The moving finger follows the line right up to the top. It says "Cato Institute". Check the Board of Directors.

Even so, I believe you do have a point. There are fewer and fewer people in the US who have an interest in school, who have given up hope as the middle class disappears and wealth is transferred to the ultra-wealthy.

And a few, if not more, kids to catch on, and do well. Should we pour money down an Iraqi rathole or an Afghani rathole or should we try to find and educate Americans.

Obviously Conservatives think that the interests of big industries are more important. Oil, arms and the associated interests which are subsidized by these wars rather than American schools.

Schools could be made to be a pleasant experience, something most kids would like to attend. It wouldn't take much, a new approach, an understanding of what motivates kids, and financial support for the research and people necessary for it to happen. It won't as long as people would rather buy billion dollar airplanes and invade harmless nations.