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The suffering of the rich in this country is so pervasive, the rest of the population must part with their wallets even more to make sure these same rich don't suffer further. The rich holler "class warfare," and never mind the fact THEY are the ones waging it.
After all, this class is the "job creating" class, despite the fact it is DEMAND which creates jobs.
Look how they are suffering:
On one side, we have the claim that the rising share of taxes paid by the rich shows that their burden is rising, not falling. To point out the obvious, the rich are paying more taxes because they’re much richer than they used to be. When middle-class incomes barely grow while the incomes of the wealthiest rise by a factor of six, how could the tax share of the rich not go up, even if their tax rate is falling?
On the other side, we have the claim that the rich have the right to keep their money — which misses the point that all of us live in and benefit from being part of a larger society.
Elizabeth Warren, the financial reformer who is now running for the United States Senate in Massachusetts, recently made some eloquent remarks to this effect that are, rightly, getting a lot of attention. “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody,” she declared, pointing out that the rich can only get rich thanks to the “social contract” that provides a decent, functioning society in which they can prosper.
The lowly masses are what create a parasitic class to begin with.
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An L.A. teacher has had enough this early in the year and walked out of his classroom.
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OF COURSE NCLB (and RTTT) is a part of the conspiracy against public education, simply because it is PUBLIC.
I struggled with the rest of you as to why NCLB would go to such great lengths to make public education appear to be such a failure, to set up a system that would guarantee failure for practically every public school as we advanced toward that magical 100 percent level and provide no tangible rewards for success and such punitive actions for not meeting arbitrary goals. On top of all of that, I failed to recognize why our nation’s legislators so nimbly avoided even the discussion of reauthorization to change what everyone knew was a failed policy. One day it finally hit me.
They didn’t want to change the policy, because the policy was designed in theory and in fact not to aid education but to create an image of a failed public school system in order to further the implementation of vouchers and the diversion of public education funds to private schools.
Yep. And there are a ton of stupid comments following the piece.
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