When did it become cool to be a “Joe Six Pack”? My name happens to be Joe, I like six-packs just as much as the next guy. If somebody ever referred to me as “Joe Six Pack” I would not only be offended, I would probably tell them to go to hell.

Why is intellectualism scoffed at? When did ignorance and intolerance become the status quo? Why are Americans so eager to be just another soldier in the six-pack army that has given this country such a bad reputation?

Our schools should be palaces, our teachers should be paid six figures. Education is not a privilege, it’s a birth right. In a country that boasts such superiority, we fall terribly short in the very thing that would allow us all to change the world.

Now we hear that “Joe Plumber” is pissed that his taxes may be raised whopping 3% for owning a business that makes more than a quarter million dollars a year.

Yes Joe Plumber, you’ve got it tough.

What happened to the idea of the greater good?