October Thoughts
I love that Americans as a people have absolutely no idea of personal responsibility anymore. I was reading in the Times this morning how Congress was grilling Alan Greenspan and accusing him of steering our country into fiscal disaster. Congress is trying to pin blame solely on his Fed Chairmanship - and that he didn't do enough to stop it. Hmn.....Alan, did you tell all of those stupid fucks to buy McMansions with money they knew they didn't have? No? I thought not. Did you advocate all of those high power investment firms to jump in whole hog onto subprime mortgages and bad loans that were doled out like candy canes? Do you govern the entire will of the State of Florida? Yeah....I didn't think so either. The dude was in office for over 20 years, he was hired by Reagan. Pretty remarkable run if you ask me. I have my fair share of debt; and as much as I would love to pin the blame on Mr.Greenspan, I know damn well it's my own bad spending habits - not his leadership as Fed Chairman. We ourselves are to blame for our own mess - the whole consumer culture of advertising and keeping up with the joneses - buy now, pay later. Well, sooner or later we as a nation were going to have to pay. It's just collectively as a nation, our credit tab abruptly ran out. We are overextended on credit and we keep producing currency to inflate our struggling economy that doesn't produce much these days. I think in a lot of ways, this is very good for us as a people. We need to learn NOT to spend shit we don't have, because it's obvious that a lot of our economy is built on that philosophy like a stacked house of cards.
Yet we as Americans look for that scapegoat and bury our heads in the sand. Across the board as a country we do this and it's why we are quickly losing ground as a superpower. Now we are a nation of whiny, irresponsible idiots who are getting what they deserve.
Well, it's the last full weekend of October. As usual, it was my favorite month of the year, things are starting to slow down and get more manageable. I am learning a lot about the culture of my school and the expectations. There are a lot of people that complain about the state of American education; and on certain levels there is great truth to those complaints. What people do not see is that there are a lot of kids with a variety of needs - every parent wants their kid to go to Harvard, but there is a rising number of parents that are not taking responsibility of educating their kids outside of school. Some kids in public school have a battery of learning disabilities and are mainstreamed anyway. How is that good for them? We as parents need to take responsibilty and say, you know, Johnny is never going to go to Harvard with his disabilities, we should really address his needs so that he can be as sucessful as possible. Not just park him in a regular class and make him struggle. The problem is, not everyone can afford to send their children to place that can address all of those needs. Nowadays people look to teachers to infuse their children with good morals, values, character and educate them, regardless of their abilities. This goes back to the whole responsibility thing. The topic of education is not easy. There are parents with autistic kids who send their children to a public school - they are provided with school psychologists and people to help them, it is a great benefit for those families who can't afford to send their kid to a school that deals with those conditions specifically. I get that. So, we as a people, as a nation, need to really go back to the Drawing Board and think about how retarded No Child Left Behind really is and get back to, "How can we produce quality education and ensure that our youth aren't growing up into mindless idiots"?
This week after a long and determined talk with P I decided to jump back into dating. I haven't done the online thing in 2 years, my job is my life, and I am the loneliest I have ever been. I guess we will see how it goes. I signed on to Eharmony the other day, because the last time I seriously dated someone, which was nearly 2 years ago - I met her on Eharmony. Now, as P said to me, don't expect miracles, expect to get out there and just try to socialize and find balance. That's what we agreed on.
My Weekends have been pretty boring lately.
OMG! Mike Singletary is now the head coach of the Niners? WTF? I love Singletary, but seriously.....out of left field.....
Yet we as Americans look for that scapegoat and bury our heads in the sand. Across the board as a country we do this and it's why we are quickly losing ground as a superpower. Now we are a nation of whiny, irresponsible idiots who are getting what they deserve.
Well, it's the last full weekend of October. As usual, it was my favorite month of the year, things are starting to slow down and get more manageable. I am learning a lot about the culture of my school and the expectations. There are a lot of people that complain about the state of American education; and on certain levels there is great truth to those complaints. What people do not see is that there are a lot of kids with a variety of needs - every parent wants their kid to go to Harvard, but there is a rising number of parents that are not taking responsibility of educating their kids outside of school. Some kids in public school have a battery of learning disabilities and are mainstreamed anyway. How is that good for them? We as parents need to take responsibilty and say, you know, Johnny is never going to go to Harvard with his disabilities, we should really address his needs so that he can be as sucessful as possible. Not just park him in a regular class and make him struggle. The problem is, not everyone can afford to send their children to place that can address all of those needs. Nowadays people look to teachers to infuse their children with good morals, values, character and educate them, regardless of their abilities. This goes back to the whole responsibility thing. The topic of education is not easy. There are parents with autistic kids who send their children to a public school - they are provided with school psychologists and people to help them, it is a great benefit for those families who can't afford to send their kid to a school that deals with those conditions specifically. I get that. So, we as a people, as a nation, need to really go back to the Drawing Board and think about how retarded No Child Left Behind really is and get back to, "How can we produce quality education and ensure that our youth aren't growing up into mindless idiots"?
This week after a long and determined talk with P I decided to jump back into dating. I haven't done the online thing in 2 years, my job is my life, and I am the loneliest I have ever been. I guess we will see how it goes. I signed on to Eharmony the other day, because the last time I seriously dated someone, which was nearly 2 years ago - I met her on Eharmony. Now, as P said to me, don't expect miracles, expect to get out there and just try to socialize and find balance. That's what we agreed on.
My Weekends have been pretty boring lately.
OMG! Mike Singletary is now the head coach of the Niners? WTF? I love Singletary, but seriously.....out of left field.....