Comments on: Alameda’s school sports funding woes in Sports Illustrated http://www.ibabuzz.com/alamedajournal/2008/07/11/alamedas-school-sports-funding-woes-in-sports-illustrated/ Sat, 25 Aug 2012 05:36:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Lon http://www.ibabuzz.com/alamedajournal/2008/07/11/alamedas-school-sports-funding-woes-in-sports-illustrated/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Lon Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:40:11 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/alamedajournal/?p=170#comment-200 I especially liked one quote: This is an exercise designed to whip the parents into a frenzy,” former mayor Raymond Wiezorek told the paper. “It wouldn’t occur to them to ever take a good look to see if there’s another way to do things that might cost a little less. … [Government] never makes the adjustments that a private business has to make to survive. In government, how do I survive? I send people a larger tax bill. I don’t ever have to worry about changing anything.”

I have seen this at all levels of governmetn, and feel Alameda School District played this very well, and the parents bought it, and we get to pay for it.

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