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right the away they start talking about
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education that's the big answer to
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everything education they said we need
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more money for Education we need more
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more books more teachers more classrooms
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more schools we need more testing for
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the kids you say to them well you know
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we've tried all of that and the kids
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still can't pass the test ah don't you
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worry about that we're going to lower
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the passing grades and that's what they
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do in a lot of these schools now they
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lower the passing grades so more kids
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can pass more kids pass the school looks
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good everybody's happy the IQ of the
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country slips another two or three
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points and pretty soon all you'll need
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to get into college is a [ __ ]
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pencil got a pencil get the [ __ ] in
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physics then everyone wonders why 17
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other countries graduate more scientists
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than we do education politicians know
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that word they use it on you politicians
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have traditionally hidden behind three
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things the flag the Bible and children
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No Child Left Behind No Child Left
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Behind oh really well it wasn't long ago
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you were talking about giving kids a
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Head Start Head Start left behind
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someone's losing [ __ ] ground here
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but there's a reason there's a reason
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there's a reason for this there's a
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reason education sucks and it's the same
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reason that it will never ever ever be
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fixed it's never going to get any better
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don't look for it be happy with what you
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got because the owners of this country
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don't want that I'm talking about the
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real owners now the real owners the big
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wealthy business interest that control
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things and make all the important
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decisions forget the politicians the
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politicians are put there to give you
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the idea that you have Freedom of Choice
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you don't you have no choice you have
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owners they own you they own everything
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they own all the important land they own
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and control the corporations they've
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long since bought and paid for the
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Senate the Congress the state houses the
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City Halls they got the judges in their
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back pockets and they own all the big
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media companies so they control just
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about all of the news and information
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you get to hear they got you by the
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balls they they spend billions of
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dollars every year lobbying lobbying to
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what they want well we know what they
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want they want more for themselves and
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less for everybody else but I'll tell
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you what they don't want they don't want
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a population of citizens capable of
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critical thinking they don't want
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well-informed well-educated people
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capable of critical thinking they're not
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interested in that that doesn't help
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them that's against their interest
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that's right they don't want people who
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are smart enough to sit around the
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kitchen table to figure out how badly
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they're getting [ __ ] by a system that
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threw them overboard 30 [ __ ] years
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ago they don't want that you know what
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they want they want obedient workers
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obedient workers people who are just
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smart enough to run the machines and do
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the paperwork and just dumb enough to
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passively accept all these increasingly
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shittier jobs with the lower pay the
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longer hours to reduce benefits the end
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of overtime and the vanishing pension
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that disappears the minute you go to
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collect it and now they're coming for
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your Social Security money they want
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your [ __ ] retirement money they want
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it back so they can give it to their
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criminal friends on Wall Street and you
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know something they'll get it they'll
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get it all from you sooner or later cuz
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they own this [ __ ] place it's a big
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club and you ain't in
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it you and I are not in the big Club