William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 1-1-15
Day: January 1, 2015
Good New Year’s News
Matthew Brouillette of Commonwealth Foundation informs us that for the first time in seven years new charter school applications — there are 40 of them — are under review in Philadelphia.
This gives a bit of hope to those poor kids stuck on waiting lists.
He notes that in October, legislation was passed in October allowing thousands of more kids to attend a school of their parents choice.
You think school choice is bad thing? Then just imagine if you had to use the supermarket/electrician/lawyer/doctor the government picked for you.
School choice is a good thing just as being able to choose your supermarket its.
Brouillette also tells us some not-so-good New Year’s news. Seven Pennsylvania government union PACs have shoveled $7.6 million to candidates in 2013-14. This is an increase of 53 percent in just two years.
Brouillette notes that this money comes from dues collected at taxpayer expense as per a corrupt law.
Good New Year’s News
Turnpike Tolls Rise, Happy New Year
Happy New Year. Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls are going to rise 5 percent for all customers on Sunday, Jan. 4.
Obviously one needs money to maintain a transportation infrastructure.
Just as obviously a lot of the money — maybe even most — collected by the federal government and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the guise of doing such is not.
High salaries for bureaucrats and inflated costs for construction should not be considered part of maintaining an infrastructure.
They should be considered corruption. Our lives would be richer and freer with less corruption.
End things like prevailing wage, which inflate the cost of public construction by about 20 percent.
Kill the scandal-ridden Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and move its responsibilities to the slightly less scandal-ridden PennDOT.
For that matter, kill the turnpike system altogether. Make the roads freeways. Traffic bottlenecks are removed, salaries for toll-collectors disappear as does the cost of maintaining toll booths or EZ Pass lanes, and we no longer have to worry about how the revenue is going to be collected when adding ingresses and egresses. This means more ingresses and, especially, egresses which means much greater transportation efficiency.
Hat tip, Bob Guzzardi.
Turnpike Tolls Rise, Happy New Year
Physician Sentence Riddle Answer et al
In each blank in the following you have to place the same letters in the same order to make a sentence that is both grammatical and sensible:
The ______ physician was ______ to operate because he had _____ .
The answer is: The notable surgeon was not able to operate because he had no table.
