“My weapon of choice is the generational sword”

I spent 14 years after leaving the Air Force, targeting a broader youth group than yours. I worked with children 3-18 in a social service agency primarily serving Asian and African immigrants and teaching inner-city elementary students a special curriculum on anti-violence, anti-bias and life skills. These children and youth were sorely lacking in critical thinking skills because of stifling, spoiling, smothering parenting by adults who wanted their children to have so much more than they had. The result is children who ride along instead of taking charge of their lives. I’m sure you saw the results in some of your high school and college students when you were dissecting the classics with them. No Child Left Behind and the insane emphasis on testing are certainly not helping teachers instill the love of learning that drives both of us.

Keeping our youth from falling prey to the Puggoons and faulty values instructors, is the key to a better future. The polls and my gut tell us that the under 30 crowd is headed “liberal” and has been disgusted by what they have seen happen to our presidency and country. A lot of credit for that should go to John Stewart of the Daily Show and to a somewhat lesser degree to Stephen Colbert and Keith Olbermann and of course excellent teachers like you. The Puggons give the satirists such excellent and voluminous material.

Being an optimistic pessimist, I keep finding reasons to thank the Puggoons and Rovians. Thanks to their kind of morals and values young adults who leave their side will be on our side for quite a while. The same is true for immigrants legal and illegal who see through the RWA nonsense and inhumanity. These Puggoons through the just approved means of using social security numbers and making employers fire those whose numbers don't match are willing to keep 8 million minimum or lower wage presently employed workers from getting a half-way decent job and let them and their families grow quickly destitute or become economic slaves to unscrupulous employers. Who cares what it does to currently vibrant communities because we have finally done something about those damn illegals.

By the way, we greatly increased the number of illegals through a little noticed legislative change during Lyndon Johnson’s efforts to improve people’s lives by allowing legal immigrants to bring over all types of other relatives and the exponential explosion started. We didn’t know it was happening and weren’t prepared to make improvements in our infrastructure like enough schools and housing. Now the Puggoons blame immigrants for causing the problem. We also gave full support to the illegals and border crossing because it made good business sense and now we blame them.

I’m sure you taught your students to accept full responsibility for their decisions and the consequences. Apparently these Puggoons never learned that and spend their lives in cruel blaming. That was the primary thing I tried to teach the children and youth I worked with. That and truth is the best defense against bullies. I notice the RWA trolls always leave a sound argument or addressing of morals and values alone unless they can turn it into a false weapon and play the blame game.

I enjoy your and so many other posts and am glad I started bloging a few months ago.

"By the way, we greatly increased the number of illegals"

illegals should have read legal immigrants

F R A U D!!!!!

Even though I’m sure that these clever scam artists have had plenty of wealthy lawyers help them cover their tracks, there has to be a lot of fraud involved with this whole mess. I’m not nearly informed enough to tell you the specifics although one small and simple example would be the Internet companies that helped lone applicants prove jobs and income that didn’t exist including even pretending to be the employer.

The Securities and Exchange Commission needs to do a full investigation and Congress needs to hold a lot of hearings and make these poor excuses for humans testify to their obscene role.

F R A U D!!!!!

(Me) Retired Military Patriot 1:33AM

Even though I’m sure that these clever scam artists have had plenty of wealthy lawyers help them cover their tracks, there has to be a lot of fraud involved with this whole mess. I’m not nearly informed enough to tell you the specifics although one small and simple example would be the Internet companies that helped lone applicants prove jobs and income that didn’t exist including even pretending to be the employer.

@Kathleen L. 6:25PM

What makes these securities worthless is the fact that people were encouraged to fib just a little to qualify for the loan -- and they went along with it. If enough people do that, the little fibs add up to one giant fraud.

@Anon 12:57PM

This is not about money and the market. This is about human beings.

Since I first raised it, it took 18 hours for someone to stop talking about technicalities and definitions to mention fraud again. It took another six hours more for someone to mention the real price to humans of this level of greed. Doesn’t that tell us something about the underlying problem? Playing with people’s lives whether through war or money should not be lost in cool technical discussions.

It is this kind of detachment that has made life miserable for millions and millions of people. And since this is posted late, the technical commenters will probably not read this and some might not care even if they do.