I urge all my fellow Long Islanders who read The Corner to go out and vote
down the school budgets being presented to us today. In my town, the budget
proposal asks for an increase of 5.52 percent over last year. Did your
family’s income increase 5.52 percent last year? If not, you can’t afford
this budget. The only way to kill socialism is to starve the beast–cut off
its food supply. Vote down the budget and keep voting it down, till the
school boards get the message that in tough times, the public sector has to
tighten its belt with the rest of us. Similarly, when you vote for school
board members, vote for the ones who are NOT shills for the public-sector
unions. It’s not hard to figure out who they are from their mission
statements.