Board of Education Budget

We the teachers and administrators are using the usual union tool 'fear' here in Cheshire. In an email from Dodd staff as part of their regular communications.

In other news, I want to remind people of the Board of Education Budget Meetings at 7:30 pm on Tuesday and Thursday this week.  They are designed specifically for public feedback.  Tuesday’s meeting is at Dodd.  Thursday’s meeting is at Town Hall.  Dodd would lose four teachers, face music reductions, lose athletics (or face significant increases in participation fees), and numerous supports if funding remains consistent with previous years.  Your feedback is valued in the face of such challenging decisions.

CTCurmudgeon has worked in union and open shops.  The tactic they use are pretty effective, scare the heck out of folks. What they do not consider is the budget.

Time to talk to town council members. A small bump in class size won't hurt anyone. Good forbid we lessen their pensions. More on that later.

Hartford Politics

A republican ran against  a dem incumbent for state rep in the fall The campaign by the R was low budget and was not successful. Now the campaign is getting audited. is this how the dems in Hartford plan to stay in power. god help us.

Daily "Made in USA"

Made in Medina MN
Polaris SPORTSMAN XP® 850 EPS
Had a chance to drive one of these earlier this month, what a monster. 70 horsepower!!!! It can come with a snow plow too. I need one.

Made in Washington DC

Sales tax on house sales. Part of health care. Thank Chris Murphy for this. 3.8 percent of my money down the drain.

Gas

Citgo is owned by dictator Hugo Chavez

Lukoil  is owned by the Russians
Getty is owned by the Russians

I prefer to fund American companies rather than those evil regimes.

Daily "Made in USA"

Made by the good folks in Hatfield, Pennsylvania

K'Nex Toys


And in contrast...

Made by the lawyers in DC, 130 separate programs to serve the disabled. Not to ignore certain people with large burdens, but over one hundred different programs! Companies merge to save costs, and will do it even to eliminate one layer of redundancy. DC is way out of control. They make programs like KNex makes struts and connectors. You know which is less expensive.

SUVs

SUV have been the on the whipping post for quite a while from certain elements of society.

In the 70's Clean Air laws were passed. (I suspect they were backed by insurance to keep costs down on large powerful cars, but that is for another post.). Mileage standards were set up for cars, and truck were left alone and they were nearly exclusively work vehicles.

So Detroit is mandated to have high mileage cars. Prior to good fuel injection, they did what they had to and downsized. A 2500 pound car is much easier to go over Avon Mountain than a 4000 pound car.

Families don't want to cram themselves into Escort wagons. They need ore room. The execption for turck based vehicles, lets the car companies give the people what they want, room in their cars.

Without the laws, people would probably drive roomy cars, getting better mileage than the truck based SUVs.

Some folks bemoan the Suburbans and Explorers on the road. But is was Uncle Sam that put them there.

To point, the ugly crossovers nowadays are the same thing. The wedge shaped Toyotas and BMW are the market giving people room that the DC folks don't want us to have.

So for those who want to  "Save the Planet" maybe a good first step is to protest Washington.

Daily "Made in USA"

Cresent Wire Cutters (red handles in photo below)
Home Depot, $12 for a 2 piece set, Good quality


and in contrast...

Made in Washington DC

342 separate economic development programs.
Well, they are good at being redundant.

Florio Proposed a 5% Increase in the Cheshire School Budget!!!! What????

How about a 5 % decrease instead??? A reality check is in order.

Contact your councilman and raise hell about this!

Tony's blog has great detail on this http://tonyperuginilistens.blogspot.com/

Welcome Chief Dryfe!!!

Cheshire's new Chief was sworn in tonight. CtCurmudgeon wishes you all the best.

CTC really appreciates the men and women in blue keeping us all safe.

Daily "Made in USA"

Ford F150-Darn nice truck
Kansas City, KS

And in contrast,
made by the government, in Washigton DC, "Farm Subsidies". http://farm.ewg.org/

TEA = Turn the Elephant Around

TEA = Turn the Elephant Around

What a great slogan for the most active citizens in the country. The dead wood in the GOP needs to go.
PS Where is AlGore when I need help shovelling?