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Monday, December 13, 2010

Schools Matter: Founding Leaders of the Status Quo Call for No Labels, Just Dollar $igns

Schools Matter: Founding Leaders of the Status Quo Call for No Labels, Just Dollar $igns

Founding Leaders of the Status Quo Call for No Labels, Just Dollar $igns

Originally inspired by Lee Atwater's brain-rotting politics of personal destruction, the corporate swindlers of the Business Roundtable in the late 80s created a bipartisan network of political prostitutes, leeches, think tankers, and yes men who would use their influence to advance the bare-knuckled and relentless attack by the BR and the Chamber on public institutions, an ongoing attack that is fueled by a divisive and corrosive rhetoric that labels, slanders, intimidates, and destroys. Pols of both parties have been bought in this effort over the past 15 years, and for long time it seemed that the corporate socialists would prevail with ease. They still might.

What these greed merchants and social antiquarians couldn't count on, however, is the overreaching and overarching greed that resulted in the Heist of the Century by the Wall Street banksters who just couldn't get enough of a good thing. The fallout has hurt the Billionaire Boys Club, those arrogant pricksters of white privileg