I'd say that the jury is still out on this. It will be hard for us to continue to economically dominate China forever. They have almost unlimited low wage laborers and don't care how much they pollute or violate human rights.
On the flip side, we could probably maintain dominance longer if we were more protective of our intellectual property rights, less naive about their intentions, and were more proactively engaged in creating a highly skilled, highly educated technological workforce.
The republicans give lip service to this but apparently don't like to fund schools or universities.
For the most part, I agree with you. The school system needs an entire overhaul, IMO. We keep funding the schools more and more and it doesn't help with the educational outcome. Something is broken and no politician wants to fix it.
Oh, no doubt the schools share some blame , but at the core we have to blame the American people.
It is THEY who have led the decline. How can a school educate anyone without the ability to enforce their rules to ensure some aren't disrupting the process, just for starters.
Yet, what happens if a kid is suspended or expelled, or heaven forbid, paddled? The parents scream bloody murder..
Back in my day the teachers were encouraged to whoop that ass if a student deserved it, and not only that the kid got another one when they got home.
But today we have parents hurling obscenities at cops who pull them over for speeding teaching children by example that authority is irrelevant and that the only thing that matters is what each person wants at the moment.
The parents have expected the school system to raise their children for them and the results have been nothing short of disasterous. I am fully in agreement with your stating who is to blame. The American people. Yes.
It is us who have failed here to do our duty as parents, as citizens, as defenders of true, liberty, justice and have become far too complacent in every aspect of life. It seems to me the american people have become spectators rather than realizing their collective responsibility to keep this great nation on the course our founding fathers established for us!
The wisdom of our founding fathers is truly remarkable. There is nothing wrong with our Constitution or our bill of rights. What is wrong is our failure to teach our children these documents and the meaning and importance of understanding what America was founded upon and why! Those who teach our children and influence our children have the control to the future of America.
I don't believe the American people truly understand what living under a Communist nation such as North Korea would be like. The word communist / marxist / socialist has somehow become cool and fashionable in America because it denotes a government free of the restraints of the ten commandments, the bible, any religious influence perhaps? I cannot say for certain what has led them to such an idea.
We cannot blame one person, one individual or group or even political party for what has become of America! It is far greater than that. But what we can do is examine these claims about Karl Marx and meet the real Karl Marx few have yet to realize! After all isn't that what is being touted as the "change" America needs? The new America - the progressive move to something better? Better? Let us examine what "better" looks like first, shall we?
Karl Marx was a Jew who converted to Christianity and later to Satanism. He was a high priest that led black masses and his own son addressed him as Dear Devil in his letters which a missionary I support had gathered and proven Marx was invoved in!
His grave at Highgate Cemetary in Europe is a regular meeting sight to this very day for satanists who believe they can obtain powers by visiting his grave.
All satanists have one thing in common. They have lives ravaged personal lives and Marx is a perfect example of it. Arnold Kunzli wrote a book, Karl Marx - A Phycho-gram, and writes about Marx's life, including the suicide of two daughters and a son-in-law. Three children died of malnutrition. His daughter Laura, married to a Socialist Lafargue, also buried her three children, then she and her husband commited suicide together!
Another daughter of Karl Marx, Eleanor, decided with her husband to commit suicide. She died and he backed out at the last minute. Karl Marx felt no obligation to provide for his own family by earning a living. He could have easily done so as he had a tremendous knowledge of languages. But he chose to live his life as a parasite begging off of Engels.
He had an illegitimate child by his maidservant, Helen Duluth. He nicknamed her "Tussy". He drank heavily and was a drunk. Riazanov, director of the Marx - Engels Institute in Moscow, admits this fact in his book Karl Marx, Man, Thinker and Revolutionist. "Tussy" was Karl Marx's favorite daughter. When she learned of the scandal of illegitimacy from his friend, Engels, she took her own life therein becoming yet another of his children who took their own life.
To expose him for the hypocrite he truly was one must look at his railing against Capitolists in his "Communist Manifesto" when he says "having the wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal. As an adulterer himself this was the height of hypocrisy, was it not?
Such hypocrisy was not at all out of character for Karl Marx. Nor is it out of character for his followers today! Stalin said that no one knew the real Karl Marx and by this he meant they didn't have a clue as to Marx's involvment in satanism ( Stalin was also a satanist ) and didn't know how artfully deceptive Marx could be!
As to his ethics and integrity? He didn't have any! Marx lusted after other peoples money. Mainly through inheritance. There are documented letters in his own handwriting to Engels ( his friend ) telling him how he could not wait until the dog died so that he could be out of his financial troubles ( which were never ending ) and who was this dog? In a letter of March 8, 1855 he makes clear it is his wifes 90 yr old uncle. His wife will receive the money and he cannot wait to get his greedy hands on it!
In 1863 Karl Marx wrote to Engels that his own mother had died and it was about time as fate needed to take her! Why?? He was out of money! This was all he had to say about his own mothers passing.
As for his wife? She didn't fair any better. He didn't attend either of their funerals! Imagine a man who didn't even attend the funeral of his own mother! All he wanted was the money and couldn't wait to see her go. Yes. This is the heart of Karl Marx. Black as pitch.
Yet look at the way he is presented in our schools, our colleges, our universities! All of this information is available through careful research but it would not benefit a Marxist professor to tell of this side of the man. The true nature of the man. And therein it has been hidden well from the History books and lessons inside the Universities and colleges of America. Just one more reason we have failed as a nation. We did not recognize the enemy within our gates. - Jeremiah
