it's always about the money

Subject: Re: Where Does Billionaire Monopolist Bill Gates Get Off Saying BiggerClass Size and Fewer Teachers Is the Education Solution?

It's always about the money.  For the Empire Builders there is no profit in educating the masses.  The fact of the matter is that the Empire Builders honestly believe that they do not need any of us anymore. 

They are busy moving their factories and business headquarters overseas.  They have discovered the starving, desperate people who are eager to serve them and to be loyal workers. 

The Great American Experiment, the Middle Class provided the resources and talent upon which the Empire Builders drew and grew.  For a time it looked like a sort of mutual appreciation society.  The Empire Builders praised the Middle Class for its ingenuity and work ethics, and the Middle Class dreamed of moving up the ladder into the Land of the Empire Builders. 

Underwriting it all was the unsung Working Class.  Looked down on by the Middle Class and unknown to the Empire Builders, they kept the factories running, built the bridges and highways, hauled off the garbage and did all of the menial work including harvesting the crops that fed the Middle Class and Empire Builders.  They were so invisible that no one noticed or cared that many of them crept across the border and set up house keeping illegally. 

Instead of reaching out to the Middle Class, the Empire Builders stole from them and spat in their faces.  "We can hire cheaper labor to do everything you do," they sneered. 

It was as if the clock had suddenly struck midnight and the carriages were turning back into pumpkins and all the finery had become rags. 

Of course the Empire Builders have planted the seeds of their own destruction 

 The question remains, are rank and file Americans able to prepare to build a better world when the sling finds its mark and the giant crashes to the valley floor. 

 

Curious Carl