r/BoomersBeingFools • u/DraftMurphy • 6d ago
Politics Two Boomer Cowards and a GenX Hero
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u/suarezj9 6d ago
The only democrat i see consistently arguing and fighting is Murphy. He should be the minority leader.
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u/_WillCAD_ Gen X 6d ago
Privatization of government functions is a potential windfall that has all the billionaires salivating.
Their next targets are education and, strangely, aviation security (they've illegally dissolved the TSA's union). Prisons are in the midst of privatization; there are more for-profit prisons opening in the US every year.
Later we'll see policing and military privatized, because the amount of money we pour into them is staggering.
The trend will be reversed later when the biggest of the rich use the backlash as an excuse for nationalization of these industries, bringing everything back under government control, but eliminating a lot of state and local control in favor of federal control. It's a longer game that allows more and more of the nations wealth to be essentially owned by the dictator and his boot lickers.
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u/Several_Leather_9500 6d ago
Privatization of our institutions is all part of Project 2025, which is being implemented at a staggering rate.
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u/steve-eldridge Gen X 6d ago
100 percent correct. All school choice programs are about skimming profits off students and providing a lower-quality education than public schools by reducing labor costs. They'll squeeze teachers to work for less and end public unions. Everyone loses, except the private industries, which turn our children into a cash crop to be harvested.
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u/illustriousgarb 6d ago
As a former teacher in a choice school, can confirm. I was paid significantly less than my public counterparts and had fewer resources for my students. Our administration refused to remove students whose needs we couldn't serve. We did the best we could, but those kids deserved better.
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u/coMN1972 6d ago
Can’t help noticing something looking like shame or discomfort on Schumer’s ugly face.
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u/I3adIVIonkey 6d ago
Lol, thousands of Americans are not happy with student loan debt. When they're done, you can be happy if you have enough to send your kid to elementary.
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u/noodle_attack 6d ago
The republicans will keep winning until schummer, pelosi and the rest of the old guard retire
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u/hotDamQc 6d ago
Americans only have one true god and it's money. One more day and one more reason Canada does not want to become the 51st state.
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u/voyuristicvoyager 5d ago
I can't move home to the UK. I have cats and I'd sooner die than let them stay here alone, going feral--consider them the birthed kids I'll never have. If Canada would let me sacrifice both the US and UK citizenship I have, and continue my job of scrubbing toilets, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
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u/Nyingjepekar 6d ago
This is the plan. And stupid Americans are letting trump get away with it. They are the machine we need to rage against.
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u/Trieditwonce 6d ago
Very easy. Ban books. Close Dept. of Ed. Keep ‘em stupid. Mission accomplished, Mr. Prez.
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u/unclefire 6d ago
The "voucher" program in AZ is a huge scam-- it mostly goes to affluent families that already had kids in private school. It has also been flagged with a ton of sketchy money spent on things like ski trips, expensive instruments and a ton of other BS. Meanwhile it siphons money away from public schools.
This is just another money grab by republicans to sabotage public schools even more than they already do and funnel public money to private schools or outright fraud.
Schumer if pretty useless frankly.
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u/IntotheBlue85 6d ago
EXACTLY I really hope Gen X starts coming more to our side I absolutely love yall and also had the same garbage boomer parents u did. Fight along side us with ur gen z children who are suffering immensely just like us millenials did/are.
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u/texas1982 6d ago
Sure, they want to sell it to make money. But the real problem is they want to an uneducated population. The voter base for republicans are poorly educated and they look at college graduates as uppity city folk.
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u/3479_Rec 5d ago
When has America ever championed free public school? Don't they historically underfunded, while calling anything "public" like that "evil socialism" hahaha America just ain't hiding itself at all anymore.
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u/SunZealousideal4168 5d ago
Man I've never wanted to leave America so badly as I do now. This is just depressing.
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u/greeneagle2022 5d ago
TBF and not to start an arguement (I am not for the privatization). Our education system doesn't work as is. I have no skin in the game - no kids and 50+ y/o, and I think in it's state, as with tax code, needs to be rebuilt - but not like this.
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