Your vigilance on such pressing concerns as "arrange the timing of their trips to reduce those costs." is likely to have much greater effect if you keep the heat on one of your own.
Of course your previous post on the topic of Obama's visit had nothing to do with partisan politics and was focused on this pressing bi-partisan recurring issue.
Posted by MikeBoyScout at September 10, 2012 04:41 PMWhy not address this issue: Why should charter schools and, in particular, schools that teach exclusively on the internet, get the same money from the government per student, that a regular public school gets?
They don't have the same sort of upkeep as a real school with an actual campus. So they don't deserve the same amount of funds per student.
Another thing I've noticed is taht Saltherring and Ragnar don't comment on pudges posts anymore because he said that they express themselves in a 'silly' way.
Isn't that a waste of taxpayer money?
Posted by Brie is French Cheezwhiz at September 10, 2012 05:30 PMWhat I wonder about is the conscience of smart righties like Carlson and Medved. My hunch is that these folks areraher like von Braun .. they enjoy getting paid or they enjoy watching their rockets fly,
Cross posted on The Ave if any of you dare to comment there!
http://handbill.us/?p=17541
In effect, the teacher's union, WHATEVER their goals, is attempting to blackmail the Democratic Party by staging a strike during the 2012 election for President.
The Republicans must enjoy this greatly!
The real message here is the history of teachers unions. As our society downgraded the status of the K-12 teacher from professionals to hourly workers, the unions responded by acting like a trade union for any other manufacturer. This movement,combining Republican ideas about not paying public employees with Democratic ideas about equalizing education to a common denominator , has been a disaster.
To make matters worse, as private sector unions have faded, the teachers unions have become a central support for the Democratic Party. This is most evident in their adamant efforts to depict charter schools as some sort of corporatist, Republican boondoggle. To the unions, the issue is not privatization, it is the loss of trade union like contracts.
The unions opposition to charters ignores the policy of the Obama administration. Four years ago, showing an incredible Profile in Courage, the President appointed Arnie Duncan. The former Superintendent of the Chicago schools now holds the position of Secretary of Education. In that position, Duncan has supported the unions but insisted that they change the union work rules to permit teachers to return to the status of true professionals. Under the reform rules, teachers lose seniority protection, daily and hourly pay, and freedom from pay tied to evaluation. The unions have resisted. As they see it, the union's job is to protect the status quo.
We face the same issue here in WA state. Rob McKenna, the Republican Candidate, has proposed true reform. His proposals excited me enout to decide to vote for McKenna, even though I greatly admire Jay Inslee his Democratic opponent. Unfortunately, McKenna, a Republican, has shown that he can not and will not follow through on his reform plans .. McKenna's budget would leave his promises to rot in the fields tainted by Radical Republican Ryanomic Rhetoric of "Smaller Government ." As a result of this phoniness, McKenna lost the endorsement he should have had .. from the League of Education voters. .. and he has lost my vote.
So, Chicago teachers .. WTF? Is your strike worth helping sell the Romney Ryan ticket to folks who both support unions and value eduction reform?
Cross posted at The Ave:
http://handbill.us/?p=17529
What say you Puget Sound ?
Posted by KDS at September 10, 2012 06:44 PM"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.
(Lehrer's "Folk Song Army" is even better, in my opinion.)
Posted by Jim Miller at September 10, 2012 07:36 PMGreat quote.
von Braun is one of the most disgusting people of the 2oth century. The worst of it is how much of a hero he is now in Huntsville!
I suspect the same is true of media demgogues like Lapin, Hannity, Reilly, , and Medved. These guys do it for money.
How can any conscientious American stomach Dick Morris?
The sad thing about your side is that interesting rational voices .. whether that is McCain, Will, Michael Young, Simpson, the Goldwater family, Huntsman, Safire (sadly gone), or even McKenna are drowned out by these howling money hounds.
Posted by THE-Ave.US at September 10, 2012 10:01 PM
Yeah, that's a real problem with most media outlets. There is very little diversity of opinion on PBS, for sure. It usually follows a strict progressive and leftist opinion policy on all its "news" efforts and documentaries.
If you check through SP archives you'll find I've seldom commented on pudge's postings...for reasons I've previously stated.
Posted by Saltherring at September 11, 2012 08:50 AMCould you please point to the proof that Hannity, Rush, Savage, Ingraham, Monson, Coulter, Lapin or Malkin have paranoid schizophrenia? One example for each would be fine.
Posted by Oscarphone at September 11, 2012 01:58 PMReally ? Nice that we know that you live in an alternate universe.
Posted by KDS at September 11, 2012 03:37 PMMaybe live and local radio talk CAN exist outside of Sports Talk.
Posted by Puget Sound at September 15, 2012 07:04 AM