Let's Fund Some Learning!

Now that we have heard that the government is broke, industry has been creating jobs anywhere but here in the USA, and tax revenues either going to increase from taking away the tax cuts, which were originally a bad idea when implemented, or the poor and middle class is going to get soaked some more, we need some common sense.

Lobbyists will charge mightily for the absence of common sense.  Politiicans will sell their souls and your children if you'd only forget common sense.

But this one thing must happen.  We have to have enough money to open the schools, pay the teachers and teach the children to to.

The reason for this need is simple.  We need to have one thing happen, and we need that one thing fast.  We need to be sure that our future leaders are able to think, not just regurgitate the latest data points, but actually use those data points to support ideas that will, in the future, forget about the wealth of the very few and build wealth again for the many.

Mine is not a position that supports income redistribution for the purpose of redistributing income.  I am not proposing class warfare.  I am, with this post, demanding this nation demand its leaders operate so that all people that work are paid, that they have jobs that pay, they can build things the way this nation built the largest industrial power in the history of the world, and that by doing so, all members of our society can make a decent wage.

When people work and are not paid, or when they cannot find work, bad things happen.  Starvation, homelessness and education are among the first things that are slapped onto the backs of the nearly poor.  This means that opportunity is limited, and then the masses get restless.  Before the most dire consequences happen though, there are consequences that decimate the spirit, which is hopelessness. 

Enough of the rich getting everything while the poor get nothing and the next generation pays both sides through unconscionable debt.

My proposal starts with education.  It starts with being able to figure out that budgeting to bailout banks while failing to fund education, or making the masses all angry and upset over gay marriage while the real crime in this nation is that we have sent out to everywhere else, the manufacturing jobs that made America great and workers able to work in those plants.

Even the guy with the wrench in his hand has to understand some math, some science and some engineering to make what is being turned by that wrench actually function at the end of the day. 

This takes a budget.  A budget that isn't devoted to making bankers money from their creations made of air, called credit default swaps.  Wouldn't someone please ask them where they learned how to steal like that?  In public school?  At Harvard?

So, budget this in Washington.  Take out the "really big numbers" to bailout the banks that are too big to fail, and let them fail.  Give them the grade anyone would have gotten if they had done this and they were too small to succeed.  With nothing.  And take that money and invest it in really fine education.  Rebuild New Orleans schools, and the many other schools around the nation that are below excellent in condition.  Give workers in those schools neighborhoods the jobs to do that building.

And then, hire people that can think to teach kids that legalized graft and stealing from the public is the same as stealing anywhere.  It is the same as stealing from your local church, synagogue or mosque.  It is the same as taking food out of the mouths of your neighbors.  Make those bankers work in grocery stores to repay what they have stolen, and make them go back to school for not less than one year, at their own expense, to learn ethics.  While they are in school, they will have to provide tuition for one pre-schooler, one grade schooler, a high school student and three college freshmen.  If the school is public, make them pay the per pupil cost of those students.