The Development of the New Slavery

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Much is said by the political leaders about economic development, government involvement in citizens lives and especially education. Nothing is ever said about how the lowering of the economic baseline; the recessions, cuts in social programs and support of corporate entities, and bleeding of our resources to engage in war, disrupts communities.

How are they connected? It is well known that education is the basis by which future productive people can make an impact in their worlds. It is also well known that communities that have relatively stable incomes influence the outcomes of the social lives for the children attending schools.

The policies that have drained the public coffers unproductively have an effect of diminishing communities from building those things that are productive and necessary for a civil society.By funding corporate welfare and cutting government income sources in favor of those who have already take monies out of the system frays the strength of the line between community requirements and the funds to make those requirements doable. Engagement in warfare has always been historically accompanied by financial disaster.

Current events are showing all these to still be true.There can be no civil society when large scale corporate theft and legalized destruction are favorably funded instead.  

Education is the first evidence that a civil society survives or even exists. To illustrate this the research shows that the geographical area just outside of Washington DC, which has the highest wealth index and quality of life index, also has the highest educational achievements, the best testing scores and the highest graduation rates and rates of college graduates. This has a cumulative effect, the more who graduate and later have children who graduate, the higher the levels of continued education and achievement. These are consistent findings in research for the last 50 years in high income areas. Also consistent is how broken communities and their evident poorly funded education systems result in higher crime rates, sometimes in the extremes.

What makes for successful educational systems are, essentially, stable communities. Stable communities have reliable private and public resources and social and civil structures. When the economy becomes unstable, community resources and structures take serious hits. Continue the decline for long periods of time and the children start to not graduate, achievement falls, and so the cycle continues with the crime rate that follows as the unwanted bonus.

All the philosophy and political talk about points of view and political or moral leanings are mostly baloney. The reality is this; if something is destroyed, it's destroyed. If something is built it's built. There is no building by destruction. If a civil society must be maintained, then anything or anyone that blocks that maintenance intends to destroy it. There is no social or economic theory for this. It either is or is not done as a practical matter.

Most practical of all is Christianity 101. If someone is hungry, feed them. Naked, clothe them. Do not kill. Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not betray the trust given you. Treat your neighbor as yourself.Education in this country is a community activity. Schools tend to be focus points of communities.

If we want to avoid enslavement, we have to educate. If we want to educate we have to avoid the strangulation by building reliable private and public resources and social and civil structures

To break the stranglehold we have to develop and maintain private and public resources and social and civil structures that form our communities.