deadly force authorized against police in Indiana

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Clad, sitting around bitching about education being the root of all our problems is no more effective or accurate than blaming bankers, lawyers, blacks or illegals. Our problem isn't that education is worse; in fact, statistics support exactly the opposite, that the average American gets a progressively higher education with every generation. Our problem is that at some point we left democracy behind in favor of capitalism. Responsible self-sufficiency and civic spirit was replaced with greed and grasping. It was enough once for a family to make an honest dollar, but we've been fed so many commercials and sales pitches about what we have to have to make us happy that now we strive to make ALL the dollars. That's an unsustainable system. As for our leaders: as long as we have designed a hiring process for our elected leaders that focuses on sound bites, popularity contests and pandering for votes, we're going to keep electing guys (or gals) who are only really good at pandering. You get what you ask for.

I agree mostly in fact and entirely in principle.

I do disagree with one thing though and that's that Americans are better educated now. It now takes 17 years of school to almost match what used to be learned in 12.