Education Today
Nov 5th, 2008 by The Outsider
Experience is a wonderful thing. We also have history books to teach us what our forefathers have learned from their experiences so we don’t have to pay the often huge price that they have paid. With that said, why are we not learning from history? The election of Barack Obama for United States president last night tells me that large segments of our society have learned little about some of the most important events of our time. African Americans seemed to have learned the least, along with many minorities and whites. By choosing Barack, free gifts were chosen over self dependency. Convenience and selfishness was chosen over the lives of the unborn. Government was chosen over the people for solutions to our problems and cowering in the face of our enemies was chosen over standing tall and fighting back. Our foreign policy with our long time allies in the Mideast was traded for snuggling up to the terrorists who want to kill our allies and us.
What motivates us to ignore the past? The greed of wanting “things”? Would we trade our freedoms for empty promises made by a man who hung out with radicals and hate America? I hardly believe we would do this intentionally. Then, how can this be? Ignorance? Greed of wanting what our neigbors have without working or paying for it and to authorize the government to do the taking for us, legalizing theft like legalizing abortion? I guess it is simple, just sign a paper and say it is ok.
Then there is the constitution to think about. What is the constitution if it isn’t the rock this country is built on? The laws that rule the government? To keep them from ruling us, the people? That document has kept us free for over 200 years because it was adhered to. What will happen to that document now that Obama is in charge? We already know Obama wants to change the intentions of the constitution from limiting the government to giving more power to the government than what the founding fathers intended. That power would make possible, for the party in control to buy votes by giving entitlements to whatever group of new people they deem to be victims, creating more dependency. Socialism is not what will grow our economy or enrich the masses, only freedom and capitalism can do that if the government gets out of the way.
The left always talks about education as they have been for the last 50 years and education has only gotten worse, as seen in our inner cities. Over 50% of all African Americans drop out of high school. Most of these uneducated end up in prison. Over 70% of all African American women have their children out of wedlock and prefer not to get married because it would hurt their entitlements. Why isn’t this problem addressed? When the conservatives want to discuss this problem, they are called uncaring and rascists but liberals claim to be compassionate instead! We know that is not true, since the problem with poverty is getting worse, not better. Crime is growing also, but nothing is done about getting to the root of the problem because race is brought into the picture again. Will Obama solve this problem? He did say he will bring us together. Will he bring the feuding countries in the mideast together? Or will he take sides? He is a smooth talker! He managed to convince many Americans he is the answer to most our problems. Experienced and educated people know the answers, or should. Government is not the answer! All our lives, we should have been taught that the government is not the answer, then maybe we would be more self reliant. We are the answer and a proper education would have taught us that.
Another important ingredient in the stability of any society is the knowing of right and wrong. This is what creates a conscience in all of us. We can not survive without it as history tells us. A conscience MUST be learned since we are not born knowing these things.
A media for the people is essential for us to make important decisions. Most people are too busy in todays world to keep up on all the things that are happening that could affect our lives in a detrimental way. Do we have this media or does the media belong to the party that they most often hobnob with? Is the media taking sides or are they being objective as they should be? Silly question! They are not controlled by the people who are watching them or buying their newspapers. They are controlled by only the left and it has done tremendous harm to all of us. Hitler would certainly be proud. He could have learned from our MSM.
Many of us know what is going on here. This didn’t start lately, it has been going on for generations and we have been cooking slowly in the proverbial pot. It’s time to come to our senses, start screaming at the media and our politicians and demand representation for OUR interests, not theirs. We can not continue on the path we are on! Obama was selected because of many people who have not been educated in our schools properly and by a government that is only interested in power by way of votes and seem to be willing to do anything to get those votes. Then they have the nerve to say they care for the poor. Only with someone elses money of course!
I’m afraid we will have to learn the hard way and Obama might just be the answer in the sense that he may motivate the remaining ones of us that are concerned about the future. We can’t change the ones that are only concerned about today or what they can get free at the cost of the things that money can’t buy like freedom. I wonder if many of us are willing to pay the price our forefathers did. How many Americans really want to continue to be the America our forefathers wanted us to be? According to the election, less than half!
The conclusion! We need to be re-educated, not indoctrinated as we have been!
“The election of Barack Obama for United States president last night tells me that large segments of our society have learned little about some of the most important events of our time. African Americans seemed to have learned the least, along with many minorities and whites.”
You must be pretty upset about the election results if you’re flirting with racism. If you have a problem with Obama supporters, then just say so. There’s no need to single out Black people as having ‘learned the least’.
“By choosing Barack, free gifts were chosen over self dependency. [etc.]”
Not everyone voted for Barack based on his policies, so this isn’t entirely true. They could have voted for him because they liked his personality, his lack of experience, or his message, or maybe they just didn’t like McCain. Of course, these are just examples.
“We already know Obama wants to change the intentions of the constitution from limiting the government to giving more power to the government […]”
While this may be true, there’s no guarantee that McCain would have done anything different. In fact, by going against Republican principles and voting for the bailout because ‘it was an emergency’, he basically guaranteed that he WOULD be willing to reduce personal freedoms as long as he could say it was for the good of the nation. Both candidates fail on this issue. ‘Give me liberty, or give me death’ indeed.
“Over 70% of all African American women have their children out of wedlock and prefer not to get married because it would hurt their entitlements.”
Nice generalization. I don’t suppose you have any supporting data?
“Another important ingredient in the stability of any society is the knowing of right and wrong.”
Are you suggesting that Obama can’t/doesn’t/won’t know the difference between right and wrong?
“[The media] are controlled by only the left and it has done tremendous harm to all of us.”
Everyone who loses an election blames the MSM, at least in part, for their loss. I should know; I myself supported an unsuccessful Republican candidate in the primary election. But the healing can only begin when you realize that maybe the media doesn’t have it in for your candidate. Because if you follow that road to it’s conclusion, you end up as a 9/11 truther or something like that.
“The conclusion! We need to be re-educated, not indoctrinated as we have been!”
You mention education several times in your post - specifically that ‘properly educated’ people (whatever THAT means) would never have voted for Obama. It’s a shame that your bitterness over the election results have driven you to libel the entire Democratic Party, or at least everyone who voted for Obama.
If you could, please write another post explaining what you mean by ‘properly educated’. How do you think people SHOULD be educated?
And a plan for re-education, and or proper education towards the tenets of the 7 Articles of the Constitution, according to the original intent of our Founding Fathers is well under way by several organizations aligned in this common cause, numbering 25 to 30 million strong across this land. They are also involved in putting the brakes on this “Real ID”, “Patriot Act”and other numerous illegal laws, both Nationally and Locally within their environs. For all of us involved for several years this is the Clarion Call to Arms” that we knew was coming, and we are actually invigorated to push forward. Our numbers are now beginning to swelling. This is a “youth movement” believe or not, so this old man feels that my 10 years of efforts are being vindicated. Keep the Faith people, “And Even This Shall Pass Away”
The Old Allentown Curmudgeon