Corporate Education Reformers: Hoarders of Financial and Social Capital
The corporate education oligarchs centered in Washington state, along with their reps in Washington, DC, are making a lot of noise now about those lazy, overpaid school teachers with their fancy Masters' degrees. For the frugal oligarchs, teachers' advanced degrees and step pay increases represent areas to save big. The propaganda is being produced and disseminated by one of Gates's tax shelters for philanthrocapitalists, the Center on Dismantling Reinventing Public Education.
Meanwhile, we hear no concern expressed by billionaire Gates or the 10,000+ Microsoft millionaires who are quietly waiting for their Bush tax cuts to be renewed, even though the payout to the made men of Microsoft will blow a 700 billion-dollar hole in the federal deficit over ten years. Nor do we hear anything about any giving back by the corporations whose profits in the third quarter of 2010 were the highest recorded ever:
Meanwhile, we hear no concern expressed by billionaire Gates or the 10,000+ Microsoft millionaires who are quietly waiting for their Bush tax cuts to be renewed, even though the payout to the made men of Microsoft will blow a 700 billion-dollar hole in the federal deficit over ten years. Nor do we hear anything about any giving back by the corporations whose profits in the third quarter of 2010 were the highest recorded ever:
Unemployment may be high, but business is booming…or at least corporate profits are. New data
