If the economic future of USA is to out-educate and out-invent our way out of crippliing debt then?

Wow! This is insightful. Americans are told how important education is, but schools are taking a back seat to financing unpopular wars and the proliferation of the prison industrial complex.

Already Americans spend roughly $185 BILLION per year to incarcerate 2.3 million people ($50 billion for actual prison costs, and the rest for prosecution and trial, etc. ). But that is not nearly enough for private prison profiteers. The NAACP asked Congress to incriminate menthol cigarette smokers - the kind of cigarette that 80% of black smokers use.

America's War on Drugs cost nearly $500 million in 2005 although less than 4% of the money went to drug rehab. If menthol cigarettes get outlawed, the price tag for that war will soar. Your relatives and friends who smoke menthol cigarettes will be imprisoned to supply more free workers to replace paid workers for Fortune 500 companies, federal and state governments who seek to avoid unions, minimum wage and worker safety laws.

Crime and punishment have gotten to be a racket, and as usual, taxpayers pick up the bill. See my Hub, "NAACP vs. Black Cigarette Smokers" for details. Thanks!

Education is not a "Quick Fix" and we love our quick fixes. Politicians only have a couple of years to try and show they are trying to make an impact and we as a population like things to happen now. Our government and our politicians constantly put our futures at risk by cutting or playing around with those benefits that will not come due for years or even decades in an effort to satisfy our supposed needs for today.By the very nature of how our government works we are not encouraged to save for a rainy day.

Investments in education take 20 years to pay off... hand outs to the "needy" take a lot less time and result in votes to those politicians in the successive round of elections.

Economy,debt,education,free market uncensored inventions, and politicians doing much more than getting paid would better topics in Grim's Fairy tales and Mother Goose. Become household terms with Santa Claus,Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. Their is power,control,greed,lies,and brainwashing and that is about the size of it......

Americans expect 100% from one person, and one person only. Ha.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.