Romney Vows to Destroy Public Schools

In a speech yesterday Mittens Romney announced his plan  to destroy the public school system in America.

This, of course, being Romney, it goes without saying, is not an original idea of his.

Privatization  has been a thinly veiled strategy of the corporately owned Republican Party since the time of Reagan, yimach shemo.

With the election of President Obama, however, destruction of the public school system has gained a new urgency in Republican/corporate circles.

The, to them, scary fact that a black man could become president meant, in their minds, obstacles needed to be implemented to insure that such a thing would be next to impossible in the future.

As those who pay attention have seen, there is a war going on at this time to disenfranchise black voters.

The main tactic of the war is drug laws, which, in conjunction with a failed Supreme court, allow incarceration of large numbers of black young men and women, with the subsequent removal of their rights to vote, to gain employment, housing and so on.

The drug laws really are a master stroke of genius in that the laws almost exclusively target the poor and blacks.

Ask someone in Beverly Hills, “When was the last time the police kicked down doors in your neighborhood and hauled the occupants off to prison?”

The answer will be”Never, they never knock down doors in our neighborhood, period.”

Ask a black in the inner city and the answer will be, “Last week, yesterday, last month..” and so on.

This in spite of the fact that upper middle class whites consume far more drugs than their “less fortunate” black neighbors.

The City of Philadelphia is currently closing schools in poor neighborhoods, the talk being that 60 inner city schools will be shut down within a year.

All the teachers, support staff, janitors, cooks, nurses, etc. will be fired.

It is being said that, “well, the public schools are failing.”

It would be more correct to say the government is failing, failing to provide even a halfhearted attempt to assist the poor, to give them, as the President has said, “A fair chance to succeed.”

Romney has said that after he destroys public education, he will give vouchers to the poor, so they can go to private schools.

And that may succeed, after a fashion.

But here is our prediction: during the next Presidential election cycle, the idea that we “can't afford” to educate the poor will have gained traction.

People, such as that traitor, Eric Cantor, will say, “Why should society pay for the education of people's  children who have parents that 'refuse' to work?” Or have criminal records, or low IQ’s, or other handicaps.

Our country is about to enter the worst time we have yet experienced if the current Ayn Rand, every man for himself, trend continues.

This discussion is not about charity or selflessness.

It's about survival of the U.S. As we know it.

It's an existential dialogue that won't be resolved in a way that any but the richest of the rich, and the vilest elements of society will approve.

As Frederick Lundenberg once said, “If we run this country by the philosophy that it's a struggle for survival, where only the strong survive, we will soon see the U.S. taken over by the next generation of Al Capones and Machine Gun McGurks.”