Wisdom from my buddy Mike regarding Decency

Investing in war and divesting in education, health care, and human
needs

Billions of public money to private corporations to support war
profiteering and record oil profits

War on terror is an ideological construction that obscures the real
reasons for the war

720 Million a day on war = 12,478 elementary teachers, 1yr for
95,364 Head Start placements, 1yr Healthcare for 423,529 children

NYS testing – Significant disruption to instruction, not sufficiently
funded – burden to taxpayers, doesn’t recognize or allow for varying
abilities,

High Stakes testing administered in January and March therefore student
achievement for a full year is evaluated on five months of School
District

Affordable health care coverage is tied to work that unions built over
five decades is being eroded same as pensions.  Moral values party

Social Security – established in 1935 FDR, Americans of modest means
contribute throughout career and trust the government to protect the
elderly.  Privatization breaches this contract.  Social security
provides monthly income to retired, disabled, and surviving spouses and
dependents.  Federal government borrowed money from the Social Security
trust fund for many years and the trillions of dollars have not been
paid back to the fund.  The debt of borrowed money owed by the federal
government creates an unnecessary impression that money will be depleted
causing confusion and concern.  No person in Congress or administration
has proposed that the money borrowed will be paid back.

I only ask one question for my readers, "when will Mike's reality be
our reality?"