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Lonestarblue

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4. Unfortunately, some of the education funding sources are right-wing billionaires.

Reply to OldBaldy1701E (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 18, 2021, 07:30 AM

Jul 2021

The Koch Foundation has funded economics programs focused on their free market libertarian views. The University of Chicago and Milton Friedman became the leaders in destroying equity and promoting the trickle down theory that moved most of the wealth to the upper 1%. Partisans are turning our universities into political platforms for their party. Both extremist conservatives and progressives provide funding to education, but I sense that the right wing is doing more to undermine education and include more propaganda.

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NPR Illinois to lose university funding [View all] TexasTowelie Jul 2021 OP

That is sad to hear Sherman A1 Jul 2021 #1

I'd like to live in a time and a place where fiscal responsibility doesn't favor Nazis. jaxexpat Jul 2021 #2

What does NPR have to do with Nazis Loki Liesmith Jul 2021 #6

Honest, factual information is anathema to Nazism. jaxexpat Jul 2021 #7

Oh really? OldBaldy1701E Jul 2021 #3

Unfortunately, some of the education funding sources are right-wing billionaires. Lonestarblue Jul 2021 #4

Oh, it is more than 'sensing' OldBaldy1701E Jul 2021 #5