Re: DOLLAR COLLAPSE NOW IMMINENT

On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:13:22 +0100, Penno wrote:

> "BobR" <reed1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 15, 6:26 pm, The Trucker <mik...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Thu, 15 May 2008 12:44:00 -0700, BobR wrote:
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> Boy, You said it.  The problem now is that so very few want to look at
> history and even attempt to learn from it.
> 
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> That's because most/all immigrants don't see it as their history even
when 
> living in the USA or Europe, they think it's boring and has nothing to
do 
> with them.  This can lead to bad behaviour and puts pressure on teachers
to 
> change the curriculum to suit a vocal minority of students, under the
guise 
> of making education more interesting.

There is no doubt a certain validity to that observation.  We should try
to address that problem as well as the deficiency in the curriculum that
allows voters to leave high school with virtually no understanding of
_REAL_ ECONOMICS.

http://www.greatervoice.org/econ/quotes/PoliticalEconomy.php

"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are
right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly
understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who
believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences,
are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."  -- John Maynard Keynes

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of society but the people themselves; and
if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
education." - Thomas Jefferson
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