Newt on "Occupy Wall Street"...

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Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

No more property taxes? Or just the 70% of them that go to the public school system?
The President has zero authority over local municipalities and their local property tax structure.

Yes, but some who would be President would eliminate 100% of the funding for education that the federal government now subsidizes; and the Republican Governors Association has a goal of union-busting teachers, so they can more easily privatize school districts.

Newt wants to privatize schools, and make them for profit. Yes, your taxes for education would no longer be necessary.

And if the poor kids can't afford to go to elementary school, they can work as janitors to pay for it, and clean up the pee and feces and vomit of the rich kids.

The Republican Party has one goal: privatize everything: police, fire, Social Security, Medicare, keep healthcare private, no unions, school districts, government (see Michigan). Why? It's the only money left to take in this country. There is no middle class, with a disposable income, any more. 45% of this country are financially insecure, living paycheck to paycheck.
People with full time jobs can't afford housing and food on minimum wage. The Repubs don't care about that. They are sitting on 1.2 Trillion dollars, there is no need to "put any of it into the economy" to "create jobs" (as they don't care about that, either) - they just want to take the rest of the money that is left. And the only source of that left is government dollars going into programs, local and federal. Privatize those programs, and that equals a huge source of income.

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Originally Posted by Riot

Yes, but some who would be President would eliminate 100% of the funding for education that the federal government now subsidizes; and the Republican Governors Association has a goal of union-busting teachers, so they can more easily privatize school districts.

Newt wants to privatize schools, and make them for profit. Yes, your taxes for education would no longer be necessary.

And if the poor kids can't afford to go to elementary school, they can work as janitors to pay for it, and clean up the pee and feces and vomit of the rich kids.

I am torn.
They waste so much of my tax dollar now, yet I would hate to see poor people having to work too.
Has anyone successfully busted a union and privatized a school district completely? As someone with no kids this neighborhood sounds appealing to me.

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i definitely qualify as middle class along with pretty much 90% of my neighbors.

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Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

I am torn.
They waste so much of my tax dollar now, yet I would hate to see poor people having to work too.
Has anyone successfully busted a union and privatized a school district completely? As someone with no kids this neighborhood sounds appealing to me.

Here is the Republican agenda:

Defund "we're broke"
Bust the unions to enable privatization, remove legal impediments
Privatize to "save money"

The union-busted in Ohio, but it was just repealed at the ballot box (that is the first step to privatizing).

Walker union-busted in Wisconsin, now's he's under recall.

Scott in Florida is trying to privatize.

Michigan (Kasich) has privatized municipalities - he passed a law that for broke towns, he can come in and take over their town government (your elections no longer matter) and he can appoint a Czar to rule the town (Benton Harbor)

Republican Governor Chris Christie wants to start privatizing some New Jersey schools: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_875262.html

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced a pilot program on Thursday that would allow private companies to run public schools in some of the state's chronically underperforming school districts.

The public-private partnership would authorize school management organizations to operate five schools, and would target some of the 100,000 New Jersey students now enrolled in 200 chronically failing schools, the governor's office said.

The state's teachers union, which has clashed with the Republican governor over cuts to school aid and other issues, said the plan was part of Christie's "ongoing effort to privatize public education in New Jersey."

School management organizations are involved with 700 schools in 31 states, according to Christie's office.

The New Jersey proposal comes on the heels of a ruling by the state's highest court that Christie's education cuts of about $1 billion last year were unconstitutional and had shortchanged disadvantaged students.

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Ohio has a teachers union, so does Wisconsin.

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Christie has "chosen" the worst possible schools in NJ, clearly the status quo is a failure in those areas and based on Newark (where it costs almost the same per year to send a kid to school as does Yale) it is probably a good idea.

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Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

Ohio has a teachers union, so does Wisconsin.

But they have been badly battered by having the Republican governors remove some of their bargaining rights. Remove this, remove that, defund - and oh, we're broke, we'll have to hire a private company to run it, and we'll give all your state dollars to them.

Privatize Social Security, Medicare, keep healthcare privatized (we can see the disaster that is), privatize police, fire, EMS, schools. Get those tax dollars into the hands of corporations.

Look: the Republican Governors Association is very clear on now these govs are supposed to go about this. It's no secret. It's what the party "stands for".

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Originally Posted by Riot

But they have been badly battered by having the Republican governors remove some of their bargaining rights. Remove this, remove that, defund - and oh, we're broke, we'll have to hire a private company to run it, and we'll give all your state dollars to them.

Privatize Social Security, Medicare, keep healthcare privatized (we can see the disaster that is), privatize police, fire, EMS, schools. Get those tax dollars into the hands of corporations.

Look: the Republican Governors Association is very clear on now these govs are supposed to go about this. It's no secret. It's what the party "stands for".

Unions are a racket, especially the teachers union. Christ they got Corzine elected Gov in NJ.

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Originally Posted by Clip-Clop

Unions are a racket, especially the teachers union. Christ they got Corzine elected Gov in NJ.

I don't see a much bigger racket than trying to take my Medicare, Social Security and tax dollars and shovel them to enrich a private corporation.

But your point about Corzine is well-taken