Tag: us

Teacher Rubber Rooms

Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its “rubber rooms” — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings.

i wonder where we would be today if the republicans had spent the last 8 years doing something useful like union bashing instead of chasing gays and starting wars.

The Quiet Coup

The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. 1 of the most alarming is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises. If the IMF’s staff could speak freely about the US, it would tell us what it tells all countries in this situation: recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform. And if we are to prevent a true depression, we’re running out of time.

after 3rd world infrastructure, the us takes the next step: 3rd world oligarchies.

we’re watching the most pitched, highest-stakes, most determined battle between politics and finance which has been staged. I am expecting finance to win.