Disgraceful

It worries me that this country owes China a fuckload of money, a bunch of manufacturing has gone there and now the Chinese kids are kicking the asses  of American kids in math and science.     Props to the Chinese for what they've done, but how we can blather on about how America is so great when we keep getting our fat asses handed to us?

How can we continue to be great when so many of our people are out of work, can't afford doctors and food and rent?  How can we continue to be awesome when our scientific progress is hampered by religious fanatics who give women shit for buying birth control, but when they get sick everything the hospital can do is what they want.

 How can we be incredible when we take our teachers for granted every chance we get? We give them shit because Lil Brayden and Alyvia can't read although their parents plop them in front of the TV  as soon as they get home, and don't help them with homework ?

How can we make any progress when we insist on long summer breaks when the whole world has longer school years than we do?  Long summers breaks because it's a "tradition" ... a tradition that dates back to the days when most everyone had a small farm. My Nana's parents had such a farm, but as for ME i have yet to try to make a small garden in a house my parents have owned for 21 years. And it's an outdated tradition  that can make things difficult for modern working parents who don't get two and three months off in the summer to watch their children

How can things be copacetic when we refuse to take a stand against outfits like BP who,  when their workers die by the dozens, when oil spews into the sea, and they use every tactic available to wiggle out of responsibility and cleaning up the MESS they made?   How can we look at ourselves in the mirror when we won't do simple things to help ourselves like recycling, and insisting that we give American children am excellent education?