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Part of the American tradition, is the American Dream. We have all read the stories, watched the movies, or even heard the tale of our own families. Parents do without anything and everything, to give their children a better chance. They do without luxuries, they work long hours, they suffer through miserable jobs, miserable bosses, miserable paychecks, on the determined hope that their children will have what they did not.

And the unifying thread, the theme that binds all of these stories, is the same goal: education.

Often, our leaders and thinkers will claim that America is her courts, her legislatures, her legal documents. They misspeak.

Those things protect the cornerstone of America. America, first and foremost, are people building their lives, and their families; because at the foundation, that is what America is, it is her citizens, it is her families, it is the combined effort of everyone that moves her forward as they move their own children forward. So as strange as it may seem, an Asian immigrant, trying to raiser her family, while living in a southern tenement, is as American as any of the Founding Fathers. She isn't living the American Dream; she IS the American Dream.

So, how can it be that sacrificing to provide and education for your children is the American Dream for individuals and their families, but it is not our collective dream? How can it be that while anyone and everyone we admire struggle to provide an education for their children, and often for all children... but that collective Dream is not realized at the level of our own government, the one we elect, the one we pay for?

How can it be that so many other things in government come before education, before our children?

Simple. We haven't put our foot down. We haven't insisted on better.

We have watched the campaign donors, the big multinationals, the Pentagon, the bureaucrats, and the lobbyists get the lion's share. We haven't said that education comes first. We haven't demanded that children, ALL children, are to come first.

All of us must speak up, and dictate to our government, in no uncertain terms. Children and education are the American Dream, and our government must care for them first.

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Joseph N. Abraham MD is president of The American Public School Endowments and booksXYZ.com, the Nonprofit Bookstore sending all proceeds to Education. booksXYZ.com lists over 2,000,000 paperbacks, hardbacks, and audio books. Dr. Abraham has written the book Happiness: A Physician/Biologist Looks at Life, an innovative self help book.

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