Quote Originally Posted by Dzinerbear View Post
I'm appalled that they're wasting air time talking about this. Likewise, I'm appalled that 20 schools in the Pittsburgh area are going to be shut down because of budget cuts, but the city is considering financing a new hockey arena because the Pittsburgh Penguins are threatening to leave the city without a new place to play hockey. Anna Nicole is the epithomy of what is wrong with the U.S.. Most of the country has their priorities so fucked up they can't even see the decline of their own civilization.
Give me a fucking break.
Michael
Well I think you are cherry picking. First of all, the United States spends more than 100% more on public schools today then when I graduated in 1987. I actually looked on Google about schools closing in Pittsburgh, but couldn't find anything. I know in Austin it has been absoultely impossible to close old elementary schools in the inner town where no kids live anymore. Rather then let kids go to school where they live, we spend a fortune busing students to nostaligic, old school building that sit on real estate which the city could sell for millions.

Perhaps you are upset that the residents of certain metropolitan cities refuse to hold their elected officials accountable. If this happens in Pittsburgh.... or a better example being New Orleans, then that's the way it will be.

I'm going to Pittsburgh in July by the way to the Fiestaware convention! It'll be an orgy of mid-century modern collectible antiques!

Steve