When a stone is thrown into a pond, you have the immediate reaction of a loud, explosive splash of water.  That is all you get, what you see and  perceived to have happened to your immediate five senses.  Then you move on.  What you did not see, nor will see is the after affect, of the stone floating downward until it lands upon the bottom.  You do not see what kind of damage it causes as it falls to the bottom nor what, if any, damage it causes once it lands.  Nor do you see how the affects of the ripples that now emanate outward, the effect those waves have as they cause surface disturbances and finally crash upon the shoreline. 
   The same value can be added to our current fiscal crisis in the United States and how the Federal and State Governments, Corporations and Businesses, and individuals reacted.  At this nexus, B.E.V. can cite the example of how so many college educations have gone to waste except for the University's and College's that have reaped huge financial benefits from the endless turnstile of freshmen start up to senior graduates.  The University system has failed to prepare these millions of men and women to address and solve the complex issues of our time, but:

The nation's top party schools, according to Princeton Review's 2009 survey of 122,000 students.

1. Penn State University, State College, Pa.

2. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

3. University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss.

4. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.

5. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio

6. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.

7. University of Texas, Austin, Texas

8. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

9. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.

10. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif.

11. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.

12. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

13. Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.

14. Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind.

15. DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind.

16. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.

17. Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.

18. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D.

19. Tulane University, New Orleans, La.

20. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.

     So will these schools graduate more of the same?  Graduates that have memories of drunken nights, sexual escapades, and nothing really to show for it all but a piece of paper and a monumental 'bill' to pay back?   What about finding a cure for cancer, fore seeing financial crisis, architecture that withstands hurricanes?   "But dude..I got that clip from Spring Break in Mexico on YouTube with a million hits."  

    Did anyone foresee what was going to happen when the real estate market went bust?   Living along the Gulf Coast, I kept asking myself and my better half....."They keep building more huge condo's, more housing developments, where's the money coming from to build all of that and who is going to buy all of that stuff?"   As God as my witness I asked that years ago.....did anyone else?  

    Did anyone foresee the birth of a new hybrid of feral dog?  I caught this one History Channel last week.  A whole new breed of dog, dark in color, short hair, medium build, that has dominant features of large pit bull terriers and German Shepard.  Not to mention the huge problem of roving packs of dogs left behind by people I find lower than pond scum who abandoned their homes.    Did you know dear reader that people have been killed by packs of these dogs???!!!

     Did anyone foresee how the insect world would take advantage of all of these abandoned home?  Wasp and bee hives are thriving in these structures, altering the natural balance of a very delicate kingdom.  Not to mention how this is another plague of danger that faces people in their day to day living by being neighbors to such homes, inspectors, kids, power and gas workers.  

    Did anyone foresee how the banking system was going to collapse under the weight of bad mortgages?  That there was really, nothing, to hold up those mortgages except lines of credit.  Behind those lines of credit, promises from State and Federal Governments to back those lines of credit...with what?  Money borrowed from very potential and real threats to our very existence as a Nation as in the People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, and most Middle East oil Nations?

    Did not anyone even comment on the lines of ill made automobiles coming out of Detroit?  Obviously the CEO's and Unions failed to see nor say anything.  Quantity over quality was their mantra.  Now we're all paying for it. 

     Why bail out banks that have failed?  Did not anyone learn from our failed Welfare system that once given, it's then excepted forever?    Did no one see how money on top of money just given away does not solve a problem.  Many of Lottery winners can testify to that truth for they end up just as broke as they once were.  Instead of backing up the American taxpayer which would/does back up our Nation, and letting banks and companies just fail and allow the natural order to take place, rush to judgment poured now 'trillions' of dollars into black holes of oblivion. 

    Same can be said of the current health care bill and health care 'crisis'.  The only 'crisis' in health care is in how the paperwork and competing companies have failed the American People.   This is the point of attack the Government should have taken instead of wasting or tax dollars, our time, and dividing this Nation's People.  Building another bureaucracy is not going to solve any problem, but it will create a mountain of additional problems. That will not be a stone in a pond, but a massive boulder. 

     What's most sad, is how history is repeating itself.   Despite all of the protesting done in the 1960's/70's by the Hippies and Leftist, who are now in charge of our Government for the past 17 years......the U.S.A. is repeating Vietnam in Afghanistan and totally misread Iraq.   God bless our troops, and I mean that with the most sincerity I can ever say.  For our troops have gone above and beyond for the sake of the poorly educated politicians and leaderships of various agencies that populate Washington D.C. 

    This is the most poignant reason why The People are telling our Government now....slow down, and stay out of our business, professionally and personally.