High school students could have done a better job running the Fed and our Nation's economy than Mr. Greenspan, who now says he trusted the bankers and financiers to self-correct and keep the entire economy from ALMOST !! blowing up. At least teenagers know that people, classmates, students in their classes, their very friends, their very teachers who should be doing their best instead of as little as possible like only reading the textbook to the class day after day,,,have feet of clay, and are easily tempted to do the wrong and easy thing , lie to teachers and even friends, cheat , steal, take drugs against your own body and your own family, engage in super-risky premarital sex before they even are comfortable with their own sexuality and putting a condom on in the daylight of their own private bedrooms, cheating on tests, do their worst to get back at their parents who at 7 years or 10 years are hounding them to "pick a major and a career!!"-the idiots-instead of doing their best for themselves.
Teenagers know one thing: there is the fantasy of values, religion, faith, and friendship,,,and then there is the cruel harsh often-exact-opposite of how the real world is, the reality, a very cold , miserable place if you can't see the difference and deal with the difference.
Teenagers can tell you that continuing to let selfish insurance companies run most of the USA 's health care, with the signifigant exceptions of Medicare, Medicaid, and VA-Fed med. that the Republicans want to do away with,,,is probably inviting excess profit taking, irresponsible behavior by a only slightly regulated industry, and higher and higher prices,,,that they see every day at the snack counter at school or the stores in malls they visit seeing clothes they want but can not get their parents to buy for them. Kids learn early that a business IS in the business of making as much money as possible, cuz a pair of cotton jeans is only worth over $100 if you can sucker your parents to buy them for you, instead of your own kid hard-earned money.
