Kneejerk anti-education crowd gripes about CMS' good news
Anyone else remember when Charlotteans were overwhelmingly pro-schools, pro-teachers and pro-education? I’m starting to think I imagined that era, that’s why I’m asking. Today’s news features a local headline — CMS adding 500 jobs this fall — that once upon a time, would have been generally greeted as great news, especially considering that CMS made 320 employee cuts at the end of the last school year. And a good number of people are celebrating the public school system’s more-money news, but as always in these weird times, the fact that CMS is hiring more people after making earlier, draconian cuts is the perfect chance to gripe. That’s right, gripe. State Sen. Bob Rucho, R-Grouchville/Matthews, co-chair of the Senate Finance Committee, accused CMS of playing politics by warning of school system layoffs while the GOP was cutting school budget money. County Commissioner Bill James has, for some time, accused the school board of overstating its money woes in order to grab more county dollars.
Read the story linked above and it becomes obvious that the real problem comes from the screwy budget process, in which CMS must estimate how much money it will get from the county and state before those bodies have even made their decisions.
These days, however, right-wing carping is almost to be expected. The sad, and frankly disturbing truth is that American conservatives seem to have evolved over the past few years into a new species plagued by kneejerk anti-education reflexes, and, like it or not, a strong dose of nihilism (think of Tea Party types who want the federal government to default so it will “bring the house down” — "treason," anyone?).
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The sad, and frankly disturbing truth is that American conservatives seem to have evolved over the past few years into a new species plagued by kneejerk anti-education reflexes, and, like it or not, a strong dose of nihilism (think of Tea Party types
For the same reason, any dollar rally may be short-lived. "We are going to have a reflex dollar rally. It`s going to be knee jerk. Going forward, the focus is going to start moving toward the economic data. And that`s why I think the dollar rally could
Yet the knee jerk reflex is to further gut the tax with proposals like Cigna's, rather than modernize and clean up the tax. The mantra of jobs is a powerful one, but throwing money away is never the answer. Early on, the governor unsuccessfully
to fight the Taliban, Pakistan will have to jiggle its knee-jerk pavlovian reflex towards India. Counter-terrorism will also fail if army's stance vis-a-vis Afghanistan is not changed. Supporting the Pashtuns there is a double-edged sword which might
to fight the Taliban, Pakistan will have to jiggle its kneejerk pavlovian reflex towards India. There was good tiding hidden in the speech Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani made recently in Azad Kashmir, with General Kayani standing by him,
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, Which appeared on Saturday, and you’ll note the kind of thing that contributes to our problematic culture: a knee-jerk reaction in which we publicise that all atrocious acts (and in this case, mind-bogglingly sickening) are conducted by those with brown skin despite not having a shred of evidence to support that initial statement (aka journalism).
As Charlie Brooker so wonderfully explains :
In the aftermath of the initial bombing, they proceeded to wrestle with the one key question: why do Muslims hate Norway? Luckily, the experts were on hand to expertly share their expert solutions to plug this apparent plot hole in the ongoing news narrative…
On Saturday morning I saw a Fox News anchor tell former US diplomat John Bolton that Norwegian police were saying this appeared to be an Oklahoma-style attack, then ask him how that squared with his earlier assessment that al-Qaida were involved. He was sceptical. It was still too early to leap to conclusions, he said. We should wait for all the facts before rushing to judgment. In other words: assume it’s the Muslims until it starts to look like it isn’t – at which point, continue to assume it’s them anyway.
As the death toll rises in the wake of the rampage which left scores dead in Norway, details are emerging of killer Anders Breivik’s attempts to foster links with far-right groups across Europe — including the English Defence League.
The EDL have responded with sickening claims that Norwegian authorities are party to a conspiracy to disguise the actions of a Muslim or left-wing extremist.
In a series of posts, the administrator of the EDL’s official Facebook page for London members claims a “cover up by the left”, laying out supposed evidence for his conspiracy theory before asking “why didnt he blow the mosque up?” [sic]
I am equally concerned by efforts to plant the idea of the lone gunman. The media have been quick to focus on Breivik as an isolated madman, because obviously, only a psychopath could possibly carry out such a chilling atrocity. Only a loner, only a murderer, in the end, however terrible and not the product of something much more worrisome – namely the softening of centre politics in Europe and abroad by the rot which is hard-right Christian xenophobia, could have brutally murdered children and innocents. I don’t buy this.
It’s a magic act, trying to draw our attention away from the politics. The reasons, the rationale, the very choice of targets – was politically influenced. It doesn’t require any conspiracy minded theorist looking for tenuous connections with foreign hate-groups, for the gunman’s connections to his own party are well documented.
@ Knee-jerk reflex to blame the other party for S&P downgrade seems to make their very point about gridlock and dysfunction :(
@ ah, that. I always ignore rapid and inevitable knee jerk L*mb*rtian reflex ;) Heh. Seriously.
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