Melissa Writes

I figured my first post after the holiday would be about my reunion.  It was an exciting thing and I want to share with you all, but my state government has irked the living crap out of me.  I must vent about it.

Here in Kansas, we have a lovely statehouse.  It’s very pretty, has some great historic parts to it.  I also know that with old buildings that you have to do work on them so they don’t fall down around your ears.  I live in an older home, I’ve got that figured out.  There’s one thing that I have figured out that our lovely state reps must not have yet, if you don’t have money for the basics you have to hold off the remolding.

I know the economy sucks right now and that we all have to make sacrifices.  I was ticked off enough about the budget cuts  for education, the lottery was supposed to keep education funded.  Then today on the local news they announce that the state is issuing bonds to cover the renovation to the statehouse.  That’s right, we’ve cut the school’s budgets by $116 per pupil (rumors have it that another $116 will be cut by next year), but approved $38 million in bonds to keep the statehouse pretty.  Ummm….. it doesn’t matter how pretty something is if no one is educated enough to work there.  

Maybe that’s the state’s plan, cut funding for education, students lose out of many things, then when it’s time for them to get jobs they won’t have to pay as much.  I want to reach out and smack someone.  Get a clue!!!!  You can’t be dropping $38 million for a building, when you can’t fund education at the level it has been in the past.

You can read the whole article from wibw.com .  They are my local news channel that alerted me to this….. well….. I’ll let you fill in the blank for yourself.