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Monday, May 9, 2011

School Tech Connect: Negotiating With Terrorists

School Tech Connect: Negotiating With Terrorists

Negotiating With Terrorists

It's done all the time.

Ok, I regret the title of this post already. Sears is not a terrorist; they're a corporation--- they have a duty to increase shareholder value, and they're going to do whatever it takes. When Rod Paige called the NEA a terrorist organization, I was appalled.

The problem is this: these tax-break relocation incentives-- they build a house of sand. Whatever good they do a community, they do an equal bad somewhere else--- and then there's the permanent, pernicious threat that