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In article <38j887$2aa@bashful.cc.utexas.edu>,
karl rehn <krehn@bashful.cc.utexas.edu> wrote:

>The middle class isn't the problem.  The problem is that the educational
>gap keeps widening.  Would you want to try to earn a decent living without
>a high school diploma or some sort of job training?  The "American Dream"
>is (at least in part) to have a better life than your parents through 
>initiative, hard work, and education.  IMHO at least part of the gang/crime
>problem is that offenders don't believe that if they go to school and
>try to succeed within the system they'll ever have a good life. I think
>it was Kemp that used the phrase "equality of opportunity, not equality of
>outcome".  Bringing back the importance of education and self-discipline
>to our culture will do more to stop crime and improve our economy than any
>crime bill, gun ban, or welfare program.
>
>Karl


BRAVO! Clap clap clap ...

Most youngsters know you can earn more selling drugs than you can make with
a medical degree.  You can make more playing sports than with a law degree.
You can make more hustling on street corners than you can being an engineer.
You can almost make more being on welfare than being a teacher (ok - I took
liberties here :)  Why bother getting an education when money is all that
counts and there are easier ways to get it.  The problem with America is 
with the minds of Americans.  We need to develop better attitudes than America,
love it or leave it.  How about America, better it or leave it?  To breed
better Americans, we need to be better Americans.  I now step of my soap
box.  Thank you.
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