Education will lift all boats!

How can anyone not understand that investing in and improving the education of all will have the mutiple positive effects of increasing the nation's overall intelligence and ability to compete on the world stage, increasing overall incomes, increasing total taxes collected in the aggregate as more people will be working and for higher wages, reducing crime as more people will make more money at the same time reducing payments for welfare, children born out of wedlock, and familes abandoned by one parent or another?

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Posted on May 23rd, 2007 2:39pm

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David R Whalen said…: In his book "War on the Middle Class", Lou Dobbs states the foundation of democracy is the middle class. I disagree. We didn't have a large middle class until after WWII, yet we did good for about 150 years. If not the foundation, edducation is the cornerstone of democracy.
It's the solution to world poverty.
The way out of the ghetto.
Imperative for competing in a Global Economy.
A stabilizer for conflict between nations.
My staff's credentials for the book are heavy in this field. We fell that if we wanted to sabotage the education system in this country we could not do a better job than our current leaders are doing.

David R Whalen said…: In his book "War on the Middle Class", Lou Dobbs states the foundation of democracy is the middle class. I disagree. We didn't have a large middle class until after WWII, yet we did good for about 150 years. If not the foundation, edducation is the cornerstone of democracy.
It's the solution to world poverty.
The way out of the ghetto.
Imperative for competing in a Global Economy.
A stabilizer for conflict between nations.
My staff's credentials for the book are heavy in this field. We fell that if we wanted to sabotage the education system in this country we could not do a better job than our current leaders are doing.