Why the Washington Post’s Attack on Bernie Sanders is Bunk
http://robertreich.org/post/130312224165
Really good and really important post by Robert Reich. It's too long to put the multiple critical points he makes in here. Specifically, he addresses education, health care and in his final 2 paragraphs *why a Sanders presidency won't be a 'lame duck' presidency." Really worth reading and keeping as a reference for people who make that claim!
The Washington Post just ran an attack on Bernie Sanders that distorts not only what he’s saying and seeking but also the basic choices that lie before the nation. Sanders, writes the Post’s David Fahrenthold, “is not just a big-spending liberal. And his agenda is not just about money. It’s also about control.”
Fahrenthold claims Sanders’s plan for paying for college with a tax on Wall Street trades would mean “colleges would run by government rules.”
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Besides, the biggest threats to academic freedom these days aren’t coming from government.
They’re coming as conditions attached to funding from billionaires and big corporations that’s increasing as public funding drops.
When the Charles Koch Foundation pledged $1.5 million to Florida State University’s economics department, for example, it stipulated that a Koch-appointed advisory committee would select professors and undertake annual evaluations. The Koch brothers now fund 350 programs at over 250 colleges and universities across America. You can bet that funding doesn’t underwrite research on inequality and environmental justice.
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