[] Re: [Vision2020] Not Votng anymore-Waste of Time
Donovan Arnold
donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
Wed May 17 13:42:39 PDT 2006
Ed,
Our superintendent makes $120,000 a year. But it is very expensive to live in Moscow, a one bedroom apartment costs about $500 a month. So it is necessary to pay her that amount.
See we don't have any people in Moscow that care about children or education. So we have to pay ungodly amounts of money to someone to do the job right.
In addition, most the children in Moscow are the children of PhD, MA, and educational instructors, in a University town, so our children have no clue how to learn and the parents don't care about education either.
So that is why we have to pay her $120K a year, plus $60K in benefits. Otherwise we would have stupid uneducated children in a failing educational system that serves a bad lunch.
I also like how our system of government handles most its problems, tax it. If that doesn't work, we tax it some more. And if taxing something does not solve the problem, then clearly it is something else that we need to tax. Where you tax is important too. Idaho takes pride in taxing the poor on food, clothing, and heavily on shelter. Even the Democrats this year were pushing for a 20% increase on taxing food, clothing, OTC drugs, educational materials, and even Goodwill items. We love our taxes.
Best Regards,
_DJA
Ed <ecooper at turbonet.com> wrote: I doubt if your superintendent makes $200,000. I live in Washington, where educators are paid much more, and ours made $102,000 last year...quite a bit, indeed. In Washington, the salaries of all government employees are public information. See here at http://lbloom.net/ Not sure about Idaho's laws in this respect. I located a WSU professor whom we might all know, however.
CAMPBELL,JOSEPH KEIM , ASSOC PROFESSOR , (figure on web site) MONTHLY
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Decker
To: donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com ; joekc at adelphia.net ; london at moscow.com
Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:58 PM
Subject: [Spam] Re: [Vision2020] Not Votng anymore-Waste of Time
D,
What about sports? They get paid a chit load to do the thing they love. Are
they overpaid? Yes of course they are. However, the point is many people are
paid obscene amounts of money, only in which the common folk is willing to
pay/see. So is a superintendent making 200k too much for you, when they are
leading our youth? In my eyes no.
Matt
>From: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
>To: joekc at adelphia.net, Bill London <london at moscow.com>
>CC: vision2020 at moscow.com, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Not Votng anymore-Waste of Time
>Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 21:38:53 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Joe,
>
> The trouble is not so much with finding good candidates, it is with the
>election system. The wealthiest school district in northern Idaho can hire
>a superintendent for five times the average household income in the
>county, but cannot compensate an average person in Moscow an average wage
>to offer suggestions to improve the system?
>
> Maybe NOT voting will not solve the problem, but it so far has not
>improved the situation. So maybe I should try not voting for a while in
>hopes that does.
>
> _DJA
>
>joekc at adelphia.net wrote:The MCA sponsored a candidate forum featuring all
>four candidates and I left feeling that any one of them would do a fine
>job. They all had interesting ideas, showed a genuine concern for Moscow
>and its school system, and -- most importantly -- were refreshingly frank
>and honest. They seemed like interesting and nice folks to boot.
>
>Whatever problems the election system has, not voting is not the solution.
>The solution is to run yourself or to convince a viable candidate to run,
>that way our choices are increased. I applaud this year's candidates one
>and all for being part of the solution and not part of the problem.
>
>--
>Joe Campbell
>
>---- Bill London wrote:
>
>=============
>D-
>Your response is misinformed and way off the mark.
>The election today is a school board election. The four candidates are
>competing for two volunteer positions (as in unpaid).
>The winning candidates will be forced to sit through interminable
>meetings, listen to mind-numbing statistics, choose alternatives that
>nobody likes, and deal with angry uninformed constituents -- all for the
>chance to help a school district that really needs direction and
>assistance.
>My guess is that they are candidates because they care about Moscow's
>schools and schoolchildren.
>BL
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Donovan Arnold
> To: Dan Carscallen ; vision2020 at moscow.com
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:27 PM
> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Not Votng anymore-Waste of Time
>
>
> When less than half the population votes, that is the majority not
>voting. Out of 20,000 people in Moscow, less than 4,000, probably less
>than 3,000 or even 2,000 will vote in this election tonight.
>
> I bet you a beer, less than 5,000 votes are cast. I will bet you another
> beer that the winning candidate does not give a rip, only that they won
>and will do nothing serious during their term to try and get the majority
>to the polls in the next election.
>
> _DJA
>
> Dan Carscallen wrote:
> Donovan says:
>
> "I think I speak with the majority when I say I am not going to vote.
>At
> least not in elections that offer no choice, it is a waste of my
>time."
>
> I guess I'm in the minority, because Donovan doesn't speak for me.
>
> planning on wasting my time,
>
> DC
>
>
>
>
>
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