Back to School

Before I get to the school, I want to first amend my previous post. That was all about me and how the HCR will affect me. However, there are many who actually will be helped, and although I hope this is not a step toward giving the insurance companies brand new monopolies and stranglehold on our country I am grateful for those who will have health care that previously could not.

Now about our schools. I took my children to their open house to drop off supplies (which included some cleaning supplies but no big deal we know they are strapped for money) and my kids got to put their things away in their desks and lockers. My daughter's locker is broke. I told the teacher and she said that she knew that many were broke and some desks were too and there were no repairs planned. Her class size is 26 kids.

I do think my child is entitled to a decent education which includes equipment in good working order. Is that too much to ask? From the richest country in the world? Its not about giving her a sense of entitlement, but a sense of self worth. If we expect her to work hard and do her best but give her crap for a school how is she going to want to work, to care, when it is obvious nobody cares about the children?

Actually she is too young to get that but Im not. I actually get teary eyed thinking about how this country's education system has been taken down to a level where the BEST school in our district cannot upkeep their lockers even as good as the local Goodwill can repair used items given to them.

And I don't want to hear crap about voting to raise MY property taxes next time around. The middle class is already overtaxed. That is one thing the tea party got right. But what they don't get is that the Republicans are not any better. Oh no. I watched the Ed show and he was straight on about how we paid into Social Security and it was robbed to fund two wars I did not want. I did not get to vote on that. I do not get the choice to decide to divert money from wars, tax cuts to the wealthy, bank bailouts, and put all that into our children's schools. No sir, but I do get to choice between paying out of my pocket for all that stuff and if I want an education for my children too, well thats going to be extra.

Well I want my children to have an education because as a taxpayer and a lifetime citizen of the richest country in the world I do think I am entitled to that. And the Social Security I have paid into all my life. Leave it alone Pentagon, AND Wall Street. I want it where it belongs, in the fund set up by Roosevelt.

I am still remembering the sermon that touched me so much about love and forgiveness so I pray that the greedy in this country find it in their hearts to believe that our children are worth educating. And I pray that the middle class in this country wakes up to their own self worth and comes to believe that they too are worth investing in, their children, this country's infrastructure, the America that used to be. We had it once. If you think the government took it away then dig deeper. Who got the money? The Banks, the defense contractors, the insurance companies.

They are not entitled to OUR tax money. If we pay less taxes, it is not going to make us richer, the prices of everything will keep going up. But it will make our roads, our schools, our police and fire departments, all looking like their developing world equivalents. Dont get me wrong I dont want to pay more taxes, I just want it to go to the right things. Like my daughters locker.