Five Big Challenges In 2013 That Dwarf The Fiscal Cliff

Discussion of the so-called fiscal cliff has sucked so much air out of the room that many people don't realize it's not the biggest thing we face as a nation. Indeed, many challenges loom. Will we be up to them?

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Will Obama and our elected representatives be up to it?       Don’t bet on it!

As a nation, not only are we over the “fiscal cliff” and “national debt cliff”, we’re over the “moral cliff” too.  If the recent elections proved anything, it is that the candidates and our voting citizens are collectively driven by one guiding light . . . What’s in it for them.  The idea of doing what’s best for the nation as a whole is long gone.  The unions and their membership vote for those who will advance the union objectives of more money and guaranteed jobs for “theirs”.  Our elected representatives vote for more votes, more money, more perks and more job security for themselves.  Our voting citizens’ vote for those candidates they believe will get them more entitlements, lower taxes and more favorable legislation on any subject they perceive as in their self-interest.  Those who did not vote disavow their moral obligation to elect representatives who will do what’s best for this country, not just for the near future but over the long haul and regardless of what “the opposition” does and says about it.

It’s about collective survival as a nation folks, not about just you or just about me!  We are all in the same boat together and we will all float or sink together in the end.  If we delay appropriate course corrections much longer, the rush for the “lifeboats” will get ugly at a very personal level.

The Expanding World of Multi-Culturalism or . . .

Why You Should Know What They’re Teaching Your Kids

The Origin of Title VI Programs

Title VI was introduced as a part of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA) in 1958. NDEA aimed to ensure trained manpower of sufficient quality and quantity to meet the national defense needs of the United States. Title VI was the "Language Development" section of this act, focusing on uncommonly taught languages. It supported language area centers for expansion of postsecondary instruction in uncommon languages and related subjects, modern foreign language fellowships, research supporting language learning methodology and specialized teaching materials, and language institutes to provide advanced language training. Today, these language area centers, or National Resource Centers (NRCs), Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS), and International Research and Studies (IRS) remain central programs in the Title VI array, evolving and expanding their foci in reaction to and in anticipation of global trends and security needs.

The original intent was to provide advanced language training to ensure trained manpower of sufficient quality and quantity to meet the national defense needs of the United States.

Now note how the original intent has morphed into something which supports the goals of the socialists and religious fanatics of the world.

Expanding Title VI's Reach

Although funded as part of the Higher Education Act, the Title VI programs represent a comprehensive approach to expanding international education in the U.S. Through numerous initiatives to strengthen international teaching and curricula at the K-12 level, Title VI helps to open students' eyes to the wider world and engage future area studies specialists at a young age, increasing the likelihood that students will pursue internationally-focused studies later. By partnering with other institutions of higher education, Title VI grantees share the benefit of their Federal funding while strengthening the network of scholars and academic programs in international fields. On grantee campuses, Title VI funds are used to strengthen foreign language, area and international studies teaching, research, and materials at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels. With ongoing guidance, more applications reflect efforts to strengthen the international dimensions of professional education--in schools of business, education, law, medicine, and journalism, and other programs. More proposals are also incorporating initiatives that expand Title VI's reach to members of underrepresented groups, including minorities, persons with disabilities, and the elderly. Title VI-funded, field-based conferences to identify national needs have provided direction to ED funding priorities. At the same time, international education program evaluation requirements and performance objectives initiatives have expanded. These efforts will lead to even higher quality programs with sustained and targeted outcomes.

View The propagation of political ideologies in schools.   A historical perspective.

Brigitte Gabriel, founder of ACT, on Islamic infiltration into the American education system.  View this video.

View The World’s Changing Demographics.

How about including applications to strengthen an understanding of the nature of individual liberty and the civil society in a constitutional republic, including the essential principles of America's societal and political order?  How about  the inclusion of courses citing historical examples of the roots and evolution of despotism and tyranny throughout the world and the impact upon the societies where freedom was sacrificed to utopianism?

Milton Friedman on "Greed"

An excerpt from an interview with Phil Donahue in 1979.

If only this was "required viewing" in our educational systems today.

The Liberal view of "greed".

The pursuit of self-interest is “greed” and its rewards must be confiscated for distribution to those who have neither the desire nor the ability to achieve their desires, thus enabling those who support such action to view themselves as virtuous.  If their policies and actions fail to achieve the intended ends, it is irrelevant.  It is only their intent that matters.

For a complete rundown on the beliefs of a Liberal, see HOW TO BE A GOOD LIBERAL .