In the 1950s, America’s “Big Three” automakers (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler) were the pacesetters for our industrial dominance. They had the skilled workers, financing, mass production technology, sales networks, supply chains and customer base. In short, they had it all.
On March 14, one month after a teenager armed with a semiautomatic weapon slaughtered 14 students and three adults inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, thousands of students from more than 3,000 schools joined the youth-led National School Walkout and pushed for immediate and meaningful gun control.
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The National School Walkout is happening as this paper goes to print, so we’ll kick off our March Cheers & Jeers with a giant CHEERS to all the students who participated in the 17-minute walkout to remember the Parkland, Florida school shooting victims and to push for sane gun control measures.
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Early this February, the Republican-controlled Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed new federal budget legislation that increased U.S. military spending by $165 billion over the next two years. Remarkably, though, a Gallup public opinion poll, conducted only days before, found that only 33 percent of Americans favored increasing U.S. military spending, while 65 percent opposed it, either backing reductions (34 percent) or maintenance of the status quo (31 percent).
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Keep speaking up, students
As the student-led #NeverAgain gun-control movement continues to build momentum — causing companies to sever public ties with the National Rifle Association and politicians to, hopefully, rethink their slavish support of the gun manufacturing lobby over the majority of Americans who support common sense gun control — we are reminded of another, pre-Internet movement that encouraged the world to “Never Forget.”
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