Comments on: What does the US financial crisis mean for education? (2) (with a distraction)

By: Forced Out?

Forced Out? — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:06:14 +0000

[...] the current financial crisis in the US other families and I have been talking (worrying) about what this might mean as far as [...]

By: Autism in Montana Public Schools: Where’s the funding?

Autism in Montana Public Schools: Where’s the funding? — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:13:37 +0000

[...] due to recent current events in the US, increases in funding for education seem unlikely—one suspects that the same [...]

By: Another Voice

Another Voice — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:57:50 +0000

This situation is far from artificial. While most have not realized it, the situation has deteriorated each month for the past several years. Mortgage foreclosures in the past year have exceeded the levels recorded during the great depression. Each month the unemployment numbers grow, companies have been cutting back on hiring for the past several years. We can fault banks for lending, the credit industry and so on but the politicians who act surprised by this should be impeached.

Since most of the support for schools and special programs is derived from property taxes, as these erode, so will our programs.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:26:07 +0000

Housing bubble burst big-time around here...... Via Pharyngula, here's a poll where you can vote for McCarthy or Peet. As of 11.25pm EST on 30th Sept, it's 3% to 97%.

By: Shawn3k

Shawn3k — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:02:40 +0000

We are fortunate in our area not to be hit too hard by the housing bubble bursting. Homes here never really skyrocketed that much, so foreclosures and such are still pretty low…its a waiting game now.

By: laurentius-rex

laurentius-rex — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:48:39 +0000

The economic crisis is essentially an artificial one, a product or might I say an artefact of late capitalism in that it is the share values that seem to be determining a banks worth not it’s inherent solvency, never mind all the bad debts (and I guess I am one of them)

In one way I think it is very good for the planet and is probably more effective than any government resolutions for cutting the carbon footprint.

I have a certain schadenfreude for all the banks that have failed in the UK being mostly ex mutuals, I am glad that my building society is still a mutual, yah boo sucks to you…….

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:45:50 +0000

That’s what I’ve been feeling regard McCarthy—her message is the same, but the landscape is looking a little different.

By: Regan

Regan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:36:50 +0000

There’s going to be an impact, although the feedback from my Representative’s office is that he and 20 other reps are going to submit a bill on Thursday with the additional regulation that he felt was missing on Monday’s bill.

(I hope so–even though he previously said that the public contact was overwhelmingly against Federal assistance, after yesterday’s stock market reaction, apparently the tide has turned and he is in some hot water with his constituency.)

For some reason, today esp., the pontifications of Jenny McCarthy and her fan club seem even more tangential and unimportant to me.