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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A New American Revolution
This is taken from our Declaration of Independence
–That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
Medicare/Medicaid is not a light or transient cause
Social Security is not a light or transient cause
Equality is not a light or transient cause
Troy Davis was not a light or transient cause
Aid for our veterans is not a light or transient cause
The economy is not a light or transient cause.
The middle class is not a light or transient cause
The poor and the homeless are not light or transient causes
HIV/AIDS is not a light transient cause.
Occupy Wall Street is not a light or transient cause
We may think we alter the government with our elections but we continue to be abused by those we give power to and those that rule over them (big corporations and the wealthiest 1-2%)
It’s time for a revolution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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