Let them eat cupcakes. Plus why Michelle Rhee is lawyering up.

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75. I don't support all of the privatization.

Educators aren't the only ones victimized by privatization either. There are privately owned utility companies that squeeze engineers for profits too.

Hopefully some of these things can be turned back with more government over-sight, but it really is a political issue and until enough people turn their backs on the old Reagan 'the government is the problem' thinking; we will never get things turned around.

I don't always think privatization is bad. A little competition in the marketplace can be a good thing. I've worked in the private sector for a contractor, a large engineering firm and twice for small engineering firms and I worked for the state government as an engineer. I liked working for the government, but the government can be very unproductive. Sometimes they behave as though they are above the law and it isn't always large corporations who are asking for change.

We are at a point in history where jobs are being replaced by computers and machines. To a point; that is a good thing. I'm afraid that we've passed that point. Unfortunately, so much of what is squeezing us; is as a result of cheap energy, and when it isn't cheap anymore we are going to be in a world of hurt (even more than now).

We are all being squeezed by these advances and unless we all work together to make it better (even though it may not improve our own personal station in life) we are going to lose even more.

As I said before; I don't know what the answer is. I think we're more likely to stumble on it the more we talk among ourselves. Particularly if we behave in a manner that makes it appear as though we are all in it together.