Friday, March 04, 2005
Romney is not too bad
I dont see what the big complaint is with Romney from so many Mass residents.
The biggest complaint I hear that is close to valid is "Romney cut the budget for schools." What is the budget for schools? Do these people picture a bunch of kids getting thier crayons taken away? These people might want to look into the school budget that Romney has cut.
For every hard working teacher who is out there helping students learn and making $32,000 a year, there are TWO administrative beaurocrats making $70,000 a year. What do they do? I guess we need a superintendant to hire and fire principals, and to call snow days. Maybe this superintedant needs a staf of, say 30 or so, this is government so lets say 100. Lets say another 100 people to pick out textbooks and order them and to deal with contractors and things. We'll add another 300 beaurocrat employees for good measure.
Well then, what to the other 18,700 non teacher employees left over who work for the state many of whom are making $60,000 a year and driving cars paid for by the taxpayer? What do they do? I say get the admin staff down to a lean mean 1000 people or so, fire the rest - give half the money back to the taxpayer and half to the actual schools, principals, teachers and toward student supplies. ¶ 1:48 PM
The biggest complaint I hear that is close to valid is "Romney cut the budget for schools." What is the budget for schools? Do these people picture a bunch of kids getting thier crayons taken away? These people might want to look into the school budget that Romney has cut.
For every hard working teacher who is out there helping students learn and making $32,000 a year, there are TWO administrative beaurocrats making $70,000 a year. What do they do? I guess we need a superintendant to hire and fire principals, and to call snow days. Maybe this superintedant needs a staf of, say 30 or so, this is government so lets say 100. Lets say another 100 people to pick out textbooks and order them and to deal with contractors and things. We'll add another 300 beaurocrat employees for good measure.
Well then, what to the other 18,700 non teacher employees left over who work for the state many of whom are making $60,000 a year and driving cars paid for by the taxpayer? What do they do? I say get the admin staff down to a lean mean 1000 people or so, fire the rest - give half the money back to the taxpayer and half to the actual schools, principals, teachers and toward student supplies. ¶ 1:48 PM
