A Good Idea?
Posted By CindyHere is the proposal my spouse presented on Thursday, February 4, 2009 to the Bored Board of Education. To save cash flow in terms of budgeting which in turn will save teacher positions and class size, my spouse who is also a member of the AFT the American Federation of Teachers and whose union VOTED concessions on salaries over a two year period, proposed the pay period for the teachers be increased to a three week interval to be phased in if possible.
So for instance, if every two weeks you are paid on Friday, this idea would be phased in so instead of being paid on Friday, a teacher would be paid on Monday which would be a two week and one day paycheck. The next month, a teacher would be paid on Tuesday which would be for two weeks and two days….. and so on until it was equivalent to three weeks.
This would not change any of the raises or increments— all it would change is when a teacher would be paid. This three week pay period results in a cash flow savings of 1.9% of the payroll thus saving teacher positions and preserving class sizes and minimizing impact on the taxpayer.
Eighty percent of the Board of Education budget is attributable to salary and benefits.
THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF NUMBERS THAT WERE FLOATED AROUND–the average teachers pay was roughly $50,000 per year. So for more easy figuring, let’s say the average teacher salary was $52,000 a year or $1,000 a week (God who can live on that)?? And there were 400 teachers. The cash flow savings for the fiscal year could be $1,000 x 400 or $400,000.
So just moving up the pay period ONE week, (if the teachers are currently paid bi-weekly) would amount to up to this $400,000 figure.
DO YOU HAVE ANY CONSTRUCTIVE SOLUTIONS OUTSIDE OF BITCHING AND MOANING??? NO!!!
You have to remember, most bills come in monthly anyway so there would not be much a financial hardship. The raises would be able to stay intact at the 4.4 percent.
LET’S GIVE THIS IDEA SOME SERIOUS CONSIDERATION AND NOT BOOT IT OUT THE DOOR BECAUSE CERTAIN PEOPLE DID NOT COME UP WITH THIS IDEA.
Now to switch gears, I did come across the Government report on this CARS or as it was more popularly known: “Cash for Clunkers” program.
Click here for the report.
You decide: was this program worth it? Were too may good used cars taken off the road that would have afforded lower income people a chance to drive decent cars. I mean look, there certainly were a LOT of clunk out cars that were turned in-I know there were-but there were a LOT of decent used cars, that maybe people had as a second or third car that were DESTROYED because the people wanted the $3500 or $4500-THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE!!
The Government would have been better off paying people to BUY THOSE CARS!! NOT TAKE THEM OUT OF CIRCULATION AND PUT A DENT IN THE GOOD USED CAR MARKET!! WHAT A SHAME!!
I bet you that these “teabaggers” took advantage of this GOVERNMENT SOCIALIST PROGRAM!! I bet you some of them that are holding out the signs “NO GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE” or “GOVERNMENT OUT OF OUR LIVES” GLADLY took advantage of an opportunity to put an additional three or four thousand bucks in their pockets!!
Oh but that was OK!!
And you want Government out of your lives, then tell the IRS yes the IRS to stop dictating how you can file your income tax especially if you are married and want to file single without getting penalized. HOW COME WE DON’T HEAR THE GOP TEA BAGGERS QUESTIONING THAT?? YOU KNOW WHY!! BECAUSE IT BENEFITS THEM AND THEIR CORPORATIONS THAT THEY ARE DEFENDING.
A friend of mine made a good point about Socialism Programs in the U.S.-TEAGAGGERS PAY ATTENTION AND NO THERE IS NO TYPO!!
The New National banking system
The VA Hospital
The Post Office
Jails
Medicare
SSI
Unemployment Compensation
Parks (national and city)
Beaches (national and city)
Libraries
Road, Streets, Highways, byways, Freeways
Schools
Street lamps and or any lighting paid by the Gov’t (city included)
The U.S Military (Paid by the Government using tax dollars)
and I’m sure I didn’t get all the programs.If you are whining about Socialist programs please feel free to not use them, what do you think?
(Capitalism doesn’t pay for any of these programs)