[AAACE-NLA] Re: AAACE-NLA New Orleans

[tanya tweeton]

No, not paranoid. 
When I saw that Halliburton had been awarded contracts
 again in a no-bid session, my hackles were raised.
The explanation is that time is of the essence and
they, along with other big companies, are ready and
able to to do the job immediately. But what of
controls of the costs? There appear to be none.
Incredible..... or if there are, I haven't read about
them. How can we be asked to trust them again after
the overcosts they perpetrated in IRAQ.?? 

 Adult Education will have a difficult time as usual
if the need for it,  as an antidote to poverty is not 
emphasized loudly and clearly somehow, someway, it
will be ignored.  The squeaky wheel gets the
attention. That is why I am curious as to where Dale
Lipshutz's press release was published.

Tanya Tweeton


--- andresmuro at aol.com wrote:

> Questions: Now that Katrina cleaned up NO of poor
> people, sort of like 
> Rudolph cleaned Manhattan, Are speculators going to
> buy land for 
> nothing, and are developers going to make huge
> profits and get juicy 
> government contracts to rebuild? Is the poor part of
> NO going to become 
> new ritzy neighbourhoods? The government already
> gave a big contract to 
> halliburton as soon as Katrina hit. Here is the
> contradiction, we are 
> being asked to open our hearts and our wallets and
> help the poor with 
> food, supplies, English classes, etc. In the
> meanwhile, corporations 
> are not being asked to open their hearts and help
> rebuild. Instead they 
> are already making bucks. Are our taxes going to go
> up next year to 
> help rebuild NO? Are more programs going to get cut
> to pay for the 
> developers to rebuild? Is ABE going to go on the
> choping block again, 
> together with Even start and other trio programs? Am
> I being paranoid?
> 
> Andres
> 
> 
> Please take a look at my artwork:
> www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html
> 
> 
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Edith Hamilton: 
It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.

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