Hey Wisconsin Teachers...
Michigan orders DPS to make huge cuts
Bobb told to consolidate services, close half of schools to end deficit
Lansing— Swift and severe changes are coming to Detroit Public Schools.
State education officials have ordered Robert Bobb to immediately implement a financial restructuring plan that balances the district's books by closing half of its schools, swelling high school class sizes to 60 students and consolidating operations.
Why does Detroit need to close half of its schools. Debt. Where did this debt come from you ask?
A general fund budget strapped with annual fixed costs such as $52.6 million in pension costs, $44.6 million for health care, $26.8 million in utilities, $6.6 million in public safety and $3.5 million in unemployment. Continuing enrollment declines. DPS has lost 83,336 students in the last decade, leading to a loss in state aid of more than $573 million.
It is my opinion that liberals seem to be socialists when it comes to other peoples money and clamor for a "fair and equitable distribution" of wages and benefits, but are dyed in the wool, Gordon Gecko capitalists when it comes to their money and jobs. Keep fighting for an overpaid salary and benefits now and be unemployed a year from now. Good call.
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My axiom is that there are two types of people who want socialism: those who want to get something for nothing, and those who think they will be in charge.
Almost 100 percent of the people protesting in Wisconsin, and elsewhere, will end up with neither if their socialism wish comes true.
Be careful what you wish for: you just might get it.
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