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Comment Re:Not like Slashdot (Score 1) 410

Look at the history of the labor movement. The mega-companies at the turn of the century had de-facto private armies that beat and killed workers who protested horrendous working conditions.

The actual history of the labor movement shows that these "private armies" were used to defend replacement workers against unionists who were assaulting and/or murdering them. Such was the case, for instance, at Homestead.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 1505

I suggest you move to a capitalist paradise like Somalia, where you'll never have the government trying to take your hard-earned money to help your fellow citizens.

In Somalia, there is a significant risk of 100 percent confiscation, due to various would-be governments and pseudo-governments.

Doesn't sound very much like a "capitalist paradise" to me.

Comment Re:Difference from what u.s. doing ? (Score 2) 248

The only chance is to reach people through internet, and you are seeing how hard they are trying to censor it, and get it under corporate control through any means possible.

The Internet in America is already under "corporate control", being almost entirely private, and as a result, it is one of the freest mediums on the planet.

Comment Re:Yet if the lasse fair economics crowd would say (Score 2, Insightful) 270

Way more accurate to say its the ideal fascist state (what the USA is rapidly moving toward) where all the costs (pollution) are socialized and all the benefits (profits) are privatized.

That is not fascism.

Remember when the govt and corps merge

If by that you mean that all private business and interest groups are forcibly organized into cartels subservient to the government, then yes, that might be defined as 'fascism'.

Comment Re:I'm surprised... (Score 1) 241

One reason only... American trade embargo.

Cuba has the rest of the world to trade with, but they're still poor.

Besides, if America was allowed to trade with Cuba, the left would be screaming and hollering from the rooftops about "sweatshops" and Americans "exploiting" the Cuban population.

Education

Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure 629

Atypical Geek writes "According to Newsweek, the local teachers union is infuriated over the disclosure of teacher performance metrics. Quoting: 'Do parents have the right to know which of their kids' teachers are the most and least effective? That's the controversy roaring in California this week with the publication of an investigative series by the Los Angeles Times's Jason Song and Jason Felch, who used seven years of math and English test data to publicly identify the best and the worst third- to fifth-grade teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The newspaper's announcement of its plans to release data later this month on all 6,000 of the city's elementary-school teachers has prompted the local teachers' union to rally members to organize a boycott of the newspaper.' According to the linked Times article, United Teachers Los Angeles president A.J. Duffy said the database was 'an irresponsible, offensive intrusion into your professional life that will do nothing to improve student learning.'"

Comment Re:Personally? (Score 1) 702

Read "The Jungle".

"The Jungle" was a work of fiction. There is said to exist an authoritative 1906 report from the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Animal Husbandry that refuted Sinclair's allegations, though this report has probably been buried deep due to its political incorrectness. Today, private companies such as McDonalds have meat safety and inspection standards exceeding what is mandated by federal law, and their meat is safer than what is found in school lunches.

From government-run public schools. What's your solution to that? Eliminate public education? So only rich people's children can be educated?

Not all home-schooled children are from wealthy families.

The market for inexpensive education is crowded out by government schools, which serve to indoctrinate, not educate.

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