REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ARE SLASHING FUNDS TO PUBLIC EDUCATION
Bobby Jindal (R-LA): Louisiana Governor to cut $300 million dollars - nearly one-third of the education budget - from the state’s education funds. So what, exactly, does that mean? Put another way, a $300 million cut would also be around the same size as the total public operating budget for the Louisiana Community and Technical College system in 2014-15. The system ‘s public financial allocation — including revenue collected from tuition, the federal government and other dedicated funds — was only $308 million for this year.
Scott Walker (R-WI): Wisconsin’s Governor also aims to slash up to $300 million from public universities, while simultaneously devoting $500 million on a sports stadium. Students, professors and state lawmakers are already blasting the plan — the deepest cut in the state’s history.
Nikki Haley (R-SC): Another day, another story about a red-state governor de-funding higher education. This time it’s South Carolina — where the South Carolina House of Representatives has recommended that South Carolina State — the state’s only historically black college — close for two years in order to get its financial house in order.
Doug Ducey (R-AZ): Arizona’s Governor plans at least a $75 million cut to higher ed, will slash 10 percent from state university funding, and give only a token increase to K-12 schools by doubling the current $8 vehicle license fee (which disproportionately impacts the poorer). His proposed a budget closes the state’s $1.5 billion shortfalls by dipping into the “rainy-day fund,” sweeping $300 million from agency accounts and cutting programs by $384 million.
Sam Brownback (R-KS): The Kansas Governor plans $45 million cut to public school funding. Brownback spent his first term slashing taxes for the rich, promising it would lead to boom times for everyone else. Brownback’s “real live experiment” was supposed to lift Kansas out of the recession and into economic prosperity. The tax breaks instead led to debt downgrades, weak growth, and left the state finances in shambles.
(related posts: How Ronald Reagan started the conservative obsession with cutting education -and- Four ways privatization is ruining our education system)
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Accidental Hypocrisy
18 Things White People Seem To Not Understand (Because, White Privilege) →
1. White Privilege is being able to move into a new neighborhood and being fairly sure that your neighbors will be pleasant to you and treat you with respect.
2. White Privilege is being able to watch a movie, read a book and open the front page of a newspaper and see yourself and your race widely represented and spoken for.
3. White Privilege is being able to seek legal, financial and medical help without having your race work against you.
4. White Privilege is living in a world where you are taught that people with your skin tone hold the standard for beauty.
5. White Privilege is never being told to, “get over slavery”.
6. White Privilege is having the prevalence and importance of the English language and finding amusement in ridiculing people of colour/immigrants for their accents and their difficulty in speaking a language that is not their native tongue.
7. White Privilege is arrogantly believing that reverse racism actually exists.
8. White Privilege is being able to stay ignorant to the fact that racial slurs are part of a systematic dehumanization of entire groups of people who are and have historically been subjugated and hated just for being alive.
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9. White Privilege is not having your name turned into an easier-to-say Anglo-Saxon name.
10. White Privilege is being able to fight racism one day, then ignore it the next.
11. White privilege is having your words and actions attributed to you as an individual, rather than have them reflect members of your race.
12. White Privilege is being able to talk about racism without appearing self-serving.
13. White Privilege is being able to be articulate and well-spoken without people being surprised.
14. White Privilege is being pulled over or taken aside and knowing that you are not being singled out because of your race/colour.
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15. White Privilege is not having to teach your children to be aware of systematic racism for their own protection.
16. White Privilege is not having to acknowledge the fact that we live in a system that treat people of colour unfairly politically, socially and economically and choosing, instead, to believe that people of colour are inherently less capable.
17. White Privilege is not having your people and their culture appropriated, romanticized or eroticized for the gain and pleasure of other white people.
18. White Privilege is being able to ignore the consequences of race.
Dear World Leaders,
NO amount of dirty blood money exchanged during bullshit wars is worth the life of a human being. No matter ethnicity, sexuality, skin color or territory. WE the HUMAN RACE, We the SOLDIERS, We the CITIZENS, We the 99%, WE THE PEOPLE, ARE. FED. UP. You no longer fight for freedom of your people but, rather the freedom to keep oppressing your people and keeping us blinded by petty differences over, color of skin, language, religion and land. As long as we are ignorant to the fact that we have ALWAYS had more similarities with each other than differences, you can keep getting paid and fucking us over. NO MORE.
You will no longer force us to choose sides and pressure us with lies and political agendas to benefit you 1% domination. No longer will we turn a blind eye/ear to wars that are falsely waged in the name of “FREEDOM”. We will no longer allow you to kill our fellow HUMAN family members without making a loud, unified, disapproving voice. NO longer will you use OUR MONEY to “BAIL OUT” BILLION $$$ corporations, just so they can lay us off, send our jobs elsewhere, deny our HUMAN RIGHT to have care for our health, deny our children education and knowledge which should be FREE for all, Toss aside our elders, and destroy OUR economy for their gain. Your time is nearing it’s end.
The 99% are waking up from your dumbed down, commercial, consumerist, “EVERYONE CAN HAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM” brainwashed stupor. All religions, Races, Nations, and Class systems are coming together to put an end to this madness. We WILL be proud of our differences and let everyone have the God given right to love anyone they choose, pray to anyone they choose, live anywhere they choose, work anywhere they choose, and go to school anywhere they choose.
We don’t want violence or hate. Just peace and understanding among the people. We want equality and a chance for everyone to reach their full potential in this world. We don’t all have to be m/billionaires but, the majority of us don’t all have to be in poverty either. Please consider what is right, what is fair, and what is necessary in order for us ALL to evolve.
Sincerely, A 99%er -EISM
The Left vs. The Right
Some might say that I shouldn’t have MedicAid and to just let me die.
Some might say that I shouldn’t have a home that is paid for by taxpayers and that I should be left to fend for myself on the streets.
Some might say that I don’t deserve to be in a return-to-work program that is funded by taxpayers (99%) so that I may someday relieve the burden off my fellow citizens and provide for my own needs.
Some might say that I don’t deserve a grant to further my education so that I may have the skills that are in demand.
Some might say that they don’t care and who do I think I am…
Who am I?
I am Gay…
I am Black…
I am American…
I am the 99%!