me: > On Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 08:26:36 (-0700) Jim Devine writes: > >today, US National Public Radio had a story about the benefits of the > >GI Bill -- which provided a lot of WW2 veterans with college education > >and home loans. Somehow, they forgot to mention the stuff about the > >class conflicts which produced that Bill. (The Vet's March of > >Washington in the early 1930s, the unionization drives of the 1930s, > >the strikes of the 1940s, the soldiers' protests at the end of the > >war...)
Bill: > NPR has become so awful --- FOX "news" stupidity without the psychotic > ranting --- that I can barely stand to listen to it. > > Much easier to believe that a benevolent father figure handed out > opportunity to the GIs than that the GIs themselves had something > to do with it. FWIW, the story's emphasis was on the shrinkage of that Bill. I missed most of the story, only hearing about how Henry Kissinger went to college on the GI Bill (aren't you glad?). Here's the synopsis from US NPR's website: >At the end of World War II, the GI Bill helped create a new "middle class" in America, allowing those who served a chance for an education. The bill's legacy is still tangible, but today the funds it offers barely meet veterans' expenses.< -- Jim Devine / "The truth is at once less sinister and more dangerous." -- Naomi Klein.
