Posted on 05/13/2015 11:17:20 AM PDT by lowbridge
During a conversation about poverty, President Obama said he was concerned that more wealthy people were separated from poverty because they chose to frequent private institutions instead of public ones.
“Part of what’s happened is, is that elites in a very mobile, globalized world are able to live together, away from folks who are not as wealthy, and so they feel less of a commitment to making those investments,” he explained during a panel discussion on poverty at Georgetown University today.
Obama criticized the free-market system in America for allowing higher concentrations of wealth to exist among the rich while the bottom percentage was being left behind and receiving a smaller portion of that wealth.
“Those who are doing better and better, more skilled, more educated, – luckier – having greater advantages are withdrawing from the commons,” he said. “Kids start going to private schools, kids start working out at private clubs instead of the public parks, an anti-government ideology then disinvests from those common goods and those things that draw us together.”
That led fewer people to care about public institutions, Obama explained, leading to government cuts to important public functions – making the nation less equal.
Obama insisted that there needed to be more investments in public schools, public universities, public early child education and public infrastructure, insisting that funding these organizations both “grows our economy and spreads it around.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Liberals wrestled away control of the schools, driving the educational quality into the ground.
Many who decried the deterioration have chosen to escape the trap by sending their kids to schools that educate.
Obamahole just can’t stand that people can make decisions for their own good...
No no no. Parents send their kids to private school to protect them from the epidemic of Black Violence.
You mean Sharia and Malaria?
Thus sayeth the President who’s own kids have never stepped anywhere near a Chicago Public School.
He really has no rational sense of perspective, does he?
Won’t it be great when the new president doesn’t act like a nagging abusive neglectful parent?
How did this piece of trash ever become President of the United States of America? A failing grade for the voters of America.
I don’t see his kids in DC Public Schools.... So, I guess he’s divested as well.
Let’s see if I get this right ...
I pull my kids out of public schools, and pay for them to attend private schools.
But I still pay the same taxes that go to fund the public schools.
So the public schools get revenue from my tax “contribution” without having expenditures for teaching my kids.
Seems like a win-win. My kids get the education I want to provide them while the public schools end up with a higher $$$ to student ratio.
So, if more kids in private schools ends up benefitting the public schools, what is Obama’s problem here?
(that’s a rhetorical question, btw)
This the “narrative” mode of discourse- deceiving BS disguised as enlightenment.
Dear Lord, Pot-Kettle-Black.
Punaho for him, Sidwell for his kids. He’d be selling crack on the corner if he’d gone to public.
quote “leading to government cuts to important public functions”
hm... I must have missed those “cuts”!
/s
That’s the pot calling the kettle “RAAAAACIST!”
Isn’t that sort of like the pot calling the kettle black?
He really doesn’t do self-aware, does he?
Sidwell Kids annual tuition (2015-16) = $37,750+ per student. That’s $75,500 for Sushi and Malaria, plus the cost of a six-man SS security detail.
Obama himself went to an elite private school in Hawaii, Punahou.
Hypocrite!
Sharia and Malaria go to the best private school in the country. When Barry was a boy, his rich white granny sent him to the best private school money could buy, too.
I don't recall Hawaii's Punahou School being a public school?
Obama, even at that age, should have recognized this Half-White Privilege and demanded to go to public school.
Not only do the King and Moochie send their girls to an expensive and exclusive private school.
But one of the first things Obama did as president was to kill the school voucher program for people in Washington DC.
See:
“Obama’s Hypocrisy”
And:
“Obama’s Budget Kills DC’s Successful School Voucher Program, Increases Subsidy on a Car No One Wants to Buy”
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