Comments by "Ōkami-san" (@mweibleii) on "Free Trade is Killing the U.S. Economy!" video.

  1. America's problem is our ENTIRE process of education. Public Schooling works perfectly great at producing Worker Cogs (by the 10s of millions). Nice little Cogs that used to have factories or cubicles and... well, now they're obsolete and no longer necessary. They are not needed in the New Economy. That's a simple fact. Just as the horse whip is no longer needed en masse - either are Public Schooled worker Cogs. *News Flash* The factories are LONG GONE and they are not coming back.
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  2. So, if you think your children can study 14/7, 7d/wk, 52wk/yr AND somehow be top Cog in all the State 'Standardized Tests" then by all means - go right ahead and put them into Public School. I hope they're fluent in at least three languages. BUT, if not, if they aren't coming out top Cog, then perhaps homeschooling unique to THEIR personal attributes and desires may better equip them to compete in the New Economy - the one your hero's Obama and Bernanke are ushering in for good ole' USSA.
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  3. I don't disagree with you one bit here. I personally find public schools to be a structural problem. Good education (to think skeptically & critically, to be creative & passionate) can not be mass produced in a factory - modeled on military training (where people are taught NOT to think but to do). Sure, public shchools are great at making factory cogs. But, the modern economy, doesn't need cogs. The USA produces MORE now compared with 1960 with 1/3rd the workforce. Education starts at home.
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  4. "The American Decline ...looking back over the last 40 years, since 1965....." Gee, maybe it has something to do with LBJ's "Great Society" progressive policies like welfare and warfare state?8/
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  5. The Japanese school system is there to indoctrinate. When Japanese "Adults" enter the workforce (ex: Toyota) they will sit in 'Classrooms', with rows of seat, just like in a public school, this will seem 'Natural' to them, and there in the front will be a group 'leader' sitting at a desk similar to the teachers desk with his (His) secretary sitting next to Him. SHE will take notes and make him tea. Everyone else will sit in a desk. If THAT is your idea of 'Education' then yes, Japan is for you
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  6. You call me a lair? I'm done with you. "In 1968 4.1% of families were headed by a woman receiving welfare assistance; by 1980, the percentage increased to 10%. In the 1970s, California was the U.S. state with the most generous welfare system. Virtually all food stamp costs are paid by the federal government. In 2008, 28.7 percent of the households headed by single women were considered poor." This will be our last communication, I will delete any further post you send me without reading.
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  7. "Do you really want such hardships back for kids?" What are you talking about? We live in the 21st century, not the 19th. If you think the model of a drill sergeant standing in front of a bunch of kids graded 1-12 with curriculum divided by discipline is going to educate children with the skills needed in the 21st century, I'm afraid you're mistaken. THAT system was designed to produce factory cogs - which are no longer needed.
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  8. Japanese schools are an example of excellence? You think getting up at 6am to pre-study, going to school from 8am-4pm, returning home to have dinner, then leaving to attend cram-school from 6 - 11pm is a 'GOOD' educational experience? Do you think memorizing pi to 20 decimal points has ANY utilitarian value at all? Take a good look at Fukushima if you want to see the underbelly of Japan. Japan Inc. is failing. They're a radioactive car plant whose desire to grow the Public Sector has hit a wall
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  9. "They didn't want to have to teach their own kids how to read," All I can say is either don't have kids, or don't expect much FOR them in the new economy. I suppose ditches will always need dug. "Don't you want them to be well informed about their world?" My daughter speaks two languages, hold three passports and has lived on two continents. I've gone without, so she can have what I didn't have. I grew up on $40 a week - a life of hardship. Her future is worth the personal sacrifice to me.
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  10. You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Poverty was reducing at about 1% per year UNTIL the 1960s. Simply look up the numbers for yourself. From the 1970s - 2012 poverty is either held steady or slightly increased. The Great Society was a TOTAL FAILURE. LBJ's policies have been INCREASING poverty for over 40 years. FACT: in MI (which Thom should know about) reduced government spending on Welfare and booting people OFF welfare INCREASED employment and reduced unemployment!
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  11. No, I mean the policies that destroyed the USA. Take a good look in the inner cities where the government 'social programs' are the thickest - it's pure mayhem. People are dying under the poisonous fog of Government programs. Government police take Citizens and put them in Gov Jails for having an herb. Gov Schools where kids graduate NOT being able to read. Gov roads filled with holes. Gov Housing Estates worse than SE Asian slums. Poverty has INCREASED since 1964 not decreased!
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  12. Not only do we need to role back those programs - we need to totally eliminate them along with minimum wage and public schools and all the millions of laws and regulations that are literally destroying this nation. A snake can only eat it's own tail for so long. The US government/Nation IS going to run out of money and the Nanny, Welfare, Warfare State will FINALLY end. It's simple economics. Maybe then we can begin to rebuild our Nation from the ground up.
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