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In reply to the discussion: If Only Our Glorious Leaders Put as Much Effort into Making People’s Lives Better [View all]Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)11. Snowden has forced national and international conversation on this ugly topic.
We have to consider what exactly we are becoming, or wish to become, and are we as US citizens actually allowed to have input regarding it, or not. Please see my post number 4 in this thread about the $1 trillion dollars of taxpayer money going into the security state instead of into schools. Chicago has just closed a large number of schools, mostly in poor neighborhoods; the same with medical services and emergency care and mental health care. In Philly, they're closing schools as well, and charter organizations intend to snap them up, taking education out of the hands and direction of the people. Privatization while the rich get richer off of our tax dollars. It's called "austerity".
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If Only Our Glorious Leaders Put as Much Effort into Making People’s Lives Better [View all]
20score
Jul 2013
OP
I share your passion. All of that money could be going into all of the schools which they're closing
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#8
This whole circus puts to lie everything they've said about how they can't get things done
Hydra
Jul 2013
#5
Seach GD for posts on the TPP, by Alan Grayson as well as one discussing Obama's transparency
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#13
Snowden has forced national and international conversation on this ugly topic.
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#11
What a novel idea! I wonder the same thing all the time. Everyone of the boneheads in power who go
gtar100
Jul 2013
#18
You won't have any of these good programs anytime before private money is banned from politics
Amonester
Jul 2013
#25
That can't just simply be done, because enough of our fellow citizens don't want it
treestar
Jul 2013
#57