Because those were all welfare leeches as well.
Stoneham dealt with their "welfare leeches" by completely dropping all highschool sports. Among other cuts, and although the citizens were up in arms about not having a football team, it was rightly pointed out that restoring the sports was
eighth
on the list of cuts to be restored should money magically appear, after re-opening the middle school and various other items.
People are hypocrites. Hypocrites who complain about not having enough firetrucks, enough teachers, or patches for their potholes, but won't pass a tax override anyway.
WTF, Allyson? WTF is wrong with people?
Yeah. Laura's actually going to move out of the town, soon.
My local library rocks the house. Story time, writing workshops, and loads of DVDs and a big ass computer center.
It receives a ton a funding....
...from Leonardo DiCaprio.
Make the citizens responsible for purchasing their kid's schooling, their police protection, and their fire department protection and some people will call that Utopia.
People believe in the magical tax-cut fairies, where they can pay less tax without any bad consequences whatsoever.
Holy crap, Allyson. WTF, people.
wow, I had no idea that marking the text was a taught skill. We were so not allowed to mark up the (school-owned, and they were pretty much all school or library owned) books in my day.
Ditto. I never heard of such a thing!
But I think libraries, especially branch libraries, are a waste of space as they exist now. They duplicate effort with school libraries and rec centers.
I also want to point out to never-goes-to-the-library person that the majority of people in the local library when I go are
adults.
I'm just gobsmacked that a member of
the editorial board, a journalist,
of a major metropolitan newspaper would say he has no use for libraries, nor show any indication that he understands their functions.
