Govt supported my A$$! YOu're the one who tastes the govt cheese, not me! LOL I've never been on unemployement or welfare for a second, despite not having a full time job since Bush took over the office. Thanks though for offering to help
I can't tell you that the government supports my a$$, but I CAN tell you that in my state, I'm receiving money that my employer and I pay into the fund, so I am getting money back that was a tax on my EARNINGS. Think of it as a tax refund for furloughees. The reference to government cheese under my avatar is sarcasm.
I have paid into the system for many, many years supporting the basic needs of others, including a good many pilots, I'd wager.
But anyway, I simply have to question the validity of your facts if you assert that public schools have more money than they know what to do with. That's fantastic that some janitor is going to DisneyWorld, how on earth does that disprove Brett Hulls point that public school class rooms all across the country are under funded for the basic simple necessities like paper and text books?
Check my post again, and you will find that I explained that my schools have no such shortages. The public schools don't have more money than they know what to do with, they know EXACTLY what to do with it. Towel, anyone?
But in the Borrego Valley or the Mojave Desert (or Pheonix) its a different situation.
I agree with you. That's why I asked about Arizona. Certainly, that IS a worthy exception.
How about just using the simple shortage of text books, teachers salary (not enough to afford a 1 br apt in the poorest part of San Diego county), and the rampant reduction in virtually every program there is. This happens ALL over the country, but somehow in your perfect little world, the local schools are over flowing with money and building swimming pools! That's truly amazing.
That's why we didn't want to give up our governor, Tom Ridge. Now, we have tax-and-spend Ed Rendell. Lord, help us. Maybe things will improve with the ouster of Gray Davis.
Wonder how they can do that while the rest of the school world is struggling to maintain safe clean conditions all over the country. Go do some research.... oh yeah, I forgot, you never look outside your own backyard when trying to see what's REALLY happening on this planet.
Whenever you are wrong about something, you start to show a nasty streak. My own little world goes as far as China, where my church supports missionaries, along with some 50 other countries. They all have schools. I personally know enough teachers to start my own private school, and if I had the money, I'd do it. I don't need a teachers message board to help me, but thanks for the advice. My private school friends often make LESS than the public school teachers, since the small private school isn't eligible for the school lunch or breakfast programs (which I fund through my taxes) or the other special funding programs, or the teachers union which helps protect substandard teachers from dismissal.
...before you go assuming every school district in the country is over funded. That's as ignorant as anything I've heard yet.
Let me explain to you what ignorance is. Ignorance is being the leading edge of the PC and revisionist history movement, like the NEA. Ignorance is pushing students out the door through social promotion, unable to read their own diploma. Ignorance is what parents experince as schools teach their 13 year old children about the most pleasurable sex positions in a "health" class, without their knowlege. Ignorance is being unaccountable to anyone, and thinking that parents all over the nation will allow this to continue. Ignorance is the idea that the tax base can provide more and more money, while the janitor at my school goes to disney world. Is my friend the vice principal overpaid? Let me tell you a little secret. He said I should run as fast as I can and get my teaching certificate, because this is the best gig on earth, and I was a fool to put up with the pecadillos of aviation when I could do half the work and get every summer off.
He was only
half kidding.
Lovely how we are free to flip flop on liberty, when in one thread you want to strip it away when it suits you, but here in this one, you stand up for your rights... It is truly ala carte with you, isn't it?
A la carte? Ha! I knew it! You ARE French!
Just kidding.
You say I want to strip it away when it suits me. That is what is called an opinion. An opinion that you have a right to, but is yet wrong, in that it seeks to mischaracterize my position. I used to do that a LOT when I was a Democrat. It was a marginally effective technique, as most people just let it whizz right by. Not me.
I was making an observation about the necessity for for the strongest action available under our law to deal with the drug emergency in many parts of the country, particularly in the LA and New York areas. Now you may disagree, but this action is provided for and is sometimes necessary. It does not "strip away" rights, it suspends some that allow the poisoning to continue unabated. It reinforces other rights, such as the right of those living in those neighborhoods to be safe in their homes and streets from drive by shootings and assinations, along with the victimization of the weakest among us. In other words, the rights of law abiding citizens are ALWAYS subordinate to the rights of criminals. I disagree with that idea. The residents who work hard have a greater right to safety and happiness than the criminals do to drive about without fear of intervention. Remember, the founders predicated our society on the idea that we are a
moral people. Lacking that, we descend into anarchy. Some people think that we should just stand by and do what we have been doing. Clearly another method is being called for. Also as I said, this call will go unanswered by the apologists and the left, who think that this activity is just fine, as long as it isn't in
their neighborhood.
But I would ask that in reponse to my offer of cease fire, that you not call out my name or position on other threads, ones which I am not even involved in, as you did on this one. I'd rather not use the ignore function, as I figure you occasionally have aviation related posts that are worthy of my time.
On the other hand, I will stand by everything I say, and you may quote me anywhere and everywhere. I guess I'm not familiar enough with the system used at the NY Times, where people can lift passages and create reality however they like. I'm just too used to doing it the
right way. No pun intended.
Gee, just when I was enjoying doing something beside faxing resumes to charter companies...
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