Posted on 10/27/2009 3:52:56 AM PDT by FCusumano
Edited on 10/29/2009 5:45:52 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
LANSING, MI. - The Michigan Governor, Jennifer Granholm, and the Michigan Legislature could have avoided deep cuts to education by passage of an increase to the wager tax on the Detroit Casinos. The wager tax (18% State and 6% City of Detroit) had not been increased since 1997 could have been raised to comparable levels of other surrounding States, and filled the revenue shortfall and spared Michigan children deep cuts in education K-12.
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And it is this train of thought that got our state into the trouble it is in now....there is no bottomless pit of money to dig into...it is a well, and the well has run dry...while our canadian socialist feminazi governator drifts about aimlessly, trying to stick her filthy hands deeper into mine and my neighbors pockets, we stand in the grocery store and decide if this week we can afford the all beef hotdogs instead of the ones made from snouts and ears......GET A F**KING CLUE, B*TCH!!!!!!!!!!
Or, they could have laid-off a few Deputy Junior Assistant Vice Principals instead and saved money that way.
Get out and shake your mailbox. That’s how I take my mind off our disaster.
Deep cuts in the out-of-control costs of education are a bad thing???????????
How about the novel idea of teaching the basics (with college, the military and technical schools taking over from that point), having each school with 1 principal, 1 vice principal, an office staff, 1 teacher for each classroom without multiple assistants and class sizes of 20-25 students each. For example...just like it was when I was in school in the 50’s and 60’s when the cost of public education was not out of control?
Every one of us who own property experience a possible heart attack each year when we receive our yearly tax bill due to the massive waste incurred in the public education system.
Ever notice ANY new school being built? They are extravagant monuments to the audacity and opulence of our educational system. Notice how much money is wasted on the most important portion of the new schools...the athletic facilities. These buildings would make the structures in Rome pale in comparison.
The people must rise and force our educational system to teach the basics once again and to truly justify each penny spent (or requested) for any and all purposes.
The first step to take is to cut off the tainted finger of the federal government that touches and infects our public school systems and take them back to total local control.
Don’t forget how many children of illegal aliens you are paying to educate, and how little they and their families really care about an education. And how much hatred you’ll draw from liberals if you complain.
You just brought up another question.
How much waste in our school systems (waste that was not there 45 years ago) goes to FREE MEALS to illegals and welfare recipients in our school cafeterias? In addition to that, how much waste is involved in serving up to 7 different offerings in the cafeterias each day?
Why don’t we offer a single good meal at lunch each day like we did when our educational costs were in control? I’ll tell you why...it’s because of PC and the fact that today’s kids won’t eat what is served. They are spoiled at home and they are spoiled at school.
This pig governor has spent stolen billions from productive communities and given it to fat slobs in the state bureaucracy. Last time I stayed at a large, upscale motel in Northern MI, the useless morons in the bureaucracy were having a fun convention. The parking lot was filled with new SUVs and pickups bearing DNR and DOT logos. Meanwhile, the citizens going past were driving 10 year old rusted clunkers. The Michigan liberal is the most stupid voter in America and can’t see the disparity nor cause and effect of left wing policies.
By my count, more than 800,000 productive citizens have left Michigan since that commie swine was elected to the governor’s chair. Productive citizens are outnumbered by thieving welfare rats who vote in tax increases at every opportunity. And Michigan’s number one export is young, educated people - the future.
...like it was in the 1950s and 60s ...
When my MIL was teaching in the 1950s and ‘60s, she regularly had classes of up to 40 kids. Discipline problems were mostly talking out of turn and paper wads.
She could spank the kids if necessary — and lots of us were spanked by teachers — but trouble at school was trumped by major huge consequences at home. At the hands of Mom and Dad. (Now I grant you, some teachers had no business being near children but they were very few and far between.)
It’s not like that anymore. Families have disintegrated and many, many children in these smaller classes have no functional adult at home to teach them to tie their shoes, read to them, fix them breakfast, wash their clothes ... sad.
I don’t think anyone realized how important families (and by extension, Mom or someone at home) until it was gone and we started seeing the results of several years of latch key children.
That said, yes, Grandholm is lame. Sheesh. We are SO glad we don’t live in Michigan. We’re close enough in northern Indiana to hear how messed up the state is.
The problem you describe is prevalent throughout the nation. It’s source is the “Blameless Society” of today.
I live in Texas, not Michigan and the problems we have are exactly the same in both culture and educational waste.
Let me understand this...
The state sponsors gambling and undoubtedly takes a cut from the source in addition to licensing fees.
Then the state taxes the winnings.
And then someone says that the tax percentage hasn’t increased in several years therefore should be increased.
Since the tax is a percentage of the winnings, it is already inflation proof, right?
So the state takes money from gambling at the front and back end but that isn’t enough?
...”Notice how much money is wasted on the most important portion of the new schools...the athletic facilities...”
I went for a stroll through my old HS in Macomb County a few summers ago and what I saw was surely a sign of the times in public education- There was a rennovation in progress that was greatly reducing the space for the once sprawling library and it’s facilities while what used to be known as “The Little Theater” was being expanded to almost double it’s original layout. WTF
Granholm, and the Michigan Legislature could have avoided deep cuts to education by passage of an increase to the wager tax on the Detroit Casinos. The wager tax (18% State and 6% City of Detroit) had not been increased since 1997 could have been raised to comparable levels of other surrounding States... Detroit Casinos which net $1 Million Dollars a day ($365 Million Dollars) a year each for a total of $1 Billion Dollars, and their owners expressed would have declined comment on the increase. Critics of Casino Gambling would have lauded the move as a sign that elected State Legislators had not been overly influenced by the monied and politically connected lobbyists representing the Ohioans vote on November 3, 2009, for Casinos in their State taxed at a rate of 33%. Illinois taxes casino revenues up to 70%. Pennsylvania taxes casinos at 55%.
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Like Obama purpose to annihilate the bastion of freedom America!
Gov. Granholm purpose is to annihilate, finish off one of the most prosperous states of the union Michigan!
This mitten was/is crawling with ingenuity and inventors and true grit.
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