I am in college presently, and all throughout my school years up until freshman year of college, school has been filled with busy work. Why doesn't Obama take a quick look at the curriculum and how it is being taught first, before we make our kids go to school as much as China. Instead, we have teachers complaining about their lack of pay, and giving students a worksheet rather than teaching them. So making students suffer through more time spent in the negative learning environment, we call school, would not be the best solution in making our kids smarter and more educated.

As mentioned by others, the Patriot Act gives the government the right to use the appropriate tools for intercepting and obstructing terrorism. This has nothing to do with most of these cases in which members of the police force unlawfully place a tracking device on a car. What's next, me waking up with a tracking device implanted into by body? This is just one of the numerous occasions in which the police think they're above the law, and can get away with anything. It frightens me that we (the public) only find out about a small percentage of their wrong doings.