Damned right! The public schools are terrible, and even getting worse. Home schooling and private, for profit schools are the best. The entire ’free’ public school idea is a disaster. Nothing is free. Public schools have gobbled up taxpayer dough for over a century, and have provided nothing, just like welfare has not alleviated poverty. Before public schooling, kids were far more literate and educated. Welfare and public anything, is sure to end up at zero achievement and huge cost. Or do you like public rest rooms and public housing? But that’s not the point of this.
I have just read a book which all should read, and it is “China Inc.” by Ted Fishman. GET IT. The book is going to be the subject of at least one, and maybe a lot more Gold Eagle columns, but this basic point is unavoidable, and that is schools, which are only briefly mentioned in the book. One statistic in the book is that in 2004, 400,000 American jobs were exported overseas. Shocking? Of course, and especially since the D.C. Gang’s BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) said that only a fifth as many were exported. (They lie about everything). What was exported? Not college professors or industrial designers, but factory workers. Blue collar workers’ jobs who used to make our shoes, shirts and sheets were exported. Did they have great educations? Hell no! Are those poorly educated workers, who used to make decent wages, the ones who are now suffering? Yes! So what if the schools are terrible? If it weren’t for the D.C. Gang cutting tariffs on everything, and Wal Mart beginning the whole thing, which I will point out in a column, we would not be in the mess we are now in, regardless of the poor schools. If an honest, hard working, poorly educated, slob works in a factory, likes his work, raises his kids well, lives a decent life, and he loses his job to the Chinese, who cares about the schools? The schooling wasn’t the problem. It was his lost job that was the problem. Lost jobs can be directly traced to eliminating tariffs which used to protect us from 40 cent an hour Chinese labor with no benefits, and abominable working conditions. Every time you buy something made in China, you are participating in the degradation of the American worker and economy. Yes, Chinese stuff is cheap, but we are exporting a trillion dollars worth of our capital and hundreds of thousands of jobs every year to China. Buying Chinese cheap, may eventually make China build factories here and hire workers for low wages, to save shipping and remaining tariffs, which is exactly what Wal Mart has done in the retail field. No one can live on Wal Mart wages, and they won’t be able to live on cheap wages paid by Chinese factories here either. If they don’t build factories here, after we have exported all our capital and jobs, we won’t be able to buy anything…even from China, as we will be officially broke, not just actually, as we now are. Think about it, try to avoid Chink stuff, and have a great weekend.