the masses bounce off each other like a thousand million ping-pong balls set off by a thousand million rat traps.......fred call
PS...I'm not yet letting NPR get away with it. I just resigned up under a different email addy and stuck it to them.
I don't take rejection lightly.
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"How long am I supposed to fight this war?"
"Don't worry. The war has been going on for two thousand years. It can't last much longer."
Don't Mess With the Zohan.
A word about the Capitalist system:
ReplyDeleteThe Liberal Socialist Democrats are announcing that Capitalism is dead in America.
Meanwhile, in Europe and many other parts of the world where countries have experimented with Socialism, they are going back to Capitalism.
Because throughout history, Economic Socialism has failed time and time again.
Now, what does this mean to American investors?
Well, American investors will invest less in a Socialist America and more in a Capitalist overseas market.
What's that sucking sound of money leaving the country in large droves again?.......
To "marcy","fredcall","VanDo..":what's the new name? Tho I suspect when I surf NPR,I may come across the answer.I admire your tenacity,just don't have the time right now.If I may presume...tis the right tactic.Shake the cages on blogosphere,upset the Smug Ones!
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