“The finest schools in America produced a criminal elite that stole the store in less than a decade."

Commentary by Roger Erickson

No, that wasn't written by Bill Black.

Rather, it's the final output from recently demised Alexander Cockburn - and, incidentally, highly recommended (personally) by a pre-eminent chronicler of the MICC and Pentagon corruption.

A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture

Is that what "No Child Left Behind" was really all about? Creating a Gresham's dynamic, where the Keating-5 could be free to become the Cheating-450, and then the Keeping-1%?

"Everyone's doing it!" The new motto for the GOP AND DNP alike.

Even a return to Glass-Steagall wouldn't be enough. We need to set our sights high enough to survive a context ol' Mr. Glass couldn't have imagined the extent of. We need a Black-Cockburn Act, to once again impose minimal separation of graft and state.

ps: How long will it take us to recover the storehouse of Middle Class resiliency ... if we can do it at all?

So this is how we win the future?

California may have to cut the school year because of money problems.

So this is how we "win the future?"

Obama's caving in to Deficit Terrorists means that states cannot get any fiscal help from the Federal Government. So now our kids won't be getting a proper education. Eduction is the single most important factor in determining standard of living and competitiveness.

California is so broke it will shorten the school year.