The 1950s/60s

[Mate27]

"All these subjects were taught in the public school system I went to in the 50's and 60's the NYC school system. From Industrial arts to all the basic science math all the way to history, civics and languages English and Spanish, P.E. everyday. Also living skills classes : how to balance a check book to managing money, Art with visits to Museums and Music (we even had Beverly and Robert Merrill visit the school and sing an operetta ) When we enter college we were prepared . Also Shop classes Metal wood, graphic arts and drafting"



Sorry... But this isn't the 1950s or the 1960s.

Today the politicians don't give a fuck, its the job of US, to give a fuck, since the politicians don't want to.


They hand over control of the education system, to teachers unions.

They buy swimming pools, bodybuilding gym equipment, sports equipments, expensive commercial vehicles, arcade equipment, vending machines, suburban campuses, you name it..
How is that helping the kids ?
it isn't.. infact, this kind of stuff has been purchased by several schools, and it caused grades to become worse.

They cut the student's school day by hours....

They got rid of the dress codes that teach social skills...

They're playing board games... fucking BOARD GAMES and call it geography... board games, are you fucking serious ? lol I am... fucking BOARD GAMES.. and call it geography.



There are several other governmental differences between today and the 1960s.


The government used to ban aluminum from being used to make cars, what happened ?
They don't give a fuck about your safety... use aluminum, and die, we don't care, says the Government.

The supermarkets are loaded with Genetically Modified soylent green shit from Monsanto.

Guns being sold in pawn shops, guns being sold at grocery stores, guns being sold at gas stations.
The government don't give a fuck.


GM, Chrysler, and Ford used to hire Americans as recently as the 1950s and 1960s..
What happened ?

The government don't give a fuck.. is what happened.

Nafta, outsourcing jobs, allowing imports to be sold here competitively with our own work...
Government don't give a fuck.

Coca cola used to be made with natural sugar, and caramel, and flavorings...
Today its Corn Syrup FROM genetically modified corn.

The Government don't give a fuck.



So you cannot compare the 1950s and the 1960s, to today, it don't work.

 

[Mr. H.]

I'm just as angry as you at what our education system has become.

I've spoken to many teachers, active and retired. I explain what a corrupt and inept environment that schools have become. They are fraught with nepotism, cronyism, favoritism...

...and without exception - everyone just nods their heads "yes".

That's not to say there aren't truly good teachers out there, because there are. My wife was one of them. But rather than grant her tenure, she was fired to make room for the friends and relatives of the administrators.

These personnel care about themselves first, and then the children.

 

[Tuatara]

Coca cola used to be made with natural sugar, and caramel, and flavorings...
Today its Corn Syrup FROM genetically modified corn.

The Government don't give a fuck.

You can thank Richard Nixon for that. The government implemented that.

The story begins in 1971. Richard Nixon was facing re-election. The Vietnam war was threatening his popularity at home, but just as big an issue with voters was the soaring cost of food. If Nixon was to survive, he needed food prices to go down, and that required getting a very powerful lobby on board -- the farmers. Nixon appointed Earl Butz, an academic from the farming heartland of Indiana, to broker a compromise. Butz, an agriculture expert, had a radical plan that would transform the food we eat, and in doing so, the shape of the human race.

Butz pushed farmers into a new, industrial scale of production, and into farming one crop in particular: corn. U.S. cattle were fattened by the immense increases in corn production. Burgers became bigger. Fries, fried in corn oil, became fattier. Corn became the engine for the massive surge in the quantities of cheaper food being supplied to American supermarkets: everything from cereals, to biscuits and flour found new uses for corn. […]

By the mid-70s, there was a surplus of corn. Butz flew to Japan to look into a scientific innovation that would change everything: the mass development of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), or glucose-fructose syrup as it's often referred to in the UK, a highly sweet, gloppy syrup, produced from surplus corn, that was also incredibly cheap. HFCS had been discovered in the 50s, but it was only in the 70s that a process had been found to harness it for mass production. HFCS was soon pumped into every conceivable food: pizzas, coleslaw, meat. It provided that "just baked" sheen on bread and cakes, made everything sweeter, and extended shelf life from days to years.

Blame Nixon for the obesity epidemic - Los Angeles Times