Nitwits of the world unite .. its not just a slogan anymore

What approach would you reccomend?

"Rise of the American Nitwit"
 

Remember it! Write it down! Record it! Someday you'll tell your great grandchildren you were present when elected officials, school administrators, and parents chose illiteracy and ignorance over literacy and intelligence.

Never in my 42 years have I witnessed Americans attack education with such venom, ferocity, and the macabre that they make Ted Bundy look like a stand up guy.

In Pennsylvania, Governor Corbett took a chainsaw to education and defunded higher education with such vicious precision--even Leather Face would have found it heart wrenching to watch.

But Governor Corbett is one of many elected officials that provide the wealthy and corporations with free-bees and tax breaks while stripping the middle class, working poor, and poor of much needed services all the while having the audacity to say we must all sacrifice. What are you sacrificing, Sir?

I said this before--education should never be laid on the operating table of budget cuts, pure and simple. Yet, education and social service programs are always the first to be devoured by elected officials with such apathy that it would've made Jeffrey Dahmer become a vegetarian.

As we continue to see the rise of the "American Nitwit" and the demise of the Republic's once love affair for scholarship, our nation continues to resemble the poor man's version of Europe's Dark Ages.


"Progressives will bring balance to the Republic."
Anthony P. Johnson

Free bees for the wealthy and corporations? That will be news to my friend with apiary experience.

Corporate Tax Evasion

'Farmers' such as Tom Cruise get tax break- MSN Money

These might not be specifically about PA but its part and parcel of whats going on.

Go See "Waiting for Superman"

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The majority of us are already nitwits.

I thought the bees were dying. How can they afford to give them away?

Let's throw more money at the problem. $36,000 per student works in Asbury Park... oh wait, it doesn't.

Education does cost money.

Of course, but throwing more money at a broken system doesn't fix the problem.

Indeed, but taking away the money, by itself, doesn't fix the problem either.

Unfortunately none of these education budget crises have had anything to actually do with education, only with who gets the money.

Unfortunately, the education budgets have become so bloated over the years because people assumed that the problem was that they weren't funded correctly. They already threw money at the problem, so now since it obviously didn't work, we don't need to fund at those levels. It is basically hitting the restart button by undoing the damage to the budget and taking a new approach.

I don't know.

By the way, people who own apiaries hate it when you call honey "bee barf."

Just like brewers hate it when I call beer "yeast urine"?

Well, bees really do regurgitate honey.

And yeast really does excrete alcohol. God is great indeed.

Yeah, but is urination the best description of how yeast excretes alcohol? Or might it be...?

Shouldn't they take a new approach before cutting funding?

Oh, they do that other thing too. During fermentation, there is a giant frothy brown scum on the top of the brewing beer. Brewers call it krausen, but in real life, it's yeast farts.

That's a real buzz kill.