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Cutting Spending, Boehner style

Kulindahr

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Supposedly, this is no time for new spending -- so says John Boehner. But apparently it's okay, while cutting some spending, to ... well, add some new spending:

Dear Friend,

As John Boehner leads Republicans in slashing funding for the Clean Air Act, Planned Parenthood, public broadcasting and other vital programs, only one bill is so important to the Speaker that he attached his own name to it and pushed it through the House.

Speaker Boehner's pet project? More than $300 million spent on just 1,700 private school students enrolled in the District of Columbia's decaying voucher program.

While our legislators are engaged in critical debates on fixing our economy and getting Americans back to work, it's outrageous that Speaker Boehner's top priority is subsidizing a handful of private schools in Washington, D.C. — wasting critical dollars that could go towards our public schools. And because most of the private schools that would benefit are religious, this is also a clear back door attempt to publicly finance faith-based education.
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That's a bit from a CREDO Action email I got. Do the arithmetic, and he wants to hand out over $175,000 per student to a set of mostly fundamentalist Christian schools.

Maybe some other information out there will make this look so as bad. Maybe.
 
Apparently, "the separation of church and state" no longer applies to Republicans.
 
I think the truly surprising thing is that he's fighting for something not in his riding.
 
He voted for the wasteful second engine for the F-35 that the Pentagon said wasn't needed too.
 
i'm all for letting Republicans have a say and making some changes...but when they do shit like this...
they need to get out as fast as they got in.
 
Have you noticed that our GOP congressmen salivate when the term 'vouchers' are mentioned? You will also see them light up when discussing vouchers for health care, among others. Simply said: vouchers = freedom of choice, not a dictate from Uncle Sam.

How about issuing me a voucher to choose the allocation of my tax payments to the various slices of the national budget pie?
 
SteveyBoyLA said:
Have you noticed that our GOP congressmen salivate when the term 'vouchers' are mentioned? You will also see them light up when discussing vouchers for health care, among others. Simply said: vouchers = freedom of choice, not a dictate from Uncle Sam.

How about issuing me a voucher to choose the allocation of my tax payments to the various slices of the national budget pie?
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And freedom of choice is a bad thing?

Freedom of choice/Dictate of Uncle Sam
Marriage Equality/DOMA

While not the 'cheapest' way to go on spending on this issue is it not better to give parents a choice in where their kids go to school?
 
Kulindahr said:
True -- but at $175k per student? Is he proposing flying them to Europe for tailor-made school uniforms?
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Not knowing the economics and demographics of the DC school districts I can't really say if that is excessive or not. But it sounds it. The Washington Post in 2008 figured the 'real' cost (not just the local cost but the infrastructure, teacher pay, etc.) per student in the DC public schools was about $25,000. That figure would let you enroll in most of the private schools in the area.
 
Stardreamer said:
Not knowing the economics and demographics of the DC school districts I can't really say if that is excessive or not. But it sounds it. The Washington Post in 2008 figured the 'real' cost (not just the local cost but the infrastructure, teacher pay, etc.) per student in the DC public schools was about $25,000. That figure would let you enroll in most of the private schools in the area.
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Good grief -- there are private schools I know of where $25k would cover three kids!
 
Stardreamer said:
Not knowing the economics and demographics of the DC school districts I can't really say if that is excessive or not. But it sounds it. The Washington Post in 2008 figured the 'real' cost (not just the local cost but the infrastructure, teacher pay, etc.) per student in the DC public schools was about $25,000. That figure would let you enroll in most of the private schools in the area.
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Link? .
 
opinterph said:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/04/AR2008040402921.html
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Consider the source. The writer is an advocate for charter schools from the Cato Institute, a right-wing think tank. He has an agenda and arbitrarily picked numbers to make his case. For example, he includes the cost of teachers' retirement.

I don't know how the DC retirement is funded. However, for many years, many municipalities and states did not contribute to pension costs because the stock market was riding high and because they could push the cost off to another year to make the current budget balance. If Washington did that, which I assume is more likely than not, they may be in a position where they now have to fund the pension plan, where they didn't in the past. Thus, that pension obligation may have accrued over many years. Pension obligations, where there has been past under-financing, are very big. It is intellectually dishonest to count such an expense in the per public annual figure when in fact the cost may have accrued over many years.
 
From start the GOP opposed Social Security, Mininum Wage, Medicare and other social programs. How many of the Republicans out there are turning in there SS checks each month?

The GOP is party of big business and will do what it can to put the burden on the middle class.
 
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