The other day on the radio I heard some remarks that emphasized the importance of the kind of thing Leo is doing.

A young black man called into the Hannity radio program, saying that he wanted to be a USN Seal, and at the same time railing against the “top 5% of income earners” who he claimed “sucked up so much of the wealth” and thus impoverished others, saying that Obama was going to fix those greedy people.

If I could have talked to that young man I am afraid that I would have told him that he had already failed the entry tests for getting into the US Military, since it required an Oath to the Constitution and that in turn implied a real understanding of the document.

The fact that someone interested in defending the country could so clearly believe in class warfare is very disturbing. That someone could see the top 5% of income earners not as those who provided capital, leadership, and innovation that produced both wealth and jobs while paying far more than their “fair share” of taxes on income that in many cases they did in fact not even really earn – well, that shows we have a very big problem in education.