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This pisses me off. You get a lot of people complaining about the inefficiency and waste in the public education system. And slowly but inevitably school systems are forced to work with less and less money. Turn around and look at the military. The military is inefficient and wasteful, and the companies they hire are also. But that budget seems to increase without bounds, especially when engaged in whatever overseas folly of the moment is in effect.
Well, I for one would much rather "waste" money trying to get every child a good education than "waste" money nation building in the Middle East, or Africa.
This spending in Iraq and Afghanistan really does seem like a big taxpayer giveaway to corporate power, education spending rarely seems that way, at least IMO.
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The United States of America - privatizing profits, socializing debt.
When societies are changing quickly, the media and the people are naturally focused on big "P" politics - who gets the top appointments, what was said in the most recent speech. Meanwhile, safe from public scrutiny, far reaching pro-corporate policies are locked into place, dramatically restricting future possibilities for real change. - Naomi Klein
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