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Serious Business
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Meh..
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This is not the sig line.
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From a quick google search, the Department of Education budget is about $46 billion. Department of Defense, not including the wars, $680 billion. Where is this "more money" that we've been giving teachers? Possibly on a pallet flying to Iraq?
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Let's do another U-turn
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Sounds about right. Either that, or they lay off many of the others, dumping their workload onto the watchmen, but keeping his pay the same.
I just spent an entire day in a meeting where we were told at the beginning to voice all of our complaints and that a rep was there to inform us how to resolve issues, etc. We all had our bitch session, along with ideas how to fix things, then at the end we were basically told thanks for your opinion, but nothing is going to get changed anytime soon. If you're lucky, things might get changed in the next 5 years. Thanks for wasting my day, jackasses!! I could have actually been getting shit done since my workload is higher than can get done without working OT (for which I don't get paid). Now I had to waste an entire day and get farther behind on all the paperwork you want me to push while I make sure all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed, when in reality, it doesn't matter one bit. |
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#114 |
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#116 |
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It's a dare, not a deterrent, that started the whole world building the damned things.
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Yes they misread my post. You cannot pay 2 million people 100k a year...but you can pay them much less. And you have to if you want to employ so many, maintain bases all throughout the world and pay for overpriced weapons.
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Plus you can't really compare military to civilian jobs. It isn't like someone's going to say "Hmm, I'll forgot about joining the military, because I just got offered an alarm installer job for $1K more than I could make in the military". Most people who are interested in the military aren't going to pass it up for a silly $1 to 10K, because there are lots of intrinsic things about the military that they like.
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Apples and Oranges goes way beyond take home pay. |
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I give Squids a bad name
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I on the other hand will never let my children go to a government school. For what many spend on a car payment I can send my kids to the best private schools. Most prefer a new bitchin ride (or motorcycle) and give a big "fuck you" to their kid's futures. Also for your numbers. I don't doubt them one bit. But you are also forgetting how much the states and local governments spend on education. I doubt the states send much to the DOD. This is for Georgia http://app.doe.k12.ga.us/ows-bin/owa...prev_order=asc The state spent a total of roughly 6.2billion dollars. The local also spent roughly 6.2billion. For the sake of argument let's just say they spent 12billion total per state (some states will be more and others less). Multiply 12billion x 50 and that equals roughly 600billion dollars spent on education just from the states. So education gets $650billion total with help from local, state, and federal governments. The DOD only gets their money from the federal government.
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