I think you need to replace the tin foil in your hat.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 9:35 PM, arxaaron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arxaaron@gmail.com">arxaaron@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On 2010/02/11, at 14:31 , Jim Popovitch wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 14:19, Jim Lynch <<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a><br>
> > wrote:<br>
>> There's money being spent by school systems but it's not going to<br>
>> help educate the kids.<br>
><br>
> I can't believe that I'm jumping in to this mess of a thread... but<br>
> Jim Lynch has mentioned the most truthful and worthwhile thing so far,<br>
> and it needs to be noted for that.<br>
<br>
Actually, I found the best comment was Jim Kinney's point below,<br>
because it speaks to the economic disparities that are the core of<br>
most of the world's problems (including the fact of global warming<br>
being caused as significantly by wood cooking fires and 2 cycle<br>
moped motors in developing nations as by coal fire power plants<br>
and modern 4 cycle automobile engines in our own):<br>
<br>
"I don't think it's "property value " so much [as] home ownership vs.<br>
rental. I really think that sense of responsibility and permanence from<br>
home ownership leads to a longer view that supports academic<br>
excellence. In the US, a renter is actually encouraged to move often<br>
based on move-in incentives, etc. Ask any person in K12 teaching<br>
how disruptive a family move is to a child's learning process."<br>
<br>
As to education money not being spent on education, I have to agree...<br>
at least as far as the way that our piratized U.S. public school funds<br>
are now devoted almost entirely to training our rising generations to<br>
be rigidly and blindly obedient, greed driven consumer drones who<br>
are only good at glutinously and arrogantly usurping the world's<br>
resources or at taking tests while they are simultaneously led to<br>
squander their diminishing leisure time and the years that should<br>
be spent pursuing higher learning in order to train for the murder<br>
and torture of brown people with remote control video game<br>
weapons so we can take everything those foreigners might be<br>
sitting on as ours to consume, too. Any passion for learning<br>
and reason and knowledge and free thought and inquiry is being<br>
systematically driven from the public educational system in the<br>
same ways that the hate monger political climate has driven<br>
everything of worth and reason and civility out of our<br>
commonwealth civil institutions.<br>
<br>
If even half of the national resources that are squandered on the U.S.<br>
industrial death machine industry to develop better ways to kill people<br>
were instead used to develop better ways to meet basic, world wide<br>
human needs for food, clothing, shelter, health care, energy and<br>
education, then we wouldn't need to fabricate excuses for the endless<br>
wars of invasion and occupation, or disguise those military atrocities<br>
as disaster "relief" operations or claim they are a defense against<br>
intangible conceptual enemies like "tearism" and "commienism"<br>
and "drugs".<br>
<br>
We might then spend the rest of the bloated industrial military death<br>
budget to improve the human condition, perhaps by establishing<br>
public college education systems, or by making any other investment<br>
in education or public services that would inevitably be a better use<br>
of our tax money than the 70 BILLION DOLLARS a year we currently<br>
squander producing slick TV adverts and spreading fraudulent<br>
promises to entice our young people to become fascist murdering,<br>
torturing mercenary tools of the glutinous leeches running the<br>
globalized corporate death machine industries. SEND YOUR CHILD<br>
TO DIE FOR LOCKHEED EXON MOBILE MARTIN! ALL YOUR<br>
OFFSPRING ARE BELONG TO US!<br>
<br>
Never before have so many worked so hard to deny their own self<br>
interests for the glutinous leeching avarice of so few.<br>
<br>
peace<br>
aaron<br>
<br>
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