{"article":{"id":21808,"heading":"MILLIONS OF CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL??","author":"Marcus","created":"2002-11-07 02:53:31","modified":"2005-08-15 01:04:16","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:04:16","article":"

Dear 48, Bush man admirer and T-Mex,

In Jamaica they privatized Education. Now more than 90% of the elementary school aged students do not go to school, because their parents cannot afford the tuition fee. The American oligarchy want to do the same thing in the U.S. and across the world throuht W.T.O. But people are not dumb, they have been ferociously fighting against any kind of privatization at the elementary level of education for many years. The amount of money needed for a private education would be out of reach for over 40% of the U.S. population. So who would get an education – rich and middle class kids... and screw all the other millions of kids. Because they are not important to the rich. With the tax money saved by privatization, they would cut big corporations taxes even more. Guys if you have any genuine compassion about these kids without education, you should start getting the facts from good books. Restricting some segments of the population from NOT going to school is evil. I don’t think you guys are evil. I think you have been mislead by the corporate media propaganda. Please don’t be hateful. PEACE Marcus

<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","summary":"EDUCATION FOR RICH AND MIDDLE CLASS ONLY?","numcomment":10,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2002\/11\/stop_lying_to_children.gifvjjywx.gif","filesize":"84.9 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2002\/11\/21808.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2002\/11\/stop_lying_to_children.gifvjjywx.gif"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":21821,"heading":"You should stop lying","article":"you didn't provide a source. . . so I did my own research. . .\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/unstats.un.org\/unsd\/mi\/mi_results.asp?crID=388&fID=r15\r\n\r\nLiteracy rates are steadily climbing in Jamaica, and school attendance remains above 90%, according to the UN site above.\r\n\r\nThe fact is that most poor children in America do NOT receive an education. . . they are stuck in failing government schools while the wealthy send their kids to St. Albans.\r\n\r\nRepublicans think poor kids should have the same opportunities as the rich.\r\n\r\nDemocrats want to keep poor kids in failing schools so that they can reward their union contributors.\r\n\r\nAnd in fact, the majority of urban African Americans want vouchers. . . if they want to keep their kids in failing public schools, they can, but most don't.\r\n\r\n","author":"T-Mex","parent_id":21808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-11-07 14:17:31","modified":"2002-11-07 14:17:31","fileurl":""},{"id":21829,"heading":"Thank You T. Mex","article":"T mex.\r\n-Republicans think poor kids should have the same opportunities as the rich.- \r\nThen the link to UN statistics which he thoughtfully provided.\r\nto the Millennium Indicators Database which is the first on the list of research orgs...\r\nhttp:\/\/unstats.un.org\/unsd\/mi\/mi_goals.asp\r\nWhich is a\r\n-consensus of experts from the United Nations Secretariat in consultation\r\nwith IMF, OECD and the World Bank, and other specialized agencies of the UN System...\r\n\r\nand then we scroll down through a list of euphemistic goals such as education, health, employment and-\r\nthen we see a reason the above agencies are involved\r\n\r\n-Market access\r\nhttp:\/\/unstats.un.org\/unsd\/mi\/mi_goals.asp\r\n 38. Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and\r\n excluding arms) from developing countries and from LDCs,\r\n admitted free of duties (UNCTAD) (not yet available)\r\n 39. Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural\r\n products and textiles and clothing from developing countries\r\n (UNCTAD) (not yet available)\r\n 40. Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as\r\n percentage of their GDP (OECD)\r\n 41. Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity\r\n (OECD, WTO) - \r\nWith which my curiosity led me to the spread sheet on %-Yr. per country.\r\nhttp:\/\/unstats.un.org\/unsd\/mi\/mi_results.asp?row_id=655\r\nInteresting document in that it has the ratio of resources spent to service the above agencies instead of being used possibly to allow them to pull themselves up. I was interested in the exclusion of arms. Again, T. Mex\r\nthanks for the link. \r\n\r\n.","author":"interested","parent_id":21808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-11-07 17:18:18","modified":"2002-11-07 17:18:18","fileurl":""},{"id":21830,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":""Republicans think poor kids should have the same opportunities as the rich. "\r\n\r\nYeah, let their daddies take care of it!","author":"KPC","parent_id":21808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-11-07 17:18:55","modified":"2002-11-07 17:18:55","fileurl":""},{"id":21843,"heading":"Well, interested","article":"I'm pretty certain I don't get your point. . . but frankly I'm not sure I care.\r\n\r\nThe initial poster made an unsupported allegation that privatization of schools in Jamaica led to 90% of the kids there not being able to go to school.\r\n\r\nI provided a link showing that its just the opposite -- 90% of kids in Jamaica go to school.\r\n\r\nKPC, as usual, has nothing to add.","author":"T-Mex","parent_id":21808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-11-07 18:59:35","modified":"2002-11-07 18:59:35","fileurl":""},{"id":21844,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"Of course you don't get it! Your incapable of thinking out of your tight little box. You shit out some laughable parrot dropping on the screen and don't get it when people laugh...\r\n\r\n...are you really really that clueless, really?","author":"KPC","parent_id":21808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-11-07 19:08:45","modified":"2002-11-07 19:08:45","fileurl":""},{"id":21845,"heading":"Another","article":"thoughtful comment from KPC.\r\n\r\n","author":"T-Mex","parent_id":21808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-11-07 19:15:42","modified":"2002-11-07 19:15:42","fileurl":""},{"id":21846,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"flickin' away your feeble posts takes about as much energy and thought as flickin' a booger....","author":"KPC","parent_id":21808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-11-07 19:19:18","modified":"2002-11-07 19:19:18","fileurl":""},{"id":21847,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"....the only difference is boogers come from your nose but your posts are outta your ass....\r\n\r\n...so maybe a dingleberry analogy would be better...","author":"KPC","parent_id":21808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-11-07 19:20:57","modified":"2002-11-07 19:20:57","fileurl":""},{"id":21852,"heading":"Is this","article":"what you do instead of masturbating? Or in addition to?","author":"T-Mex","parent_id":21808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-11-07 19:47:43","modified":"2002-11-07 19:47:43","fileurl":""},{"id":21853,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"What? You have never masturbated? I suggest you try it, might loosen you up a bit....go away for a few seconds then come back n' tell me all about it...","author":"KPC","parent_id":21808,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-11-07 19:53:10","modified":"2002-11-07 19:53:10","fileurl":""}]}