Missing in education

Jesus could have written these words: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

God gave them to Emma Lazarus. They are on the Statue of Liberty. The United States is a beacon of hope for all mankind. We are the best hope of mankind. Let us act like it, unite to care for one another. Let there be freedom for all, freedom from ignorance, from fear, from hate, from want, from hunger, from sickness—freedom to be happy, where everyone and every creature is loved and cared for.

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” wrote Dylan Thomas. Burn and rave as long as you have breath. Where there is hatred, sow love; where there is darkness, light; where there is injury, pardon; doubt, faith; despair, hope; sadness, joy. Something is missing in our education. I think it is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Students the world over study this document and take great hope from it. Then they look at us, a great nation, the leader of the world, the architects of the Declaration, going down the path towards the dictatorship of little minds, worshipers of Mammon, who do not understand money.

Money is not real. There is no set supply. The supply of money can expand to meet the demand for money. When there is widespread unemployment and underemployment, the government should engage in deficit spending to invest in our future. U.S. law requires the government to borrow the money to cover the deficit. Sell bonds to the Fed first. The Fed can sell those bonds to the public to counter inflation as necessary. RUUD DuVALL

Fayetteville