It's not our schools that are failing, it's our students who are failing. Kids having kids have dumbed down the country that our forefathers worked so hard to build. Instead of promoting success we excuse failure. Our country's deterioration can be connected to our unwillingness to hold people accountable for their life choices. We give people reasons for not working, not succeeding. We can be a stronger, healthier and more successful nation if we would stop excusing laziness and insisting on contribution of efforts not money.

Great broadcast! I was just thinking that this conversation would never have taken place in Dallas. Thanks!

Ideas - are they not like a virus?
What we have to live by:

Voices in your Head,
Echos in my Brain,
Virus in our Thinking,
Reverberations thru the Mind.

What I would like to know is whether it is true that people who make 'laws' for Others to live by are in effect DICTATORS.

One idea that is dead is one way media. Twitter for example is a conversation not another way to push our stories. You often see old media trying to control the message and failing to understand that the viewers are now the media.

This guy scares me! A true believer if there ever was one. If his ideas are so great why does he include telling us that are kids will certainly have it musch worse and be poorer than us?

Did you vote for hope and change that promises poverty and cradle to grave government control of your life?

Things are going to get a lot harder before they get easier, whether the Federal Tax goes up, whether equality in the school systems. Life is changing. We may not like it, but I believe in order to do the best that we can do is push the next generation to be the best that they can be. Get the degrees in University/College. Minimum wage jobs are no longer going to cut it. Proven fact. Mentally, people need to change their outlooks on life, it's not about texting, chatting, etc, it's about making it financially threw to the next day.

Miller is a hard left lib and his proposals are right along party lines.
Contrary to Miller saying it is poor quality, our health care quality is the best in the world. Yes, it is expensive, but the answer is not another Govt. run program. Travel a little Mr. Miller. I have and I would take our medical care anyday; the Canadians do. Their system is imploding.
We do not need Natl.health care. We need reform pure and simple. That can be done without a Govt. run system.
Put constraints on insurance companies. Is the Govt. afraid to do that head on? Encourage co-op startups. Allow cross state insurance shopping. Get some competition without Govt. run programs. Cap drug prices. The markup is criminal.
I have medicare. If those of you in your 20-50 age brackett want to experience Medicare, support Govt. Health Insurance. It is rationed care like you have never experienced.

America economy was founded on ideas from Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations. These ideas of freedom and free trade are central to America's success. The notion that these old ideas that America was founded on are now dead is backward thinking. 200 years of unprecedented economic success and based on free trade and these ideas. This recession which is like dozens of past recessions has made many including President Obama to quickly abandon the ideas that are contained in the Consitution and have been the result of our ancestor's economic progress. Many including Matt Miller would try to convince you that government planning is the only way to continued economic progress when in fact history proves otherwise. Why abandon the thing that makes our country different and great? By relying on the government we are throwing away the American dream and becoming like every other country in the world!

Miller is the same as people during the Woodrow Wilson Presidency that caused more hardships on the American public than at any other time in America. Many of Obama's advisors (Czars) are of the same ilk and they plan the same things for us because they think we are too stupid to know what is good for us. In fact, many comments left of left leaning blogs say the same thing, that we are too stupid. There are not many people today that remember the history of 1912 - 1920, the period of time that Woodrow Wilson was President, but, if you do a little research to get around the sanitized history of today, you will find that President Wilson was America's first fascist President. I think that Obama is headed in the same direction.

Matt Miller sounds like one of those idiots who considers any ideas that don't agree with his as being dead. It's like a guy I know where I work who doesn't consider something to be art if HE doesn't think it is art. Or, like my father when I was a kid, any music he didn't like was nothing but noise. People like that just show how ignorant they are nearly every time they open their mouths. He also thinks more government is better. Yeah, right! The government is always so successful in everything they do. Just look how they run the post office and the IRS. Heck, the government can't even run the government. So, why would we want them running the various aspects of our lives?

I don't understand why, when something no longer works as it has in the past, the first place we look to dump the problem on is the federal government. I think the reason is because once you dump it in DC's lap you can divorce yourself from any responsibility for it.

Education worked, and worked well, with the US having one of the best public educations available world wide 75-100 years ago. Then it was provided for and over seen by local government. Teachers were responsible to local school boards and the parents that made up local boards. The more we gave away to the federal government the spiral downward started and then public education started to fail.

It was not a dead idea - it was an idea we gave away to politicians to run. While it may not have been perfect - it was better then anything else.

The same thing will happen as we give away our private insurance to the federal government to manage instead of allowing it to be a benefit through ones employer through a free market where one can get the best policies for the best cost. People will still be uninsured or under insured but what changes is that the benefit we used to have is worth a great deal less as we can't have anything better then what the guy with the least has. I want the best medical care when I get sick, at the best facilities and not be told that since national health insurance only will cover X and Y the facility no longer offers Z.

We know what has happened to Medicare; you have to have it even if you never use it as they take the money for it before your retirement even goes out to you and its a dying system that covers less and less every year. States did little better with the Medicaid systems and if they could not do it then why will they be any better at it now?

Sit back and call them dead idea, toss them to the federal government to manage, and we will be sitting here in 10 years wondering how we ended up with such lousy medical care in this country. Private sector health insurance may not be perfect but its better then anything else out there.

Once you give these ideas away, call them dead and refuse take any action before you allow the politicians to kill a system that is not broken there is no way to really ever expect you will get it back and own it yourself.

It might look all nice and shiny on paper, a savings for employers in the hope that they can pay out less in benefits and more in salary - when has that ever come true but 10 years from now as facilities and equipment age, and there is no profit margin to buy the latest medical equipment and keep up the facility and so many of the business around medical supplies have closed their doors, research becomes something facilities can no longer afford to support and shake your heads at the state of medical care in this country remember back to when you handed the federal government your health care.