Citizens Media Resource: Voucher Bill Moved Ahead, Charter Bill on Deck

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Voucher Bill Moved Ahead, Charter Bill on Deck

Updating on these bills we are tracking---this coming from the Facebook page of Standing Together for Strong Community Schools. http://www.facebook.com/StrongCommunitySchools

"A group of our members attended yesterday's House Education Committee meeting during which they rolled the State Authorizer Bill to next week's meeting. Some of our members also attended the House Education Subcommittee meeting yesterday afternoon. Despite some serious concerns raised by Rep. Pitts and Rep. Forgety, legislators pushed forward with their agenda and passed the voucher bill out of the subcommittee with a 6-2 vote. Rep. Pitts and Rep. Forgety were the "no" votes and we cannot thank them enough for their tireless efforts to ensure that all children receive a free and appropriate public education."

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Wish List of Research

1. Who makes money on war? And on military buying, protecting and occupying? Yeah, we already know, but let's audit this with excellent research that lays out who profited and continues to profit from our invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afganistan....or any other military activity and occupations, past or present. We have at least 823 foreign bases that the U.S. admits to; those are paid for by taxpayers, and the military bases are there principally to guard the oil for Exxon-Mobil. I believe we will find that taxpayers spend a huge amount on corporate welfare and subsidies to giant corporations, whose profits obviously are more important than the lives and limbs that are sacrificed in military actions. While we are at it, we should study who makes money from natural disasters, and how they get handed huge government contracts---in a no-bid rush, of course, since it is an emergency. There are capitalistic exploiters who feed off this as an industry; they are just not so long-established as what President Eisenhower called "the military-industrial complex."

2. Economic impact of legalizing use and sale of marijuana. There's another economic stimulus and revenue raiser. It would be regulated for safety and legal for individuals and small outfits to grow and sell. With the chance for broad participation, and the exclusion of monopolistic takeover of the market, many Americans would have the opportunity to be entrepreneurs.