Reply #11: I am happy your situation is different than others [View All]

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Like here in Columbus where they sink a lot of money into schools which they close in the next year or two (like a recent 100k play ground last year and this year they are closing the school).

And as I stated, the government is the problem - if they have mandates they should fund them - and they can do that by cutting pork and insane spending on iraq war.

Government can cut costs, as we all do, while still having good service - but the govt wastes more money than anyone I know of.

The problem is how the government does things (in some cases) - it is just not efficient and can be, as you noted, burdensome. Why is your school suffering while billions of tax dollars are wasted elsewhere? Raising taxes is not the answer, redoing our priorities is. But as long as they can suck us dry they have no need to streamline.

If your school system is not wasting a penny, good for them. But that does not mean the government itself is not doing so which means you suffer and the tax payers suffer because they keep wanting more to fund more, and then they piss around with the money.

Columbus is not an isolated case either, just google schools wasting tax dollars, then do govt wasting tax dollars, and what we see is a big picture of our money being wasted due to poor management.