3/11/2002
When state Sen. Jim King announced he would not support even limited tax reform and in so doing sell out Florida public education and Senate President John McKay he produced a particularly scrofuous editorial from the Republican Party headquarters at the Fla. Times-Union.
Most people in Fla. politics get a good chuckle from the T-Us laughably overwrought musings on Creeping Socialism, The Decline of the West, Misinformed Negros and the near-mystical grandeaur of Jeb Bush. This particular editorial claimed that Florida schools are just fine and dandy and don't need more money. "There is no crisis," it says. Why? Because "every child enrolled in public schools has a desk in a classroom, with a full array of textbooks and a teacher." What more do these liberals want? Overcrowded schools, lack of equipment, underpaid teachers and classes of 30, 40 or 50 students don't matter because everyone has a desk.
These people live on another planet.
Most people in Fla. politics get a good chuckle from the T-Us laughably overwrought musings on Creeping Socialism, The Decline of the West, Misinformed Negros and the near-mystical grandeaur of Jeb Bush. This particular editorial claimed that Florida schools are just fine and dandy and don't need more money. "There is no crisis," it says. Why? Because "every child enrolled in public schools has a desk in a classroom, with a full array of textbooks and a teacher." What more do these liberals want? Overcrowded schools, lack of equipment, underpaid teachers and classes of 30, 40 or 50 students don't matter because everyone has a desk.
These people live on another planet.
