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2. The state of public education in the country has been degraded by a combination of neglect and a deliberate effort to produce new generations of young people only fit for low-paying service jobs - because many of the good ones (especially in manufacturing and high-tech) are being exported to low-wage countries. George Bush's "no child left behind" education program is just another fraud to enrich corporations at the expense of school children.3. The prison population in the country has grown to over 2.1 million with about 900 new inmates being added each week. It's now the largest in the world, even greater than China's with four times our population and a government that has no compunction about locking people up. I wrote a major article on this I called The US Gulag Prison System, and I was referring to the one at home. This is an outrage and should be a national scandal as is the state of what I call our criminal-injustice system. All of it is an outgrowth of a society benefitting wealth and power and doing it at the expense of ordinary people who naturally become more restive as their lives become more intolerable. So we've chosen to solve the problem by locking up as many of them as we can on any pretext instead of providing essential services and correcting corporate abuses which is how a government serving us would do it. This one (Republican or Democrat) doesn't and won't unless we make it do it.
I urge David to consider adding these topics to a future edition of his wonderful book. But I applaud him for his important contribution. It's his first book, and I certainly hope not his last.
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