Stacy, you say it so well. Thanks so much for commenting. There will be more to come on this and related topics.

We know that education and/or training can affect jobs, that college is not affordable for most, that fewer and fewer employers offer job training, that more and more employers expect new hires to be highly educated AND highly experienced, that livable wage jobs are hard to come by even with the right combination of education and training, that the quality of education is declining at nearly every level while becoming more expensive…

We know that the wealthy are getting wealthier while the rest of us get poorer and that isn’t just a coincidence. We know that the people responsible for some of our country’s worst economic disasters have not been brought to justice, but our prison population is the largest in the world; our prisons filled to over capacity with non-violent offenders and others who shouldn’t be there but criminal bankers aren’t among their ranks. We know there is a justice system for the poor and one for the wealthy.

We know that big corporations are destroying our planet virtually unchecked, and even after spilling millions of barrels of crude oil or poisoning entire ecosystems or causing earthquakes with fracking, they are free to continue their destructive behavior, making trillions of dollars in profit.

We know that trillions of dollars are “missing” and go untaxed, that it isn’t a coincidence either. We know that moneyed interests rule, that we live in an oligarchy. We know that patching up the status quo isn’t working for the vast majority of us. We know that the establishment must go so that we may live.

We know that nothing short of a revolution will accomplish what the people need. We know. The revolution has begun.