The 30% solution...

... as the G-20 meetings take place in Pittsburgh- just 100 or so miles to the Southeast of where I sit now in a 9th and 10th grade day of "intro to life science" classes... subbing my brains out... and these kids, more the cool hip kids than your College Prep Ap set- show a fundamental reality of the Great Divide in the economy, in education, and opportunity structure.
The elephant at the dinner table of any talk of Democracy, development, change, justice, jobs, globalization (it's simply inevitable according to wunderkind Bary `O Bama, which of course means that pretty much all of the fundamental "reforms" or core changes that are needed, many of them he gave support to that helped him get elected on the hope for meaningful change that he partly inspired and partly he simply, as it turns out, utilized to get elected... in other words he road the wave of hope for real sea change only to come to power already marginalized and co-opted be the structures of economic power that override any attempt at Democratic power over their operational structures and systems that give us a world and conditions that those of us who yearn for that change live in the "RealEconomique" consequences of every day. Not to mention the social, cultural, educational, and political consequences of...
Which brings us back to the 30% solution- to be discussed next post...