Showing posts with label Living wage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Living wage. Show all posts

Friday, May 1, 2015

Are Teachers In Gloucester, Virginia Being Paid Enough?

If you have been watching the local Board of Supervisors meeting about the present budget or watching the school board meetings, there is always a cry that the county is under funding the school board and that teachers simply are not getting the pay they deserve.

  What are the real facts about this claim?  From the looks of it: teachers are paid above a living wage.  For years it was always claimed that teachers were not being paid enough money and that what they were being paid fell below or at best was just barely a minimum living wage.  A living wage has nothing to do with minimum wages in general.  A living wage in the present economy is about $45,000.00 per year.  Anything above that level allows a better standard of living.

The present pay for teachers in Gloucester is an average of over $49,000.00 per year which is above the $45,000.00 level allowing for an above minimum living wage for their positions.  Assistant principles and principles in my view are way overpaid for their positions exceeding $86,000.00 for the average Principle here in Gloucester and above $60,000.00 for assistant principles affording comfortable living wages for these folks.  If they are not making it on those salaries, then they have serious cash management issues they personally need to address.

  School programs have all been cut to bare bones while pay for teachers, assistant principle, principles and the tremendous bloat of administrative personnel runs rampant.  It has now become more advantageous to work in the public sector than to work in the private sector.  A complete inversion of the way it used to be for well over a century.



2014 2015 Virginia Teachers Salary Report from Chuck Thompson

The above information shows where we got our numbers from used in this article.  So the next time you hear anyone complaining that teachers are not being paid enough and that the school board needs more money, you need to stop and ask a lot of questions.  Who is making the claim?  Why are they making that claim?  What is that claim based on?  How are they justifying those claims?

  When it comes to playing with numbers: anyone can play with the figures to make them say anything they want them to say.  I can always justify why I do not have enough money at anytime for any reason.   The bigger the budget the easier it is to create the claim of shortage to meet the budget.  Inflating a budget is a very easy trick to pull as well.  

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Gloucester, VA Sheriff's Deputies Prepare For Tough Day At Hardee's


A number of Gloucester, Virginia Sheriff's Deputies decided to start their day off by fueling up with breakfast at Hardee's restaurant this morning, December 17th, 2013 around 7:00 AM.  We trolled into the parking lot and sniped this picture and then trolled back out.  Sorry it's not very clear, the stupid flash went off on us, so what you are seeing is the glare.  This time of year the deputies need to make sure they are ready for a tough day as this is the time of year that shoplifting really picks up as people who can not earn a living wage figure out some way to pick up the slack for the lack of money they have coming in.

  That means lot's of extra calls to the Sheriff's office and lot's of extra responses by the deputies to charge these people because they didn't have the money to pay for what they tried to leave the store with.  (Bet if more people earned a living wage, there would be less shoplifting and less jail overcrowding).  We trolled over to the sidelines to see if maybe the deputies might be trying to prevent government employees from using government vehicles for personal use.  Turns out that this was not the case as VDOT came in and got breakfast and the deputies did nothing.  So it was a meeting to plan the day for shop with a cop and also prepare for those extra shoplifting calls.

  At least we know they are out and protecting our parking lots.  The Hamburgler dares not come into this lot boy.  At least not by Hardee's.  These folks have a tough job and it's this time of year that we all should make sure we thank them for all the hard work they do for us and their extra level of protection they bring to us.
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

What Mitt Romney Does Not Want You To See



Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts,...
Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, 2008 US presidential candidate. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
First off in Mitt Romney's defense, he has to speak to his target audience in a way that he knows they are going to respond.  This is a real press nightmare for Mitt Romney because most people are not going to understand this and the press will play it in a very negative way and that is a shame.

  On the other side of the coin, if you ask the people on Welfare if they want to be on welfare, most would tell you that they would rather work a meaningful job for a living wage.  Most employers no longer pay a living wage to the vast majority of the work force.  And that issue continues to grow by the day.  More jobs leave this country everyday and there are no new jobs coming in to replace them.   So what are people supposed to do, bend over and just die because they can not work?

  Is Mitt supposed to address people he is trying to get money from by accusing them of not paying a living wage to their employees and telling them they need to come up with more money for the work force?  Not a good plan.  Will not raise a dime if he were to do that.  He would not gain a penny from backers he is trying to build.

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  Want some more disturbing news about this video?  It's been around for months waiting in the closet for the right opportunity to attack Romney's campaign.  this video was from a fund raiser that occurred months ago and was just posted on Youtube yesterday, September 17th, 2012.  Why was this video held back for so long from the public?  As usual from what we have been showing you, throw some truth at people then throw some disinformation next to make your story believable.



More video that they detached from the first section.  How much of the video on the entire picture are we missing?  Are sections just cut out to make Mitt look bad?  Of course they are.  Is there more to this video that we should see but probably never will?  Most likely.



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