NEWS: Video Game Tax Proposed

We all ready viewed as unhumanitarian

If you really think that ANYONE in their right mind would be a teacher "for the paycheck," then maybe we really should be looking a lot harder at the quality of education we're offering--particularly at the school(s) you went to, because that's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard.

Maybe if we paid our teachers in more than peanuts, we might be able to recruit the best and brightest to teach our kids--but as it is now? Hell no. Who would choose an anemic salary coupled with the kind of condemnation teachers get from people like you? Not many people, that's for damn sure. That's why our kids don't know math or science anymore--not because we ought to be putting them in private schools, but because the government won't pay teachers nearly enough, and pretty much any other technology-based company will pay math and science majors in particular exponentially more. And considering all of the other bullshit the government spends money on, it's a sad thing that they don't even pretend to give two shits about our kids when it comes to funding for education.

Amen.

Oh, wait--sorry: +1

I have to get caught up on this internet talking stuff.

It's certainly sad that they don't *actually* give two shits about what will see our kids (and indeed, young adults) best educated. They ought to, if for no other reason that a more educated, intelligent workforce means more productivity for corporations.

They pretend to all the time, though. Ask just about any politician, and education is one of their cornerstone policies. At least according to them.

Minnesota's governor, a big anti-tax freak, made a lot of noise about how he wasn't going to cut funding to education for our children. Of course, this turns out to be "K-12 education", and he didn't cut any because there's basically no budget there to begin with. Meanwhile my tuition has gone up something like 50% because of lowered state input.

How about a tax on fucking advertisements? I've heard that they're thinking about putting ads on the white strips in the fucking road, for crying out loud.