Americans Score an “F” in American History

[KCIndy]

I was rather surprised to get a response. They said that, while they at that Institute would agree that governments ought to choose D, the question was what policy would be most likely followed.

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Jeez! What a stupid way to write a test!

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

31/33

Got the Thomas Jefferson letters one wrong.

And I said that decrease in taxes AND spending would help getting out of a recession, but the creator of the test must have incorrectly made the answer sheet because it said the correct answer was decrease taxes and increase spending. so really i should have gotten

32/33 = 97%

Didn't you get the memo, Nixon said, "We're all Keynesians now." and don't you know it...just look around isn't this Economy just wonderful?

I bet only .5% of the population know Austrian Economics...Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard were and are unquantifiably more intellectually rigorous and ultimately, vastly superior in Economic, Philosophical, and Logical/Reasoning than Keynes. I really, really, do hate Keynes.

 

[TGGRV]

Actually the best way to get out of it is increase spending and decrease taxes, but it has to be temporary and not on a huge scale ala 11 trillion compared to 14 trillion GDP. And then the debt created has to be paid off.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

91% -- and other than question 8 which I legitimately missed, I would challenge the other two (14 and 30) as misleading, improper, or outright wrong.

You answered 30 out of 33 correctly — 90.91 %

Average score for this quiz during September: 74.5%
Average score: 74.5%

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Where to from here?

Answers to Your Missed Questions:
Question #8 - C. appoint additional Supreme Court justices who shared his views
Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
Question #30 - C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending

 

[GunnyFreedom]

H. Res. 686
Title:Recommending that the United States Constitution be taught to high school students throughout the Nation in September of their senior year.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c111:2:./temp/~c111nXE3G6::

a step in the right direction,..

I don't think so. YES, the Constitution should be studied and learned in-depth by all school children. NO the Federal Government has ZERO Constitutional authority to dictate curriculum, or in fact ANYTHING to do with education whatever. If the FedGov wants to stick it's nose into education -- even to do something you and I would of course agree with, then they must first pass a Constitutional amendment authorizing such activities.

 

[manny229]

I'm not American. :|

Did they teach these topics in your school?

 

[TGGRV]

Did they teach these topics in your school?

Not all of them. My school was so cold during the winter that we weren't removing any clothing and keeping our jackets on. And our math teacher kept telling us how stupid we were. I didn't attend literature besides going to get grades in my last 2 years of highschool. The state of my country's education is abysmal and the morons keep asking for more money to make it better. I'd fire all of them if I could.

 

[manny229]

Not all of them. My school was so cold during the winter that we weren't removing any clothing and keeping our jackets on. And our math teacher kept telling us how stupid we were. I didn't attend literature besides going to get grades in my last 2 years of highschool. The state of my country's education is abysmal and the morons keep asking for more money to make it better. I'd fire all of them if I could.

As our public school system is also abysmal. I think that like you, most people on this forum were self taught with regards to the topics of history, your school system sounds much like the US system... Every time I go to my local public school to pay my taxes I tell them "I'm here to throw away my money" (Teacher calling the students stupid sounds like Eastern Europe)

 

[The_Orlonater]

Question number 30 is total Keynesian bullshit, I am glad I got it wrong. Decreasing taxes and spending is for the win!

 

[someperson]

You answered 28 out of 33 correctly — 84.85 %

Question #13 - E. certain permanent moral and political truths are accessible to human reason
The Plato question... guessed wrong

Question #14 - B. stressed the sinfulness of all humanity
I answered "believed in complete religious freedom." I suppose that's what the Puritans sought by fleeing the Church of England, but perhaps they didn't "believe?" Odd.

Question #29 - B. a resident can benefit from it without directly paying for it
I didn't like this answer for obvious reasons, so I selected something else.

Question #30 - C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending
Like everyone else here, probably, I answered decreasing both, knowing it would be wrong since it said what would a government "most likely do" instead of what it "should do." Interventionists.

Question #33 - D. tax per person equals government spending per person
Again, answered "government is not helping anybody" knowing it would be wrong lol

 

[TGGRV]

As our public school system is also abysmal. I think that like you, most people on this forum were self taught with regards to the topics of history, your school system sounds much like the US system... Every time I go to my local public school to pay my taxes I tell them "I'm here to throw away my money" (Teacher calling the students stupid sounds like Eastern Europe)

Oh, even the union arguments are the same. Give us more money to give you performance! We increase budgets, quality keeps dropping. Public systems are inherently flawed.

Now I'm in college. I owned my economics teacher in a few debates.
1)He had the marginal utility to price formula wrong. Both on the blackboard and in the book. I proved to him mathematically that he is wrong... In front of 100 people.
2)He kept praising Obama's team and policy and I proved to him that the 2008 meltdown happened due to the Federal Reserves and government and eventually he agreed. This was in front of 24 people. Obviously the next class he was back at his stories about how great Obama is.
3)He said that in order to have a good economy you need a strong government, strong unions and strong owners organizations. I told him that you need a limited government, unions with no power over wages and firing procedures and no owner organizations in order to have market atomicity which leads to the optimum bla bla bla.
I aced my economics finals. My economics GPA is 80%.

 

[gimmeliberty]

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I don't think so. YES, the Constitution should be studied and learned in-depth by all school children. NO the Federal Government has ZERO Constitutional authority to dictate curriculum, or in fact ANYTHING to do with education whatever. If the FedGov wants to stick it's nose into education -- even to do something you and I would of course agree with, then they must first pass a Constitutional amendment authorizing such activities.

yes, I agree with you, but the resolution says:

..."Recommending" that the United States Constitution
be taught to high school students throughout...

it's not mandatory,...PLUS, Ron Paul voted for it!
which he would not have done, if he felt was it was
Unconstitutional.