BloGOPshere? (0.00 / 0)

That goddamned GOP just won't give up, will it? :-)

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by: William Timberman @ Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 18:16:35 PM CST

are there lots of / many numbers? I'm a high school (0.00 / 0)

math teacher, I was a teenager on welfare in Holyoke MA during the 70's -- social programs are just good business.

In my NOT humble opinion, of all the reasons for the failure of the marketing of social programs in hte last 3+ decades, a huge reason for the failure has been the inability of those on OUR side to PROVE how a good community investment is CRITICAL to a vibrant private sector of opportunity.  

(a relentless fascist onslaught against community investment is an important reason for the failure, HOWEVER, those people had their onslaught against the 40 hour work week and child labor laws 80 and 120 years ago - the onslaught ain't nothing new)

for example - the university of washington just shut down accepting admissions for the spring quarter.

What if I didn't get into the U.W. 14 years ago in Spring 1995 and stayed in my relatively low wage ex career? there is NO way in hell I would have got into software until the 2002 meltdown, then transitioned to math teaching, without getting a math degree. that degree probably put about 100 grand into MY pocket since 1997. a $100,000 that went into me living in an apartment and going out to eat and spending 50 bucks a week at farmer's markets and and and and some savings and and and vacations ... that few years of 'support' in unemployment dollars and student loans has gone RIGHT back into the community times ... 6? 8?

thanks for any response.

rmm.  

It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way

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by: seabos84 @ Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 19:50:57 PM CST