What Happens When Your Schools Fail You

Even though Catholic schools have sheltered them from the worst the American education system has to offer, my kids have been taught lots and lots about white male oppression and global warming, but very little about economics or American exceptionalism. With that in mind, watch this Reuters video from Greece. There's a 15-second ad at the front of it, but it's worth waiting through the ad to watch the video.

Greece needs tourism dollars because shipping isn't coming back any time soon.

A 2-year chart of Dry Shipping (DRYS), a good approximation for the health of shipping globally.
In the video, young protestors are throwing Molotov cocktails at the cops and attacking them with clubs. They've trashed the streets of the city. The nation is insolvent, their treasury bankrupt and they're working to damage what little they have left. No one who understood how things really worked would do this. Only people educated in the William Ayers / Jeremiah Wright school of thought would think this was a good idea. These young Greeks think this is a good idea.

Let's personalize this to make it more understandable. Say you're 22 years old and living at home. Your mom loses her job and your dad's hours are cut back. The family can't make their house payments. Credit card collection agencies are starting to call. Your response is to ... tip over the kitchen garbage can and set it on fire, attack your older brother with a broom handle and slash the tires of the family car? How hopelessly screwed up would you have to be to do that?

My goodness, if you did that, you'd be as big an idiot as the kids at UC Berkley.