ROI

Well, the latest testing statistics show that Minnesota teachers are doing a less than average quick job of teaching students how to do math clearly someone at the admin knows how numbers that up.They spent $4 million on contributing to the DFL‘s sweep of the 2022 elections.

And now, they’re after their payoff:

Union president Denise Specht, whose political action committee donates huge sums to DFL candidates each cycle, told WCCO Radio she will be asking the Legislature for more than $5 billion to address “chronic underfunding,” increase teacher compensation, and pay for mental health staff.

“The voters rejected the Republican Party’s strategy of obstruction and forced austerity. Now it’s time for Gov. Tim Walz and the leadership in the House and Senate to spend the state’s resources to improve the lives of working Minnesotans,” Specht said in a statement.

She said the state needs to “make up for funding lost to inflation” and “then go farther.”

My fearless prediction: driven by jackals like Specht, the DFL will turn the “surplus” – overtaxation – into permanent spending and grift for their stakeholders, just in time for a recession to crater the tax revenue, and leave us with a multibillion dollar deficit in 2026, and likely 2024.

It’s on my calendar.

7 thoughts on “ROI

  1. The recession is coming, so I’d say that prediction is pretty astute. It’ll still be the Republicans’ fault.

  2. The Lawrence Livermore Lab has announced a successful laser/fusion reaction that produced more energy than was consumed making it.

    That sounds impressive, but its not really.

    The NEA/AFT/DNC has been creating successful fusion reactions for decades. They have perfected the process whereby the unions compress the cash they confiscate from their members into a tight focused beam into degenerate party pockets, and create an net cash return greater than the input.

    The science differs from the LLL experiment only in the abundance of available fuel. Hydrogen isotopes (tritium primarily) is an almost inexhaustible fuel.

    Taxpayer dollars only last as long as the teacher’s unions can hold White kids hostage in their wretched indoctrination camps. It’s a dwindling supply.

  3. It’s worth noting that in Kansas, so many college students are unable to do algebra, many universities are trying to rewrite degree programs. Tough part of this is that for most decently paying professions (even law, and yes, even the trades), the level of abstract thinking required to pass algebra is pretty much necessary.

    But it’s not like we need qualified educated people or anything.

  4. bike;
    I have mentioned this before on this board, but it further illustrates that colleges are more interested in turning out radical communists than preparing students for actual jobs. About five years ago, Howard Root, founder of Vascular Solutions, was a guest of Justice and Drew on KTLK. He said that when he started his company, people with engineering degrees from the University of Minnesota, for any aspect of the discipline, were in huge demand, because they were ready to hit the ground running right out of school. Consequently, his recruiters were directed to keep a good relations with the U, to get first dibs on the blue chippers. In less than ten years, there was, in his words, a dramatic drop off in quality in the program, in that students were allowed to complete their programs with courses that had nothing to do with engineering. It was so bad that he would have to invest at least a year to eighteen months to get them up to speed. The second, third and even some graduates of fourth ranked engineering students, were performing significantly better, at least for a couple of years.
    Let’s face it. Most colleges and universities are just the top side of a huge multi level marketing scheme, with their down line minions in the public screwal systems pushing their students along to them.

  5. It’s been getting that way for a while. When I was a grad student in the mid-1990s, I not only caught half a dozen students cheating with a basic arithmetic error, but I also remember that at the time, the university was heavily promoting diversity initiatives, and even the IEEE was becoming increasingly politicized.

    Regarding the fusion issues, it’s worth noting that the energy produced by the reactor is about equivalent to the energy in 100g of coal. Net energy equivalent to about 20g of coal. I think it’s safe to assume that this reactor would take a few trillion years to break even in terms of energy investment.

  6. that is your most inchoate mishmash to date.

    Cut out the BS (muh Grad student) and whats left is a jaw dropping display of ignorant papspew.

    For instance, there is a fusion reactor? Really? Where is it? tia

    Do you realize that in nuclear physics, when calculating mass/energy equivalents, mass is not assigned a type (ie: coal, rubies, dog shit), because it doesn’t “matter”? (See what I did there?)

    Look it up in the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science society. Lol.

  7. that is your most inchoate mishmash to date.

    Cut out the BS (muh Grad student) and whats left is a jaw dropping display of ignorant papspew.

    For instance, there is a fusion reactor? Really? Where is it? tia

    Do you realize that in nuclear physics, when calculating mass/energy equivalents, mass is not assigned a type (ie: coal, rubies, d0g shit), because it doesn’t “matter”? (See what I did there?)

    Look it up in the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science society. Lol.

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