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sulphurdunn

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17. The corporatists

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2013, 12:01 PM

May 2013

aim to break public education so they can pick up the pieces for profit and they don't care who gets hurt doing it. They are also after public universities. They run the student loan, charter school and private prison rackets. They own the federal and every state legislature in the nation. Massive defiance and non-compliance are the only possible responses to them. We're way beyond anything else.

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