The Mo’ Money Tour
DON’TCHA MEAN MO’ PROBLEMS?
FITSNews - August 14, 2008 - After getting over a billion dollars in new money over the last four years to improve public education (and failing miserably to do so), S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex will embark on a statewide “bitching and moaning” tour this week to protest the fact that his agency is “losing” $73 million in this year’s budget.
For those of you mathematically-challenged South Carolina public school graduates, one billion minus $73 million equals $927,000,000 - which is still a boatload of new taxpayer dollars on top of the billions we’re already spending to prop up the nation’s worst public school system.
Of course try telling that to the dim bulbs over at the local FOX News station in Columbia, S.C., who had this to say about the recent budget cuts:
Public schools will be hit hardest. Districts across the state would lose a whopping $73 million, an amount State Superintendent of Education Jim Rex says will impact virtually everything in secondary education.
Whopping? Really? Like we’ve said all along, Jim Rex is a PR genius, people. Well, that and the people who run our local television stations are borderline retarded.
For the truth about South Carolina’s state budget, click here, because it’s a case study in how to spend gobs of new money to continue sucking ass at worse than third-world levels. Like Biggie said, “the more money we come across, the more problems we see …”
Comments
By Jim Rex the puppet on August 14th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Wow. You notice that they didn’t mention any cuts or “cutting back” at the department.
They’ll just pass it to the districts.
Good Job, Jim!
By come on... on August 15th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Regardless of whether you support the infusion of this new funding, suddenly not having $73M available that was providing jobs and services is a cut. This argument would be like my cutting your salary and telling you not to whine, “’cause it’s still more than you made when you were bagging groceries at sixteen.”
By Girl Sailor on August 15th, 2008 at 11:08 am
sure 73 million is a cut, but it doesn’t even begin to approach the amount of money tied up in wasteful bureaucratic redundancies.
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