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[NightmarePatrol]

Here's the snopes link. Evidently it's true. Why she would need 22 people on staff is beyond me.

[GROK]

Here's the snopes link. Evidently it's true. Why she would need 22 people on staff is beyond me.

 
No doubt to buttress her hubbie's claims of "job creation".

[NightmarePatrol]

Interesting to note that 17 of the 22 have management titles. If this were a private company it would be deemed top-heavy.

[GROK]

I do not believe that the Obamas have much knowledge of private sector business practices therefore the point would be wasted on them.

[NightmarePatrol]

Even in government there has to be fewer administrators.  I just read what I wrote so never mind...

[lifefeedsonlife]

Did you read about the budget proposal for this year? For all the railing againstBush and budget spending - this guy has no shame.

Cripes.

[GROK]

The real "gem" is the extra spending on "education". Now that his other constituencies are paid off (UAW=GM and Chrysler bailout; Government unions= enlarging government and raising their funding by double digits last year), he has to pay off the teachers union. From what lowly old me has seen, throwing money at schools has not been shown to improve education in the least.

[NightmarePatrol]

There was an interesting story on a TV news-magazine some time ago that basically determined that the quality of the school facilities had nothing to do with the quality of education. They concluded that the quality of education all came down to the teachers and the parents of the students, with the students cooperation of course. Teachers in the K-12 public system seem to have almost no latitude in teaching because of political concerns and the imposed ideologies of the administrators it's a wonder kids learn anything. I don't know how the teachers unions are, but most that I have encountered are only there to ensure their own continuation, not those who they supposedly represent.

[lifefeedsonlife]

Unions never got me anything but hungry as a kid and don't do anything forme now except take a portion of my paycheck and "negotiate" for me every few years at contract time.

I am VERY angry about unions right now - and have a little plan in place to try and do a little something to "give back" to them. (Extreme sarcasm intended.)

[lifefeedsonlife]

[lifefeedsonlife]

http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~hannahk/bulletin.pdf

Study funded by government dollars stating that conservatism is essentially a form of mental illness. That's really really funny - until you play it out . . . cuz a lot of political dissidents have been categorized as such - and you know, if research exists to back that up . . .

Good thing I'm a Libertarian. Ain't really conservative - ain't really liberal. Maybe I'm healthy!

[gore range]

....chuckled @ the ARRA sign above-

....had a bit of a brouhaha here in the mile high over our ARRA signs-
....a quarter mill of the 'stimulus' funds were spent on the signs around the state, right before his re-election year-

....all w/the Democratic governor's name on them....

....the gov decided a couple of weeks back not to run of a second term....

....slightly parallel on a somewhat distantly related tangent-

....count your blessings w/whatever services you community is providing to you-

....this[/] was in the Sunday Denver Post regarding my even-higher-than-a-mile-high sister city to the south ....

....C-Springs, the second largest Colorado metro area,  is home to the USAF Academy, Peterson Air Force Base (NORAD), Ent Air Force Base, Ft Carson (4th ID, 10th SFG), at the foot of Pikes Peak, and the location of numerous major national religious organizations....


....on the other hand-

....the tree/prairie dog-huggers will be delighted....

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[Puffin]

Teachers in the K-12 public system seem to have almost no latitude in teaching because of political concerns and the imposed ideologies of the administrators it's a wonder kids learn anything.

The problem is if you get rid of the unions, and their assumed control over education, what replaces them?
Politicians! Maybe your better off with the unions. Pick your poison.

[NightmarePatrol]

Hmmm, why not let the teachers educate them?

[lifefeedsonlife]

Interesting post Gore -

Begs the question - are tax dollars better given to a large centralized entity a thousand miles away where you might get back more than, a portion of,  or none of what you sent them, or is it better to keep it local in the first place?

I know what the Constitution and the Federalist papers say . . . too bad said entity a thousand miles away doesn't.