THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Check this out: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123777413372910705.html

No, it is not about raw food. And no, it is not about medical school. But I am technically in the armed forces, and that means I care about this country at least a little bit, and this blog is about things I care about, so there you have it.

I've had this feeling for a while and it just seems to get stronger all the time. I have a feeling that the rest of the world is going to pass us by on so many fronts. If this recent economic crisis has taught us anything, it is that we can't build a strong nation and economy on a system of no intrinsic value. We can't sustain an economy that takes so much and contributes so little.

What can we build it on? What do we have to offer? We have an extensive education system with which we can create revolutionary technologies. This is something we can build on.

But we won't do this. For one thing, we have embedded special interests that prevent technologies that would contribute to the common good but cost them profits. Watch the documentary "What happened to the electric car?" if you don't know what I'm talking about. As if to pour salt on the wound that is the relationship between big business and our government, we have to go and make our kids stupider. We have to go and make them less competitive in the global academic marketplace by teaching them superstitious drivel dressed up as science.

If this bill in Texas passes, it may just be the beginning of the end. The rest of the world advances while America begins to step backwards. I can only see things getting worse before they get better...