Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that building a wall on the southern border to keep out hordes of immigrants is more important than building a badly needed new school.
The irony is his comment is that he was talking about taking away money intended for a new middle school in Kentucky, where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hails from. Does Senator McConnell agree? We don’t know.
I wonder if any funds will be taken away from South Carolina (where there are many impoverished children and schools) to build the wall. Does Senator Graham care?
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They’re both fools!
Because they don’t want to build public schools. They want to build dashboards of private educational service providers, hand out low value vouchers and wash their hands of the whole thing.
They’ll generously offer 5k and you just go buy your own in the marketplace. It’s a horrible deal but that’s part of the point- it will be cheaper. For them. Not you, because 5k isn’t enough, so you’ll put family income toward it. Well, some of you will. The rest will just get 5k.
If it’s garbage? Well, you won’t blame politicians. They have nothing to do with it. It’s privatized. You can blame the 5000 individual contractors, if you can somehow weasel your way into their executive suite.
If it’s garbage and you want public schools back? Too bad. This decision is irreversible.
Now let’s see if McConnell and Paul understand that one of the essential duties of elected representatives is constituent service. I’d bet “No.”
Graham has little integrity left as he has lost his more reasonable colleague. Ever since McCain passed away, Graham has been fairly unpredictable. He hates Trump; he loves him. Who knows? At this point, I don’t trust anything he says.
Chiara is right. Too many politicians on both sides of the aisle do not want to invest in public education. It is our job to let these clowns know the public cares about public schools, and we need to show them by kicking the stalwart supporters of privatization to the curb. We need more new faces in Congress.
Since McCain died, Graham has been Trump’s lapdog. Despite the fact that Trumpinsulted and belittled McCain. Graham needs a big brother.
“…we need to show them by kicking the stalwart supporters of privatization to the curb.” May OUTING THEM PUBLICLY undergo a huge push in the next two years.
You need to see this from a multidimensional view and understand the overcrowding in urban areas is happening on purpose to break down public school and create charters. There is billions in education but currently states, federal governments and many counties working with deficits budgets and the schools most greatly impacted are in Urban over crowed areas with poor and minority children. The wealthy also pour money into their public school districts and reley less on government funds. In the end if public schools go down so does constitutional rights 13th and 14th: the right for every child from every background and culture to get a safe public education k-12 that prepares the individual for college, trade/skill or both: Equal protections under the law and the right not to be subjected to modern day slavery and/or oppression. The super wealthy and corporations don’t want this issue fixed because More People buy products and services, cheap labor, and more people with with educations that don’t serve them well need more government resources which leaves the door wide open for a “need” to create charter schools. . Corporations own many politicians who are being used and manipulated due to lack of skills, lack of multidimensional view and corruption or are very good but myopic to a cause or party. If the corporations and super wealthy wanted this problem fixed it would be fixed. We need comprehensive immigration reform which will benefit every person from every culture and background and society as a whole.
Deirdre, you are a fast learner. Privatization is class and race warfare. It is rich individualism versus the common good. The many must assert their rights and make government work for them.
I think Graham has proven recently that he is now all hack.
Back to Trumpletoes: CNN’s writer seems to miss his target (Trump) with this article. I think there’s an obvious reason why he would try so hard to obstruct justice; he’s a supreme narcissist and the investigation is a big blot, a pulsing welt, giant mosquito in the room that he can’t quite swat. His behavior does not necessarily belie guilt; it IS the problem and it IS impeachable. He is a lawless tyrant (fundamentally a criminal) in full intellectual decline. This is not a test. Please, remove him from office.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/02/19/politics/donald-trump-new-york-times-russia-investigation/index.html
Trump is a dangerous, degenerating idiot with criminal tendencies.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna974041
Must impeach!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/2019/02/21/trump-administration-wants-sell-nuclear-technology-saudis-without-nuclear-agreement-thats-alarming/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/02/21/donald-trump-north-korea-1178593
Retired teacher: It’s that and so much more which in the end will also greatly impact the wealthy and our entire way of life when constitutional rights are broken down and disregarded and that’s the piece most people are missing. Money doesn’t guarantee protected freedoms but the constitution and federal laws do.
“Does Senator McConnell agree?”
Depends: If that money was supposed to go to a public school, he will agree with Graham. If that money was going to a publicly funded private sector corporate charter school owned and managed by a fraud and liar that contributes to McConnel’s election campains, McConnel will disagree.
Senator Graham’s turn-around since the death of Senator McCain is highly suspicious and reeks of his being compromised (by Russia).
No, I think he is not compromisedby Russia, I think he is a born lackey.
There is, of course, way more need for walls if you are the Ming Dynasty, the Roman Empire, the Soviet Union, or the city of Jericho. The thing is, all those walls are now down or curiosity for the tourists. The walls China threw up in the late Ming kept China insulated from a world that pryed it’s way into the country anyway, using the lever of Opium. Germans tore up the one in Berlin by hand, just like the French dismantled the walls that made up the Bastille. Jericho was bereft of theirs with the blast of the trumpets.
Ghandi, meanwhile, suggested that students build their own schools. I think we should fund this. Students from all the places where building are needed should get the opportunity to construct the place where they will learn. Sure it will cost something, because we will have to teach the kids to work, but many of them will enjoy it. Then all the kids will have a place to learn. From teachers. Walls where you can pin student essays. Walls for maps about far away places. Walls where darkness can bring video. Walls with big chalkboards. Walls that protect students as they tell their counselor what the school needs to know.
Walls can be good if they are the right kind of walls.
“The walls China threw up in the late Ming kept China insulated from a world that pryed it’s way into the country anyway,”
The original Walls (and there were more than one along the same area) in China date back centuries before Christ was born.
12.2.1 China. … The Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) was the first to construct rammed earth defensive walls along their northern frontiers in western China. These walls were repaired and extended by the Han (206 BC–202 AD) and Jin (265 AD–420 AD) dynasties.
The Ming Dynasty wall rebuilt the older wall but used stone instead of rammed earth. The Ming Dynasty like the GOP Trump Dynasty became isolationist and tried to wall off the entire country from the world. Sections of the Ming Wall are what tourists see today, but a lot of that Ming Wall have also fallen into ruin.
Like you said, that attempt to isolate China from the world is what probably led to China being invaded in the early and mid nineteen centuries when European colonial empires started the two Opium Wars (The U.S. sent troops to help defeat China during the second Opium War) to force China to make opium legal and of to let in Christian missionaries to convert China into a Christian with an opium epidemic profiting Christian merchants.
I’ve read a study that said the British Empire would have collapsed without the profits from the opium trade in China funding all of the British Empire’s expansion and wars around the world.