Outraged: I hope not, but Snyder is a snake. Years ago the people voted to raise the sales tax from 4-6% and that 2% was to be used for the public schools,nothing was ever said to the public roughly 30 years later that it could be raided and given to colleges, who also get part of all property taxes collected and students do not go to college for free, it is quite costly and goes up in the double digits yearly as it is rare it is in the single digits. College higher ups are paid into the millions of dollars and also in Michigan the taxpayers are on the hook to pay for housing of the college elite in the tune of 3-4 million dollars average for their house.

Snyder cut on many programs,schools and other safety nets and handed it to the top 1% and some of the mega corps in my state.He gave over 1 billion dollars to those who do not need it. Just slightly more than all the cuts from the rest of the things that benefit the rest of the people and we are still to divvy up about .2 billion more to pay to the rich according to Rick the Prick Snyder.

I live in Flint and tonight we heard at the crime watch meeting(as we are very short on police, the public has to try to fill in)that our newly appointed emergency manager who is paid over $180,000.00 a year, they are going to close at least 3 more schools. That leaves us with about 1 high school now and I am not certain how many Jr. high and elementary schools will be left, that have closed so many now. And as for outsourcing teachers. Where will they get them from ? India, China ? Unreal.

Does anyone really believe that the 2012 or any other election thereafter is going to alter this nation’s decline into the swamp of corporate fascism? This country is at a point where revolution will only begin the process of salvation. Unfortunately, this will have to be followed by civil war as it seems that the collective intelligence of so many of our fellow citizens limits them to the ability to count to no more than two when searching for an alternative economic and/or political system.

do over…

Your comment is nothing more than fatuous nincompoopery.  If you want to recite
the latest bagger-bumpersticker, try it over at freepers or Drudge or any similar
site where your bullshit might better be appreciated.

Let’s face it, teachers are too dumb to stand up for themselves.  There is no power without a strike and teachers will not strike.  Teachers are their own worst enemy.  Teachers get an “F” when it comes to doing the heavy lifting.

It never ceases to amaze me that so many republicans, baggers and right-
wingers in general feel that an education is somehow a “liability”... that being
an “intellectual” or an “academic” is somehow a “fault”…. that to be honored as
part of an “elite” group of achievers somehow makes one worthy of contempt.

These are not pejoratives.

These are things to take great pride in.

What I find even more disturbing is that these very same semi-literates insist
on controlling our schools in what all evidence points to is a deliberate move to
dumb this Nation down even more than it has already been (if that is even
possible), not only intellectually but morally as well.

An uneducated populace is easiest to control.

We must no longer allow the thugs & the haters, those who conjure the
pounding of jackbooted lockstep with every utterance to hijack our language
and sciences as they have our culture.. a slimy, cynical tactic used by those
craving despotic power who once, & still do, sport virtual armbands to try to lull
the masses into thinking that they are somehow in danger by those who have
dared read a book.

Filling them with ignorance, with fear, with hatred.

Be proud of the hard work you took to get an education, and in your trying to
apply it to help better our Country.

Take pride in being a Liberal.

“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is
distrust of the people tempered by fear.” ~~ Wm. Gladstone

This story at DailyKos shows just one of the ways
they are attempting to undermine education.
Apparently they test the kids in fifth grade, they do
fine. They test them in eighth grade, they again do
fine. But suddenly in tenth grade, 40% fail the test.

So one of the school board members (holds two masters
degrees in education) took the test, and failed. So
they were wondering what the problem was. But get
this:
“Perhaps most telling, though, are the lengths
Roach had to go to in order to complete this
experiment: State law only allows the FCAT to be
taken by students. What a fantastic way to avoid
accountability for the contents and effectiveness of
the test.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/07/1043092/-School-board-member-who-bombed-Florida-10th-grade-test-comes-forward?via=blog_1

Re: Blueokie

I think the problem is much bigger than just Obama, read this story:
http://www.alternet.org/story/153345/the_real_history_of_’corporate_personhood’:_meet_the_man_to_blame_for_corporations_having_more_rights_than_you/

I understand that this story is presented as a dispatch, but where is the mention of Arne Duncan, one of the country’s most ardent supporters of charter schools and corporate curriculum.  He also happens to be Secretary of Education.  It seems to be a case of moral relativism to say a decapitation is wrong while the death of a thousand cuts is humane.

Soon the bastards will just merge WI with MI, their
own little empire of destitution. In WI Gov. Walker
DID cut 900 million from the schools. Several rural
schools will close because of it. Just for the
record, with these crooks, their favorite word is
“tools”.

Everything they do is somehow rectified by “the
tools” they’ve supposedly given administrators… break the union,
that’s a tool for balancing the budget ..... stiff
the schoolchildren, that’s a tool for “utilizing our
resources”.......give away billions to corporate
cronies, that’s a tool for “jobs”....ugh!

One day someone’s going to stick “a tool” up Walkers
ass. Size 12, I hope.

“In the ongoing, hitherto successful, conservative-led effort to divert education money to corporations…”

Now stop it Truthdig, stop being so hypocritical here, this is just a Republican view of how education should be privatized. Isn’t Obama the world’s biggest cheerleader for charter schools?