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February 23, 2012
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"If the unions win the recall, there will be no stopping union power."

— Billionaire David Koch • Speaking about the Wisconsin recall efforts against Gov. Scott Walker. Koch made the comments during a recent speech after a benefit dinner, and were quickly backtracked by his spokeswoman, who clarified, “[Koch Industries thinks] the best workplace relationships are fostered when the employer works directly with its employees. It is a mischaracterization of our principles to say this means we oppose unions or want to dismantle all unions.” The Koch brothers find themselves under ever-increasing scrutiny for supporting political causes around the country, most notably the recall campaign of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. source (via • follow)

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August 30, 2011
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utnereader: Faith in the universal power of higher learning is at the heart of modernity. From enhancing our basic humanity to preserving culture, economic and technological development to social equality, and redressing ills from global warming to AIDS, there are very few needs for which more education has not been prescribed. Warranted or not, this belief is the closest thing we have to a world religion. And it is winning converts at unprecedented speed. People around the world are demanding more education as a human right and as a pathway out of poverty. In 1900 about half a million people worldwide were enrolled in colleges. A century later the number was 100 million. According to a 2009 report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,150 million students are now enrolled in some kind of education beyond high school, a 53 percent increase in less than a decade. Meanwhile, here in America, the birthplace of mass higher education, our faith is no longer moving mountains. Since the 1970s, our educational attainment has stalled while the rest of the world is roaring ahead. Keep reading … This is so on point. America has little interest in Higher Education as evidenced by cuts to the education budget; to finance the defense budget.  sticks and stones won’t build homes; and rocks will only continue to block the road to progress. The folks who support the austerity moves by the GOP should think about this when they have no one smart enough to design the next generations’ great leap forward.

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Faith in the universal power of higher learning is at the heart of modernity. From enhancing our basic humanity to preserving culture, economic and technological development to social equality, and redressing ills from global warming to AIDS, there are very few needs for which more education has not been prescribed.

Warranted or not, this belief is the closest thing we have to a world religion. And it is winning converts at unprecedented speed. People around the world are demanding more education as a human right and as a pathway out of poverty. In 1900 about half a million people worldwide were enrolled in colleges. A century later the number was 100 million. According to a 2009 report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,150 million students are now enrolled in some kind of education beyond high school, a 53 percent increase in less than a decade.

Meanwhile, here in America, the birthplace of mass higher education, our faith is no longer moving mountains. Since the 1970s, our educational attainment has stalled while the rest of the world is roaring ahead. Keep reading …

This is so on point. America has little interest in Higher Education as evidenced by cuts to the education budget; to finance the defense budget.  sticks and stones won’t build homes; and rocks will only continue to block the road to progress.

The folks who support the austerity moves by the GOP should think about this when they have no one smart enough to design the next generations’ great leap forward.

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