I note the remarks made by School Board Superintendent Wayne Blankenship (News Leader 05/04/11). He is “tremendously hurt” because of the school levy failure. If I may speak on behalf of the voters who rejected it, we are tremendously galled that you have run up a deficit of almost four million dollars. Just when did you think the chickens would come home to roost?
Blankenship is right about one thing though, the students don’t deserve this.
The School Board deficit is reflective of a larger problem, that of local, state and national government overspending without any thought to who is going to pay for it. If we voters had the same spending attitudes we’d be on the street because we couldn’t pay our debts. I’m reminded of the line in the movie Top Gun; “Son, your ego is writing checks your body can’t cash.”
Perhaps one possible solution to the problem might be a combination of reduced local, state and federal spending and reduced/eliminated billion dollar so-called “foreign aid” to governments who are taking We, the Taxpayers, for a ride
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