[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Democracy requires an educated populace -- apparently California courts disagree. When you combine this with the lies and disinformation propagated by the MSM; one has to wonder whether the U.S. will continue to be capable of self-determination.

{Flame away, I meant to be provocative -- just remember that, if the U.S. government doesn't get things right, the world is headed for the toilet.}

[Ivana Denisovich]

... if the U.S. government doesn't get things right, the world is headed for the toilet.}

I'd say the U.S. will become a 3rd world nation, but the rest of the world will take up the slack. In 2000, 56% of China's undergraduate degrees were in the hard sciences; in the U.S., it was 17%. Japan, with half our population, has graduated double the number of engineers in recent years than we have.

And our educators - and judges - are more concerned about the low-end kids than they are about producing kids capable of taking the more difficult courses in college. Yup - we're headed into the toilet.