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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (336769)5/8/2007 5:47:38 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) of 1572314
 
It just occurred to me that we will never excel far beyond where we are today. The brightest of our children and the brightest of our adults are hindered or destroyed by limitations. They are limited by socialists thinking that throwing the slower learners in with the brightest will make all children bright. The brightest entrepreneurs are punished with higher taxes and attacks from the left saying their achievements were "luck", "you were born rich", or "you won life's lottery". Hard work, genius, drive, are all penalized in today's society in order for certain groups to advance their agendas on the backs of this nation's brightest.

To think the left wants America to excel and develop new forms of energy while punishing the brightest America has to offer, is a hypocrisy that must be exposed and eliminated before any meaningful progress will be made.

Then you guys wonder why we worry about the threat the right poses in this country. The above argument reads very much like the ones bandied about by the nazis in pre Hitler Germany.

Having said that, it's been proven scientifically that mixing slower children with bright children tends to cause improvement in both groups. More importantly, the current problems in our schools have little to do with the mixing of capabilities.

As for taxes, they are needed to pay the ongoing operations of govt. In addition, they can provide the carrot to get a breakthrough on some level. For an example, the state of WA is offering a cash bonus to any private company that can come up with machines which are more energy efficient. CA is taking a similar tack as well.

The irony in the author's position is that its the right that so often promotes wars and aggressive behavior which leads to the needless loss of lives and a huge expenditure of funds that could be used more constructively in building better schools or getting the US energy independent. Why the right is so shorted sighted is beyond me.
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