We all know that we have problems in our nation. Few realize how bad our education problems are. Not just porn in schools -- which is atrocious and surprisingly everywhere from red states to blue and from big cities to small. Even some little hamlets are finding dads in cowboy country coming in angry about their boys being depredated upon.

But I want to talk to you about the problems of basic education. Yes, in your town where the headlines say how great the schools are. Yes, in your town where there are plenty of private and Christian schools. Yes.... we have an illiteracy problem.

If someone could have schemed how to taken down our nation.. they would have done this. Well, sorry, they did do this.

It is hidden that people can not actually read well. But employers know it when they can't find people to hire. (Well, lack of character such that prospective employees don't want to actual work is another problem.) It is a problem when your Bank VP can't read the bank's advertisement. It is a problem when your school teacher can not pass the literacy test. Oh, right, that happened back in the 1990s in Texas. The powers that be spun it to make the population think the test was a competency test; it was not ideological; it was a literacy test. And boy, were there re-takes.

Let's consider this problem and what we might do about it.

And let's mention WHY it is so important.