Higher Education in America

The Wracks is at the big U.   They take the top ten percent of students in the United States.  The Wrack has a high SAT score.  He takes the hour-long bus ride from the suburbs every morning.  The monthly pass for students costs twenty-five dollars.  The bus is new and nice and air-conditioned and drops him off directly on the main campus.   He smokes cigarettes and drinks coffee to keep him going through four hours of classes and eight hours of homework each night.  Some of the older students don’t like him smoking and tell him so.  He sits on the steps of the hall opposite the main library and waits for classes and labs that occur sometimes three times a week.  He has another cigarette and disposes of it.   At five o’clock every day, he and his friend who studies Political Science go to the student union and the wracks have his dinner for 99 cents.   He buys a bowl of stew which is different every day and a pack of saltine crackers.  When he needs some sleep he sleeps in public in the plush chairs in the reading room of the student union.  He goes to school every morning at seven and comes home every night on the last bus at 9 fifty-five.  The days go by and he studies chemistry and genetics and whatever is necessary to get a degree. Hopefully, this work lands him a good job somewhere or at least in graduate school.  But it didn’t.

Sitting on the steps of the big Hall smoking, the Wracks notice that all the upper-class students dress in nice clothes, pair up with beautiful women, and go to a bar in town at lunch.   In the summer they fly on vacation, go skiing, and in the winter go to Hawaii.   The Wracks takes the six-week summer session that is so intense, that he can only take one.   Then he needs to rest.  The students who drive around in nice cars, and don’t show up for lectures, all get straight A’s in science. He sees the grades on the board every month.  With all his work, all he can earn is a B.  He wonders why.  He eventually sees, after he graduates, that the reason rich students are so gifted is because they buy the exams the night before taking them and have starving graduate students do their homework.  The most prestigious and important positions in society are occupied by rich criminals.  All the doctors a person depends on for their lives and all attorneys people use to keep them out of prison are unscrupulous cheaters.  Rich mothers and fathers buy licensing exams for their children a year beforehand, and they memorize them, and then take the test to become licensed professionals.  In addition, in the book “The Challenge of Democracy”, the text states that one-half of all political appointments is favoritism.   The Wracks think it always was this way, no matter what society.  Our nation created by geniuses as a nation under God is run by criminals and mental defectives who are related to the politicians in power

Can it be said that the author is a non-productive worker, this may be true.   The way the Wracks think to rectify this condition is to make all certifying examinations and licensing Boards public domain in a huge tome for all to read and have access to.  All a student needs to do is purchase a book with a compendium of all the latest test questions, study them, and pass the boards.   This way everyone is on equal footing.   This is how they do it in Mexico. 

One of the greatest Americans that ever lived was Thomas Jefferson.   He hung a huge two-hundred-pound wheel of cheddar cheese from the roof and lived on it.   His water supply was eventually contaminated with arsenic and he went blind.   They did not have water filtration devices in those days.  He is the one who wrote the song “Country Road”, and when he was blind,  he trained horses to take him into town and back every day until he died.  It is his idea, and his only to make the practice of Law available to all Americans in good standing who can pass the bar.  This way the forces in power cannot stack the judiciary with elitists.   Medicine should be the same way.  Instead of begging, and stealing to get into an opulent medical school.  Any American who passes the board examinations should be allowed to matriculate to an internship and get their license.  In medicine, the house staff has the final say if an individual is to be certified, to be ethical enough to practice medicine.  It has to be that way.

It is imperative and critical that a nation be guided by the appropriate people, not the best porno actors. It is nearly impossible to seize military control of a nation unless the elite can stack the judiciary and the medical sector.   If we the people ensure that professionals are smart enough, ethical enough, and strong enough, no person or military can unseat the government, and the United States can continue to function as One Nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.