Last time I spoke about this, the amount was over a hundred million dollars. Then it went to two hundred million. Now it’s over four hundred million dollars just by Bloomberg alone. That’s a four with eight zeros, or, 400,000,000. And that’s just on advertising.
Last time I spoke about it, I quoted some other dollar figures. First, it would take about 650,000,000 to completely house the homeless in California the first year. After that it would take about 350,000,000 per year.
Or, Bloomberg will have spent more on advertising by the time he’s finished with whatever he’s doing for his presidential campaign than it would take to house the homeless in California.
There’s something obscene about that.
There’s something grossly wrong with that.
Is this what we’ve become and what we are?
Think about it.
I could talk about Bloomberg personally. I experienced his overhaul of the NYC school system. They say he raised the high school graduation level in NYC. That’s probably true to some extent, but I saw the inside of that, of what they did, the principals of the “small schools” he created, to doctor the graduation rates so that their schools would not be either put on probation or summarily closed.
Another scam. So many scams. So many lies.
Is this all we are?
So here’s the Bloomberg school overhaul model. One high school with 3000 students was turned into eight small schools. Those eight small schools each had a principal and two assistant principals. That’s eight principal salaries and sixteen assistant principal salaries for the building, same amount of students, if not less. The original school had one principal and fourteen assistant principals. Principals and assistant principals cost a lot more than teachers.
The Bloomberg paradigm was management heavy. They had to cut teachers because they had no money. Or the Bloomberg model is for the upper tier, not the workers.
That’s just a perfunctory comparison. It doesn’t begin to talk to the lack of student services, inability to handle intramural sports, etc.
But it looked good on paper.
About looking good: would you rather own a football team that wins the Super Bowl but doesn’t look so pretty doing it or a team that has great style and panache but can’t win?
Obama looked and talked great. He was pretty. Bush looked okay and talked like a president, whatever that means. So they were okay except for policy differences. Enmity and personal dislike were not real factors, not that they didn’t exist but…you get the point.
Trump talks different, is a bit more crass and crude, not all that different from LBJ, who was cruder and got a pass. But Trump, if you listen to the off-the-wall Democrats, is the end of the world as we know it.
So, for all our technological advances, is this all we are?
My God! The smarter we get and the more we know, the more stupid we become.
If you listen to today’s discourse, nearly every bit of rationality and factual verification is absent. Not many, if any, of our politicians are interested in logic or truth. They say the most outrageous things and expect us to go for it. They call us deplorable, say we’re too stupid to know what we want as a people and then they do what they want.
If you look at them and where we’re at, with as much money being spent by one person on mere advertising as it would take to completely fix the homeless problem in California, you just can’t help but wonder: is this it? Is this all we are, all we’ve come to? Is this all we’ll ever be?
