TX Board Of Ed Member: How Do We Take Negatives Out Of US Hi

How the heck does hiding the truth from the next generation benefit them? Isn't that a form of propoganda in itself? Geez... I don't even think I wanna let my kids study in the US if such a thing does happen...

What is scary is Texas more or less controls what kids all over America learn! How so? you ask. Easy. Texas is a major major purchaser of textbooks. Well, companies want to sell books such as "US HISTORY FOR 8TH GRADERS" so in order to get the big purchase from Texas, they will cater and bow down to what Texas wants. That means the whole country gets to "learn" what Texans want them to learn. Even if you live a thousand plus miles away.

Yes. I too often find myself wondering what life would be like if only more people in this country believed in American exceptionalism.

SEE?? This is why our highest offices (at all levels of government) should be filled only with learned scholars who have PhD's in CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, history, economics, sociology, the hard sciences, philosophy, and literature, or even theology.

Instead we've got a government full ignorant fools or arrogant corporate tools who sit stoned faced as their campaign contributors openly pillage our nation's wealth, sodomize any protesters, and mop up the mess with what's left of the constitution.

She wants to rewrite lessons in the book on how the US used propaganda because she thinks it gives a negative portrayal of this country...

Rewriting a fucking textbook because you don't agree with something it says IS PROPAGANDA!

Censorship in schools are just as reprehensible as other forms of censorship.

WHO rankings, life expectancy stats, infant mortality stat, prices, and coverage rates are NOT objective measures of health care systems. All have been blasted apart time and time again. The WHO rankings were VERY subjective (the US was docked points for the existence of HSAs). The life expectancy and infant mortality stats are distorted because of the methodology. Prices are distorted by Medicare and Medicaid and government regs and taxes and the Fed. Coverage rates are wildly inflated.

Why don't we look at the health care debate. Republicans do say that we have the best health care in the world. This is a fact. When one looks at the objective measures of health care systems, one finds that America comes out at the top. Screening levels for cancers, CV conditions, and other chronic conditions: at or near the top in the world (even for the uninsured). Survival rates for cancers and CV conditions: at the top or near the top.

Wow, drank much of the propaganda Kool-Aid have we?

The only difference between "conservatives" and "liberals" (or more appropriately, given the tone of your comment, Republicans and Democrats) is how they view the government. Conservatives view it as beyond reproach while liberals view it as nothing but reproachable. Both think they are 100% correct in their beliefs, which is, in my opinion, 100% wrong.

PROPAGANDA = SELECTED TRUTHS