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I'm not embarrassed to say I've raised my family on that income level.
With kids.
You'd be surprised how many people live well making 30K a year.
Yeah, people, and usualy INDIVIDUALS. Try raising a family on that.
I'm not embarrassed to say I've raised my family on that income level.
With kids.
Why would that be an embarassment?
I think it's just me.
I don't want to take anything out of context, but I think you just verified what I'm saying, that a lot of people think sports are overfunded because their favorite program may not be receiving the funding they think it should. If I took that out of context, please feel free to correct me.
They pay more attention to, get more funding for, overemphasize....sports. Always sports. I'm tired of athletics being the reason that somehow Johnny doesn't read, or Johnny doesn't have any culture.
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I don't mind Sports but when it comes to cutting budget costs that is the first place I'd go.
Well, you keep on waiting for everyone to believe the way you do. Let me know when you get there.I don't want to take anything out of context, but I think you just verified what I'm saying, that a lot of people think sports are overfunded because their favorite program may not be receiving the funding they think it should. If I took that out of context, please feel free to correct me.
They pay more attention to, get more funding for, overemphasize....sports. Always sports. I'm tired of athletics being the reason that somehow Johnny doesn't read, or Johnny doesn't have any culture.
You gotta be ting me. 30K, raise a family, and live well? Here comes the papas y huevos everyday for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Perhaps this is why I may be embarrased? But I'm not.You gotta be ting me. 30K, raise a family, and live well? Here comes the papas y huevos everyday for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
And YES, I love papas y huevos for breakfast but sometimes I'll splurge and have carne guisada!!
And like I said, I've raised mine on that and I'm not ting anyone.
My mom raised us on that too. But we lived in apartments all the time, there wasn't a lot of stuff to go around, and it was HARD. The moment something goes bad, you're ed because there are no savings to fall back on.
It's not pretty, and 30k isn't now adays.
Pay yourself first and you'll have savings. Not saying it is easy but for me living well doesn'e mean living "comfortably" or care free.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that money isn't what I measure by. My parents were migrant workers but I NEVER felt poor as a child because of the love I received and a child that received love is the richest of them all.
Okay, I'll get off the Kumbaya chair now.
I grew up knowing what it was to live life hard. Having lived with my father since I was 13. There was 8 of us total in a 3/2 trailer. Papas y huevos was a staple.
But weren't they great tacos!?
D'OH!
In your world, Culture-dumb-Johnny may be able to pass a pigskin, but he's not going to do much for things like foreign relations - and in an increasingly global-centric society it's important to be able to think outside your culture-box. I think Bush has proved that most nations don't respect the Cowboy Rhetoric.I don't want to take anything out of context, but I think you just verified what I'm saying, that a lot of people think sports are overfunded because their favorite program may not be receiving the funding they think it should. If I took that out of context, please feel free to correct me.
They pay more attention to, get more funding for, overemphasize....sports. Always sports. I'm tired of athletics being the reason that somehow Johnny doesn't read, or Johnny doesn't have any culture.
And as for what you're saying, it's not about someone's favorite program not getting the money it deserves, it's the fact that so much money is going to ONE place when there are other programs that benefit kids that aren't getting funded. Forget about "favorite" programs, I wasn't an orchestra kid, I wasn't on the debate team, etc., but those programs deserve funding just as much as the football team, and yet they so often suffer at football's expense.
As a point of reference...the NEISD 2004-2005 budget had the following expenditures budgeted against the athletics and fine arts/student activities (they are in the same department) departmentsI don't want to take anything out of context, but I think you just verified what I'm saying, that a lot of people think sports are overfunded because their favorite program may not be receiving the funding they think it should. If I took that out of context, please feel free to correct me.
They pay more attention to, get more funding for, overemphasize....sports. Always sports. I'm tired of athletics being the reason that somehow Johnny doesn't read, or Johnny doesn't have any culture.
Athletics: $2,224,943 ('03-'04 gate receipts est. $900,000)
Fine Arts/Student Activities: $769,402
what were the gate receipts for the fine arts?
i would say a majority of the leaders today have been involved in sports. sports teach you about teamwork and leading. i'm not saying fine arts shouldn't be learned. just that sports are more beneficial that some of you give them credit for.
There weren't any. Your point?
I included the gate receipts to make a "fairer" comparison.
And being in fine arts, such as band doesn't?
I'd much rather have a child pass a final exam than pass a ball.
I'd rather them do both, and be a well rounded induvidual.
Funny, that is always the line they tell parents.
That isn't to say that a person who doesn't play sports is not a well rounded person is it? And I'd drop sports before I dropped learning.
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