Convicted election fraudster and public education opponent Betsy Devos made her billions through hard work – really, you can’t overstate the effort required to emerge from the loins of someone who married a rich guy, nor the work of later marrying someone else who emerged from the loins someone who married a rich guy.
She’s calls herself “the biggest contributor of soft money to the Republican National Committee” and explains that the $200M her family gave to the GOP was given because they “expect a return on our investment…a conservative governing philosophy consisting of limited government and respect for traditional American virtues.” She’s in line to be Trump’s education secretary, a position she says she earned not through cash donations, but through her decades of work to dismantle public schools and give parents the power to divert tax dollars to evangelical Christian schools.
At her confirmation hearing yesterday, Bernie Sanders asked her what she thought of his campaign pledge to make public colleges tuition free. Devos told him that it wouldn’t work because “nothing in life is truly free.”
Devos’s husband – the real money in the family, a billionaire inheritor to her millionaire inheritance – got his money from his father, who founded a Ponzi scheme called Amway.
Considering we see neither the NDP nor the GP officially calling the governments out on the flaws in their welfare-upgrade plans, I rather doubt we’ll see anything but rhetoric come election time. The Pirate Party of Canada in fact had published their proposal just prior to Elizabeth May coming out with remarkably the same plan (which is OK, it’s an obvious approach and even if she got the idea from us, we put it online so that people WOULD steal it! 🙂 ) only now that there are plans in the media that clearly are not UBI, where is May? Is the media just not covering what they’re saying? I’m seeing nothing from either of them gaining any traction on social media, yet plenty from Australia, Scotland, Finland, France …
