It's not the best one. It's not the great one. You're speaking with the juices one.

These people, these people are efficient, professional, compulsive consumers. It's their civic

duty, consumption. It's the new national pastime, fuck baseball. It's consumption. The only true

lasting American value that's left, buying things, buying things. People spending money they don't

have on things they don't need. Money they don't have on things they don't need. So they can max out

their credit cards and spend the rest of their lives paying 18% interest on something that costs

1250. And they didn't like it when they got at home anyway. Not too bright folks, not too

fucking bright. But if you're talking to one of them about this, if you isolate one of them,

you sit them down rationally and you talk to them about the low IQs and the dumb behavior and the

bad decisions, right away they start talking about education. That's the big answer to everything.

Education. We need more money for education. We need more books, more teachers, more classrooms,

more schools. We need more testing for the kids. You say to them, well you know we've tried all

of that and the kids still can't pass the test. So I don't you worry about that. We're going to lower

the passing grades. And that's what they're doing. A lot of these schools. Now they lower the passing

grades so more kids can pass. More kids pass. The school looks good. Everybody's happy. The IQ

of the country slips another two or three points. I'm pretty soon. All you'll need to get into

college is a fucking pencil. Got a pencil. Get the fuck in there. It's physics. Then everyone

wonders why 17 other countries graduate more scientists than we do. Education. Politicians know

that word. They use it on you. Politicians have traditionally hidden behind three things,

the flag, the Bible, and children. No child left behind. No child left behind. Oh really? Well

it wasn't long ago you were talking about giving kids a head start. Head start left behind.

Someone's losing fucking ground here. But there's a reason. There's a reason. There's a reason for

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