During the campaign all we heard was how things were going to change. I guess the old adage "the more things change, the more they remain the same", is still at work. I am referring to the pick for Secretary of the Treasury, who happens to be one of the old Washington guard.
Now if the president elect would have picked my daughter or someone like her, I would have been very impressed. She happens to be married to a school teacher, and they have two children. She and her husband decided that she should be a stay at home mom while the children were young.
I marvel at how she has managed to stretch the meager salary of our underpaid teachers. She and her husband purchased a nice home and my two granddaughters are well fed and are always well dressed.
They never buy things they can not afford, but rather save up before they purchase something. They even manage to save a few pennies for a rainy day, so as not to be caught off guard when a catastrophe hits.
Imagine someone like her in charge of the nation's purse strings. We would have a congress that had to live within its means. Millionaire bankers would be told, "Sorry, you made the mess, now clean it up or live with it". There would also no more frivolous spending sprees on bridges to nowhere.
We don't need any more Ivy League rs continuing to lead us in the same directions that caused this mess; we need the real change of someone who can clean this mess up - a housewife and mother.
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You've got a good point there, Pelmo. Both my parents were teachers in a public school and the raises were few and far between. But, one thing I'm a little wary of is the constant screaming to throw more money at the education system. My kids are lucky to be in a great school district with parents throwing a lot of extra money at the local schools through fundraisers and a great local tax base. But what's the most obvious things it appears this money is being spent on? Does it go to teacher salaries? Well, a little of it may, but it looks like a lot of it goes to building a super-duper gymn for every single elementary, middle, and high school, as well as sound systems and state-of-the-art football stadiums and soccer fields and...all of this is great, but shouldn't the priority be to increase teacher salary? If we want better teaching, we need to make it so the money HAS to go to the teachers. If teachers earned as much as the defense contractors around here, more of those very brilliant engineers would be glad to be in the classroom doing something constructive instead of building the next generation of missile defense systems. Don't get me wrong, I like sports and marching bands and cheerleading, etc., but I'm guessing we can already beat the pants off foreign high school football teams; if, on the other hand, we want to compete in science, math, history, languages...we should act like that's our priority, no?
P.S. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Do you realize the type of students we would produce if parents and school districts put up the energy and finances toward academics rather then athletics.
Look at all the labs and resources schools would have if the money was taken away from all these super dupper gyms and stadiums.
How many more qualified teachers could be hired if our football and basketball coaches weren't paid outrages salaries.
Somewhere along the line schools drifted away from academics for the majority to athletics for a few. We constantly read about academic programs being dropped because of the expenses involved. Yet we are always able to find the finances to build that gym or stadium.
Headlines galore as we topped the list for Olympic medals, but none as we plumet to the bottom on the academic ladder.
i just wish i had the ability to appeal to my employer the way the govt does....
"seems we had a budget short fall this month sir, we are going to have to get more money from you this month, we have met and passed a new "transportation fee" you will pay me $45 for each trip to and from the office..."
somehow, i doubt that would work...
i wonder why it works on us when written on letterhead from washington?
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