What's Wrong With Some Of These Cops?

Seriously what would you do?
Ever see some of those shoulders along route 22 or portions of the Pa. NE Turnpike. I'd rather risk another charge for not pulling over till the next grassy area or exit area. Never would I imagine a hot dog with a badge would wreck me like I just committed murder. He must have watched too many action movies. Could have wrecked himself along with a few other cars. Why is it some of these guys seem to find the need to escalate situations?

These are the kind that keep lawyers rich at taxpayers expense.

Why We Have A immigration Problem At The Border

There is a lot of information available about the U.S. tinkering in South American affairs for decades. I'm not going to go into great length about this. If anyone's interested they can research this for themselves. I will say this. The immigration problem is largely of our own making. Call it karma if you will. We are by no means innocent when it comes to the problems we unnecessarily create for ourselves both within and without.

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Allentown School District Is A Mess

ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA, In 2012, the average teacher salary in Allentown School District was $63,480 a year, while the cost of the benefits teachers received was $19,845 per employee, for a total annual average teacher compensation of $83,325... .

WFMZ: The budget for 2021-2022 will be approximately $365M+. Two thirds which comes from federal and state funding. This along with a 4.6% tax increase. The largest allowed by law.

ACCORDING TO PUBLICSCHOOLREVIEW.COM The school district's spending/student of $19,320 is higher than the state median of $15,178... Public schools in Allentown City School District have an average math proficiency score of 21% (versus the Pennsylvania public school average of 45%), and reading proficiency score of 36% (versus the 63% statewide average). This district's average testing ranking is 2/10, which is in the bottom 50% of public schools in Pennsylvania.

Parkland School District spends about $17,122 per student. Why is Allentown spending over a couple thousand dollars more? Mismanagement or for concentrating more on social needs rather then basic education like reading, writing arithmetic?

I don't have the answer but I do know this. The Allentown school district is definitely not heading in the right direction. I see little chance of it ever doing so. Maybe it's time we look towards hiring someone from the business sector who has a good sense on how to handle finances heading up this monstrosity.

One thing is for sure we never had any luck hiring someone from another district elsewhere. We already have plenty of staff to handle the educational aspects (maybe too many). I think this district now needs a sound fiscal manager from the private sector rather then another grifter from some other school district.

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Future U.S. Food Supply In Jeopardy

While everyone is going through their mental gymnastics bitching about their political and ethnic differences this reality is largely going unnoticed. This country better get it's act together quickly. Start working with each and other on the "REAL" problems facing us. If not, none of this bellyaching divisivness will very much matter if we all go down the tubes together with little food or water in 1/3 of the country.

Once there was a time surrounding the Egytian pyramids fields were lush and green. Time and again past civilizations were driven from their lands when they became no longer viable. Don't think for a moment it can't happen here. The earth is an ever changing place favoring no one.

Barack Obama- Saving America's Democracy

Democracy, like the economy, grows from the bottom up. Not the top down.

FRANCE 24 A Good Source Of News

A portion of my day is taken up watching "France 24". It's available on most cable channels and on YouTube. American news providers ignore just about everything else going on in the world. Thus many people in the United States remain ignorant of things going on in the world around them. Not only that I find most American news sources very biased. "France 24" much less so. I highly recommend taking a few minutes out of your daily routine to watch them.

Changing how we do our grocery shopping



Kamala Harris's first foreign trip.

How The U.S. RUINED Puerto Rico

Think what was said in that video. 85% of everything has to be imported strictly from the United States. This because Puerto Rico isn't allowed to trade with anyone other then the United States. Thus when we in the states pay import fees then ship this same stuff to the island there are additional export fees on these same items. Thus P.R. gets screwed since both costs are passed down to them. Plus all fossil fuels are forced to come from the United States.

In other words we treat Puerto Rico like crap. This doesn't speak well of us. Don't even get me started about Cuba. Seems we like to keep everyone else poor. Well maybe not all of us...

moran.senate.gov
Sens. Moran, Klobuchar, Leahy Introduce Legislation to Lift Cuba Trade Embargo
(May 21, 2021) "The unilateral trade embargo on Cuba blocks our own farmers, ranchers and manufacturers from selling into a market only 90 miles from our shoreline, while foreign competitors such as China benefit at our expense,” said Sen. Moran... The U.S. International Trade Commission found that if restrictions on trade with Cuba had been lifted, exports like wheat, rice, corn and soybeans could increase by 166 percent within five years to a total of about $800 million."

Not to mention how many would like to take cruises/planes to vacation there. Keep in mind Cuba isn't building bombs nor nukes which threaten us. In fact about their biggest contribution to this southern region is it's training of doctors.

What are we afraid of from these Caribbean nations.. competition?
Or is it we just plain don't like so-called foreigners?

Seems to me we try to keep other nations poor so we can live large. If so, this game can only last so long.