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Most people will agree, (even the poorly educated), that cutting funds to education is not the way to go. The future of the country lies in our youth, and denying them a well rounded education only guarantees future decline, not only in standards of living, but in our ability to deal with any future crises that are sure to come our way.
Seeing the willingness of government to slash education funds leads us to form the opinion that
1) They are exceptionally ignorant people, mistakenly put in office by equally ignorant voters.
2) They really couldn’t give a damn about the constituency, and are more concerned with personal gain. Or:
3) The lowering of educational standards is their goal, as a poorly educated citizenry is easier to manage through deceit.

Slashing funding to education is not the intelligent way to go, instead access to education should be made freely available to anyone, regardless of financial status, who has the willingness to learn.
We have no qualms dishing out billions to aid the financial institutions whose very nature of greed is the cause of today’s trouble, and yet in the same package we deny the education to our youth that may help prevent a future occurrence of economic collapse.

Profit is fine, excess profit at all cost, is nothing more than greed. Perhaps we can find a way to enlighten the greedy to the fact that the long running trend of, greed above all else, is decidedly un-patriotic. Maybe we can get the corporations to compete on who is doing the most to help in these hard times. Today the companies just lay off workers to maintain profit margins, profits that only secure their personal paychecks and bonuses. Let the CEO's start tightening their belts as a show of patriotism, their marketing department can probably get some good mileage out of that. There really is no point in telling the average American working class to tighten their belt, we’ve been doing that for years, and indeed, most of us no longer have belts!

As far as our Financial/Gambling district is concerned. In 1833 President Jackson shut down the central banking system and said to them, "Gentlemen, I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter, I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin 50,000 families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out!" Andrew Jackson slammed the door shut on the central bank.
Abraham Lincoln issued the greenback, a debt free note! America needs to take back its currency, and assume the duties of printing these bills, so that no debt to the "federal reserve" is attached. Indeed the fed really has no constitutional right to print our money in the first place. Perhaps we need to take a lesson from history.

A tighter control of the lobbying industry might free up our elected officials to actually start doing what their constituents want and need to insure our futures.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government ...”

Remember; "The Nightmare" we're weaving is made of the rags that were once the "American Dream".

Sincerely,
HDBluse