5yes, I appreciate what you do, I am eternally grateful, my kids are a product of your work and they are already smarter than me. I also live where I do based in large part on the work you and your colleages do. As I mentioned before, attacking your compensation is off point, the focus should be on the benefactor of your labor. If you were overcompensated, then there would be a huge line to be a teacher, people only scrutinize when their industry is having a bad time, three years ago there wasn’t a peep. It’s a tortoise/hare career decision, some years it’s good to have steady work and in others it sucks that everyone else is making big bucks. If anyone wants to complain about someone’s compensation, then go be one. I laughed at the complaints about the prison guard salaries, fine, I’m sure they’ll hire you, knock yourself out. The most under paid job in the world is the guy who pumps the poop out of the porta potties and septic tanks, if that guy made more money than me, I’m fine with it, cause i don’t want to do that.

DWCAP, sorry I screwed with your head for two days.

Let’s look at making babies and education, but not at what teachers make. Why is it that the more kids you have the more tax deductions you get (meaning the less you pay) and the more you cost the system. How does anyone not see that fundamental flaw and what other system works that way? If I order more food at a restaraunt than you, is my tab lower. If I drive a car that gets worse milege, do I pay less per gallon, If i use more electricity than you, should my rate per kw be lower. But if I stick more kids in school than you, I get money back, why is there an incentive to to be inefficient and cause a net loss, shouldn’t it be the opposite. I still don’t have the answer, I’ve tried to think up a bifurcated education and health care system, where you get services based on how much you have paid in taxes, but I get lost in the design and the result, it feels unamerican to create a caste system.

I still keep going back to controlling procreation through regulation, I keep going back to the water supply birth control thing, having tests for prospective parents and a qualification system like qualifying for a mortgage, you can’t buy three houses because you can’t afford it so you can’t have three kids until you can afford it, because the rest of us are sick of paying the freight, but then it feels all science fictiony and weird, plus the way european amd some asian countries handle socialized medicine has a “logan’s run” feel to it, after a certain age they will help with pain control but they won’t fix much because they’ve done a cost benefit analysis, it makes sense but doesn’t make me feel good.

The Lakers last minute loss and trying to solve the problems in society are just too much for me, I’m gonna have to drink and play golf all weekend, just to clear my head.