A classmate of mine recently posted our class pictures to her FB page. Every one of them from grade 1 to grade 6 showed 31 - 35 kids in our class. Our teachers were perfectly able to provide us with a good education and probably could have done so with 40 kids in their class. Back then we had "respect" for elders and had "dicipline" in school; things which are un-American nowadays! I say, make the year shorter, make classes bigger, return the "paddle" and make teachers do their job and stop whinning about everything. Or maybe, use the paddle on the teachers?
Nah, I grew up on poverty rock, a friend of mine got $20 million just to graduate with a "C" average. And Yes, most of them were, are Liberals! I worked for my money, and I give to charities, I don't use other people's money to be "charitable".
I think that's a myth, the most wealthy people are usualy bleeding heart, liberal democrats.
You can sum this up in one word, "Democrats"!
Great! and now we have a Progressive Republican to run in her place, YIPPI_SKIPPI!
Poetic justice? Now the environmentalists can find out what dealing with "environmentalists" is like!
Perhaps they will begin to see that their regulations are more "political" than practical, driven by an agenda which prefers Marxist redistribution over common sense.
I checked the internet and could not find any records of the millions of stillborn children in the 1940's-1960's when smoking was everywhere. If this information were true, then there must be millions upon millions of dead bodies being hidden along with records on lung ailments from those days when you could smoke in the grocery store and at your desk and even in the doctor's office. Consider that.
Lower costs, better competition, more contractors working; if the State just repeals the "Prevailing wage" law and loosens restrictions on contractors, we could save billions of dollars!
One more idea to cut costs; eliminate the "prevailing wage" doctrine in state and local government. This makes contractors pay "union scale" to their employees if they do work on state and local projects. If we eliminate this provision, the costs of state contracts would decrease by close to 40%. But hey, the guy mowing the grass on the side of the highway needs his $45 per hour wage to live on?
Only 48,000 employees? Why not just lay-off 10% and bring our state back to 2007 levels? The only way to solve our budget problem is to "SHRINK" government, not expand it and just trim pay by 3%. Hell, if they cut pay by 30%, government workers would still be making more than private sector workers!
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