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David Rubinson <rubinson@kab.com> wrote:Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:21:20 -0500
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Subject: No Child's Behind Left- 2 from PALAST
2 from Greg Palast: one cuts right to the real issue in American Education, and the next a guest piece by Charles Lewis from his great new book "The Buying of the President 2004"
Their common link is clear, and profoundly frightening. GB Shaw said it best-
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
support of Paul."
There has been a radical Regime Change in the USA.
If this is Ok with you, then do nothing.
Excerpted, so for complete text please visit :
www.GregPalast.com
NO CHILD'S BEHIND LEFT
"...You know and I know that this is not an educational opportunity program - because you offer no opportunities, no hope, no plan, no funding. Rather, it is the new Republican social Darwinism, educational eugenics: Identify the nation's loser-class early on. Trap them, then train them cheap. The system will provide the new worker drones that will clean the toilets at the Yale alumni club, to punch the McDonald's cash registers color-coded for illiterates, to pamper the winner-class on the higher floors of the new service economy order..."
The State of the Union's New Educational Eugenics
by Greg Palast
Go ahead, George, and lie to me. Lie to my dog. Lie to my sister. But don't you ever lie to my kids.
Deep into your State of the Siege lecture tonight, long after sensible adults had turned off the tube or kicked in the screen, you came after our children. "By passing the No Child Left Behind Act," you said, "We are regularly testing every child ... and making sure they have better options when schools are not performing."
You said it ... and then that little tongue came out; that weird way you stick your tongue out between your lips like the little kid who knows he's fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat. I saw that snakey tongue dart out and I thought, "He knows."
And what you know, Mr. Bush, is this: you've ordered this testing to hunt down, identify and target for destruction the hopes of millions of children you find too expensive, too heavy a burden, to educate.
Here's how No Child Left Behind and your tests work in the classrooms of Houston and Chicago. Millions of 8 year olds are given lists of words and phrases. They are graded, like USDA beef: some prime, some OK, many failed.
Once the kids are stamped and sorted, the parents of the marked children ask for you to fill your tantalizing promise, to "make sure they have better options when schools are not performing."
But there is no "better option," is there, Mr. Bush? Where's the money for the better schools to take in the kids getting crushed in cash-poor districts? Where's the open door to the suburban campuses with the big green lawns for the dark kids with the test-score mark of Cain.
And if I bring up the race of the kids with the low score, don't get all snippy with me, telling me your program is color blind. We know the color of the kids left behind; and it's not the color of the kids you went to school with at Philips Andover Academy.
You know and I know that the testing is a con. There is no "better option" at the other end. The cash went to the end the inheritance tax, that special program to give every millionaire's son another million.
...You know and I know that this is not an educational opportunity program - because you offer no opportunities, no hope, no plan, no funding. Rather, it is the new Republican social Darwinism, educational eugenics: Identify the nation's loser-class early on. Trap them, then train them cheap. The system will provide the new worker drones that will clean the toilets at the Yale alumni club, to punch the McDonald's cash registers color-coded for illiterates, to pamper the winner-class on the higher floors of the new service economy order.
Greg Palast is author of, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy," which has returned this week to the New York Times bestseller list. View Palast's writings for Harper's, The Guardian (UK) and BBC television at www.GregPalast.com.
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"The real powers that be in this country are not on any ballot. And they
are accountable to no one. The bottom line is that the American people have a right to know who is underwriting their presidential candidates, and their democracy."
--From the first ever guest blog on GregPalast.com by Charles Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity. Lewis has just released "The Buying of the President 2004." In 2000 the guy with the least votes -- but the most money -- won, making the contest an auction, not an election. Lewis tells you who the winning bidders are in this race, beginning with the temporary resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. --Greg Palast
And now, from Charles Lewis:
Our electoral process is broken, with about half or more of America's
eligible voters not voting in every federal election cycle. After the
Florida recount debacle, in which the likes of Fidel Castro and Robert
Mugabe lectured us on how to conduct democratic elections, we still do
not have a single, standardized system of voting throughout the nation.
The campaign process has become so expensive that it limits the talent
pool available today to only millionaires or those willing and able to
raise substantial sums of cash from wealthy and powerful interests with
business before the government. Forty members of the current U.S. Senate
are millionaires; less than one percent of the American people are
millionaires. And big money mixed with irregular and high-tech
redistricting help explain why the incumbent reelection rate in the
House of Representatives the past three elections has been more than 98
percent. These are the kind of numbers we expect to see in countries
like North Korea or China, not the United States.
Despite campaign finance reform, 2004 already is and will ultimately be
the most expensive election in U.S. history. President George W. Bush
has shattered his own astounding 1999 fundraising record and collected
$130 million in 2003 - that's more than half a million dollars a day -
and his campaign has $99 million in cash on hand with no major
Republican primary challenger. Bush's official third quarter cash on
hand number of $73 million was more than all of the major Democratic
candidates and all of the Democratic national party committees combined
($54 million) through September!
There is an especially compelling reason for candidates to make this
headlong rush for cash. As we mentioned in the 1996 and 2000 editions of
The Buying of the President, the central, most salient, single fact
about the White House selection process-a discovery first made by
Republican political fundraising consultant Stan Huckaby-is that in
every presidential election since 1976, the candidate who has raised the
most money at the end of the year preceding the election, and been
eligible for federal matching funds, has become his party's nominee for
the general election. At midnight on December 31st, it was Carter and
Ford who had amassed the most campaign cash in 1975, Carter and Reagan
in 1979, Mondale and Reagan in 1983, Dukakis and G.H.W. Bush in 1987,
Clinton and Bush in 1991, Clinton and Dole in 1995 and Gore and G.W.
Bush in 1999.
For Lewis’ complete web log, go to www.GregPalast.com
David Rubinson
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"...Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country..."
Hermann Goering see http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm
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<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>David Rubinson <rubinson@kab.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:21:20 -0500<BR>To: (Recipient list suppressed)<BR>From: David Rubinson <RUBINSON@KAB.COM><BR>Subject: No Child's Behind Left- 2 from PALAST<BR><BR>2 from Greg Palast: one cuts right to the real issue in American Education, and the next a guest piece by Charles Lewis from his great new book <B>"<FONT size=3>The Buying of the President 2004"<BR></B></FONT>Their common link is clear, and profoundly frightening. GB Shaw said it best-<BR><FONT size=3><B>"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the <BR>support of Paul."</B> </FONT><FONT size=4><BR></FONT><FONT size=3>There has been a radical Regime Change in the USA.<BR>If this is Ok with you, then do nothing.<BR><BR></FONT>Excerpted, so for complete text please visit : <BR><FONT size=3><A href="http://www.gregpalast.com/" eudora="autourl">www.GregPalast.com<BR><BR></A>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><B>NO CHILD'S BEHIND LEFT</B></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><B>"...You know and I know that this is not an educational opportunity program - because you offer no opportunities, no hope, no plan, no funding. Rather, it is the new Republican social Darwinism, educational eugenics: Identify the nation's loser-class early on. Trap them, then train them cheap. The system will provide the new worker drones that will clean the toilets at the Yale alumni club, to punch the McDonald's cash registers color-coded for illiterates, to pamper the winner-class on the higher floors of the new service economy order..."<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">The State of the Union's New Educational Eugenics</B><BR>by Greg Palast<BR><BR>Go ahead, George, and lie to me. Lie to my dog. Lie to my sister. But don't you ever lie to my kids. <BR><BR>Deep into your State of the Siege lecture tonight, long after sensible adults had turned off the tube or kicked in the screen, you came after our children. "By passing the No Child Left Behind Act," you said, "We are regularly testing every child ... and making sure they have better options when schools are not performing."<BR><BR>You said it ... and then that little tongue came out; that weird way you stick your tongue out between your lips like the little kid who knows he's fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat. I saw that snakey tongue dart out and I thought, "He knows."<BR><BR><B>And what you know, Mr. Bush, is this: you've ordered this testing to hunt down, identify and target for destruction the
hopes of millions of children you find too expensive, too heavy a burden, to educate. </B><BR><BR>Here's how No Child Left Behind and your tests work in the classrooms of Houston and Chicago. Millions of 8 year olds are given lists of words and phrases. They are graded, like USDA beef: some prime, some OK, many failed.<BR><BR>Once the kids are stamped and sorted, the parents of the marked children ask for you to fill your tantalizing promise, to "make sure they have better options when schools are not performing." <BR><BR>But there is no "better option," is there, Mr. Bush? <B>Where's the money for the better schools to take in the kids getting crushed in cash-poor districts? Where's the open door to the suburban campuses with the big green lawns for the dark kids with the test-score mark of Cain.</B><BR><BR>And if I bring up the race of the kids with the low score, don't get all snippy with me, telling me your program is color
blind. We know the color of the kids left behind; and it's not the color of the kids you went to school with at Philips Andover Academy.<BR><BR>You know and I know that the testing is a con. <B>There is no "better option" at the other end. The cash went to the end the inheritance tax, that special program to give every millionaire's son another million.</B><BR><BR><B>...You know and I know that this is not an educational opportunity program - because you offer no opportunities, no hope, no plan, no funding. Rather, it is the new Republican social Darwinism, educational eugenics: Identify the nation's loser-class early on. Trap them, then train them cheap. The system will provide the new worker drones that will clean the toilets at the Yale alumni club, to punch the McDonald's cash registers color-coded for illiterates, to pamper the winner-class on the higher floors of the new service economy order.</B><BR><BR>Greg Palast is author of, "The
Best Democracy Money Can Buy," which has returned this week to the New York Times bestseller list. View Palast's writings for Harper's, The Guardian (UK) and BBC television at <A href="http://www.gregpalast.com/" eudora="autourl">www.GregPalast.com</A>.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<FONT size=3><B>"The real powers that be in this country are not on any ballot. And they<BR>are accountable to no one. The bottom line is that the American people have a right to know who is underwriting their presidential candidates, and their democracy."<BR><BR></B>--From the first ever guest blog on GregPalast.com by <B>Charles Lewis</B>, founder of the Center for Public Integrity. Lewis has just released "<B>The Buying of the President 2004</B>." <B>In 2000 the guy with the least votes -- but the most money -- won, making the contest an auction, not an election.</B> Lewis tells you who the winning bidders are in this race, beginning with the temporary resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. --Greg Palast<BR><BR>And now, from Charles Lewis:<BR><BR>Our electoral process is broken, with about half or more of America's<BR>eligible voters not voting in every federal election cycle. After the<BR>Florida recount debacle, in which the likes of Fidel Castro and Robert<BR>Mugabe
lectured us on how to conduct democratic elections, we still do<BR>not have a single, standardized system of voting throughout the nation.<BR>The campaign process has become so expensive that it limits the talent<BR>pool available today to only millionaires or those willing and able to<BR>raise substantial sums of cash from wealthy and powerful interests with<BR>business before the government. Forty members of the current U.S. Senate<BR>are millionaires; less than one percent of the American people are<BR>millionaires. And big money mixed with irregular and high-tech<BR>redistricting help explain why the incumbent reelection rate in the<BR>House of Representatives the past three elections has been more than 98<BR>percent. These are the kind of numbers we expect to see in countries<BR>like North Korea or China, not the United States. <BR><BR>Despite campaign finance reform, 2004 already is and will ultimately be<BR>the most expensive election in U.S. history. President George W.
Bush<BR>has shattered his own astounding 1999 fundraising record and collected<BR>$130 million in 2003 - that's more than half a million dollars a day -<BR>and his campaign has $99 million in cash on hand with no major<BR>Republican primary challenger. Bush's official third quarter cash on<BR>hand number of $73 million was more than all of the major Democratic<BR>candidates and all of the Democratic national party committees combined<BR>($54 million) through September! <BR><BR>There is an especially compelling reason for candidates to make this<BR>headlong rush for cash. As we mentioned in the 1996 and 2000 editions of<BR>The Buying of the President, the central, most salient, single fact<BR>about the White House selection process-a discovery first made by<BR>Republican political fundraising consultant Stan Huckaby-is that in<BR>every presidential election since 1976, the candidate who has raised the<BR>most money at the end of the year preceding the election, and been<BR>eligible
for federal matching funds, has become his party's nominee for<BR>the general election. At midnight on December 31st, it was Carter and<BR>Ford who had amassed the most campaign cash in 1975, Carter and Reagan<BR>in 1979, Mondale and Reagan in 1983, Dukakis and G.H.W. Bush in 1987,<BR>Clinton and Bush in 1991, Clinton and Dole in 1995 and Gore and G.W.<BR>Bush in 1999.<BR><BR>For Lewis’ complete web log, go to <A href="http://www.gregpalast.com/" eudora="autourl">www.GregPalast.com<BR><BR><BR></A><X-SIGSEP>
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<BR><BR>Quote of The Day:<BR><B>"...Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country..."<BR></B>Hermann Goering see <A href="http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm</A> </FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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