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10 Steps to Economic and Educational Success - Facing Reality Versus the Fairness Myth
Here's what the country faces: The confusion of do gooding and fairness with achievement and success.

What ails the united states economy and its own education system is the constant desire to rationalize the idea of equal outcome. By the type of being human, you'll always have a pecking order. Some will succeed more than others. Having taught in a public school in New York City, it was clear years ago and clearer today, why our education and economic climate are declining.

The concentrate on mediocrity. Pass students at all costs who have been in 7th and 8th grade reading at 3rd and 4th grade levels. The school unions were oppressive. The older teachers wanted a job. There is no merit system.

Today, we face the most insane economic policies led by a President and Congress determined to arrange America into one big community ruled purely by their idea of fairness and what they determine is right for all of us.

The new King - what the constitution looked to safeguard against - is taxing us economically socially and educationally without true representation.

They encourage the all too familiar political gambit play the rich - and successful - contrary to the taken advantage middle and poor. In the name of fairness and mediocrity - rather than meritocracy - we have been being overtaken by bureaucrats that believe to profit and succeed is evil - meaning unfair.

Yet, they soak the entire popular with their ridiculous salaries, pensions and benefits. what is www united states is crippled by a double standard where big is OK since they have the dollars to buy politicians through lobbyist and contributions. In turn, the politicians vote for them to obtain the votes and the backing.

The result is a Fed controlled by an academic who has little understanding of simple business. He is a political animal who lacks good sense. The believes we are reliving the Depression. Yet, all predictive models have already been shown you cannot predict the future from the past. You can learn from it however the future will be different.

The idea that you can keep borrowing your way to prosperity following Keynesian models is a pipe dream. There are no free lunches.

What do I would recommend seems more a wish list:

Get back to the basics of what made this country great - support small company and entrepreneurs
Foster true fairness by raising all school standards and facing that students are failing for a number of reasons - teaching methods, emotional issues, cultural circumstances, economic reasons and purely differences in intelligence.
Stop spending. Balance the budget. Everyone has to take less.
Stop raising taxes to cover up the wasteful, uncontrolled spending
Stop borrowing
Politicians and bureaucrats need to be put on a system based upon meritocracy not pork barreling. This implies a reporting system online of what they're doing which is understandable.
Have big business ally with education and small company in order to incentivize innovation and job creation.
Give incentives to smaller businesses, entrepreneurs which will create more start ups, jobs and long term investment.
Create an atmosphere of greater economic certainty by honoring the successful and not bailing out the unsuccessful. It's good to succeed also to be wealthy if done within the rules (rules that aren't onerous)
Make the federal government stay because the referee not the participant.
Do I believe this will happen?

No.

Why?

Because we are attractive to the lowest common denominator - to fairness which sounds moral and wonderful. Fairness attracts very bright and idealistic people.

But only being realistic, facing the current reality going back to basics and taking our current medicine will return us to being the economic and social engine that the world has admired. When you are the world's policeman in the name of fairness, we have been being unfair to the Americans we are supposedly trying to help.

Consider of the enormous waste of money going to wars, pork barrel, bureaucrats, entitlements etc.

It reminds me of failing companies where everyone gets around a table and says we can not cut any expenses. But, we are losing money - plenty of it.

Finally, the company faces the news - we have been going under. Suddenly, there are many proposals for cuts but often too late. That's our federal state governments today. Fairness and mediocrity versus reality and meritocracy.

Bureaucracy versus Entrepreneurship. Unfortunately, I believe its time and energy to face we have been going under. I hope it isn't too late.

Gary Spirer began his career at the prestigious investment banking firm Lazard Freres, where he worked at their real estate affiliate. Subsequently, Gary founded his own real estate company, Capital Hill Realty. In property Gary has developed, syndicated and committed to properties that in today's value, aggregate over $500 million. Gary has raised over $60 million dollars from individuals and small funds.

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