How many times can you mention “capitalism” and free handouts from the government in the same sentences? Do you not understand this unholy alliance has nothing to do with capitalism? When the state hands over its monopoly in an industry to a corporation through massive subsidy that may be “privitization” but it couldn’t be further from capitalism. Our founders had a name for this when they fought a revolution denouncing it: mercantilism. You can call it crony capitalism if using the “c word” in a bad way makes you feel better…….

How many times can you mention “capitalism” and free handouts from the government in the same sentences? Do you not understand this unholy alliance has nothing to do with capitalism?

To try to understand any economic or social insitution outside of its economics is liberalism or at best conservatism. Education under fedualism was related to the econoic and social conditions of fedualistic society. Under slave economics, education had a particular form; and undre capitalism, late stage monopoply capitalisam education can be seen relative to the material conditions of capitalsim, no other way. To try to seperate instituional analysis from economic analysis is folly at best, follhardy at worst.

When the state hands over its monopoly in an industry to a corporation through massive subsidy that may be “privitization” but it couldn’t be further from capitalism.

Oh but it is capitalism, Jeremy. Look the word up and see it in context. It is a stage of capitalism called ne-liberal capitalism where profits are privatized and costs socialized. Turning public anything over to corportions si how ne-liberalism works. It is a shame we do not understand economics and how our institutions rise and fall within economic epochs. So, ‘good schools’ in America were also under capitalism but social contract capitalism. This now is capitalism with the gloves off.

Our founders

I am so sick of people invoking founders, Jeremy as if they were Gods. It is myth. Olook at your society forget about the founders they would languish in prision now along with Socrates if alive.

had a name for this when they fought a revolution denouncing it: mercantilism.

Mercantilism is a stage of capitalism, the Adam Smith stage. Then it went to industrial capitalism, then to finance capitalism and now neo-liberalism.

You can call it crony capitalism if using the “c word” in a bad way makes you feel better…….

I am not looking to ‘feel better’ Jeremy but thanks for the suggestion. Seat your understanding of institutional life, be it health care, education or work within the hitorical epochs that have to do with economics. For if not, then you will have little more than a partial understanding of the issues and certainly will be in no position to change anything or even keep the status quo.

Forget about the ‘founders’ (let Beck have them) and focus on ‘founding’ — this is what we need.

Danny

Sorry no sympathy for the teacher here. They had a graduation rate of 48% and the average teacher was making over 70K a year in a town where the median income was 22K. So when the administration tried to do something about the miserable results by asking the teacher to work an extra 30 minutes a day, and a rotating toutering schedule the teacher union said no and drew a line in the sand. Might want to list some of those facts before you start turning this into a right vs left issue because the teachers didn’t care about the welfare of the students and deserved to be fired. http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/02/central-falls-rhode-island-fires-every.html

Interesting chris. Maybe someone should start a website devoted to what dailycensored censor’s out of their biased pieces.

of 48% and the average teacher was making over 70K a year in a town where the median income was 22K. So when the administration tried to do something about the miserable results by asking the teacher to work an extra 30 minutes a day, and a rotating toutering schedule the teacher union said no and drew a line in the sand. Might want to list some of those facts before you start turning this into a right vs left issue because the teachers didn’t care about the welfare of the students and deserved to be fired. http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/02/central-falls-rhode-island-fires-every.html

Thanks, Chris and first of all, I did not write the blog entry as to ’somebody should tell daiilycensored.com about what they are censoring. Someone else did and used my name.

I do not dialogue like that so wish to make this clear.

Sympathy for teachers, Chris? You miss the epoch of history you are living in. An epoch where banks get bailed otu but not schools, where students cannot go to college unless bankrollec by Wall St. banks. Can’t you see the ruling class in this country does not want people to be educated? Study history, Chris.

Why are public schools failing? Easy to see. 30 years of Reganomics that allowed for the hyper privatization of all curriculum. Text book companies run invervices for teachers and have been for thirty years or more. Second, the public sector has been starved just like Grover Norquit said: drown government in a bathtub. Do you even know what an urban school looks like, Chris? They are centers for incarceration.

Public schools have failed for the last thirty some odd years. Poor teacher training programs, teach to the test mentality for thirty years which dummies down teachers not jut students, textbook control of the curriculum, autocarcy at the administrative level, a generation of children that have no formal or formidable skills.

In the 1960’s people moved to California, to use on example, for their schools. Now their schools are some of the worst. Why? Is it due to the fact they are ‘public’ Chris? No, I hardly think so and history proves this. It ia due to the attack on all public instituions and the failure of a citizenry that even cares about education. Training camps for corporatism they are. Now with Wal-Mart setting up internships in public schools perhaps you will find this more comforting? After all, they do prepare students for the “do you want fries with that. Sir” workplace, don’t they?

No, the lack of education in this country, the lack of student and teacher preparation is the fault of both the economics of privatization and the culture, Chris, a culture that heralds money, not education or educated people.

Ar teachers to blame, you bet you! For not standing up for a just societty, for thinking education existed outside the economic system and thus not thinking systematically about society, under achievement for students and underacehifvement for banksters.

No, you have no arrive at a point in history where either you fight to protect public education and improve it, or just hand it over to smooth talkign corporations that have no interest in your children or others.

What needs to be said is we need a public policy for improved public education. But that is now what is being said, is it CHRIS? What is being said is, “privatize it, clsoe pulbic schools, let the kids stay home and watch Jerry Springer and Glenn Beck or join gangs. Closing public schools when our kids have no jobs, no future, no culture other than “Lock-up”? You’ve got to be crazy. The issue is to keep the parasitic privatizers out of education and health care. Make education universal and free. Budget for it and have sound teacher preparation programs that involve curriculum, democracy and community.

You might not have any sympathy for the teachers, Chris, but now you have public school closures all over the US, hundrds and hundreds of them. So where do the kids go, Chris? Who pays? How? What role do teachers have in education? Whis is failing who, Chris? The society is failing not just the students. but the teachers the workers and the so called midddle class.

You want to look for a group of underachievers? Go to Wall St. look there Chris. They get bailed out with billions our children get thrown into the street and people who want to serve kids on a ‘public level’ don’t get adequate preparation and themselves are often inadequately educated.

Yet when the ruling class paid 9- percent taxes in 1958, over $450,000, and we had 39% of our workforce unionized we had the golden age of capitalism. Look at it now, the ruling class gets 15% capital gains tax while they sit by the pool and our workers are thrown out of jobs, schools close, teachers lose jobs and kids go into gangs.

Welcome to ‘Late night capitalism” where the liesure class gets ewverything for not working and we, the working class get nothing. And Chris, the administration never helps teachers, they are in administratino so they don’t have to get their grimy hands dirty with kids. Look at their salaries, Chris the administraors and you will see just where your money went.

$70,000 for a teacher, how much for a banker, Chris? Billions, that is how much. We undervalue working people and worship the Donald Trumps and those who do not work. This is your society, Chris.

Danny

One of the biggest problems facing us at the moment is bonus culture in the banks, if this is not stamped out they will yet again lead us into financial chaos to make them short term gains.

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