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A: adults, that is, can't even read. |
A: And, and we've got the lowest rates of the civilized countries in science and math. |
B: Yeah. |
A: I mean, what are we, what are we becoming? |
A: We're becoming a service country. |
B: As opposed to what we were twenty years ago. |
A: Yeah, |
A: we were an industrial giant, |
A: and now we're we're not going to do it because everybody is beating us at the game. |
A: We taught them how to do it, |
A: and they, they did it better than we do. |
B: Yeah |
A: Simple as that. |
B: because they have the ambition, I guess. |
A: yeah, |
A: simple as that. |
B: Yeah, |
B: which is good for them, |
B: but on the other hand, we kind of lose out. |
A: Yeah, |
A: it's terrible for us. |
B: I think that if, uh, young people had service to the country might give them more ambition. Because they learn that serving other people is a good thing. |
A: Yeah. |
A: Yeah, |
A: and, and it can be good for them, too. |
B: Yeah, |
B: oh yeah. |
A: I mean, even, even the greedy kids that we've got now ... |
B: Oh god, you go to the mall |
B: and you see, you know, fourteen year old kids flaunting money, because the parents give them money to go down and play video games all night, you know |
A: I know. |
B: for what. |
A: I know. |
B: Give me the money |
B: and I'll, I'll teach them something good |
A: Well, you know, you know why they do it is so they can get them out of the house. |
B: Yeah. |
A: Yeah, |
A: uh, that's my other complaint. |
A: Parents aren't parents any more. |
B: No. |
B: They've, they've relinquished their parenting. |
A: Yeah. |
A: One of the other subjects is do you think the public school systems are in trouble? |
B: Yeah. |
A: Well, as a substitute teacher for a year, I, I can say yes. |
B: Yeah, |
B: I mean, I talked with somebody else about that another time, |
B: and, you know, when I's in graduate school working on my master's degree in math, I was, uh, teaching as part of my, part of the program. |
B: And I just love teaching. |
B: That was a lot, that's probably the most fun I had. |
B: And, uh, it helped me out because I learned things and learned how to do things differently. |
A: Yeah. |
A: Uh-huh. |
B: And when, uh, when come time to get out of school, I thought, Boy, I'd like to teach. |
B: But you know, for, for what. |
A: Yeah. |
B: You know, I don't want to live in a little one bedroom apartment the rest of my life. |
A: Exactly. |
B: I mean, that, that's a sad thing to think, |
B: and that's kind of selfish on my part, |
B: and I admit that, |
A: Well, in a way it is, |
A: but you have to look out for yourself you know, |
B: Yeah, |
B: that's right. |
A: I mean, that's |
A: and when we pay garbage men more than we pay teachers, |
B: That's wrong. |
A: Yeah, |
A: gosh, |
A: I mean, |
B: I'm not saying that garbage men should be paid less, |
B: I saying teachers should be paid more. |
A: No, |
A: I mean yeah. |
A: They do an absolutely necessary job, |
A: I mean, I, I have a great deal of admiration for these people who can go out there and do that. |
B: Yeah. |
A: But, uh, I mean, there's, there's a sense of priorities here, too. |
B: Yeah. |
A: You know, we need, |
A: what's more important, picking up the garbage or educating our kids. |
B: Yeah |
B: They both have their place. |
A: Yeah, |
A: they, they, |
A: sure. |
B: But, you know, when it gets right down to it, |
A: I mean, one's |
A: I mean, on the other hand, I mean, you take a garbage man in New York City starts out at twenty-six thousand dollars. |
B: That's pretty good. |
A: Well I bet you there's a whole bunch of homeless people up there who would take that job for thirteen thousand dollars a year. |
B: Yeah. |
A: I mean, my other pet peeve is unions. |
B: Yeah, |
B: oh yeah. |
A: You know, it's just, it's, it's ridiculous the way unions have gone. |
A: There was a time when unions were needed. |
B: And they served a good function. |