May 31, 2004 (6:22am)

What Oil Shortage

            This thought has entered my mind often in recent days: If we are having such a short supply of refined fuel, and was really of a mind to correct the situation, we could approach it by seriously going forth with a radical change in our Educational program and the way it is set up in America.

            If we were serious about changing the way our children are being taught. And if we were serious about lowering the price of fuel we would become activists involved in restoring "neighborhood schools." The gasolene that propel all of those school buses up and down all the roadways of our country would no longer be needed. The cost of the present day school buses would go a long way in paying for local, in-community, walk to school, school houses.

            On “The Front Porch” I observe each day of the school year at least 10 school busses (some with as little as two or three children) speeding up and down the road. Installed on the road are two speed-bumps approximately 200 yards apart. These 11 school busses, have to slow down to the posted speed of 15 mph and reach nearly 40 mph before they have to stomp on the brake to cross the next bump. The gas and diesel, the maintenance and the labor has to be out of sight – much less the cost of the busses themselves. They all seem to have these convenient automatic transmissions so all these, mostly young black women drivers, have to do is stomp on the gas and stomp on the brakes. The thought of these people driving such a massive vehicle and having to share the road with them boggles the imagination. It is beyond comprehension how much money and resources would be saved by simply reestablishing local neighborhood schools!

            Again, we must realize that our country has been taken over by the Socialists. It is these people that call themselves Democrats who have dictated such radical ideas as grouping all our children into tightly fitted massive school encampments and forced our children, not only to crawl on a buss to get to school, also, it is a convenient way to bunch them all together so as to feed them with propaganda preventing them from being taught the things older citizens learned in our school days.

            Today’s education system no longer teach three “R’s.” History has been re-written and most of our children couldn’t identify photos of our elected officials in government. As they approach voting age they have difficulty understanding the simple directions on how to fill out a ballot. Yet we spend millions and millions riding their worthless anatomies up and down the highways and byways of our country. Wouldn’t it be nice if the teacher lived in the same community and occasionally a parent could meet with that teacher in the grocery store and share passing small talk – rather than having to attend a PTA meeting! Wouldn’t it be really swell to have our heating and gasolene prices cut by at least 1/3. Stop and think just a moment of the wonderful possibilities that would be employed to supply buildings in the local area in which you live that could be turned into schools! If this were done we would have less trailer classrooms strung up and down and around school houses. The possibilities are innumerable.

            By far, enough! What a subject we’ve chosen to broach this Memorial Day! The discussion is an important one, though, as we ponder what it is that our children are being taught each day of the school year. They are being drugged by people we’ve never met. Is it any wonder that children grow up today with the alternative act of suicide as an option many consider and way too many achieve? Is it any wonder, after all is said and done, our children have lost the instinct of respect for others? And amazingly we are not alarmed at the number of these children that have grown up to accept a Bill Clinton for two terms for the presidency of these United States of America. And, as though that wasn’t a disaster, these young men and woman, now of voting age, are likely to replace a dedicated and godly man such as George W. Bush with a John Kerry. I am simply amazed that at least 50% of the voting public are leaning to vote for Kerry. How can this be? In a time of war, (much less, the greatest campaign of warfare America has ever been involved in) how can our nation be so divided? The answer lies in the state of our school system and the results from the slack educational system in the past 10-30 years.