The decisions of today have consequences that lie in the future. If we eliminate social studies from the Michigan Merit Exam how will our students learn about strategic decision making in the areas of economics, entrepreneurship and personal finance? How will our students understand where we are or where we are heading without knowing where we have been? They are currently living with the decisions and policies made by people of the past. Where have these past decisions and policies placed us? They have placed us in our ninth year of recession and in the position of number one in unemployment in the U.S. Do not elminate social studies...