tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400390336523591685.post7550962249647899445..comments2023-08-24T08:56:06.522-05:00Comments on Rhymes With Clown: Explaining Walker's K-12 Cuts to the KidsJeremy R. Shownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11303377672028774152noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400390336523591685.post-10873018845192825102011-04-21T15:11:05.771-05:002011-04-21T15:11:05.771-05:00All the more incentive for the next young entrepre...All the more incentive for the next young entrepreneur to create the next company and turn it into a "big business".Joe Barznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400390336523591685.post-10338476365513887992011-04-21T14:52:51.411-05:002011-04-21T14:52:51.411-05:00No need to explain is such detail, the kids will g...No need to explain is such detail, the kids will get it. They are not as important as providing tax breaks to big business.Dean Weichmannnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400390336523591685.post-63443033037257999332011-04-21T10:52:35.758-05:002011-04-21T10:52:35.758-05:00Here's what I would say:
Ask your parents abo...Here's what I would say:<br /><br />Ask your parents about the bills they have to pay each month. They'll probably mention things like the mortgage, groceries, electric bill, and water bill. Well, the state has bills to pay too. Now ask you're parents what happens when they don't pay the bills. They'll tell you the companies might turn off your water or the power to your house. If you don't pay the mortgage, you might have to move out of your house. Sadly, sometimes people even become homeless. If you don't have enough grocery money for food, you won't be able to eat or you might have to eat less. (Remember how you had that canned food drive before Christmas to help the people who don't have enough food?)<br /><br />So what can you do if you have bills to pay and not enough money? You cut back on spending. Sometimes it is hard but it is better than having no power or moving out of your house. In this case. Gov. Walker only wants to cut back 10%. Even though it seems like a lot of money, 10% isn't that much. That would be like getting nine Christmas presents instead of 10. But you still get NINE!! Nine presents is a lot, some kids don't even get nine. There are other ways to cut back and save money. Being creative can save 10% AND sometimes have other benefits. What if instead of buying juice boxes you made juice from the frozen section of the grocery store and put it in your own container. You could save 10% of the cost, do something helpful for the environment, and you still get to drink juice! (If you drank water instead of juice you could save even more.) Doing other things to save electricity and water are usually better for the environment too! And isn't your teacher always telling you to do good things for the environment? Gov. Walker isn't trying to hurt education he is just trying to be creative and find a different way to cut back.<br /><br />If you don't want to cut back, there is another way to get money when you have bills to pay. That is to make more money. You mom or dad might have to get another job and be gone from home more to make extra money to pay your bills. That would be sad because you wouldn't get to see them as much. Gov. Walker could do that too. He could ask your parents to pay more money to the state (in taxes), but he is trying not to do that because he knows your mom and dad need that money to pay their own bills. If he takes that money away from your family you will have less to spend on your own bills and that wouldn't be a good thing.<br /><br />There is one last way to get money if you need it. You can borrow it. But you know if you borrow money from a friend you have to pay it back, right? Well, if borrow money from a bank you have to pay it back plus some extra (called interest). If Gov. Walker borrowed money to pay Wisconsin's bills, guess who will be paying for it? Your mom and dad will pay for some of it now (in taxes) but it takes a LONG TIME to pay off loans especially when you don't solve the problem and need to borrow more and more. It could cost so much that your parents and ALL the grown ups in Wisconsin can't pay for it all. And then when you grow up you'll have to pay too and that means less money for you to buy the things you need for your own family. You don't want that do you?Mrs. RWCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7400390336523591685.post-53137751443267529632011-04-20T23:29:10.206-05:002011-04-20T23:29:10.206-05:00Your post sounds all fine and dandy, but you seem ...Your post sounds all fine and dandy, but you seem to overlook the fact that the local school boards and administrators control the number of teachers and class sizes.<br /><br />Do you think the boards and admins are going to step up and take a 10% cut in pay? Instead, they will give themselves a nice pay raise and cut the number of teachers to make up the difference.Joe Barznoreply@blogger.com