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[Reggie]

Look at all of the children in Korea who are making progress learning the English language. When I was their age, foreign language classes didn't exist. Instead, I had required music classes where we would sing the theme song to The Dukes of Hazzard every day and do this song where kids in blue seats would walk around them, other kids would crawl around yellow seats, kids who had red seats would run around those, etc. Even though Spanish would've been very valuable, the public school system decided it was more important for us to be able to sing the theme song to The Dukes of Hazzard and be able to crawl around a yellow chair.

Fast forward to high school where math classes were interrupted every day for some bullcrap news program called Channel One. It would always take up something like 15 minutes of class time. In English classes, the teacher would always pop a video into the VCR and we would watch movies like Jane Eyre, Robin Hood: Prince of Theives, Hamlet, and any other movie the teacher could find to keep us preoccupied while she would leave and be out of the classroom, somewhere.... When I was a junior in high school, we had required Spanish classes, but they were too little too late. And I don't think the teacher was qualified. For example, when we were learning colors, he taught us that amarillo was pronounced the same way George Straight and everyone else pronounces Amarillo, the city in Texas, and that's totally not right! Speaking of George Straight, we watched some movie with him in it when I was in high school. I can't remember which class it was, since English wasn't the only class that would show a lot of movies. In the movie, Straight was singing some song to a lady who was crying as he sang it.

Then I went to the University of Tennessee and it was a total joke. I paid a lot of money for a piece of paper and very little education.

[Reggie]

I would like to add that we complain so much when some of the Johnny Come Latelies in America speak Spanish. Instead, maybe we should focus on the fact that we can't understand them because we're uneducated or undereducated. We really need to offer Spanish classes to all children and offer other languages in the school systems who can afford to hire the teachers.

[Reggie]

[bacasper]

[Rusty Shackleford]

[nathanrutledge]

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[Fox]

[fiveeagles]

[Fox]

[Reggie]

Officer of the law = Tax collector with a radar gun

[sarbonn]

First off, I'm not anti-Obama, or even anti-Democrats, but it is somewhat significant if you think about the implications of what this blog post is really saying. If you can cast off the partisan crap of the original posting that tries to retitle this to make it seem like non-private sector means unemployed, it is still something to think about that such a high percentage of the current administration has so little private sector experience, yet purporrts to be able to decide what is best for the private sector. That definitely causes me to have to really think about what's going on when put into that context. And that's not even going in the direction of the Obama hating population, which I'm sure loves to spin it even worse, but I find it somewhat scary to point out that it's not really that easy to make it that much worse of a condemnation.

Now, if lots of public sector experience can do the same thing, great, but I'd trust that at about the same time I'd trust people from the educational sector to solve the world's problems when they haven't lived in the world's environment for so long (and yeah, I'm from that segment, too).

[mises]

The private sector is dominated by tight deadlines, even tighter budgets and the always present risk of failure (unless you're Vampire Squid). The government worker knows no such thing. The government worker is like a little child, insulated by mommy from the real world. This is how it is. It is true that Bush stacked his admin with oligarchs, which is no better. The elite are seperated from how average people live. But a government that only knows the unlimited comfort of government will never understand what the private sector needs.

JD's and government don't create value, they transfer value. Really, that's what we have. The standard workers/owners distinction is gone. We have the class that create value and the class that transfer that value (without ownership) to themselves via the law and government. They're parasites. At least the owners pony up their own capital and take risks.

The Obama clan are nothing more than a cadre of individuals who have spent their live transferring value, without risk, to themselves.

[bassist33]

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/dec/02/glenn-beck/beck-says-less-10-percent-obama-cabinet-members-ha/

---Cembalest said he has "written 250,000 words in research over the last decade, and every single thing I've ever done -- except this one chart -- was empirically based on data from the Federal Reserve" or another official source. "This is the one time I stepped out into making judgment calls, and I assure you I won't do it again. ... The frightening thing about the Internet is that people copy one chart from what you write and then it goes viral. So I've learned a lesson here that these kinds of issues are best left addressed by the people who practice them day in and day out." ---

This is an ignorant conversation and the supposed facts being tossed around are based on lazy research. If this is the type of work that the Chief Investment Officer of one of the world's largest investment firms does, it's no wonder the financial sector was in ruins. Maybe Obama really should look for people that haven't been tainted with the ignorance and blind greed of the corporate private sector.

It's also quite amazing how these falsities were picked up by so many conservative critics out there without any fact checking. They simply picked up a chart and assumed it had to be true, and started spewing their ignorance. Then you post it here.

Nice try..