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Government Lunacy: New York Pays Teacher $100,000 a Year to Sit in Room and Do Nothing

It’s easy to see why New York City has a $4 billion deficit. New York City bureaucrats are idiots. Years ago the teachers’ union negotiated a deal with the NY Department of Education where teachers who were fired were not actually fired, but sent to the “rubber room” to sit for 7 hours a day for years while receiving full pay and benefits for doing nothing. Although the teachers were found unfit to teach, they continued on the payroll indefinitely. No sane person/government/business would ever agree to such a stupid scheme, but the DOE did. This is what happens when government spends taxpayers’ money, i.e., government doesn’t care about the cost of anything because IT’S NOT SPENDING IT”S MONEY! It’s spending our money.

New York Post: “Easy money for millionaire exile. A Queens teacher who collects a $100,000 salary for doing nothing spends time in a Department of Education ‘rubber room’ working on his law practice and managing 12 real-estate properties worth an estimated $7.8 million, The Post found. Alan Rosenfeld hasn’t set foot in a classroom for nearly a decade since he was accused in 2001 of making lewd comments to junior-high girls and “staring at their butts,” yet the department still pays him handsomely for sitting on his own butt seven hours a day. . . . Rosenfeld simply collects his $100,049 salary — top scale for teachers — plus full health benefits and the promise of a fat pension, about $82,000 a year if he were to retire today.”

After Solving Problems with Healthcare, Recession, Unemployment, Nuclear Iran & N. Korea, Auto Industry, Housing Market & Bank Failures, Obama Now Ready to Force NCAA to Have a Division I Football Playoff

Nobody could make this up. President Obama is considering using the power of the federal government to force the NCAA to drop the BCS bowl system and go to a tradional playoff system for division I football. What makes this so scary is it proves what many people have feared, which is that there in no aspect of Americans’ lives, no matter how small, that Obama is not willing to try to control. Does anybody really believe that the federal government should be involved in regulating college football playoffs?

California Has $20 Billion Deficit & Will Run Out of Money April 1 So CA Senate Lunatics Pass Bill to Spend $200 Billion a Year on State Single Payor Healthcare

MercuryNews.com: “State Controller John Chiang issued a stern warning Friday about California’s cash reserves, telling legislative leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger they must act on nearly $9 billion in budget cuts the governor is seeking by March — or the state will run out of cash to pay its bills. Without making those cuts — which Chiang says will pump $1.3 billion into the state’s checking account — California would be broke by April 1, no fooling.”

Twenty-two elected idiots (it goes without saying they are all Democrats) in the California Senate decided not to let a small problem like a $20 billion deficit prevent them from spending more of the taxpayers’ money that California does not have. Without the slightest regard for reality and keeping their fingers crossed that California will win the federal equivalent of the Powerball lottery, the California Senate approved a bill to spend an additional $200 billion per year of California’s “play money” to create a government-run single-payer medical care program. The 22 imbeciles senators must have been off the planet when Scott Brown was elected to the U.S. Senate.

See the Investors Business Daily story called “Beyond Our Means.”

Texas Woman Beaten by Son must Pay His Legal Fees

ElPasoTimes.com: “Four months ago, Teresa Fuller endured a severe beating at the hands of her 15-year-old son after he refused to do his chores. She said she received multiple concussions and has a scattered memory of the last three months of 2009. Not only does she have to live with the lingering physical affects of the beating, she has to pay her son’s legal bills, prompting her to wonder why the state’s court system doesn’t do enough to help victims of parental abuse. ‘As a victim, I don’t feel like I should have to pay,; Fuller said.”

New Mexico Web Company Not Guilty of Racketeering When It Did Not Give New York City List of Tobacco Purchasers

The audacity of government tax and spenders is illustrated by the outrageous claim made by the City of New York that a New Mexico based internet company violated federal laws intended for organized crime when the company refused to give purchaser information to NY tax collectors. Consider the chilling affect when an online business sells to customers in the ordinary course of business and NY alleges it engaged in racketeering. The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Wall St. Journal: “The Supreme Court ruled Monday that New York City couldn’t use federal racketeering laws to sue out-of-state Internet tobacco retailers that don’t file reports on city residents who buy cigarettes online. The city wants the reports so it can collect cigarette taxes directly from residents who purchased tobacco products online. The retailers aren’t required to collect the taxes. The case before the high court centered on New York’s allegations that New Mexico-based online retailer Hemi Group committed racketeering offenses of mail and wire fraud by allegedly failing to submit reports on its New York City customers to state tobacco administrators.

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