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Show quote | Sign In to save your setting (remove disclaimer). Photo of George Carlin Its the new national pastime. Fuck baseball. Its consumption. The only true lasting American value thats left. Buying things. Buying things. People spending money they dont have on things they don't need. Money they dont have on things they dont need. So they can max out their credit cards and spend the rest of their lives paying eighteen percent interest on something that cost $12.50. And they didn't like it when they got it home anyway. Not too bright folks. Not too fucking bright. But if you talk to one of them about this. If you isolate one of them, you sit them down rationally, and you talk to them about the low IQs and the dumb behaviour and the bad decisions. Right away they start talking about education. That's the big answer to everything. Education. They say we need more money for education. We need more books. More teachers. More classrooms. More schools. We need more testing for the kids. You say to them, well, you know, we've tried all of that and the kids still cant pass the tests. They say, Dont you worry about that. Were going to lower the passing grades. And thats what they do in a lot of these schools now. They lower the passing grades so more kids can pass. More kids pass, the school looks good, everybody's happy, the IQ of the country slips another two or three points and pretty soon all you'll need to get into college is a fucking pencil. Got a pencil? Get the fuck in there, its physics. Then everyone wonders why other seventeen countries graduate more scientists than we do.
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