Because Americans are greedy and want results right then and there. They are very impatient and if they want something, they'll do whatever it takes to get it. Want a good example? Most Americans are fat. Why? Because they are very impatient and they want food right then and there and thus they get instant results. Obesity.

What's with this personal attack? You don't even know me.


Low life:...I'll let it slide...
Poorly educated: By American standards, my education is incredibly rigorous. By Chinese standards (country I come from), my education's barely on par with them.
Sixteen year old: What does this have to do with anything? There are four year olds smarter than adults. So drop the assumptions, OK?

As for politicians in a position to know whatever, I can't describe the process to you. I'm not that educated. Remember that I wrote something about it being in a whole 'nother level compared to college level physics.

There was a clandestine government agency devoted to the program. It must not have been easy. Point I'm trying to make is that politicians really don't know much about the things they contest. (Ex. Obama may try to push health care reform through, yet I doubt he knows how the cure for pneumonia works step by step.) So Obama really shouldn't just conjure the bill out of the blue and try to pass it through as a whatever whatever.

Right, I was saying that the politicians need to consult experts, that they can't just go and pass this out of the blue.

He needs to know how it affects the people, the pros and the cons in terms of well-being, finance, morale and in this case educational benefit.
It's not like he's just spouted this out with no knowledge of these things. There will have been hundreds of studies, tests, polls and the like put in front of him and his relevent advisers, and they will have interpreted the facts to come up with a policy.
These are not out of the blue.

Those facts were that the USA has low educational standards relative to other developed nations, and that US students spend on average less time in class than other developed nations.
Given that correlation, any logical person would propose increasing the time students spend in school.[/color]

I have already countered that.

If you really think Obama or his advisers would suggest something like this without talking to experts first you are very naive and ignorant to the way they devise policy.

Ok, I'm just going to pop in here and say that you're stereotyping politicians. The politicians basically run America, and they wouldn't be politicians if they're as stupid as you think they are. They're smart, smarter than you, and I'm sure that Obama's done a lot of research to back up his opinion. That being said, just because it may works doesn't mean it's the best way to go about the education issue.

You are aware those laws were probably made 100 years ago?

and they wouldn't be politicians if they're as stupid as you think they are. They're smart, smarter than you

Oh yeah, that George Bush is a fucking genius.

.I don't care if he pronounces "nuclear" funny or you thought he handled the war on terrorism poorly or he said a few stupid things or whatever. He deserves some props. (He was at least smart enough to be elected and re-elected.)

Did you get into Yale and Harvard? No? Okay, shut up.

I don't care if he pronounces "nuclear" funny or you thought he handled the war on terrorism poorly or he said a few stupid things or whatever. He deserves some props. (He was at least smart enough to be elected and re-elected.)

LOL you actually think he's smart?

Oh you poor thing!!!!

Seriously though, you just made me snort XD

No, rather, Bush was personally influential enough.

And his brother was the governor of Florida, one of the disputed vote states.

Did you get into Yale and Harvard? No? Okay, shut up.

I don't care if he pronounces "nuclear" funny or you thought he handled the war on terrorism poorly or he said a few stupid things or whatever. He deserves some props. (He was at least smart enough to be elected and re-elected.)

Degrees and Ivy league schools don't really mean shit. The guy sucked as a president and mishandled many things. He made the USA pretty much the laughingstock of the world, and the entire earth celebrated when he was officially out of office.

Did you get into Yale and Harvard? No? Okay, shut up.

Sort of. There are also a lot of other reprehensible things he probably did to force his way into the school.

And he attacked an innocent country, putting us into a "war" we can't leave.

Bush only got into those schools because his dad payed for it.

And he attacked an innocent country, putting us into a "war" we can't leave.

I did happen to read in the article about the study. However, again, you can't just assume that the conclusions drawn from a clustered and localized sample can be applied to the general population. I'm pretty sure that Georgia and Alaska have different education systems. Trying to universally impose a 3 hour extension regardless of merit, grade, age, location, demographics, and other factors (as can be inferred from the article) is perfect proof of shallow understanding of the situation by overzealous politicians.

Shut up all of you, Bush is awesome.

What other president have they ever made a cartoon of?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m4d8sKRA5I

-Nobody that's who.

Oh right. I forgot...

@Femme Fatale:

Right, I was saying that the politicians need to consult experts, that they can't just go and pass this out of the blue. Like me, I can't cook unless I consult a cooking book, or a cook. Right?

So...yup...sums it all up in one sentence...

As Ultimate Prosecutor said, he's NOT passing this out of the blue. Obama HAS advisors, he HAS spoken with experts. He's put in research and tried to put 1 and 1 together. Maybe he didn't go about it the right way, but he's not an idiot. It's not like he just pulled this idea out of his ass. Unless you're insinuating that you know more about politics, child's psychology, education, nuclear phsyics and et cetera than your own president, his advisors AND the experts they've probably consulted?

By the way, your examples haven't been "Obama doesn't know the recipe, therefore he can't cook" your examples have been "Obama doesn't know the anatomy of a goat, therefore he cannot cook." It's somewhat related, but at the end, you're completely off.