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I find comments such as those made by Anonymous to be incredibly short-sighted and self-defeating. The middle class--and those below it--have seen their living standards badly eroded over the past 20-30 years, to the point where fewer and fewer of us have the capacity to educate our children and provide for a decent retirement for ourselves. This is in large part a result of the financialization of the U.S. economy, whicn Emanuel, who made millions on Wall Street, personifies. We shipped a large part of our manufacturing sector oversees, thanks to free-trade initiatives like NAFTA. The loss of millions of middle-class jobs--for no reason other than to enrich Wall Street--has translated into a loss of tax revenue, a trend exacerbated by the refusal of the very wealthy (like Emanuel) to pay their fair share of taxes. On top of this, US companies have jettisoned pensions--which were quite typical in the private sector not too many years ago--leading to a very grim situation for many Americans of retirement age. Now, instead of correcting these fundamental errors in economic policy and restoring economic stability to the vast majority of the U.S. population, Anonymous wants to pull out the rug from teachers (and public schools). Where is the sense in that? How will that help the middle class?