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The result was a financial coup d'etat "cement(ing) the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders" who choose candidates, control elections, weaken financial regulations, and run the country for their own self-interest. As a result, Washington today is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Wall Street financial giants. What they want, they get, no questions asked.
(2) US Schools Are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s
According to a UCLA Civil Rights report, "schools in the US are 44 percent non-white, and....Latinos and blacks, the two largest minority groups, attend schools more segregated today than during the civil rights movement forty years ago." The result is:
-- unequal education denies disadvantaged youths access to college and better jobs;
-- growing numbers of them become "virtually unemployable" for anything more than menial labor or the military; and
-- they're vulnerable to future poverty, poor health, gangs, crime, and incarceration in America's gulag prison system in each of the 50 states.
The report stresses the need for "leaders who recognize that we have a common destiny in an America where our children grow up together, knowing and respecting each other, and are all given the educational tools that prepare them for success in our society."
Instead, Barack Obama, like his predecessor, backs privatizing public education, destroying a 374 year tradition in America, ending government responsibility for it, and making it another business profit center at the expense of future generations of disadvantaged youths.
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