Last debate of Obama’s political career was tonight
and the resonating point of the night was the last thing said by Bob Schieffer
before his sign off. He said, “We all love teachers.” This just felt like a
huge slap to the American people. Yes, the phrase “we all love teachers” is
mostly true, but it insinuates that everyone is for education. Quite frankly,
that is far from the truth.
We have a political field full of people who have
never set foot inside a classroom on the teaching end, and they make decisions
that affect how we educate our children and affect the United States as a
whole. We have an entire party that wants to cut education and make it a
for-profit company and another party who claim to be for education but when we
need cuts, education is the first to go.
Dwight Eisenhower said, “Every gun that is made,
every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a
theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not
clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the
sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, [and] the hopes of its
children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud
of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” Although he
does not specify the education system specifically, it is obvious that this is
part of what he was talking about. Each year, we raise the defense budget,
regardless of conflict, or lack thereof. We go to wars for oil, cut taxes for
the richest people, and pay for it by making cuts to our future. We use buzz
words like ‘Job Creators,’ ‘Entrepreneurs,’ etc. to justify making the rich
richer and the poor poorer. We have a military-industrial-complex, a
prison-industrial-complex, a pharmaceutical-industrial-complex, and an
Oligarchical government that we allow to tear this nation apart for their
pocketbooks. But we cannot allow anymore.
With the system being against the people, there is
no more time to wait. They own the police, they own the education system that
is making us dumber, and they own everything you buy and everywhere you go. We
must not take it anymore. We must stand up. We must fight. There is a war
against the people and we are losing. We did not start this war, but, We The
People, must win it. It is time that you are honest with yourself… What is worth
fighting for? What is worth going to jail for? What is worth dying for?
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