What's bugging me
OK, it's time to vent. This is what's bugging me:
1) Oil prices drop like a brick but gas prices don't.
2) Pro athletes complain about contracts -- even though they're making millions.
3) The ocean temperature is in the high 50s and low 60s. IT'S SUMMER!
4) We still have four months of political ads to stomach on the TV.
5) People being cruel to animals. It takes a real powerhouse to beat a dog or starve a cat.
6) People being cruel to other people. Like the Philly case of the poor little girl allegedly neglected by her parents until she ended up dead. What are these people thinking?
That's it for now.
Let me know what's bugging YOU! Maybe we can do something about it...
1) Oil prices drop like a brick but gas prices don't.
2) Pro athletes complain about contracts -- even though they're making millions.
3) The ocean temperature is in the high 50s and low 60s. IT'S SUMMER!
4) We still have four months of political ads to stomach on the TV.
5) People being cruel to animals. It takes a real powerhouse to beat a dog or starve a cat.
6) People being cruel to other people. Like the Philly case of the poor little girl allegedly neglected by her parents until she ended up dead. What are these people thinking?
That's it for now.
Let me know what's bugging YOU! Maybe we can do something about it...
posted by Andy Hachadorian at
1:40 PM
2 Comments:
Last year we received a letter from the school principal requesting that we supply our children an array of in class supplies. This was the first request we have ever received from the Owen J. Roberts School. My problem with this is on many fronts, the cost, inconvenience, and pollution associated with Thousands of parents driving and searching for items dictated by the school, not to mention the $8k in school taxes paid each year.
I have no problem with slowly changing to a user fee based system, but requesting 6 highlighters, 12 pencils, 3 erasers for a third grader seems a little excessive. Maybe they are also stocking the supply closet. In any case, if the school were to purchase these supplies that are being dictated, the cost would be about 40% less, no sales tax would be paid, Thousands of hours would be saved by working families, and tens of thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide would not be released into the atmosphere.
What kind of Economic and Environmental lessons are our schools teaching?
Whatever happened to common sense?
Just send me a bill!
Mike
just a thought, isn't it ironic that 'smallgov' is actually advocating larger government -- having the government send him a bill for his child's school supplies. Perhaps 'smallgov' realizes that if the school district provides the supplies then portions of the cost will be transferred from 'smallgov' to the rest of us.
I was wondering what, if anything, has happened to the Coatesville blog. The last couple times I've tried to load it, all I get is a blank page. Considering the level of discussion there lately, shutting it down might be the best possible outcome.
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