Posted by Tina
More historical obfuscation from Obama’s address to Congress, by Joseph Rosenberger American Thinker
** President Obama opined, “History reminds us that at every moment of economic upheaval and transformation, this nation has responded with bold action and big ideas. In the midst of civil war, we laid railroad tracks from one coast to another that spurred commerce and industry.” *** The expansion of the railroads was accomplished by, primarily, British railroad speculators and a land bribe, giving a section (one square mile) of land along each mile of railroad bed right-of-way. It cost taxpayers nothing, and created hundreds of thousands of jobs and planted the seeds of the great catalog retailers, Sears Roebuck and Co. and J.C. Penney. To suggest that the great railroad expansion was a Federal program is patently silly. **
** He continues to misrepresent, “From the turmoil of the industrial revolution came a system of public high schools that prepared our citizens for a new age.” Again, public education was not championed by the Federal government. Public schools were local efforts by local citizens out of a civic duty. *** The President could not have picked a more ironic example next, “In the wake of war and depression, the GI bill sent a generation to college and created the largest middle class in history.” *** The GI bill was a tuition assistance voucher that did not discriminate against religious schools. If the President means to follow this example, he should pursue the expansion of vouchers to neighborhood secondary schools. (Fat chance.) **
Read the entire article…theres more…and it speaks poorly of our educational system if the man who has become our highest representative and leader…the President of the United States…has such a poor grasp of American history!