FOR-PROFIT

Yesterday's New York Times lead editorial, The De Vos School for Promoting Debt, was a timely reminder of the selling-off of the US government. The Education Secretary's enthusiasm for for-profit education at all levels, from kindergarten through university, comes at the cost of the state education system which is charged with providing equal opportunity for all--not only those who can afford to buy it. The dismantling of regulations regarding standards and, in the NYT article, the relationship between debt and outcome, invites the unscrupulous to scam unwitting victims with impunity.

In the Trump administration, it seems, everything is either up for sale or soon-to-be for-profit: our national parks, our schools, our justice system, our prisons, our health care system, our infrastructure--even, for God's sake, our wars...!

And not least of course, the government itself. The profit motive is Trump's only guiding principle--especially, it seems, when applied to himself and his family. His cabinet of multi-millionaires, including the multi-millionaire De Vos, is a reflection of this, his own and only priority. Who is in government for the service any more, when there's a buck to be made for oneself or one's friends?

This is the capitalist system run amok.

Let's remind ourselves of this simple and self-evident truth: everything--yes, everything--costs more when there's someone sitting in the middle who needs to make a profit.

So let's remember, this November, that our "representative" in the US Congress, Dana Rohrabacher, is a willing part of this venal system. And manifest our displeasure by throwing him out of office.

(Footnote: Unfortunately the election system in our country is also monetized, Please consider a donation to the Harley Rouda campaign today!)