Grand. I realize that the general American public is not educated enough to check on what the schools are handing out as academics. For this reason, I believe that the Federal government should have the authority to rationally check out the most efficient ways of teaching academic subjects.

They are too quick to hand our mandates without reason! If the Feds are going to get involved, at least have them do something worth while! I didn't need the Feds to tell me about academics and I located a system, found a school to taught it and continued this until my kids were out of college.

I don't want the Feds in anyway to complete with private enterprise and remember a movement in the 50s to get them out of the uniform manufacturing business. We took it all the way to the house and senate and won!

The federal government is very limited in its authority over the states and citizens but for the last 40 years has become agressively taking on authority they cannot do efficiently. What we have is a couple of generations of totally uneducated communicators posing as American adults.

I am not a Objectivist in the terms of today's group. They have taken a simple philosophy of Rands and taken it through the gutter of our present society and trashed the whole thing. Having a philosophy of this importance does not mean talking in terms totally unfamiliar with reality. We have a group here in Tucson who spend hours each day talking pure garbage about some level of a higher power in their own minds. Rand would totally cut them off after a single paragraph was written. You sound like one of those and I am not interested in your modern version of Rand's simple philosophy.

I got it from her in person with hours of my own questioning of something I thought everyone understood. I am always shocked at the appeal of socialism in our lives which to me is nothing but mental laziness!

The less involvement in our daily lives by any level of government makes for freer citizens. If we have developed a level of citizens who cannot handle their lives without federal support (financial and emotional) then we should discuss it and change the damn system. I did not raise my kids to be wards of the government but I know that millions of Americans are doing just that. For 40 years the American voters are only concerned with what they and their children want from our government. Now we have the seniors gathering as a voting bloc to take what many of these slime bags are promising us in the way of freebies.

It's simple, it's easy to understand and it is unpopular. You are typical of the neo objectivists who believe they are superior to everyone else and your opinions are insulting and ridiculous!

Since 1992 the Christian coalition has moved toward having an influence on our government. They are working full time to bring the Supreme Court to ban all the sins found in the bible. I am concerned that this could actually happen and turn America into another Inquisition of such hatred displayed between Christians (Protestants/Catholics) and of course the renewal of a movement to rid America of all the other faiths and movements (Jews/Gays/Muslims).

I have attended these neo Conservative conferences and the amount of influence that Jerry Falwell, Paul Weyrich, and Pat Robertson is building is shocking and deadly.

The American citizens are not truly involved in their churches but the politicians are setting up actions to remove the study of evolution and any comparitive discussions of the various differences in our religious backgrounds. Nothing will upset this country more than a religious battle. For some reason the churches have lost their clout with their members and offer nothing but the fear of dying without Jesus. This is dangerous stuff for America. Our children have nothing to gain from attending Sunday school and now public school. The dumbing down of America is aiming for every level of our society. I believe the evil starts with the federal government making promises of great wealth attained by a redistribution of wealth that everyone seems to want.

The Democrats and Republicans are causing this harmful philosophy and will certainly start a war on which party can offer more aid to the voters. It is this mess that I am working to talk people into standing on their own feet, training their own children and making demands on the stupid school system.

You insist on taking Objectivism into a much more complicated form of communication and you lose more people in your discourse than necessary. I have taken Rand's words and simplified them so that even our dumbest citizens can see where she indeed is rational and RIGHT!

You and I will never agree on what went wrong in America and how to fix it. We were bought, lock, stock and barrel and people no longer care as long as they can get their hands into the pot.

I have been cutting through bullshit for 50 years. I was just 20 when I discovered the words of Rand and found a lot of people who agreed with the simplicity of her words.