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Originally Posted by afchic
Off topic a bit, but still relevant. Yesterday the IL House of Representatives voting to go to 4 day school weeks for all schools in the State. The measure now goes to the State Senate. Apparently this will be some sort of cost saving measure.
First of all, the kids still need to be in school the same number of hours every year which means the school day will increase, or the length of the school year will. How is this saving money anywhere?
How about consolidating school districts (I pay for 3 in my little town of 30K. One district is for the elementary-Jr. High, One is for the single highschool, and the other is for the community college) so that you only have to pay one administration. Our school superintendants make almost 200K. That 200K saved could go a long way in keeping kids in a school on Fridays.
We can't afford to educate our children properly, but how many pieces of jumnk mail have you recieved about the Census? I have received 5 (3 informing me the Census is coming, 1 the actual Census, and 1 after I filled it out, reminding me to fill it out). I wonder what the cost of that is?
Rant Off.
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For those that "think" it just the polls pushing an agenda:
Brewer:
We have absolutely no money
Governor pushes support for 1-cent sales tax in election
By JACKIE LEATHERMAN
Today's News-Herald
Published Friday, March 5, 2010 7:08 AM MST
Gov. Jan Brewer campaigned for voters to pass a temporary sales tax increase in an upcoming May election during a luncheon visit Thursday in Lake Havasu City.
Arizona’s checkbook is overdrawn, the credit card has been maxed out, and we’ve mortgaged the house,” the Republican governor said. “You all know exactly what that means. We have absolutely no money. That’s why it is so important that Prop 100 is addressed and passed.”
http://www.havasunews.com/articles/2...b432844252.txt
Please indulge me and enlighten me as to what part of cutting a childs education to four days a week and a state that is out of money does not equal a potential collaspe of our American financial system?
These are the indicators (extreme measures) that we are in for a possible collaspe. Almost every state is seeing cuts such as these because there is no tax base to collect monies from and hussain & his socialists spend another trillion dollars.
I really think the only way to stop this freefall is to impeach the current clueless, inexperienced, narcissistic socialist "Teleprompter Reader" and remove him from office before the world loses confidence in the United States of America.
A village idiot is at the helm and we are going to pay dearly for that mistake.
IMO if we (America) keeps "giving" (making extreme sacrifices) the current federal government will just keep spending.
Team Sergeant