justin_o_guy2 wrote on 10/17/15 at 20:28:49:Ray, listen to the interviews. Nowhere did I say
All think alike.
Though, much effort is spent convincing the kids that they are the freest, have the best schools and opportunity. We spend more for less in education and medical than plenty of places.
You're smart. Please, just spend some time listening to her. IF she opens your eyes, then check out
Confessions/Economic Hit Man
JOG, my observation was in hoping to show whatever they reach it is not, complete, or in total.
Even minds of young mush, come away with different perceptions of what they heard.
Schools use to teach the necessities, now they try and teach to the voids of society, which is constantly changing and offers nothing that is really marketable. You couple that with a merging world market, and workforce, and our children are sorely equipped to compete, and requires more assistants from our government to provide for them, what we use to be able to provide for ourselves.....
Now, I don't believe this was by design, as even a socialist minded person could see its not sustainable.
If we could back track a few decades and see how Johnson created the Great Society, here is just a brief outline:
The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. The main goal was the elimination of poverty and racial injustice. President Johnson first used the term "Great Society" during a speech at Ohio University, then unveiled the program in greater detail at an appearance at University of Michigan. New major spending programs that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, and transportation were launched during this period. The program and its initiatives were subsequently promoted by him and fellow Democrats in Congress in the 1960s and years following. The Great Society in scope and sweep resembled the New Deal domestic agenda of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Some Great Society proposals were stalled initiatives from John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. Johnson's success depended on his skills of persuasion, coupled with the Democratic landslide in the 1964 election that brought in many new liberals to Congress, making the House of Representatives in 1965 the most liberal House since 1938.
Anti-war Democrats complained that spending on the Vietnam War choked off the Great Society. While some of the programs have been eliminated or had their funding reduced, many of them, including Medicare, Medicaid, the Older Americans Act and federal education funding, continue to the present. The Great Society's programs expanded under the administrations of Republican presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.Note the liberal landslide of the 1964 elections. This was a departure of governance into a more liberal one, where feelings trumped reasoning....
The idea and its goals were wonderful and just, who could argue otherwise?
However, as evidenced by the social/civil matters that still plague, and consume, so much of our dialogue and resources, it would be fair to say it never realized its lofty goals.
Why is that?
Who could argue against nirvana for all mankind?
Well, I believe it is a simple misunderstanding by so many who think with their emotions, instead of their heads.
To change a persons heart, you can make laws, or teach otherwise, but it will never become accepted.
Not only that, it will have the exact opposite effect from what was the original goal, inclusion of and for all.....
Who has the capacity to accept those who differ than themselves, and not feel challenged, or the need to correct those in "error"?
Who?
Who really understands tolerance, and lives by its meaning?
Who?
Who does not believe their views/beliefs are just, and opposing, lacking?
JOG buddy, this riddle is as old as mankind, even the apostles walking along side Jesus, bickered over these very issues and needs of self....
I must think inside Jesus was smiling to himself, as the folly of mankind must have tickled him, as do our children, in their ignorance of youth, sit on Santa Clauses lap telling him of their desires and wishes
The end is written, it was from the beginning.
The best that I can do is accept it, knowing I lack the capacity to wrap any TRUE understanding about it......
Sorta like a Thanksgiving feast.
I see the meal in front of me.
I smell its wonderful aromas.
I know as fact, it will satisfy my hunger....
However,
If I try to gobble it up in one bite,
I will succumb to the knowledge that I can't
Ah.....such is life, live on until its done amigo