This will not help Nick’s political carrier to promote this agenda MCCD.

I still think that the name should be changed from MCCD to TAX AND SPEND DISTRICT.

Every one has to tighten there belts and MCCD should do the same.

I’m posting in this comment section because I attempted to post this in the other string all day to no avail.

I pray this reaches those it’s meant to reach in the previous string.

Thank you for this string.

It is an absolute pleasure.

Steve: If you fund a department to the tune of 50% to 300% higher than their peerage then I might say you have allowed policy rather than created policy.

Money is indicative but not creative.

Semantics.

I know.

Susan: I apologize deeply for misquoting you.

I am conceptual in nature and believed the idea of a Detroit level implosion due to bad governmental policy would result in the near extinction of the prey thereby starving the predators (public unions and governmental types) which I characterized as “not giving them one more dime”.

Hyperbole. Y

et your example is apt in associating the economic situation with the Laws of Nature finding a new balance.

There is a correct balance of predator and prey.

There really only is a debate about where this balance is achieved and what diversity of predators is intelligently sustainable.

Occasionally nature sees fit to destroy a predator completely.

Should public unions be considered the T Rex predator needing extinction?

Federal Department of Education?

HHS?

I have my opinions but this seems to be the debate I hear every day in the street.

You framed the debate well in the microcosm of McHenry County politics.

MTea1:

First of all I don’t meet anyone who does not love and respect the teachers who taught and educated them.

Whether they remember one or many fondly the teacher is the blessing which keeps on giving.

You, however, make my point brilliantly.

We need to learn from you today.

Being an emotional creature you took a discussion about money and political/historical concepts so personally you believe it is “hate filled rhetoric”.

You believe this conversation, which started with Cal lobbing information of MCCD’s (and the State’s) over reach and evolved into using the current library debate as another example specifically was an attack on the respect we, as a society, should have for our educators.

Steve, this is what I was trying to point out.

Policy is made by creative human beings with emotions, intelligence and priorities.

If we only ever attack the money we don’t address the MTea1’s of the world and help them understand we agree with them in that their difficulties as teachers stemming from conflicting visions from the top are really just over funding of too many conflicting power brokers we fail in our duty to the emotional while doing an excellent job of helping the coldly rational see the indicators of the problem.

MTea1 actually believes this conversation, which we see as compartmentalized into monetary policy and the proper size/role of government, is personally attacking her, her beliefs, her peers and her value as an educator.

Doesn’t seem logical to the subject of this debate and yet is a brilliant commentary on why we need to use money as a tool while recognizing it is the human we need to address as we fight to regain our freedom from the indentured servitude into which others have sold us.

HA! Yes, Mark.

Always compassionately…

Thank you.

Carrying a brutal Forensic Accountant in your arsenal, of course.