This sounds like it has potential for fraud written all over it...
1 posted on
07/02/2009 8:13:34 AM PDT by
Saint X
To: Saint X
Does NBC have some kind of a financial interest in the businesses that would profit from this? Like the climate bill?
2 posted on
07/02/2009 8:16:12 AM PDT by
La Lydia
To: Saint X
“reparations” and “wealth transfer” come to mind too.
3 posted on
07/02/2009 8:16:33 AM PDT by
C210N
(A patriot for a Conservative Renaissance!)
To: Saint X
one of the worst performing, financially struggling school systems in the country - the Washington, D.C. How much do they currently spend per pupil? I think it's over $25,000 a year for each kid. And they are "financially struggling"? And the solution is to throw down a little "walking around" money to reward some folks for doing what they already should be doing?
Reparations. It's all just Reparations.
4 posted on
07/02/2009 8:17:19 AM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(I don't believe anything anyone says about anything anymore.)
To: Saint X
just making sure these kids vote democrat for the rest of their lives. if this was privately funded, i would have less of an issue.
5 posted on
07/02/2009 8:18:18 AM PDT by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: Saint X
If NBC thinks this is a good idea, why don’t they use their money?
6 posted on
07/02/2009 8:20:04 AM PDT by
wny
To: Saint X
There used to be something called “families” and in these families there were parents (obsolete, you can look it up in any dictionary). These parent people saw to it that children went to school, studied, did their homework, etc. This was before enlightened liberals destroyed our culture.
To: Saint X
Just take it out of the Brian Williams tanning bed/bronzer budget.
That alone should take care of all the bribes for the black students in 6 major metropoli.
9 posted on
07/02/2009 8:26:29 AM PDT by
EyeGuy
To: Saint X
Wonderful idea! Where does NBC intend to set up the fund it will establish to pay these kids out of its obscene profits?
10 posted on
07/02/2009 8:26:37 AM PDT by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
To: Saint X
My wife and I watch some of the dance shows on television. Yesterday evening we were watching 'So You Think You Can Dance'.
At about the 40 minute mark on the one hour show, they started hawking a foundation that pays the costs of dance classes for the poor.
I looked at my wife and told her, there you go. Within a few years, dancing will be a 'right' and government will be shelling out dollars to pay for the poor to take dance classes.
I know this sound rediculous, but what is midnight basketball if not the same thing.
It's just shocking to watch government interject itself into every fascet of our lives. And it's doing so on our dime.
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11 posted on
07/02/2009 8:27:00 AM PDT by
DoughtyOne
(_res__ent of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama)
To: Saint X
what a dumb idea. will we pay their parents for sending them??
They’re probably better off not going these days
12 posted on
07/02/2009 8:29:37 AM PDT by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
To: Saint X
So how much are these kids getting paid?
$172,000 a year?
Doesn’t this violate child labor laws?
13 posted on
07/02/2009 8:32:56 AM PDT by
A message
(3 years 6 months 2 weeks 3 days)
To: Saint X
I think if they reduce teacher’s salaries and instead pay the kids for performance, this could be an improvement.
14 posted on
07/02/2009 8:43:37 AM PDT by
staytrue
To: Saint X
Bwahahaha. Desperation sets in. You can pay kids to show up, but you cannot pay them to learn. The success of the measure will be quantified by attendance performance. Corrupt the grading scheme to assign marks for attendance and you can game internal academic performance metrics as well.
Then there is the cherry on top. Once money is involved, I completely foresee students physically threatening teachers to mark them down as attending when they are absent. Anyone with any familiarity with these particular schools knows what I am talking about. The lunatics run the asylum.
15 posted on
07/02/2009 8:52:11 AM PDT by
M203M4
(A rainbow-excreting government-cheese-pie-eating unicorn in every pot.)
To: Saint X
Of course, "paying the children to attend school" is the same as "paying the parents to send their children to school."
By the way: Of course, this includes the children of ILLEGAL ALIENS.
The next thing you know, we'll be paying muggers a monthly fee to NOT mug us.
Regards,
To: Saint X
<sarcasm>And government has such a stellar track record of being thrifty and achieving the most value per dollar of spending.</sarcasm> Geesh! Privatize it and let the future employers of these students ascertain the value of their efforts and I'll listen. Otherwise, we are just encouraging the next generation to milk on the government teat. That's all we need is to apply the school system's "use it or loose it" budgetary mismanagement to a program like this ...
17 posted on
07/02/2009 8:56:56 AM PDT by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: Saint X
Not really something new. A black woman who is a good friend of mine told me that she received monthly government checks when she attended Temple Univ. The checks were an incentive to prevent her from dropping out of college. The checks stopped, when she dropped out.
20 posted on
07/02/2009 9:24:00 AM PDT by
Larry381
("in the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers" Oswald Spengler)
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