State Auditor Tim Berry said Indiana finished the fiscal year on June 30 with nearly $1.2 billion in the bank, more than 40 percent above last year's finish, when tax revenues were plunging and budget makers were worried that the state would run out of money this year.
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But House Democratic Leader Pat Bauer said the surplus came at a cost and that the budget was balanced on the backs of schools and needy children.
You have to admire his dedication and energy in always being willing to epitomize the liberal cliche. There is money there, so spend it and spend it right now! Er, "invest" it in schools and needy children.
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No, let's keep it in a No. 2 mayonnaise jar under Funk and Wagnall's porch. You never know when that rainy day might come by.
AJ
Pah. Everyone knows that kids and schools are wastes of money.
Any chance you Dems above could get us the names of the children that are missing meals and not receiving a free (and very expensive) education?
I'd like to see the list.
If it didn't violate their privacy, my schoolteacher wife could give you a list as long as your arm.
What would you do with it, go lecture the poor, uneducated kids about the virtues of lifting their own bootstraps?
I suppose it's no surprise you see no value in education. You're unfamiliar with it.
Littlejohn, Just what is it EXACTLY the students in her class are lacking? They have access to free breakfast and lunch (68% participation according to FWCS) and access to free textbooks as well. They have the benefit of your spouses' exemplary knowledge & teaching skills all day. They have access to free after school "care" with snacks, a free ride to and from school.
The only thing the school doesn't provide them with is an evening meal (which I'm sure is not far off).
What is it these kids are lacking again? What EXACTLY would more money do for your wife's students? Why don't you make a list as long as her arm of what isn't available to the kids in her class and post it for us?
Oh and as for your quip "I suppose it
A significant number of the kids at South Side do not get bus service. Many cannot arrive in time for "breakfast," which is generally a Pop-Tart.
Changes starting last year make if impossible for many of them to take a lunch break (my wife, in fact, doesn't get a lunch break). Many beg in tears for hand-outs of snacks from their teachers, even though the school prohibits it.
I told you why I can't list their names.
Several of my neighbors over the years have been doctors - that doesn't mean I'm competent to remove your appendix or fix whatever's wrong with your brain.
There are insufficient textbooks, to put it as mildly as possible, for the number of students at South Side.
At any rate, you, naturally, have missed my point.
You and your Neandertal friends seem to regard teaching and feeding children as unimportant. How about you defend that, you jackass.
"Little place to take a pee"- There you go again - An unemployable, financially existing on his wife's income as a school teacher, lecturing others on how cruel the world is to our kids in school- Why the heck don't you do something with your life??