America is About to Lose One of Its Best Public Resource: Public Libraries

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75. It is not only the tea party that wants to keep Amrica dum

Corporations and other forces have vested a lot of effort into that goal as well. If you take a look at regimes around the World where the main goal is power and domination you will find that education is the first one to be attacked because it is easier to control a people who cannot think, they are more easily convinced and guided.

There is a good book written by Sinclair Lewis, I believe he wrote it in 1926, "It can't happen here." which you don't even need to go to the library to read, it is available online:

http://www.goodreads.com/ebooks/download/11371.It_Can_t_Happen_Here

This should be a must read, because "It CAN happen here.", it has already happened in many countries where people said the same thing, and I know because I experienced it.

There has to be a push to make sure that we don't react, that when education (that includes libraries) are gone from our communities, and our country, that we are not faced with the task of trying to recuperate something lost, but instead avoid it from happening. I wish I could have the answers on what to do, but to avoid something form happening like the book I am recommending, we the people, need to be proactive and not reactive.