Education

No wonder only 23% of the people trust Congress!

We have all the critics of the Administration’s efforts to reform Health Care, Financial regulations, our Educational System and our Energy Policies saying “No to Big Government - saying “We don’t want the Federal government involved in our States and our lives”.

That’s just fine until a crisis happens like the Gulf Coast Oil disaster.  Now, those same critics are calling out the Administration for not “responding fast enough” - not “doing enough”.

What is it folks - you only want the Federal Government involved when you can’t handle a mess you’ve created?

Hypocrisy at it’s finest!

Let’s get behind the Administration and start pushing Congress to become effective regulators by being efficient in dealing with the major issues facing our country.

If anything is too big to fail it’s a Congress that can’t deal with issues that have been ignored for so long.

Today the White House released the fiscal year 2011 Budget. The numbers call for a $3.8 Trillion dollar budget that projects an estimated $1.2 Trillion dollar deficit.

Some key areas getting financial attention are: Job Creation; Small Business tax credits; support of  our Educational system, the military and clean energy. We agree that addressing each of these will begin to put a fix on issues that have all too long been ignored. Not much being said about Health Care as it relates to this budget - we wonder why.

Now the real question - What will Congress do to, and with this budget?

President Obama talks tonight about the State of the Union - our country.

All of us who feel the pain of an economic meltdown; lost jobs; either no health care or out of control health costs; an educational system being short changed by just about every State; a fractured energy policy that should be based upon clean, renewable energy generation to lessen foreign dependence and two wars that take our lives while continuing to drain our resources - we pretty much know the State of the Union these days.

President Obama, tonight we hope to hear you say your administration and the 535 people in Congress are going to start acting in the best interest of the people who sent you all to represent us and not special interest lobbyists.

Please, we do not need anymore 2,000 page bills that cover everything but the core issue. Give us legislation that is straight forward, deals only with the issue and requires a simple yes or no vote by Congress. Then and only then will we have real Transparency and Accountability of our elected representation.

Now is the time to deliver on the promise to change the ways Washington does business. Do this for our children and grand children - they will all thank us for being part of the solution rather than the problem.

Could this be the Audacity Of Hope that you wrote about?

Our Country is in an uproar because OUR President wants to let every child in OUR educational system know how important it is to commit to their education and allow themselves an opportunity to provide for a better life.

And what are we doing? Spending countless hours, wasting money, wasting school administrators and teachers energy trying to determine if we should let OUR child hear a message from OUR President on how important their education is to them and the future of THEIR country.

We are woefully behind other nations in developing the next generation of doctors, scientists and mathematicians that will be able to solve many of OUR issues. And what are we doing? We either make it difficult or won’t let them hear motivation and expectations about becoming educated. What have we come to as parents, administrators and educators?

Let’s start paying attention to one of the really important things in life - like teaching our children!