Etc.

There is no doubt the dismantling of two public school districts in Michigan are test cases for wholesale public school abolition.

Neoliberals really ARE anti-American, anti-democracy. Otherwise, why would they push such an insane idea?

It's all about converting the public good for profit even though it doesn't work.
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People see there is something wrong with capitalism, at least in its current Chicago School-style monstrous form. The question is what in the hell we are going to do about it.

Critics of redistribution sometimes suggest that the cost of redistribution is too high. The disincentives, they claim, are too great, and the gains to the poor and those in the middle are more than offset by the losses to the top. It is often argued on the right that we could have more equality, but only at the steep price of slower growth and lower GDP. The reality (as I will show) is just the opposite: we have a system that has been working overtime to move money from the bottom and middle to the top, but the system is so inefficient that the gains to the top are far less than the losses to the middle and bottom. We are, in fact, paying a high price for our growing and outsize inequality: not only slower growth and lower GDP but even more instability. And this is not to say anything about the other prices we are paying: a weakened democracy, a diminished sense of fairness and justice, and even, as I have suggested, a questioning of our sense of identity.

Arguments against "redistribution" are laughable because wealth is ALREADY being redistributed--upward--which is at the root of the economic crisis.

Too few people having too much money is destructive to national and world economies. It's as simple as that. Wealth HAS to be returned back to those who created the wealth--the people who manufacture and consume products--which will put the economy back on track.

It is demand--not supply--that creates jobs and jump starts an economy.
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Thanks to drug addiction a principal loses not only his career but also goes on a murderous rampage:

Giancola was sentenced to 364 days in jail and vowed to turn his life around.

It was a promise police say he couldn’t keep.

On Friday, the former Hillsborough County principal was accused of going on a bizarre, violent rampage in Pinellas that left two people dead and nine others injured.

In the course of an hour, Giancola stabbed four people, killing two, in a Lealman group home for the hearing impaired, bludgeoned two owners of a Pinellas Park hotel with a hammer and hit four pedestrians and a teenager on a bike in a Lealman neighborhood, according to police.