[hypocritter]

They have achieved their dream of making it a 20-something, slacker and gay boy paradise.

Someone needs to tell the 20-something slacker boys that grunge is sooo 1990s!

[Jack Black]

And now they are hitting the death spiral on school funding, as the attached article shows. Socialist liberals have LOTS of things they want to tax each other for, but schools might not be as high as, say, more Trams, Trains and Bike Lanes, or doggie parks (dogs are what east siders have instead of kids)...

From the Portland Tribune:

When the TV news turns to the discussions over school funding and school closures, Michell Hedrick changes the channel.

The Concordia resident doesn’t have kids, and she’s “fed up” hearing about Portland Public Schools’ budget woes, she says.

“I’ve been listening to them scream about the fact that they don’t have money for 30 years,” says Hedrick, a fiftysomething retired accountant. “They’re either completely oblivious to money management or they don’t care about how the kids turn out.”

While her accusation might be inflammatory, it represents a lot of the confusion many nonparents in Portland are going through.

With no vested interest in the public schools, these residents aren’t compelled to attend school board meetings and pore over the latest school news. They are senior citizens with grown children, people in their 20s and 30s who’ve yet to have kids, and middle-age people whose kids have left home. In fact, 80 percent of voters in Portland do not have children in Portland Public Schools.