It's interesting to hear President Obama lament the decrease in entrepreneurial spirit and the decrease in industriousness to create and make things. It's interesting because the progressive agenda has everything to do with that.
One of the root causes of what finally(!) concerns President Obama is the stagnation in K-12 education that began the day that progressives breathed life into the federal department of education whose charter was to control K-12 education. In the past 30 years since the federal department of education was created our kids' scores in math, science and reading have gone from best to worst among developed nations. 30 years of experimentation with old math, new math, open classrooms, closed classrooms, tenure, huge increases in teacher pay and compensation, etc, etc, unfettered by conservative interference has produced exactly what? Maybe because we don't understand math and logic any longer we're too stupid to add 2 to 2 and get 4. We're incapable of connecting dots and making rational objective judgements why we're in this pickle because we've been dumbed down by that very system.
With these education results, is it any wonder that both our desire and ability to analyze, innovate, create, and build has decreased? A Harvard graduate ought to be able to figure this out. It's not too complicated.
Too many of you (mostly under 50 years old) don't remember our national discussions about the loss of industry. We were beginning to lose our lead in steel and other metal industries, auto industries, appliance industry, and many, many others. We conservatives became alarmed and the progressive political class patronizingly told us "yeah, we're losing those but don't worry because we'll do fine shifting from a manufacturing-based economy to one based on the service industry".
When was the last time any president promoted high tech or industry as a genuine national policy that he actively pursued? Remember what happened when President Kennedy challenged us to get to the moon before Russia did? That national call to arms helped promote one of the greatest expansions of interest in those areas that now concern Obama.
Obama is lamenting this loss but what is he doing about it? Nothing. In fact, he can't do anything about it because what needs to be done pretty much requires thinking and action that's the opposite of the progressive agenda. He doesn't know what caused it, much less how to fix it.
Where's the national inspiration/leadership to excel in school? "Programs" alone won't do it and in fact haven't.
Where's the national inspiration/leadership to be personally responsible for one's life and success?
Where's the national inspiration/leadership to control one's impulses? Instant gratification (on a personal level and by politicians who want our votes more than they want a healthy economy) has been running amok and caused national and personal debt we have no choice(!) but to pass on to future generations. This is not just 'unfortunate'. It's sick!
Where's the national inspiration to work in the private sector versus the public sector? (One sector produces all the things that sustain a vibrant economy; the other only sucks the vitality/life out of the economy.) Work in the public sector is noble. Work in the private sector is only okay if you promise not to become successful and become one of the 'evil rich'. (So why do it?) Work in the public sector where you're guaranteed a job regardless of your performance versus work in the private sector where you actually have to work hard ... every day ... and run the risk of losing your job if you goof up even once. Work in the public sector and have a guaranteed retirement at your ending salary or work in the private sector where there are no guarantees. Security regardless of work ethic and performance versus having to work hard simply to keep your job much less get any pay increase.
In one breath President Obama blasts the successful rich as inherently bad. In the next he laments why there's not more people with the motivation to become as successful as they possibly can. The lack of logic in that is breath-taking!
Bigger government made to control increasingly large amounts of our lives and our industry results in decreased quality of both. It's a historical and logical truth. So, it's 'interesting' to hear President Obama lamenting what progressives have been going about destroying for the past hundred years. We conservatives have been telling you for at least 40 years this would happen if they continued doing this. Now progressives want us to help pay for their bad ideas and choices that were poorly thought out. And progressives wonder why the TEA Party got so much traction?
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