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Originally Posted by The Gaijin
Educational budgets have way out of line compared to inflation, GDP or any other yardstick for a generation now.. It is crazy what they spend, and waste. I bet they do blame the price of fuel... to give more lifetime goodies to the tenurecrats..
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You go ahead and talk about the damned hippies and the damned gubmit and the damned terrrrrists and the damned liberals and the damned unions and the damned lazy-asses who are spending/receiving stolen tax monies and littering.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are discussing the impacts of the recent (and ongoing) rise in fuel prices. Different topic.
Yes, this will impact school budgets. But that's the tip of the iceberg. Recently, nearby, we discussed Jimmy Carter's difficult and skillful time in office wherein fuel prices were doubling annually. What we found is that the direct cost of the fuel increases was just a small part of the overall cost of the rising cost of oil barrels. Those painfulness of those cost increases ( and the ones going on right now ) at the gas pump will be eclipsed by the painfulness elsewhere. Like food and consumer goods and various government operations. I'd bet police departments burn way more gas than school districts do.
On a side note, a large county police department here is proposing budget cuts that will impact security. Crime will increase under this proposed budget. Guaranteed. That raises interesting questions, eh?