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To: maceng2 who wrote (108181)	6/12/2001 1:48:11 AM
From: Lee Lichterman III	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Fully agree if you are not saying we should provide free college to everyone. We can't even get the inner city kids interested in High School much less college. It isn't "cool" to be smart. I am amazed that places like India with it's caste system can turn out so many well educated college grads along with the desire to earn an education in many other countries. As a supervisor, I would say that 90% of the kids they send me are useless from here in teh states. They all have an expectation of a free ride coming. On the other hand the kids they send me from Panama, Honduras etc are eager to learn, go to college at night and are some of the best troops I have. We as a nation have had it too easy for too long. As I have said many times, we NEED a meltdown and some tough love and extreme violence etc. We have become a nation of lazy, gimme gimme and I want it now idiots. I don't think our problem is systemic, but more of populace desire and knowing what is important. It will only be systemic if the bleeding hearts get their way and have the hard working supporting the lazy and uneducated which at present birth rates according to a National Geographic study will become the majority in the next 20 years. There is an inverse relationship of education and income to birth rate. Good Luck, Lee