"Dig the well before you are thirsty..." - Chinese proverb

Just a quick post to say that Alex (who is 3 months pregnant with her first child) was talking to other young mothers the other day about their children. These other upwardly-mobile, trendy Austin moms were saying that the "new thing" is to make sure their young children learn Mandarin (Chinese) so they would be assured of a fabulously paying job in the future. Say what?! But then the more I thought about it, that's probably spot-on correct. The Chinese own most of the American debt, and the chances of us ever being to pay it back are slim to none, so.... it's easy to deduce that the haunting commercial where the Chinese laugh at us will probably come true for the children who are under 5 at this time... I mean SERIOUSLY, we simply cannot afford 4 more years of these socialists in power. Every time I see that commercial of the Chinese in that classroom in the future talking about how the Americans of 2011 were completely stupid and let them buy us out of everything, I wince. I'm hoping it's not too late. I'm hoping that we can take our country back.

I'm hoping Alex's baby won't have to learn Mandarin...