Recession? Don't be surprised!

In this article –

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/22/Dobbs.January23/index.html -

Lou Dobbs writes that a recession is on its way. According to Dobbs, what’s debatable is exactly how bad the recession will be.

What a surprise! (Sarcasm)

For the past twenty-plus years the "leadership" of the U.S. has squandered more than 100 percent of the dividend that we had from our victory of WW II. The American savings rate is negative for the first time since 1929. What is worse, the effect of organized religion on our educational system has become so pernicious that it realistically threatens our economic and security futures of our nation.

How can Americans make informed economic and educational decisions in an atmosphere where critical thinking skills are not taught, in depth liberal arts subjects are not studied and physical education that affects our concentration is eliminated from primary and secondary education curricula in favor of teaching for exams that "grade" schools?

It seems to me that we would all be better served by leaders who truly had the best interests of this country at heart instead of the leaders who are venal, greedy and caught up in narrow tribal thinking. I strongly suggest eliminating the balkanization of our educational system that is bringing this country into a moribund economic condition and set national best practices standards for everything being taught in a manner that avoids the coddling of special interest groups through financial corruption methods.

I strongly suggest removing the influence of all organized religion from our public educational system so critical thinking and in depth liberal arts education can be encouraged at every point in the educational process. Finally, reinstituting the military draft; raising a five million person Army, Navy, etc., would go a long way toward employing millions of Americans in decent paying middle class income work by supplying the military from U.S. industries while inculcating an otherwise unobtainable work ethic discipline.