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Originally Posted by The Unfan
I both agree and disagree. The government should help the basic education of its people to allow them to be fully functional in the modern world. That is to say up through high school.
True, but the strength of the dollar is tied to the economy. If the economy plummits so does the dollar. If the dollar plummits it isn't necesarily true for the economy. America's national debt plus out sourcing putting money in other countries is damaging the national economy (although probably good for global economy) and the that is at least partially why the value of the dollar is declining.
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My apologies on my dysfunctional grammar, perhaps that’s a call for more schooling right there.
Well the problem with the basic level of education, and I don’t know how standardized this is, but its not exactly basic. I don’t need Algebra II or Chemistry to honestly function out there in the world. The bases on which those two disciplines are built I would, I think biology and geometry have a function, but those aforementioned classes exist on the basis of academic continuation, they imply you’ll go on to a collegiate education.
At least here in Massachusetts we tend to teach to tests, or do tremendous amounts of prep work for college, and there too much injected into what otherwise should be fundamental bases of education.
A function standard I agree with, but when Ron Paul calls for its dismantling, I can see why he’d do it. We have taxes and laws that combine to create a piss poor education that they could get at a Public Library.
As for the strength of there U.S. currency, I’m certain it’s an engineered move to decrease trade surpluses but the problem with supply-side economics in a first world nation is that they long ago made the move to a service industry, and without industrial production sector making vital supplies, what could people possibly buy from us? A day at the spa? Self-help courses? We need to get the farmers back to work and start building more industries around basic needs.