Mary touched on this important topic in her letter to the UC Review
several weeks ago.
The brief clip I posted (Julie Underwood) did not mention this important
component of the income based segregation planned with school
privatization. (It's accomplished legislatively much like Nutter and
city council quietly raised the property tax in the last moments, while
playing the fake fight about a soda tax in the media.)
School vouchers are expensively marketed by the plutocracy as a school
choice option for the poor. It's a bold lie. On its surface, the middle
class might understand that only moderate income families would ever be
able to use these in their pursuit of religious schools. The middle
class has been trained to abandon the poor. Other barriers would
continue to keep the poor out of schools designed for good kids. But
the real goal of vouchers includes a last minute switch diabolically
called normalization.
After jamming these school voucher bills through as aid to the poor, the
income eligibility will be quietly changed, as if it were a simple
adjustment. As Mary pointed out, the new voucher push in PA wants
income eligibility expanded from the very beginning (no need to continue
the charity charade). In its final form, all wealthy families will get
a subsidy for their private schools, while cutting funds for public
schools. And the vouchers will be adjusted low enough that virtually no
poor family could actually pass the other barriers and use the voucher.
It's not just troubled families who would be segregated in the two
tiered system. What is marketed as charity for the poor is really a
tactic to get subsidies for wealthy families and profits for charter
school CEO's. There is no chance that even a small percentage of the
poor will get some benefit from school vouchers when the ultimate plan
is in place.
This bait and switch performance was very important in the health care
reform charade too. Remember how the Democrat's fake reform groups were
so proud of expanded medicaid in exchange for giving health insurance
and big Pharma greater power and profit. Supposedly, this reform was a
beginning that would get better for the people, not the corporations.
Now that medicaid is to be completely destroyed with the new crisis, we
are still hearing about the success of "health care reform." It was
always a big deception in pursuit of a very different hidden corporate
agenda.
Short and important history of ALEC by John Nichols
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed_Audio_%26_Video#John_Nichols
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