By: John Fedele

This is week nine of the new year and week nine of stupid happenings. Just in case you overlooked these items. Here is a brief capsule of stupid:

1. The ever ending commercials touting the greatness of the Unafordable Health Care Act. They tell you to sign up. The pres says, Not now, or if it’s a hardship not now or if you are an employer, not now. In short the act is law but, at present it is not enforced. On the other hand, the pres told a man who said he cannot afford the premiums to look at his budget, maybe he can do away with cable and cell phone. Funny, this is the same president that said the premiums would be less that cable and cell phone bills. Dah.

2. Part 2, or 3, or 4 of the never ending decisions against the state’s funding of education. It’s never ending because the cost of education goes up every year because of automatic raises to teachers, health care and retirement benefits. The Tax Payer will get taxed either by the state of the county or the city to cover the mandated funding. Politicians and judges, whom I feel can’t even spell education, or at best, experienced education as a professional student (spending 19 years or more going to school) seem to think that 42 to 64 percent of the state’s budget is not enough to spend on an education system that isn’t working. Sure the drop out rate has been going down….except for 12 graders. Of the 3 or 4 years of high school drop out rates, 12 graders are the highest percentage. Why? Maybe instead of pouring more money doing the same thing, we should first look at what we teach and how we teach.

3. A woman in England married her dog.

4. Driving around the village I noticed our leaders are doing something about the pot hole. They are filling them with tar covered stones. It fills the holes until vehicles run over them and toss the stones everywhere and splash tar on fenders. But the parking lots are another story. As the commercial goes, where the rubber meets the road, one should have a brand of tire, but no matter what tires you have when they meet a seam of asphalt that abuts concrete there will be separation. I know the mall and shop folk are responsible for repair of their parking area. Someone needs to remind them. Going into my bank yesterday was like doing the downhill in a skiing event.

5. The state house is finishing a bill that requires parents to give permission for their child to receive sex education. Why? Why does the schools have this responsibility? It is the responsibility of parents to do this task. Does the federal and state and local education departments believe parents are not capable?

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