Archive for March 2013
The Problem with Spending Other People’s Money
It’s a fault of human nature: When you spend your own money you look at it one way but when you spend someone else’s money it’s a different story. Once, years ago, I served on a church-school board with a half dozen tight-fisted, hard-eyed businessmen who could squeeze a dollar out of a turnip.…
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What did we learn during the Republican legislature’s “Education Week”? That North Carolina ranks 48th in education spending. Legislative leaders bragged that this was the first time all school superintendents were invited to tell the legislature their concerns. The superintendents promptly warned against taking more money from the public schools and giving it to…
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