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January's Lowdown
Yes we can manage this country without the corporate priesthood--the cooperative movement shows us how
We're being told by today's High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around one dazzling star: the corporation. This heavenly institution, the HPCW explain, has such financial and political mass that it is the optimal force for organizing and directing our society's economic affairs, including the terms of employment and production.
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George W. scorns the very notion of "commonwealth"
Our health and education— trashed
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- Gambling with your vote
- Saving our "organic" label
- Give reagan his due
- Percy whops monsanto
- Playing games with public school funding
- Playing games with public school funding
- Fun quotes for the whole family
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Fun quotes for the whole family
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."—George W.
In 2003, Bush offered the Turkish government more money in a bribe to get them to send troops to Iraq than he provided for American schools to help them implement his "No Child Left Behind" Act.
"Where did this idea come from that everybody deserves free education? It comes from Moscow, from Russia. It comes straight out of the pit of hell."—Texas State Rep. Debbie Riddle, expressing the far-right wing's understanding of history in the 2003 legislative session. (Actually, the idea of free public education was spawned in America by such moderate-to-conservative thinkers as Horace Mann and John Dewey.)