THE KIDS ARE GETTING STUPID PART DEUX

I fear for our future. Author and commentator Pat Buchanan writes that our culture has no guarantee that we will last forever. Citing histories of others once thought to have ruled large portions of the planet and no longer exist, so too, he feels, our dwindling IQs seem to signal that seem inevitability.
     Public outcry over lack of credible local candidates for jobs from doctors to taxi drivers forces American industry to beg, borrow or steal from abroad. Late night TV hosts joke about Middle Eastern New York cab drivers and 7/11 clerks from India, while recent studies show whole towns in our country staffed by doctors from Arabian, Middle Eastern locals and Pacific Rim graduates.
     An immediate example that comes to mind is Yuma, Arizona where it's worth your life to get a doctor who was born in America, Anglo Saxon and speaks English. Former city administrators from Yuma, religious leaders and other folks of mid level importance, mount their automobiles and travel to San Diego or Phoenix for their medical care, eschewing local docs.
     Yuma has one psychiatrist from India who in her late 80's.
      As a result, medical costs to the public are through the roof.
      Our educational system not only fails or current crop of children, it doesn't seem to even care. Swayed by the politics of the moment, one can move from class room to class room and flip a coin as to the probable curriculum in each location.
       Meanwhile, our children are fed a diet of action movies where not one, three or five testosterone driven actors shoot up the screen, blow up each other or strip naked some poor defenseless actress for $6,00 a ticket, it's considered an " art-form." Police report some of the crimes in the movies are beginning to appear on the street. Some fun.
       Television backs up the inevitable collapse of the mind bending tortuous fall from sanity with reality shows that tweak the bottom of creativity. "Real Housewives" of someplace or other show adults acting like children, Motorcycle shows highlight huge brutes breaking down motorcycles that look like something out of a Hollywood horror movie, these guys are extras from a Muscle show, and the evening's entertainment runs the gamut from the 60's Leave it to Beaver down to today's "Abortion on Demand" and where to find it.
        Mom and Dad (if he's still around) are busting their humps making a living, the kids are latch key, a hold over from the 80s, if they bothered to go to school at all, and if the parents are lucky enough, they don't have to do guard duty in the school security office for having beaten up a 65 year old teacher.
        Not enough jobs for the young people?
        Bill O'Reilly's program on Fox News hosts " Watters World" an interview show where the young man hits the street stops young people and asks tough questions like, " who is the vice president?, or Who Won World War II?"
        No. They usually cannot answer correctly. Usually, Watters catches them on the beach, tennis court, at lunch, generally at play. NEVER WORKING.
        Not as many students are applying for college. And, those that do, more are girls now, than boys. Colorado just legalized drugs. You know what happens when you do something like that?
         Nothing. Nobody cares anymore.
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