That's What It's All About!

Out of the mouths of babes!!!!!!

After all these years, I finally figured out what it's all about.  Finally......  And the clue came from Ashley, so simply.  It's the Hokey Pokey!!!!!!  She was singing and dancing it this AM and shaking and putting in and putting out and...closing with "That's what it's all about!"  How simple!  Now, if I can remember that.

Not quite as profound is the publication of Sen Tom Coburn (R-OK)'s 2013 Wastebook.  It highlights numerous (more than 100 examples) of gross waste in federal spending.  Here are some examples:  The federal gov't spent almost $400,000 on a YouTube video that tells school kids to "stand up" to climate change.  Then there were $10,000,000 spent to promote the National Guard in the latest Superman movie. Another $400,000 was devoted to studying whether Tea Partiers are "dumb." (Now, I can think of other people to "study" on that matter.)  Not quite a million bucks were spent for another "study," romance (whatever that is) in the media--huh?  Coburn's documented examples total about $30 billion, what he claims are "a small fraction of the more than $200 billion we throw away every year through waste, fraud, duplication, and mismanagement."  Yet, we continue to do it year after year after year.  Now, about that study to determine who's "dumb......"

A recent monster.com survey revealed that high school teachers tied for second in regretting their jobs, that is, taking them.  It's not a surprise and, my guess is that regret will grow with all of the government interference (from people who have no idea what quality education entails).  Reasons cited included that they didn't realize what the job requires.  Of course, almost everyone thinks teaching is easy. After all, everyone went to school and saw how easy it is; everything runs so smoothly.  And no doubt they remember the teachers who really didn't do much.  Also cited were an uncaring "bureaucracy," the modest pay (The best teachers are vastly underpaid; those not-so-good very much overpaid.), unwillingness of students to work hard, lack of resources and support.  Many didn't realize the school politics involved, which might well be an indictment of the lack of administrative leadership and understanding of the rigors of quality education.  Each of the other five "most regretted" jobs were significantly lower in pay, explaining their rankings.  But that teacher pay is higher than the others also speaks volumes about the job itself.

Now, if I can only remember, "That's what it's all about......"