Wednesday, April 01, 2009

You tell me - Who is Albert Lord, and what does he have to do with all this?

YouTube, here.

This Google.

This website.

This webpage.

This CNN online report. Amy Goodman. NPR's Tom Ashbrook.

Read the book. It's short. 149 pages. Much of it is about injustice. And deceit. And privitization run amok.

Then, Chapter 7: The Grass Roots Awaken.

Chapter 8: Solutions.

Young people are being screwed. Young people are being soured on how the nation is being run by those who run the nation. It is an unwholsome situation. It is a problem begging activist intervention and governmental solution.

What's Obama doing about it, how and why, and via what avenues of redress?

It is only one of many injustices, but again, a most unwholsome one. Get involved. At least read the book.

______UPDATE_______
A current opinion item by the book's author [Alan Michael Collinge, founder of the advocacy organization studentloanjustice.org] along with interesting comments, is here. It appeared in January of this year, i.e., after mega-billions for Bush's Secretary Paulsen's largesse package for Wall Street and AIG, where truckloads of money were doled out despite widespread abuses absent from the pool of young students in our nation, seeking a social good, by pursuing individual education which, in aggregate, benefits the nation's maintaining a skilled workforce into the balance of this century. Higher education should not be rationed to only the wealthy, nor should it be so costly as to be a disincentive, as simply a bad way to spend money given the sharp teeth and mean manners the federally blessed loansharks have and use.