The Political Donor Class

You're on your way to waking up to American politics. You had to lose your house, your car; your health is failing because you can't afford prescription medication; your kids graduated from college and moved back into your one bedroom apartment because they can't find work in the field in which they studied and they can't afford to pay off the school loans. The bridge outside of town collapsed but you can't drive anyway because the roads are so bad they damaged your car; you have to borrow more on your car title loan just so you don't lose your car after paying for repairs the last time.

Starting to wonder what's going on? It's all tied to politics. Didn't you vote? Where's your Reaganomics trickle-down?

Over the last 30 or 40 years, the only crop of public servants for whom we could vote were mostly supported by rich donors, Here's a quick way to discover who exactly is in the rich donor class.

Just go to http://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx and look at latest Insider Trading list. You can also go to http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml and do a search for business boards of directors and owners. You can find out who owns television and radio stations by going to http://www.fccinfo.com/cmdpro.php?sz=L&wd=1366

Everybody else got buried in the Press. They were there, we were just never learned about them because they didn't get enough money to pay for publicity, until now. Bernie Sanders is turning the old model of politics on its head because he has the power of the Internet behind him.

Blame The Poor

Market Watch

Rich kids use the Internet to get ahead, and poor kids use it ‘mindlessly’

Article suggests that poor children are stupid. Poor children are deprived of the necessary information they need to ask the right questions and productively use the technology.

Bored Panda

High School Teacher Taught His Class A Simple Yet Powerful Lesson About Privilege

This demonstration may seem oversimplified, but the metaphor will not be lost on the students when they learn more later.

Rich Habits

Will Your Child be Rich or Poor? 15 Poverty Habits Parents Teach Their Children

This article completely disregards the fact that many people simply can't afford such lifestyles as the 80/20 method because jobs are hard to find and the pay is simply too low.

The Washington Post

Poor kids who do everything right don’t do better than rich kids who do everything wrong

A more accurate portrayal than the previous article.

Salon

The GOP poverty PR push: Selling the same old pro-rich policies, but now with free turkeys

Since when is the GOP concerned about poverty?

The Washington Post

Only in America: Four years into life, poor kids are already an entire year behind

Socially Engineered Economic Stratification

The One Percent has a reactive mentality to everything. It's part of what it means to be an American.

They choke off valuable intellectual resources from the poor and then they turn around and call the poor hopelessly lazy and stupid. It's part of the One Percents' Megalomania.

Entrepreneurship

The Business Dictionary is a helpful resource for defining Entrepreneurship

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/entrepreneurship.html

The idea that there was a business dictionary on the Internet is brand new to me. It never occurred to me to look for it. This speaks volumes about my education. I basically grew up in the public education system and I remember everything I learned was aimed at labor, career, vocation, or science. I don't recall any curriculum about starting a business. 

I had a hard time with math in elementary school because it bored me to no end. It wasn't until I got my first Apple computer my sophomore year in high school that I taught myself Algebra while teaching myself a computer programming language.

A year later my high school offered computer courses, but they rejected me from the class because of my poor math grades. However, that didn't stop the teachers from coming to me for help with their computers. On my own time I attended a computer course at a nearby college and earned a certificate.

This is one example of the kind of roadblocks one can find in the public education system. Math was memorizing multiplication tables and history was remembering names and dates of events. Passing tests was the sole motivation the teachers had when I attended elementary school in the 1970's and it still is today.

Not only is teaching to the test a serious problem in education, but the prevailing expectations in public schools seem to be lower than Entrepreneurship.