(V): implied that your education has become lacking compared to certain other countries.. such as ours.

I have always believed that to be true... since our schools are run by the government, who is pretty bad at running anything.... thats the same reason i do not want the government running our health care or much of anything for that matter except the military.

Add to the fact that liberals are dumbing down our schools with such great ideas as pass fail only grades, and not using red markers to grade exams, as examples, there are many others as well, its a head scratcher why anyone would advocate for our government to run more thin gs instead of fewer!