Is there anyone out there who really believes these hedge fund guys are worried about the welfare of our children? More likely they're tired of paying taxes to support education. After all, if the public school system were to collapse entirely there'd be no change whatsoever for the children of Michael Bloomberg, Joel Klein or Barack Obama. They talk a lot about public schools, but you wouldn't catch their kids attending on a bet.
It's interesting they always act so concerned about the schools they long ago deemed not good enough for their children. If we really wanted better public schools we'd mandate that people who control school systems send their own kids there. Maybe then they'd find ways to devote the hundreds of million dollars NYC took to reduce class size to reducing class size. Maybe instead of bashing unions, which have historically enabled a middle class, they'd be encouraging them.
Stranger things have happened. But our political system is so thoroughly corrupt, our free press so incurious and one-sided that all we hear about is the one politician who didn't take the money. Who knows how much it costs to buy Andrew Cuomo? How much is David Paterson? Did they get a discount when he chose not to run again? And how much was the President of the United States?
More importantly, what will it take to get politicians who represent we the people rather than merely they the hedge fund gazillionaires?
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