THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DEMOCRATS AND SOCIALISTS

By now many of you have heard about the exchange between cable T.V. personality Mr. Chris Matthews and Democratic National Committee Chairperson, Debbie Wasserman Shultz, concerning the difference between Democrats and Socialists.  For those who missed it, Mr. Matthews asked Ms. Shultz that very question and for some reason, she seemed to have great difficulty giving him an answer, quickly or otherwise.  She finally deflected the question into the difference between Democrats and Republicans.  At a time in the immediate future the same scenario repeated itself with another T.V. personality, Mr. Chuck Todd, of a broadcast television network.  I'll leave it to you to decide why Ms. Shultz, the Chairperson of the Democratic National Committee, appeared to struggle with what seems to little ole me, a rather simple straight forward question.  Now, if I were a Republican, which I am not, I would immediately and forcefully plead guilty to at least one of the charges so eloquently brought by Ms. Shultz about the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans.  Ms. Shultz charged that the Republicans want to put more emphasis on public education by the private sector rather than the government.  OK...... using intelligence rather than ideology, let's analyze this from a results oriented perspective.  When I graduated high school in 1965 (yes I'm old), America was ranked NUMBER 1 in the world in math and science and NUMBER 1 in the world in education overall.  In 1979, the now 2nd worst President in the history of our republic, Mr. Jimmy Carter, for reasons to be discussed in a later post, gave us the Federal Department of Education thus taking control away from local and state officials and moving it to the central federal government.  Fast forward to the present and untold TRILLIONS (with a T) of dollars later. America is presently, depending on whose numbers you use, ranked 25th or so in math and science and 30th or so, give or take 5 or 10, in education overall.  After all, "what difference at this point does it make?", but I digress.  As a businessman, I guess I can say businessman and not businessperson, without offending some ideology, those are results that I would avoid like a black hole. In the business world (evil private sector) those kinds of results will lead to bankruptcy unless you are "too big to fail" or "too corrupt to fail" or some other mindless "chosen" by the ruling class and the emperor. So, once again, If I were a Republican, which I am not, I would plead guilty as charged by Ms. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairperson of the Democratic Committee. Having said all of this, there is still hope. As people of faith, we are the largest voting bloc in America, and we can change the culture.
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