On Mar 10, 2011, at 7:50 PM, c b wrote:
> [WS:] To be honest, i do not think they care about education at all.
> They just want to do what they have been doing for the past thirty or
> so years - break the teachers union, cut pensions, privatize
> profitable schools and cut wages. I do not think they give a flying
> fuck how this will affect th equality of education. It is profits
> before people, man.
>
> ^^^^^^
> CB: Definitely profits before people..in the short run and long run.
> In the short run by busting public worker wages and benefits _and
> shifting that money to the rich corporations_ ( In Gov. took over
> public school system just after $1.5 billion bond was passed, for
> example). In the long run, profits are maximized by depriving larger
> sections of the working class of basic education. Dumbing down workers
> puts profits before people. So, the _do_ care, they care to
> affirmative destroy large parts of education for the working class.
> They are not indifferent to education of masses, they have malicious
> attention to the matter.
Call me a cynic, but an under-educated populace generates even more inputs for a privatized prison system.