[Peace-discuss] Letter to the editor submitted

[David Green]

  Our neoliberal era of governmental austerity deprives our childrenof the funding they deserve and that our society can well afford at all levelsof education. Thus the need for charitable foundations for CU Schools,Parkland, and the University of Illinois.These foundations partly depend on wealthy neoliberal donorsto provide a few compensatory drops in the buckets that have been emptied bystate and federal neoliberal budgets. Such donors are effusively awarded bysaid foundations, as publicized in recent News-Gazettearticles about Jeff Hartman and George Shapland, local mega-developers.Both men are, not coincidentally, leaders of the Academy onCapitalism and Limited Government, which aspired to be a libertarian/neoliberalthink tank equivalent to Stanford’s Hoover Institution at the U of I, but whicheven the usually docile faculty eventually banished to the U of I Foundationand an office on Marketview Drive.As shabby, pseudo-intellectual, and moribund as its websitemakes the ACLG appear, its principals and supporters have the last laugh. Theyown us, our politicians, and our school administrators. Directly, they haveCozad Asset Management and Busey Bank, Wall Street in the cornfields.Indirectly, they have the support of the Koch Brothers and the nationalleadership of both major political parties; both those who deny climate change andthose who pretend they want to address it.It should be noted, however, that unlike more honorablelibertarians, the above-mentioned institutions and individuals do notincorporate an opposition to U.S. global military aggression into their notionof “limited government.”
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