Billionaire CEO tells Davos that US schools should use unpaid labor
Blackstone Group's Stephen Schwarzman Says More Money Won't Improve Public Education
By David Sirota
DAVOS, Switzerland -- Private equity investor Stephen Schwarzmann is generally a believer in the power of money, a trait that has netted him billions of dollars worth of that useful commodity. But when it comes to education, Schwarzman says more money is not necessarily a fix for ailing American public schools.
Despite the financial industry arguing that high pay on Wall Street is needed to retain and develop talent, Schwarzman suggested a potential solution for America education challenges could be unpaid labor.
“I’ve always wondered, what you do in a society with people who just retire,” he told conference attendees. “If you could get those people, like a board, [to be an] unpaid workforce, pay them next to nothing or nothing, and have them go into the school system to be mentors to kids, and be an example of a certain type of success that you would get dramatically different outcomes. If you can get unemployed people that cost nothing, that can have this dramatic difference, that costs nothing. I love things that cost nothing that have great results. Imagine if you laid on technology and other types of things, you could really set the world on fire with this type of stuff.”
Schwarzman touted Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s efforts to let religious groups run unpaid student mentorship programs in public schools. Kasich has moved to make extra education funding contingent on schools supporting those programs, a move the American Civil Liberties Union says might be unconstitutional.
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Schwarzman was the guy who likened tax increases to Hitler invading Poland.
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nothing for you.
When the time comes...
Unpaid labor ought to build the guillotines to use on filthy rich slavedrivers because advocating slavery ought to be a capital offense. Than the "unpaid" labor gets to divvy up the billionaires' fortunes among the community, starting with the neediest and most vulnerable. 
Generally, I oppose the death penalty, but in the case of billionaire slavedrivers, I'll have to make an exception.
Or does this moron labor under the illusion that he is irreplaceable?
I wish we could force them onto a boat and send them out to the trash island in the Pacific and leave the there without any way to get back.
with Timothy "Killer" Geithner, here, in which Stewart gets into the current plan to enrich the bank$ters on the backs of the people in THIS country. Tens of millions driven into economic ruin, millions of families who lost their homes to predatory lenders, disabilities and deaths as a result of these actions......with a ton of excuses as to why money can't be invested to offer them opportunity, while we read headlines about the record profits at the banks, and the rest keep their jobs, and homes, and stocks, and comfort in varying degrees.
Then he tries to spin it otherwise. Watch as voters laugh at his face.
About 50 million people in this country have been deliberately ignored while propping up the rest. Unemployed, hungry, or even working and still needing relief, we pretend that there is no way to find funds to provide them with opportunity, and that props up the value of our properties and money. We refuse to invest in them like we did in the past, and instead cheer a shrinking deficit that insures, among other things, more unemployment among those of color and a harder life for many.
The people then shake their fists at the billionaire. 
From the comfort of their lazyboys, which they still have because they let millions of their neighbors fall under the bus, and are keeping them there.
He may be a repulsive human being, may have taken it to a scale much larger, but at least he stands on a stage and says what he thinks, instead of hiding behind excuses.
Like the song goes. "He ain't the worst thing in the world."
And why should we let religious groups control these horrible slave labor programs? What good would come of that? When do we break out the guillotines? 