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I'm sure Steve Jobs would love that.  If Jesse Jackson got his way, I'm buying Apple Stock.  As of Census 2000, there were 54,500,000 children enrolled in K through 12 schools.  Even if the Federal government bought Dell laptops, the ipods (at base price $229 each) would be worth $12,480,500,000.  I'd say that should help stock prices....


The original statement from Rep. Jackson below...
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Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) 3/2/2011, statement in the US House of Representatives


Mr. Speaker, I believe that the answer to long term unemployment is actually in the Constitution of the United States.  Well, let me say that a little differently. It's not in the Constitution of the United States. It should be in the Constitution of the United States and one of these days we are going to get there... We need to add to the Constitution the right to a family to have a decent home. What would that do for home construction, in this nation? What would that do for millions of unemployed people? He says (ed: not sure who "he" is, Jackson is reading from a newspaper) we need to add to the Constitution the right to medical care. How many doctors would such a right, create? He says we need to add to the Constitution of the United States the right to a decent education for every American. How many schools, would such a right, build? From Maine to California. How many people would be put to work building roofs and designing classrooms and providing every student with an ipod and a laptop? How many ghettos and barrios be touched by such an amendment? In fact, very little that we pass in the Congress of the United States even touches the long term unemployed. Only thing that touches them, that this Congress has access to, that can actually change their station in life is the Constitution of the United States... Mr. Speaker, there is an even greater America that's in front of us.  It's the America that adds to our founding documents these basic rights.