Pay attention to where this is happening and who it affects
on April 6th, 2007 at 6:14 amFYI, this would also affect the heavy Black populated Detroit school district (which already a long history of corruption [read].)
(detnews.com) We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michigan.
No cost estimate was attached to their hare-brained idea to “invest” in education. Details, we are promised, will follow.
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Their plan goes beyond cluelessness. Democrats are either entirely indifferent to the idea that extreme hard times demand extreme belt tightening, or they are bone stupid. We lean toward the latter.
We say that because the House plan also keeps alive, again without specifics, the promise of tax hikes.
The range of options, according to Rep. Steve Tobocman, D-Detroit, includes raising the income tax, levying a 6 percent tax on some services, and taxing junk food and soda. (more…)
If you want to march about something, here is a great opportunity to get mad enough to do so. Also, this would be a good time to get those chain e-mails going–especially for those who care about the welfare of our children (cough, cough).
Again, if current presidential candidates are not addressing this kind of corruption that goes on regularly in public schools, none of them will get my vote in ’08. Don’t tell me about how public schools need more money when you refuse to address these types of problems AT THE RISK OF LOOSING THE SUPPORT OF THE NEA. Any candidate that is willing to “grow a pair” and deal with this straight up will get my attention.
