Education - the way to win or lose the future

I've been saying this one for years. Much like Detroit fell fast because of poor education, I think whole countries can become backward hicks if you let education fall apart. If you slack on that responsibility then all you have in one generation is a bunch of people on welfare or working low pay jobs.

As you can see here, it's just the tip of the iceberg of Chinese dominance in this area. You pump out hundreds of millions of honor students and our kids will be wanting to go there for college. They'll be exporting their specialists all over the globe. Too soon to tell if everyone in Africa will speak Chinese as a second language but I'm just throwing that out there so you're not surprised.

So as John Boehner cries about the kids and their future, his party votes to cut education spending even further. I think one missle defense system could go unfunded to pay for something this important, don't you?