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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Just Out: Annual Town Report
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Well, it is obvious that the town, and, indeed, the state, need to be much more fiscally responsible. It is ridiculous that public employees, including the teachers, enjoy salaries, job security, and especially benefits, that are no longer available anywhere in the private sector. How many of you non-public employees enjoy salaries of 60-70 thousand dollars per year for a 180 day work year with 15 days of paid sick leave, and the possibility of retirement with full benefits (including medical) as early as age 55, and partial benefits with as little as 10 years of employment? Most of us had to work 45-50 years before collecting the limited benefits of social security, which we have to supplement with our own savings and investments. I, personally, resent having to use my savings to improve the life-style of someone who has spent their working years sucking at the government teat.
ReplyDeleteWhat town employees get to retire with full health benefits?
DeleteGet your facts right!!!
Deleteno town employees get to retire with health benifits
DeleteA couple of things to remember when you vote on the budgets:
ReplyDeleteTotal school budget: 28.2 million dollars
Special Education budget: 5.2 million dollars
Gateway enrollment: 16
ODP enrollment: 14
(Last year a middle school teacher had to ask for $2500 donation
for seed money to start a middle scool program for "high achievers")
There are 350 staff members in the Springfield School system, to serve a total student population of 1400. Do we really need that level of staffing, particularly administrators?
NO
DeleteIt’s so clear people like to rant about the town and school budgets. We live in America and we can do that. Please get your particulars right about the teachers and town employees about what they make or don’t make, also remember what “assume” means! If you watched SAPA, you would know we are a ”receiving town” which means we get money from the state surrounding the school budget. We do not pay the whole $28 million. I am not an employee of the Springfield School District nor is any of my family. I am just tied of the old poor me attitude in this town. Yes, I am retired and yes I do pay my taxes…. If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem!
DeleteAnd may I ask where you think the state gets the money they GIVE to us as a receiving town? Please tell me
Deleteyou understand it is coming from
taxes that we pay the state in other forms so they can so generously GIVE it back to us to reduce our local share of $28 million. Really you have to have more common sense than that!
Ok 7:24 let me make sure i understand your logic. The federal and state governments collect taxes from citizens. They then give out "grants" to communities that apply, these "grants" are funded by the taxes levied against the citizens (me and you). Am I correct so far?
DeleteAre you suggesting that we should not apply for these "grants" because that will stop the state and federal government from "taxing us in other forms"?
I have never understood the logic from Springfielders that we shouldn't apply for grants. We should apply for every single grant available, they are not going to stop taxing us because we don't apply for grants. Instead they will just give the money to communities like Bellows Falls, Windsor, Claremont, et al.
I am not saying not to apply for them of course we would rather the money come back to us! People seem to think this is free money just because it is not from the LOCAL tax base. In other words you are paying for it one way or the other!
Delete1:20, rather than join in condemning every Springfield worker to the ever-so-popular American race to the bottom, you should be helping today's kids (45 and under) do better than you did. Do you want no only to end your years in poverty, but to live among squalid peasants who are even worse off than you? Think self-preservation, think: your golden years spent in a nice town where well-rewarded workers not only enjoy their kids and their town, but work to keep things that way.
ReplyDelete1:51: What do you propose? Save $5..2 million by shooting the special ed and ODP kids????? Christians are supposed to think otherwise. It would be more productive to figure out how to get all of that $28 million spent in Springfield by the people who earn it. That money spent in Springfield would effectively mean 700 more people employed at $40,000 a year. Half of all workers in town right now make less than $28,000, so that would be a big boost.
Here we go with the Chicken Little tactics where the thin-skinned liberal sensationalizes the matter with predictions of extreme poverty and euthanasia because someone has taken an opposing view from their own; completely oblivious to the role that they and their socialist cronies have played in guiding this town toward its nadir. Someday perhaps that vacuum between your ears will be broken!
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