Spartan budget plan calls for broad cuts

[Drachen]

If it were a necessary service -- in the pursuit of education -- private schools would offer it. And, they'd do so more inexpensively.

You want to cope with cuts. Allow vouchers. I'm already paying for school twice, as it is. Let me redirect all those ing school taxes to my private school tuitions.

Not so, as we said in another thread the avg cost per student in public school is 11k, while the cost of a private school which specializes in students with disabilities (the winston school) costs 15k per year. Necessary services, but at almost a 50% premium to public schools.

[Drachen]

They could also quit building $100 Million dollar palaces and $30 Million Dollar Sports Complexes.

The nicest, most modern buildings in my town, are city facilities and schools. My tax dollars at work.

I agree, I mean Johnson looks like a castle as you are driving up and when you walk up to it and inside of it, it looks like something from Dead Poets society.

[LnGrrrR]

I agree, I mean Johnson looks like a castle as you are driving up and when you walk up to it and inside of it, it looks like something from Dead Poets society.

I agree that pbulic schools should be serviceable and not "palacial". I mean, I don't want some run-down ghetto school, but leave the trimmings to the private schools.

[Wild Cobra]

I thought that Texas was a model for conservatives on how to run a state budget? (As opposed to say, California.)

Amazing to see calls for a cut in prison jobs, especially in Texas.

Was?

How long ago was that?

Oregon used to be many things so much better than today, until it started getting californicated a few decades back.

[Drachen]

I agree that pbulic schools should be serviceable and not "palacial". I mean, I don't want some run-down ghetto school, but leave the trimmings to the private schools.

Not ghetto, but very VERY simple and clean. New doesn't have to equal fancy.

[coyotes_geek]

I'm not too surprised that later in the article there was an alternate plan with no cuts to the prison jobs. Like I said, it's Texas.

Yep. I'm sure there's a significant number of legislators out there who are afraid that if they vote to cut prison jobs they'll earn the dreaded "soft on crime" label which in this state essentially means the end of your political career.

[z0sa]

The last thing TX, prison rape capital of the universe, needs is less prison jobs.

[Winehole23]

You should check out the other Marc Levin over at TPPF, CG.

[Winehole23]

And Scott Henson over at Grits for Breakfast. (If you haven't already.)

[coyotes_geek]

You should check out the other Marc Levin over at TPPF, CG.

And Scott Henson over at Grits for Breakfast. (If you haven't already.)

Interesting reads. I had heard about grits for breakfast, but never actually wandered over there.

[RandomGuy]

Complain all you like, at least your state's legislature has the guts to actually put together a balanced budget.

Michigan's legislature cant even start a conversation about it.

New York's is even worse from what I hear. Erk. The phrases "total partisan gridlock" and "one off gimmicks while not addressing underlying problems" seem to come up a lot when talking about Albany.

[RandomGuy]

And yeah, I pay about $15,000 in school taxes every year and have no kids in school.

I assume that when you hire/contract with people, they get an education somewhere.

At some point, you are going to buy some service from someone with an education, and if that education was not provided, you would not be benefitting from that.

I think a lot of people just see the outflow, but forget how that outflow affects and/or benefits them.

The problem is that the benefits tend to be indirect, so people have a hard time getting their minds around that.

[boutons_deux]

Let CC and Warren Buffet setup in Bangladesh and see how well that under-educated, infrastructure-poor country allows them to make money.

[LnGrrrR]

Not ghetto, but very VERY simple and clean. New doesn't have to equal fancy.

That's pretty much what I said.

I mean, I don't want some run-down ghetto school, but leave the trimmings to the private schools.

[Drachen]

That's pretty much what I said.

No I got that, I was just agreeing with you in such a way that it looked like the statement was a completely new idea formulated by me.