A Bonus For Teachers.

OK. So here's where we are. We owe China a gazillion dollars which we can't pay back, we can only get the rare earth metals we need from china and wouldn't be able to change that for at least 15 years if we wanted to, and we certainly should want to, we're about to get another $900 billion of debt with the tax law which will almost surly pass both houses, we have 15 million people unemployed while industry is sitting on two trillion dollars instead of investing it in upgrading, our educational system has fallen far behind most of the rest of the industrial world while our most prestigious colleges are bringing in foreign nationals from China and other countries who may not be our best buddies instead of accepting our own young people, our infrastructure is rusting and rotting away from under and around us. Our congress is more interested in playing footsie games with each other and corporate America than it is in solving our problems. All in all we're in exactly the kind of shape our leaders want us. That is to say, we're completely beholding to them and we'll let them do just about anything they want to us and for themselves. Does anyone feel like a chump? We're all mad at Bernie Maddof for his ponzi scheme, but don't seem to mind our Congress pulling an ongoing ponzi scheme on us. So what does that make us? Dumb Chumps. Maybe that's what the DC in Washington DC means. So, what's the answer? You wouldn't like the answer if anyone told you. But let me tell you that extending tax cuts for the wealthy and seeing school districts across America lay teachers off is just plain dumb. If we had a hundred billion to spend on education, I'd use it to pay big bonuses to teachers who excel. I'd make the bonuses tax free to boot. And that's just for starters. How would I know which teachers to give the bonuses to? I wouldn't know. I'd ask the students and their parents. They know.