News and Politics | September 26, 2008 | 4 comments

Bush Profiteers collect billions from NCLB

source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/14/13170/1926

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Much was said about George W. Bush’s fundraising prowess in 2000 and 2004, when he created labels like "Bush Pioneers" to identify those who shook down donors and bundled the lucre for his campaigns. But hard on the heels of his inauguration, he might’ve just as appropriately created a new label, "Bush Profiteers," to identify those who first turned his decayed ideologies into law – inventing new spigots through which Bush’s businessmen-backers could suck federal funds – and who then vacated public service to collect their own lucre as lobbyists for those businessmen and their companies.

If you needed a perfect example of this model of lawmaking-turned-moneymaking, you might consider Bush’s vaunted No Child Left Behind. And if you needed a perfect example of the Bush Profiteer, you might consider the first "senior education advisor" he imported from Texas, the architect of NCLB himself.
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4 comments // Bush Profiteers collect billions from NCLB

  • wanamoka
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      wanamoka  

    • F*&^ NCLB, it has not helped one kid, but sure has hurt a bunch of teachers. They could have paid teachers higher salaries, hired more teachers so there would be less students per classroom. but nooooo, they spent billions on testing companies like Pearson who are friends of Neal Bush and they are the ones raking in the dough.

    • 3 years ago
  • Brockie
  • AveryMoore
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      AveryMoore  

    • New legislation required.

      The number of campaign contributions from corporations permitted under law - ZERO.

      The reasons why have become all too obvious.

    • 3 years ago
  • dkincheloe
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