education will get you a job! but we're cutting education.

[xchrom]

http://www.nationofchange.org/education-will-get-you-job-we-re-cutting-education-1326992669

We're often re­minded that ed­u­ca­tion is the key to adapt­ing to glob­al­iza­tion and chang­ing tech­nolo­gies. Re­ports from George­town Uni­ver­sity, the New York Times, and the Brook­ings In­sti­tu­tion cite the grow­ing im­por­tance of higher ed­u­ca­tion. For­eign com­pa­nies are be­com­ing less de­pen­dent on U.S. work­ers for ad­vanced skills.

Adding to the pres­sure is the need, ac­cord­ing to the Cen­ter on Bud­get and Pol­icy Pri­or­i­ties, to "ed­u­cate 350,000 more K-12 stu­dents and 1.7 mil­lion more pub­lic col­lege and uni­ver­sity stu­dents in the up­com­ing school year."

How do our po­lit­i­cal lead­ers re­spond to all this? They cut ed­u­ca­tion fund­ing. And they give tax breaks to the largest cor­po­ra­tions.

Based on data from the Cen­ter on Bud­get and Pol­icy Pri­or­i­ties and the Na­tional Cen­ter for Ed­u­ca­tion Sta­tis­tics, total state ed­u­ca­tion cuts for fis­cal 2012 will be $12.7 bil­lion. At the same time the Cit­i­zens for Tax Jus­tice re­ports that 265 of our na­tion's largest com­pa­nies avoided about $14 bil­lion in state taxes each year from 2008 to 2010.

[libinnyandia]

1. Iowa Governor Branstad wants to re-establish Iowa's high status in education, but wants to cut taxes

on corporations. I don't know why people accept this.

[xchrom]

2. cause tax cuts and corporations have become Magic Talismans to ward off

evil in america.