Just curious: What are the ideological commitments of Bill Gates and Eli Broad? Education reform and ...?

Are we just supposed to forget the American ideals of democracy and self-determination?

Today’s plantation-owner/ruler/master class is quickly taking control of our nation’s underclass and their offspring. Rhee and Klein are nothing more than devoted overseers hired to do their bidding; this is why they have attack dog temperaments. The power hungry billionaires are presenting their deception in a pretty package called “help the children” but there is no reason to trust them.

• Bill Gates, ranked #1 with a net worth of $57 billion
• The four members of the Walton family, ranked billionaires #3,4, 5 & 6, with a total net worth of $93.1 billion
• Michael Bloomberg, ranked #8, with a net worth of $20 billion
• Eli Broad, ranked #48, with a net worth of $6.7 billion

Bill Gates views the world from an existence where $5,700,000 is like $5 to an American with a net worth of $50,000 (somewhere around the average). The view for the other billionaires is about the same. Broad’s $2,000,000 prize to Klein last year is only a plantation-owner's reward to an overseer’s job well done. It was like someone with a net worth of $50,000 offering a $15 tip.

This unfathomable scale explains why, and how, this small handful of human beings has set out to alter school districts which belong to the American Public. They don’t have a speck of expertise or experience in public education, and have no desire to associate with those who do so. Poorly qualified as do-gooders, they are extraordinarily removed and have no awareness, or don’t care, about what people using the public schools DO need.

The desire of these true megalomaniacs is to obtain more and more power; their beyond-vast-amount-of-money is buying it for them.

The billionaires have slipped in through a crack in our wall. They have targeted communities with weak democratic engagement, where parents have inadequate, or non-existent levels, of English language literacy, &/or have had a long history of voting rights being suppressed, &/or are recent immigrants and not yet accustomed and habituated to participation in our American democracy. Oh-so-clever, they have also smartly manipulated many, many people into being their allies, like Duncan and, I’m afraid, even Obama.

The billionaires haven’t YET dared to try this maneuver in other American communities; more empowered Americans (the middle class) wouldn’t put up with it at all.

Of course, the only middle class advocates remaining at the schools are the teachers who have complained for years about the neglected situation. It’s interesting that only those outside-the-ghetto-experience will dismiss the ongoing complaints of the teachers and parents (inadequate supplies and staffing, deteriorating facilities, insufficient resources, etc.) and even insult them for having “self-interest.” It is obvious that the current tack to eliminate the teachers unions is another effort to produce complete and utter impotence in these inner-city schools with the goal of making the citizens submit to the wishes of the powerful few.

What would actually improve these schools would be to empower them, and the citizens who happen to use them, by addressing the problems that have been on the radar for years. But this is not the goal of these unelected managers-of-the-people. The goal of the billionaires is to keep the communities weak and destabilized, the ultimate End that justifies their means.

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