JCPS Ignored the People and Passed a 4% Property Tax Hike
By Marilyn Parker
I am so outraged at the audacity of these people. I am beside myself. After hearing from citizen after citizen, who by the way are much more educated than they are, they inflicted more pain on the people that fund their paycheck. They were told step by step by real world reality oriented citizens how to balance their budget, by business owners. They were repeatedly reminded how everyone else was tightening their budgets. Their snide reply…”We can’t operate like a business” I am ready to go to war. Any ideas? This is the 3 minute speech I gave at the public hearing last night as to which I received a standing ovation.
Write letters to the CJ. Send out an email telling people to call and write JCPS. Organize continued protests outside Vanhoose. There is a body of new outreach out there in angry school parents. We need to tap into them. We also all need to call the WHAS Mandy show and tell people what really happened last night. Please sign up and hit the contact button on http://www.louisvilleteaparty.org We need to fight this battle one step at time!
Marilyn Parker
Marilyn’s speech:
Parents and tax payers,
Once again we are being taken advantage of by liberal educators, that indoctrinate our children with anti American and anti God rhetoric, and their agenda to take from us.
A 1% pay raise may not sound like much, but we are in a bad recession where people are cutting back and LOSING their jobs. My family is living on 60% less due to liberal social engineering in the housing industry that promoted low income, no income high risk loans that created the recession in the first place. My home was devalued, I have had to sell my home, my car, take no vacations, work weekends and holidays, because small business has been destroyed by irresponsible government policy.
I will have to work until I am 75—- while teachers — because they are government employees and union employees , their incomes are twice that of the private sector, get to retire at age 50.
Teachers’ retirement is matched at 130% – tax payer funded. They pay minimal healthcare premiums while they are working, and pay NO health care premiums AFTER they retire. The struggling private sector pays it. They get all this, and only have to work 8 to 9 months out of the year. Teachers’ benefits are saddling the states with insurmountable debt. They seem oblivious as to what is happening to the economy around them…… to their revenue producers.
John Yarmuth, your congressman, voted recently to give $26 billion to bail out the teachers. Where does it end?
Why did the state government give school boards the right to levy taxes on homeowners in the first place?
For Pay raises… for what? For failing schools year after year. For one of the highest drop- out rates in the country, particularly among black males who have been driven out of the home by welfare. For reading and math scores 1-2 grade levels BELOW the national average, for 400 students not arriving home until after 9pm the first week of school, and 5 year olds lost because of their idiotic diversity bussing policy?
We need to return to: neighborhood schools, Charter schools, both of which African Americans want… just ask them. Stop 2-hour costly bus rides in the name of social engineering, creating the “carbon footprint” that liberals decry…. what hypocrisy! Busing that takes students away from family time, homework time, extra curricular time and put our hard earned money to good use, where there are outcome based results:
Neighborhood schools, charter schools, smaller classrooms, male mentors for “at risk” kids, and school vouchers. We should be cutting teachers benefits, not increasing them. As I said before, the states are bankrupt. The tax payer is bankrupt. The teachers’ union has made it impossible to educate our children effectively in order to keep up with teachers perks and their unions socialist agenda. Where does it end? It will end, when people wake up, speak up, write their state legislature, and demand……. No more.
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