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Here Come The Taxes!

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In our local area they want a half-cent sales surtax for 10 years – of course, it’s “for the children“.  It always is.

But here are some facts regarding the “capital shortfalls” that the school system here is currently “suffering under”:

  • A few years ago a new addition was put on Bluewater Elementary.  The addition was needed.  The $30,000 “smart boards” were not, nor were the plasma televisions in the corner of each new classroom that display the school clock for nearly all of the day.  A $5 clock would perform the latter job just as well, and an old-fashioned chalkboard works fine for presenting concepts to kids.
     
  • Last year Ruckel Middle School spent over $10,000 on video games - Nintendo Wiis and again, big flat-screen TVs - to play “DDR”, a dance game.  This qualifies as “physical education.”  While playing DDR certainly is physical exercise, so is that which one obtains from a half-dozen dodgeballs, and they don’t cost $10,000.

There are dozens of other examples.  The school’s response is always that “these expenditures were planned in advance” or “that money came from surplus funds.”

But my question as a taxpayer remains: If these funds were “surplus”, why were they spent on video games instead of chillers, roofs, and other mechanical repairs?  If capital expenditures were planned in advance, why were not those unnecessary but nice things like smartboards shelved in favor of something more basic – like a new roof?

My daughter has a Web Design class this fall.  I noted in the syllabus that they’re using Adobe CS5.  That’s very nice – it’s the “current release”, of course, and first shipped in April.  What was wrong with CS4?  I own it, incidentally, having been the last time I bothered to upgrade.  Where did the money come from to “keep current” for everyone in that class?  Does web design somehow become better if one has a photo editing package, or the absolute newest version of Dreamweaver?  I’ll answer that for you as a more-than-20-year professional in the IT industry: No.

The schools always tell us how they’re broke and need more.  But all of us are making do with less.  We’re tightening our belts and spending only what we need to, coming off a sugar high of excessive credit and consumption.

Somehow, when it comes to schools, that bright shiny $30,000 smartboard just can’t be shelved and the funds redirected to something more important – like a working refrigeration unit for the cafeteria.

Instead, the school board proposes to pick our pockets – again.

Vote No to fiscal irresponsibility.



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    • MoneyMagnetElizabeth

      All of this expense is due to the big ponzi scam called BOND GRANTS. It is sweeping the Nation under the guise to help the kids. Not for profits that have a better understanding on how your child should behave just loves it too! The State of California is a prime example of it’s misuse and how it bankrupts a State. Now it is Nationwide and communities have Common Councils that have mentality of thirteen year olds that just make news announcements for example
      such as voting for approval without your consideration a $250.000 expense for a new infrastructure plan. And the plan is to utilize more BOND GRANTS. Yes and increase MORE DEBT. They also say it will create JOBS. They created homelessness so they need special housing projects. Short term jobs. Affordable housing is not even affordable because there is NO sustainable economy to support it. And what about using those luxury homes that are abandoned that dot across the country? It goes on and on and too numerous to mention the fraudulent unethical ponzi and years of misuse that the Federal Governments Communistic radical party has done to corrupt and collapse our Nation. I want the military to make major arrests and they can start at the White House and work their way down to the local towns!

    • MoneyMagnetElizabeth

      All of this expense is due to the big ponzi scam called BOND GRANTS. It is sweeping the Nation under the guise to help the kids. Not for profits that have a better understanding on how your child should behave just loves it too! The State of California is a prime example of it’s misuse and how it bankrupts a State. Now it is Nationwide and communities have Common Councils that have mentality of thirteen year olds that just make news announcements for example
      such as voting for approval without your consideration a $250.000 expense for a new infrastructure plan. And the plan is to utilize more BOND GRANTS. Yes and increase MORE DEBT. They also say it will create JOBS. They created homelessness so they need special housing projects. Short term jobs. Affordable housing is not even affordable because there is NO sustainable economy to support it. And what about using those luxury homes that are abandoned that dot across the country? It goes on and on and too numerous to mention the fraudulent unethical ponzi and years of misuse that the Federal Governments Communistic radical party has done to corrupt and collapse our Nation. I want the military to make major arrests and they can start at the White House and work their way down to the local towns!

    • MoneyMagnetElizabeth

      All of this expense is due to the big ponzi scam called BOND GRANTS. It is sweeping the Nation under the guise to help the kids. Not for profits that have a better understanding on how your child should behave just loves it too! The State of California is a prime example of it’s misuse and how it bankrupts a State. Now it is Nationwide and communities have Common Councils that have mentality of thirteen year olds that just make news announcements for example
      such as voting for approval without your consideration a $250.000 expense for a new infrastructure plan. And the plan is to utilize more BOND GRANTS. Yes and increase MORE DEBT. They also say it will create JOBS. They created homelessness so they need special housing projects. Short term jobs. Affordable housing is not even affordable because there is NO sustainable economy to support it. And what about using those luxury homes that are abandoned that dot across the country? It goes on and on and too numerous to mention the fraudulent unethical ponzi and years of misuse that the Federal Governments Communistic radical party has done to corrupt and collapse our Nation. I want the military to make major arrests and they can start at the White House and work their way down to the local towns!

    • MoneyMagnetElizabeth

      All of this expense is due to the big ponzi scam called BOND GRANTS. It is sweeping the Nation under the guise to help the kids. Not for profits that have a better understanding on how your child should behave just loves it too! The State of California is a prime example of it’s misuse and how it bankrupts a State. Now it is Nationwide and communities have Common Councils that have mentality of thirteen year olds that just make news announcements for example
      such as voting for approval without your consideration a $250.000 expense for a new infrastructure plan. And the plan is to utilize more BOND GRANTS. Yes and increase MORE DEBT. They also say it will create JOBS. They created homelessness so they need special housing projects. Short term jobs. Affordable housing is not even affordable because there is NO sustainable economy to support it. And what about using those luxury homes that are abandoned that dot across the country? It goes on and on and too numerous to mention the fraudulent unethical ponzi and years of misuse that the Federal Governments Communistic radical party has done to corrupt and collapse our Nation. I want the military to make major arrests and they can start at the White House and work their way down to the local towns!

    • MoneyMagnetElizabeth

      All of this expense is due to the big ponzi scam called BOND GRANTS. It is sweeping the Nation under the guise to help the kids. Not for profits that have a better understanding on how your child should behave just loves it too! The State of California is a prime example of it’s misuse and how it bankrupts a State. Now it is Nationwide and communities have Common Councils that have mentality of thirteen year olds that just make news announcements for example
      such as voting for approval without your consideration a $250.000 expense for a new infrastructure plan. And the plan is to utilize more BOND GRANTS. Yes and increase MORE DEBT. They also say it will create JOBS. They created homelessness so they need special housing projects. Short term jobs. Affordable housing is not even affordable because there is NO sustainable economy to support it. And what about using those luxury homes that are abandoned that dot across the country? It goes on and on and too numerous to mention the fraudulent unethical ponzi and years of misuse that the Federal Governments Communistic radical party has done to corrupt and collapse our Nation. I want the military to make major arrests and they can start at the White House and work their way down to the local towns!

    • MoneyMagnetElizabeth

      All of this expense is due to the big ponzi scam called BOND GRANTS. It is sweeping the Nation under the guise to help the kids. Not for profits that have a better understanding on how your child should behave just loves it too! The State of California is a prime example of it’s misuse and how it bankrupts a State. Now it is Nationwide and communities have Common Councils that have mentality of thirteen year olds that just make news announcements for example
      such as voting for approval without your consideration a $250.000 expense for a new infrastructure plan. And the plan is to utilize more BOND GRANTS. Yes and increase MORE DEBT. They also say it will create JOBS. They created homelessness so they need special housing projects. Short term jobs. Affordable housing is not even affordable because there is NO sustainable economy to support it. And what about using those luxury homes that are abandoned that dot across the country? It goes on and on and too numerous to mention the fraudulent unethical ponzi and years of misuse that the Federal Governments Communistic radical party has done to corrupt and collapse our Nation. I want the military to make major arrests and they can start at the White House and work their way down to the local towns!

    • MoneyMagnetElizabeth

      All of this expense is due to the big ponzi scam called BOND GRANTS. It is sweeping the Nation under the guise to help the kids. Not for profits that have a better understanding on how your child should behave just loves it too! The State of California is a prime example of it’s misuse and how it bankrupts a State. Now it is Nationwide and communities have Common Councils that have mentality of thirteen year olds that just make news announcements for example
      such as voting for approval without your consideration a $250.000 expense for a new infrastructure plan. And the plan is to utilize more BOND GRANTS. Yes and increase MORE DEBT. They also say it will create JOBS. They created homelessness so they need special housing projects. Short term jobs. Affordable housing is not even affordable because there is NO sustainable economy to support it. And what about using those luxury homes that are abandoned that dot across the country? It goes on and on and too numerous to mention the fraudulent unethical ponzi and years of misuse that the Federal Governments Communistic radical party has done to corrupt and collapse our Nation. I want the military to make major arrests and they can start at the White House and work their way down to the local towns!

    • MoneyMagnetElizabeth

      All of this expense is due to the big ponzi scam called BOND GRANTS. It is sweeping the Nation under the guise to help the kids. Not for profits that have a better understanding on how your child should behave just loves it too! The State of California is a prime example of it’s misuse and how it bankrupts a State. Now it is Nationwide and communities have Common Councils that have mentality of thirteen year olds that just make news announcements for example
      such as voting for approval without your consideration a $250.000 expense for a new infrastructure plan. And the plan is to utilize more BOND GRANTS. Yes and increase MORE DEBT. They also say it will create JOBS. They created homelessness so they need special housing projects. Short term jobs. Affordable housing is not even affordable because there is NO sustainable economy to support it. And what about using those luxury homes that are abandoned that dot across the country? It goes on and on and too numerous to mention the fraudulent unethical ponzi and years of misuse that the Federal Governments Communistic radical party has done to corrupt and collapse our Nation. I want the military to make major arrests and they can start at the White House and work their way down to the local towns!

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