Ft. Wayne School Board asks 500 million for repairs

The Ft. Wayne Community School Board (pictured above) lost, nay was destroyed in the recent referendum on spending 500 million dollars on Ft. Wayne Community School repairs. The board’s request was defeated by voters 3 to 1. The yellow petitioners (those in favor dumping half a billion into a crumbling school system) used the tried true reasoning of “it’s for the children” during their disastrous campaign. It didn’t wash.

Now the school year is about to start and the sanctimonious holier-than-thou yellow petitioners are challenging the blue petitioners (those bright enough not to turn half a billion dollars over to Larry, Curley and Moe) to turn off their air conditioners. Here’s an example:

Turn off air conditioner with school starting soon

School begins soon (Aug. 20). This is a reminder to all the “blue petitioners” with air conditioning – don’t forget to shut off the air conditioning in your homes, vehicles and businesses for the year. After all, your money is tight, and it’s only right that you do unto yourselves what you would do unto others, in your case the teachers and children of Fort Wayne.
ROD SCHLABACH
Fort Wayne

First, I don’t know Rod, but from the tone of his letter, I get a mental picture of him as a forty something year old working at a low end shoe store. He gets up every morning in his one bedroom "apartment" in mom's basement and fumbles for his Coke bottle glasses so he can get his comb over in place, dresses in the finest polyester J.C. Penny has to offer before hopping into his lime green Gremlin and heading down to the Payless were he works as a “manager”. He spends his free time angry at anybody with a better living arrangement, eyes, hair, wardrobe, car and/or a better job. Unfortunately for Rod, that includes nearly everyone on the planet. So he’s angry a lot.

Now, I can understand how a school system might need repairs – even emergency unfunded repairs. What I cannot understand his how a school system gets 500 million dollars behind in repairs. Shouldn’t Larry, Curley and Moe have piped up when the school system was, oh I don’t know say, 10, 20, 50, 100 or even a 150 million behind in repairs? Why in the name Mosses would anyone trust the boobs who waited until they were 500 million dollars behind in repairs to say anything, with spending the half a billion dollars required to fix a problem they caused?

There is a Three Stooges short movie titled “The Painters” where the Stooges are hired as painters and paper hangers. Predictably, the Stooges destroy the very house they are employed to improve. It is unlikely that the owner of that home would then turn around and hire the Stooges to repair the very damages that they caused. Ft. Wayne voters took the same common sense approach. Larry, Curley and Moe got us into this mess. It’s unlikely that they have the mental acumen to get us out.

So, Lex fired this off to the Daily Punctilio (AKA Journal Gazette):

Yellow Petitioners should put THEIR money where their mouths are

I'll make Rod Schlabach a deal. I'll shut off my air conditioner when he and the other holier-than-thou "yellow petitioners" cough up the half billion dollars requested for the FWCS repairs. Come on Rod, put YOUR money where your mouth is. Take on a second or third job and sell the house if necessary. After all, it's for the children.

UPDATE: Besides who was the genius who decided to start the school year in the middle of August anyway? Oh yeah, the Ft. Wayne Community School Board. Brilliant!