In the following video, Mark Dice asks random people on the street to sign a petition to increase our current inflation rate of about 4% to 100%, and to increase it an additional 100% over the next five years. This would effectively destroy our currency, bankrupt the country and send our standard of living into the stone age.
People signed it.
Our educational system does not teach anyone the basic economics needed to understand how our country is run. So much so, that we can convince people to sign a petition that destroys the country.
Something tells me my wife signed it.