Monday, March 30, 2009

The Trickle Down Movement Towards Tyranny

It appears that Florida lawmakers are learning quickly from the Washington D.C. lawmakers.

"If you want "our" money, you have to play by our rules. We don't want to own or operate your company, but we all know you can't survive without our assistance."


Florida & Tampa Bay schools blog - The Gradebook:




"Lower school board member salaries to match legislators' pay, and reduce superintendents' salaries.
Limit all district employee contracts to 10 months unless expressly permitted by the school board.
Limit individual employee pay to $225,000 from state funds.
Have no district-paid employee cell phones or other wireless communication unless authorized by the school board.
Have no district-paid out-of-state travel unless approved by the school board."



After I posted my comments about Superintendent's Elia's 6.94% raise and her 19.07% bonus, I have been thinking how nice it would to hope for the kind of change to our local education system as we see in our federal system. The one where everyone is more equal. The one where the rich are brought down to be more in line with the poor.

Et voila. C'est ici. Now we have a move by the government towards taking control of accountability.

Because we the public don't.

Soon there won't be anything that resembles the "we the people, for the people" in our government because "we the people" were irresponsible and expect someone else to take care of our responsiblities.

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