[GailA]

The Memphis City School Board is whining it is SHORT $30 MILLION BUCKS but is willing to spend $7,000 to make their fat backsides MORE comfortable...only the BEST for these fat cats.

You can email them HERE to let them know about the WASTING of our tax dollars to make themselves MORE comfortable for just 10 hours a month, while our kids must sit on HARD wooden or metal chairs for 8 hours a day.

BTW there was NOT a thing wrong with the high backed chairs they use...just ONE FAT school board liberal who was to stupid to bring in a $20.00 back cushion for her chair.

She's going to the doctor to be treated for sitting in her bad, old chair!

[theDentist]

Hmph. Someone ought to go in, pull all the chairs out, and leave a dozen soap boxes for them.

[scab4faa]

What are they buying Lazy Boys?

[newgeezer]

Oh, c'mon. It's only seven thousand dollars.</sarcasm>

Yet another example of how there's nothing wrong with public education that can't be fixed simply and easily by appropriating more of your money.

Seriously, while lots of people at the TV station are feeling real proud of this blockbuster exposé, millions of dollars are swirling through the public school sewer without so much as a peep.

[reelfoot]

Unfortunately, much of the Memphis city government has taken on the look of a third world country the last few years. This is but one more example. Such a shame; Memphis was once such a wonderful city.

[MineralMan]

Is there a recall process in that state? If so, it's time to recall the whole board and put a new one in place.

[blackdog]

And how many hours per month are spent in those chairs? Typically it's just a few? I would love to see the cost of those chairs on an hourly basis.

I stopped to get gas today at a station out of town and I noticed the most ridiculous thing on the pump.

The city has a weights and measures department who affixes a sticker certifying that a gallon is a gallon. The County has another sticker from their weights and measures department declaring the same inspection has been performed by their checker. The state also has a sticker on the pump indicating that a gallon is a gallon and that my wallet is safe due to their oversight.

Now all three stickers have a clause at the bottom that tells you it is the stations duty to certify that a gallon is a gallon. So in effect, all three agencies indicate that they are all doing something that the owner/s are responsible for.

Now if it somehow works it's way down the massive empire of tripplicate state agencies that they are all three duplicating the efforts of not only each other but the operator as well and a light goes off in someones dim head, the bureau's #1,#2,#3 of weights and measures can $hit can their empire for some much needed budget savings.

I won't even get into the City, County, and State food inspectors. That's a thousand times worse. They do not actually inspect anything, they just publish guidelines and give seminars to McDonalds workers on food safety. All three divisions of them.

[RayBob]

Hell, I can top that. My school district has a total of 4,900 students kindergarten thru 12th grade. They just spent (or should I say borrowed) $45 MILLION on the renovation and expansion of the high school. They have over $85 MILLION in outstanding bonds! That's over $17,000 of debt for every student in the system! They spent over $600,000 for a Visitor's Concession Stand at the football field! They spent $15,000 for a single piano! Oh, and they have a budget shortfall of $3-4 Million for the next year which will result in a tax increase... (we just had a 3.5 mil increase last year).

[blackdog]

I used to work at a company where a guy who ordered himself a nice new chair got fired. When the chair arrived, someone said "hey that's a nice chair! I'm gonna grab that" since the procurer's butt was history. About a month later that guy was fired. Next another vulture spotted the really nice chair in the again vacated office and said "That chair is mine". Within a few months, that person was sued for sexual harrassment and then subsequently fired.

It's been ten years since I left but the chair still plays "Fate is the hunter" according to co-workers who have steered clear of it's comfort.

Maybe the same fortuna will find the Memphis chairs.

[Lil'freeper]

They should use the same chairs the students get.