Take that you Rich, Snobby Schools

Also, a teacher told me today that she has a window AC unit.  Seriously?!   No wonder we have a budget problem when teachers are paid that kind of salary.

The budget battle of Minnesota has ended, and thank god we borrowed money from those rich, snobby schools to fix our problems.  The education budget bill, passed after the longest shutdown in state history and through a compromise between Dayton and the no-new-spending GOP, delays $700 million in order to balance the state budget.  That's 40 percent of their total budget that will be delayed, and it couldn't come a minute sooner.  In fact, we should have come up with this idea earlier, since every time I go to a school, I see students with champagne flutes and monocles frolicking through the halls.  But wait, we did think of this already.  Last year, 30 percent of payments were on hold.  It's a relief to me that we've bumped it to 40 percent this year.

Although, I will say that I'm a bit disappointed in those generous, socialist Republicans.  Can you believe that in this year's budget they upped the amount the State gives schools per student by $50?  That is disgusting.  I'm sick of these teachers, students, custodians, you name the school employee, rolling up to the school, or "palace" as I call it,  in BMWs and Maseratis.  The only solace I have is that 40 percent of the $50 will be delayed, setting the payment at a cool $20 per student.

Now that's how you manage a budget.  You see, it's like we're not spending the money as long as we're not paying it right away.  It's called being responsible.  It's something you bleeding heart liberals wouldn't understand.  Sometimes daddy just needs to say no to the kids.  So to you spoiled, oversupplied, too well fed, too many after school program offered students, I say boohoo, too bad.  Our state is finally being responsible, refusing to tax the richest 0.3 percent of Minnesotans, and borrowing money to balance the budget.