Do a search of PPP loans and see how much they got - they get a half billion from Medicaid alone each year, yet during CV applied and got for millions in PPP loans as basically franchises. Meanwhile real small businesses were hanging on by a hair or destroyed.
I can't remember where I heard it, but maybe a month ago, there was a statistic about bloat in education. Roughly since 2000, there has been a 5% increase in student population, which Is basically flat when you consider the gain in overall population. The increase in the number of teachers is 10%. And that kind of makes sense given many districts enacted smaller classroom sizes. (Does this mean 'better'? That is up for debate, but what I was considering was the explanation for the gains.) But when you look at the increase in administrative staff, the increase is 40%.
There is going to be a lot of howling, but what I would like to see is a chart of student performance year by year from the time the Department of Education was introduced of student performance - meaning the percentage of kids at grade level - and the percentage of non-teaching staff. Because I will bet there is a statistical correlation between the increase in bloat with the decrease in student performance - and this doesn't even take into account grade inflation. I want to see them try to defend a poor record. It should probably go back 10-20 years prior to that as well.
In the 70s, I remember my dad running down the street one morning in his pajamas with the metal can a la Oscar the Grouch chasing the truck when he forgot to put it out. There used to be several guys on one track- those guys were strong.
I caught an old episode of Eight is Enough not too long ago and two of the kids were taking out the garbage and I thought 'oh yeah' because that is when you just tossed everything into one can. Although I do remember my mom used to have a paper bag for what we now recycle and she would burn it in the fireplace. That is heresy now.
I salute you frens who have been there since the beginning. It didn't find you all until CV (the premiere of Out of Shadows on Good Friday 2020 was my jumping off point - I don't think that was an accident either.) Hard to believe that alone was over 4 1/2 years ago. I think we are at the summit of the mountain. It has been a privilege to join you all on this strange journey.
IIRC, when she was running for DA, the incumbent, Terence Haliihan was in the process of bringing a lawsuit against the SF archdiocese. Then he lost in the runoff election to her. And she refused to take meetings with abuse surviviors afterwards. Yet she is this great champion of the downloaded. /sarcasm
It is part if what I find so enraging anout her outright lying. Fuck her and self serving shape shifting bullshit.
I think in part he was "allowed" to buy Twitter because the money he was offering was so insane, it put the board in the target of violating their fiduciary duty to the stockholders which would have been its own scandal - remember, the Twitter files had not come out yet and the collusion of the government was not known. My guess is they were arrogant enough to believe they could control him. My, what an enjoyable FAFO scenario.
At the beginning of September, I quit my job because my paycheck was so bad, it didn't cover ONE bill let alone bills. (Commission job - I tried. Oh I tried.) I never walked off a job before without having something lined up but it got that bad that my time was better spent looking for something else. Anything else. Naturally, I was stressing big time, wondering what I was going to do. The day after I made the decision to leave, I was in my front yard and I looked down next to my porch and there was a $20 bill on the ground. That was my sign that I was going to be okay. I started a new job 2 days ago.
Praying for everyone on the cusp - because it sucks.
Why would you want the DNA of a six-month old? Bioweapon perhaps?
I hate to say it, but it still amazes me how blatantly above everything- not just the law - these people think they are. They can't go away soon enough. Bleah.
Wonderful news! Thanks for the update!