You get what you pay for.

[babylonsister]

[Curmudgeoness]

1. Ain't that the truth! Kicking. nt

[rucky]

2. Libertarian Utopia n/t

[my2sense]

3. kick

[BlueManFan]

4. As I Was Told Today On A Different du Forum

America love it or leave it. I guess bothering to stick around to try to change it is not an option.

[BlueJazz]

5. Yep. I've gotten into some royal arguments with childless couples..(I have no children)

"Why do I have to pay taxes to support the schools when I chose to not have kids"

I shan't bore you as you know the comebacks.

But it gets old "Schooling" these people.

[csziggy]

15. As a childless person I got in the same argument with a right winger

Who is working as a teacher! My premise was that if the children of today are not educated, my future will be in peril since those children will have no way to support themselves as adults. His attitude is that since he has no children, he shouldn't have to pay to educate them.

He ignored the fact that he is attempting to make a living as a teacher. He bailed out of a job with the public school system after he antagonized the kids so much one threatened his life. Now he's working for a private for profit charter school, beginning with the next school year. I doubt he will last out the school year this time, either.

[BlueJazz]

16. This "Teacher" sounds like a real winner. Just from what you told me,....

...I hate his guts.

[csziggy]

18. Believe me, I detest the man, too

He's an acquaintance of my husband's who's known him for decades. He's the only person my husband knows that I will not talk to. I stopped conversing with him in 2009 when he kept trying to pick fights with me about President Obama. He is exactly the wrong kind of person to be involved in educating children, especially since his own education is deficient.

Aside from pure self interest educating the next generation is good for our country. And it's the right thing to do.

[Kees]

23. The Greater Good is Lost on them

How can they be blind to such a basic concept???

[lpbk2713]

6. What grabs my ass ...

is when local governments cut essential services to the bone and cut back
employees' hours and give others pink slips and then they announce plans
for a new football stadium and/or vote themselves another pay raise.

[LuckyLib]

11. That's Minneapolis! The roads and streets are

a nightmare, but we're buying a Vikings Stadium for a wealthy owner!! Sound familiar?

[jeffrey_pdx]

12. Try this one on for size...

http://www.oregonlive.com/beaverton/index.ssf/2013/07/its_a_year_late_but_beaverton.html

Edited to add:
It's a fuckin high school football field. And apparently they didn't do it sooner because two others needed their artificial turf replaced sooner. Arts? Science? Who cares?

[SalviaBlue]

7. K & R

[sheshe2]

8. Kicked and Recommending!

[IrishAyes]

9. Yep

K&R

[WillyT]

10. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[99Forever]

13. Very basic and ...

... very true. Thanks for sharing this.

[caseymoz]

14. Or don't pay for . . . K&R

[lastlib]

22. and, as my wise grandfather said, you pay for what you get.....

one way or another, you pay for it. ie, there's consequences.

[Gus Lammas]

17. Amen

Rec!

[cate94]

19. Exactly.

[bluedeathray]

20. We really need a double rec. feature. nt

[CrispyQ]

21. I've seen a display at my grocery store but never stopped to take a look until today.

It's a display of brightly colored empty boxes. You 'purchase' a box & the proceeds go to some fund to buy schools supplies, supposedly for your local schools.

When I was a kid, we paid taxes for that. Now we pay taxes to bail out the bansters & never ending war & if we want our kids to have school supplies we have to funnel that money through a corporation.

The fundies think it's the feminists & gays that have ruined the country when really its love of money, combined with an "everything for profit" model.