The single greatest long-term threat to America's continued security, stability, and prosperity - indeed America's continued existence as a sovereign nation - is the government (allegedly public) school system and the teachers' unions that are destroying it one generation at a time.

Think about this.  Right now colleges have to enroll a very high number of freshmen in remedial Math (to include Algebra) and English (to include Composition) classes just to get them to up-to-speed to a point where they can function at a college level.

Try to have a current high-school graduate explain the difference between 'profit' and 'profit margin' and most cannot.  Most cannot identify the three branches of American Government, or why they're set up that way.  Most cannot identify the key elements of the Declaration of Independence or of the United States Constitution, or even why they were written in the first place!  Most cannot identify critical flaws in Darwin's Theory of Evolution (which my 7th grade Science teacher spent an entire week of class sessions discussing).  Nor can most correctly define the only legitimate purpose of a tax system.

But you can bet your tush that nearly every "graduate" currently being churned out by the government school system can correctly identify the Three Stooges, can rack up the high score on the latest shoot-em-up video game, can set up a MySpace or Facebook account to network with people from clear across the the country or halfway around the world (but wouldn't have the clue before the first clue how to set it up as an integral element of a job search), and can drive a car (but don't have the foggiest notion of basic preventive maintenance).

And these are the people we're going to be expecting to run our businesses, industries, military, government - and by extension our country - within two generations!  Seriously!  Perhaps what we really need is an escape plan.

So EAG, Bravo Zulu for holding your ground.  Show me where to stand and I will gladly wield a sword (or pen, or bullhorn) in your assistance.

your spin is as entertaining to watch as that iraqi communications dude that was on tv in the early days of the war.