Synthetic Dream Factory

Every student, teacher/professor or anyone who cares about higher ed should read this

Some of Ms. Morales’s classmates have found themselves on welfare. “You don’t expect someone who just spent four years in Ivy League schools to be on food stamps,” said Ms. Morales, who estimates that a half-dozen of her friends are on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. A few are even helping younger graduates figure out how to apply. This is an absolutely sickening and concrete example that the myth of “go to college and get a good job” is dead while the bankers and loan-sharks come knocking on our doors looking for to collect on the debts so that we could get said education

A Boston comrade’s take on the recently French/German proposed Balanced Budget Amendment (article is in English despite title)

“…you know, you try to climb out [of poverty] , you try to hold on, and you just get kicked in the face, one way or another, and pushed further down.” Boy do I know that feeling right now

A disgusting example of how economics under capitalism are devoid of anything sensibly resembling democracy - within the same week of the debt-ceiling bill which put programs such as medicare, social security, and what little social safety net there is in the US on the chopping block so that corporations making record profits could see their profits rise ever-more, these speculating wastes of flesh lower the US credit rating anyway citing that a)it wasn’t good enough along with a whole malarky of other excuses like “our 40 year projection of the US economy”… what person in the right mind factors a 40 year projection based on current conditions. Krugman along with many others have exposed S&P for the shells possessed by the utmost malice and greed they are in other articles