Red Oak ISD | Teacher Pay Raises in THIS Economy?

Waxahachie ISD kinda ticked off the process, but the economically brain-dead in Red Oak voted to give their employees a pay raise. Oh, no, Joey isn't for the teachers. Actually I am. I'm for every government employee learning about basic economics. This is a hugely disastrous example of how government can seemingly be the only industry in our land that doles out pay raises in the worst economic depression since The Depression.

How in the world can this go on any further? You people are economically retarded, those that won't call a spade a spade...regardless if there's money in the kitty for pay raises, giving them out in a Depression-like economy is the most ridiculous move one could make.

Only in government...

We'll see how long this lasts in the $95 million-and-counting Red Oak High School that taxpayers are on the hook for...it's pretty, yes, but all of these things will come home to roost in the form of more and more payments on debt.

See, if Red Oak ISD and other school districts had to compete in the real world on a free enterprise, capitalist system, the employees would have to actually show something in order to get pay raises. We wouldn't be spending either, we'd be cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting.

Run it like a business? Yeah right. Running it like government. Never fails. Never surprises me.

Red Oak | For Once Can the Free Market Win Out?

In the Waxahachie Daily Light, I took issue with this paragraph:
Rudolph recommended contracting with a single service as a result of resident complaints of high cost for tows.
The article is about the Red Oak City Council tabling a towing contract. I didn't read the entire article due to the idiotic subscription one must pay to read the stuff that you will eventually get on my blog for free anyway. But, allow me to inject some free market views here:
1) High prices for towing contracts are caused by government-created monopolies. If people didn't want to pay high prices to one company, they could and should go to another one.

2) Economies cannot be centrally planned. They have never worked. So why would Chief Rudolph think that only one service being allowed to do business in the city (i.e., "towing") settle this?
If Tow Company A charged $75 for one vehicle and people thought that was too high, the concept is not to go with one company exclusively that is lower than that price. IT is to make it to where five, eight, 24 companies are operating within the city. More competition brings lower prices.

It's science. It's also fact.

Think of it this way: (using these as examples only)

1. Roach Waste Services charge residential customers say, $35 per month; residents think this is too high. So, residents have other companies to consider, such as DCI out of Ennis or (God forbid) IESI out of ...Hell. By increasing the competiton instead of making a monopoly, you produce lower prices...
Same for ambulance/EMS services. Why contract with only one company? Why not have East Texas EMS, CareFlite, AirEvac and others perform the same services in one town, or one taxing entity, instead of a monopolized contract with only one company?

The free market will work if you give it a chance...instead of monopolizing things. Next up on the list should be utilities and schools.

Texas was never fully deregulated, and if I ever hear of a grown man or woman in elective/appointed office ever say that it was deregulated, I want to spank them. Oncor still owns the lines. There are dozens of companies ready to bill you, but only one state-protected monopoly controls the lines.

Competition works just fine in education in Red Oak, too. Look at Life Charter School. Huge success. Lots of parents just waiting in line to put their kids in that school.

With so much money being spent on "education," you would think you geniuses with your college degrees and your "leadership" could factor this sorta economic material into your voting decisions...