“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

~ Edward R. Murrow

America, It Will Take Much More Than Our Daily Wants To Go Forward (Continued)

V. Accountability of government

Accountability vs. Responsibility image by Dean Shareski

What the American people need from government is elected officials who say what they mean and mean what they say(which is for the most part the definition of accountability today). But even as Americans lower their expectations about how much government can do in their lives, they are going to raise expectations about how well government delivers on what it promises. We will and must throw out the party, either party,  that continues to promise the world and deliver peanuts.

VI. Restoring responsibility of the creativity among American youth - Enough said about government I would like to say something about our future, the youth of America.

A poll of Americans was taken including all age groups. The question asked was, What do you think the youth of America need more?

Ages 18-29             Total

75%                          79%          A Swift Kick in the Ass

25%                          21%          A Gentle and Understanding Hand

A swift kick in the ass is not going to help this generation achieve its fullest potential. Because the youth have seen the worst of life, 9/11 and the depression we’re living in. This requires a significant effort to renew their faith in the future. This generation could be the most successful, dynamic and diversely talented cohort in American history. Our older generations should probably offer a compromise or something in the middle of the two questions above that were posed to our young Americans. What they need is a firm hand and gentle guidance to show them how to channel their creativity and raise them from this stigma of economic ruin. My opinions about what we should be doing are in my success tips.

Success Tips

• Lets stop dumbing down our school systems with bad programs such as no child left behind, for example NYS lowered their passing grades from 65 to 55 for their state wide regions exams three years ago, because too many students were failing the exams and weren’t graduating high school.
• Lets stop this attitude of a level playing field in our education system, exceptional children should be rewarded and recognized; how else will the average child be motivated to improve, if we continue this mediocrity in our school systems we’ll dumb down the talented and loose the potential talented students from the average or good student population.
• Raise salaries/benefits of our teachers that deserve it, no raises across the board, no tenure, employment at will and rid the system of non-motivated and non-dedicated professional teachers. Also, parents elevate the teaching profession as one of the highest and admired professions and make sure each school system has a way to measure the teacher’s productivity. This way the parents have no one but themselves to blame when the child comes home with failing grades. The parent needs to have accountability as well as the school system.
• Parents who are successful in the business world instill the idea of entrepreneurial ideas in their children such as an example of an independent Business like this.

I hope you get my point because this country will be non-alphas and be betas or less as Aldous Huxley defined the future world in his book ‘Brave New World’

More to come tomorrow………….