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Modern School Donating Member (558 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-10 09:07 AM
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Gates to Take Over Public Education
How do the filthy rich control policy? How do they destroy public education? Pretty easy when you have billions at your disposal for buying your own scientists and ed researchers, hiring PR firms, buying ads & politicians.

Tax Free Corporate Billions Leveraged to Take Over Social Policy Making
from Schools Matter by Jim Horn

The new Gates Foundation financials are out, and things look much improved in 2009 following the 2008 meltdown. When you click on this chart to enlarge it, you will see that the Gates Foundation now has nearly 30,000 millions of dollars (that's 30 billion) to use as it sees fit to bribe, to silence, to shape, to destroy, to seed, to alter, to maintain, to transform, to extort, to buy quiet, to build out of thin air any social policy that the Foundation wants, and all of it is tax-free. Well, not quite. In 2009, the Foundation paid $60,000 on $30 billion. Damned excise taxes.

Thirty billion dollars, by the way, represents 7 Races to the Top. We can see how just one of them threatens sanity in schooling all across the nation. Can you imagine what a widespread disaster 7 of them would bring. This, however, is the real and potential power of the numerous corporate foundations that are going all in to transform American school

To read more, please go to http://modeducation.blogspot.com/2010/11/gates-to-take-over-public-education.html
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-10 09:18 AM
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1. The College DROP OUT, Bill Gates, has bought his *legacy*
Someone who did NOT finish his own education now can purchase his way into history books as a *reformer*. That's not the *change* I voted for.
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