This week my daughter, a junior at a local private high school, showed me what she was learning in U.S. History.  They were studying the New Deal and FDR.  One of the study question, that she was working on, caught my eye : "How did the New Deal attempt to regulate agriculture and business?  What was the result of such legislation?"

And her answer: "The New Deal called for more government regulations of agriculture and business.  In May 1933, the Agriculture Adjustment Act became law.  Seeking to increase prices for agricultural products by reducing the supply of food, the government paid farmers not to plant crops or graze livestock on pasture land.  Many Americans were upset that the government would pay farmers to reduce the food supply at a time when many people could not afford to pay higher prices for food."

"Also in 1933, the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was established to control wages and prices and to limit competition among business while encouraging labor organizations.  Many factories shut down or laid off workers because employers could no longer make a profit.  Though these and other efforts to regulate agriculture and business were supposedly intended to combat the Depression, they actually hurt the economy and prolonged the Depression.  Some believed that President Roosevelt and other proponents of the New Deal were deliberately trying to prolong the Depression in order to persuade the American people to accept welfare socialism as a way of life."

"The New Deal clearly threatened the American tradition of free enterprise (capitalism).  By 1939, after six years of government job programs, regulation, and deficit spending, over 9 million workers remained unemployed.  The New Deal had done little to help the economy, and in fact had prolonged the Depression.  FDR's New Deal program laid the foundation for a social welfare state by expanding the powers of the federal government over business, industry, and agriculture, and by by making many Americans dependent on government for their daily needs."

Wow!  I did not think this information was taught anymore.  I immediately looked at the book title "United States History, Heritage of Freedom" and the publisher, ABeka Book."

I was reminded that the University of California does not recognize high school classes that use ABeka or Bob Jones curriculum.  Of course not, the UC system wants only sanitized history that is made politically correct as fits the agenda of bigger government, more government control and higher taxes.  If kids were taught the real history Obama, Pelosi, Reed and their good pal Charlie Brown would not get to first base with their current agenda because everyone would know, based on history, it will completely fail.

Admittedly I feel particularly betrayed by "higher education" squashing academic freedom to enforce their politically correct view as fits their agenda.  I was a product of the system, graduating from UC Davis and on to graduate school.  Ultimately I became an adjunct professor of Clinical Dentistry at University of the Pacific Dental School. We prided ourselves in teaching the truth and in the free exchange and debate of ideas.  Long gone are those lofty ideals.

Dissidents in the old Soviet Union had a saying, "The future we know, it is the past that keeps changing."  Rewriting history assisted Soviet leaders in controlling the people.  If you don't know who you are and where you came from the people are easily manipulated.

So it has become in the United States.  A whole generation is growing up not knowing who they are and where they came from... and they are doomed to repeat past mistakes-- which explains many people's compliance with Obama's socialist agenda.