How much worse can Liberalism make this country?

Question

What have we reaped in the way we have changed? America 100 years ago had the highest literacy rate of any nation. Today we spend more on education than any nation in the world. And yet since 1987 we have graduated more than one million high school students who could not even read their diploma.
We have spent more money than any other Nation in the industrialized world to educate our children, and yet SAT scores fell for 24 straight years before finally leveling off at the bottom, where they still are compared with others in the world in the 1990s.
In a 1960 survey 53 percent of America's teenagers had never kissed. 57 percent said they had never necked, that is kissing and hugging, and 92 percent of teenagers in America said they were virgins in 1960.
By 1990, just 30 years later, 75 percent of American high school students are sexually active, by 18. In the next 5 years, we spent $4 billion to educate them on how to be immoral, to trumpeting the solutions of safe sex, and it worked.
One in five teenagers in America today lose their virginity before their 13th birthday. 19 percent of America's teenagers say they have had more than four sexual partners before graduation. The result: Every day 2,700 students get pregnant, 1,100 get abortions, 1,200 give birth. Every day another 900 contract a sexually transmitted disease, many incurable.
AIDS infections among high school students climbed 700 percent between 1990 and 1995. We have 3.3 million problem drinkers in our high school campuses, over half a million alcoholics, and in any given weekend in America, 30 percent of the student population may spend some time drunk.

Answer 1

Why?

Where is this money getting spent? It sure as hell isn't to pay the ones that are doing the teaching! Our teachers should be one of the highest paid professions! Who in the hell do you think teaches the doctors, lawyers, specialists, politicians, and the CEO's of the companies that make millions of a year? Why is it that the ones doing the teaching are among one of the lower paying professions????? Maybe paying a little more for teachers, and if a student in college becomes a teacher they could have a portion (if not all) of their student loans forgiven if they teach in an inner city school for 5 or 10 years. Making it very rewarding would bring some of the qualified candidates to teaching, and then pass on their knowledge to the youth of America. Instead, many go to college to become a doctor, lawyer, politician, or the CEO to make the big bucks. So you lose that intelligence that could be given to the youth coming through the school systems.

Making schools worth while is more than building a school. The reason so much more today is spent on schools than ever before is that there are computer needs. It isn't passed on to the teachers, and it sure as hell isn't spent on educating the youth of today. It is to pay for the needed supplies, which have gone up in cost from just a few years ago.

Education is still the key, but putting the money where it counts is the answer to your question. Paying those that teach, and getting more qualified teachers into the profession are the two things that people must make a priority. Until that happens, schools will continue to be a day care and respite for parents, and nothing more than that.

Answer 2

Well put. However, you are never going to convince me that sex is a new activity for teens. Although more overall are doing it, it has always been a problem in every nation that has ever existed. In today's America the problem is more that there are by far more single parent homes in which the parent must work long hours and more dual income households. This results in more alone time for teens. This directly affects the number that are having sex, drinking, doing drugs and committing crimes.

Before you blame liberals you might want to blame the American economy.

By the way most of the time when you take a sexual survey of teens you will end with skewed results as most teen boys will lie and say yes if they have not and most teen girls will lie and say no if they have. It is the perception of what society views sexually active boys and girls.

Answer 3

That is a good definition of Libertarian, not liberal. Most liberals in American society want the government involved in everything. That is missing from your description, ie Universal Health Care, welfare and unequal treatment under tax laws.

Answer 4

Look nimrod IF you actually understood Liberism you'd know NOT to blame it for the problems you cited, as a matter of fact when old GWB governed Texas the drop out rates and teen pregancy rates were some of the worst in the country, Liberalism created this country, the period was called the age of enlightment for a reason, people were enlightened and free thinkers instead of the sheeple we have today, also most of the problems you cited can be traced back to the Legacy of Reagan and his barbaric assaults on funding for programs that made a difefrence if you look at where some of the stats you're citing you'd be amazed that alot of those problems are in conservative states, say old mississippi for example get your facts right

Answer 5

The collapse of morals can be given to the liberal moral movements of "feminists", Roe vs. Wade, Prayer in Schools. A child has a better chance of being shot in school than having a public school prayer led by an adult..Europe does not appear to be suffering unduly from its secularization. Just do not tell the great-grandson of Van Gough. Secularism is allowing the Muslums to come in and you will see eventually take over.

Answer 6

Are you saying liberalism is the causes of all this? That is a pretty big stretch. But wouldn't you have to also credit liberalism with women's rights, civil rights, child labor laws, unions, etc.?

and you say 2,700 students get pregnant every day. Yet only 1100 get abortions, and 1200 give birth. Does that mean 500 a day get miscarriages? That seem a bit high.

Answer 7

looks like today's fox news question - which is of course neither fair and balanced nor news.

to the radical cons (and it's time we all got used to the idea that todays cons are radicals) EVERY STORY AT IT'S CORE IS ABOUT LIBERALS.

it's incredibly transparant and it's also goebbells style propaganda.

there is a war raging.

illegal immigrants are overrunning our nation.

there is a series of trials going on in ohio right now that are starting to make it look clear that the re-election of bush in 04 was deeply tainted.

the vice president has been very seriously implicated in the scooter libby trial.

the bush admin is desperately trying to avoid an investigation of it's illegal wiretapping program - and so has stopped using it and has replaced many us prosecutors without comment.

but what does this guy want to talk about - liberals - but only in the most abstract manner.

this sort of question is how the cons have managed to dominate the debate in our country without ever really saying anything about anyone or ever offering any solutions to anything...

Answer 8

I don't want to think about it. I am not of this generation and you have no idea how different it was - TV without smut, movies stopping at the bedroom door, drugs almost unheard of, schools with much higher standards where discipline and respect were the norm. I am glad I was young at an earlier time.

Answer 9

100 years ago women couldn't vote, they had no rights, and neither did several minorities. Perhaps if we return education to the very rich white people only, we would have some great statistics too. BTW, did you have any solutions? Or did you just complain without any? Very 'democrat' of you

Answer 10

Let's see. Who were the presidents between 1960 and 1990?
1.Dwight Eisenhower
2. John F. Kennedy
3.Lyndon Johnson
4.Richard Nixon
5.Gerald Ford
6.Jimmy Carter
7.Ronald Reagan
8.George H.W. Bush

I hope you noticed that more than half of the presidents listed are Republican. Also, you might be interested to know that when Dubya was the governor of Texas, it had one of the highest rates of teen pregnancies in the US.