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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon, Feb 22 2010, 8:30 am EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">How is publius right? It is a rant. There are no facts. No logical or coherent argument. To my point however, it has nothing to do with Cranbury. The past year we have listened to those on the right and the left post screeds like publius. Fine, but on this forum try to make your tinfoil screeds relevent to Cranbury. I am sure someone can link David Stout to some international cabal.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Sorry to have offended your upper-class, genteel, Victorian sensibilities, Mr. Spock!</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Feb 20 2010, 9:28 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>wage war wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">“The state’s policies have failed to extend a lifeline to many low-income kids in districts with high numbers of chronically underperforming schools,” Mr. Bradford said.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />As taxpayers, we have sent millions of dollars to the Abbott districts. These schools continue to underperform, which illustrates the fact that money is not the answer.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />If the parents are busy making ends meet, then the education of their kids is mainly on the shoulders of the school teachers. One way is to put the money on the teachers...</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Instead of perpetuating and expanding a system of government sponsored slavery, require employers to pay a living wage and require people to succeed or fail based on their own decisions.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Someone has to teach our kids. protect us..... The private sector can't provide these services any cheaper or with more quality than government employees. So let's top making our schoolteachers and firefighters the bad guys. God bless America and Cranbury</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I don't see how your comment is related to those above it.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Feb 20 2010, 8:31 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>wage war wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">“The state’s policies have failed to extend a lifeline to many low-income kids in districts with high numbers of chronically underperforming schools,” Mr. Bradford said.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />As taxpayers, we have sent millions of dollars to the Abbott districts. These schools continue to underperform, which illustrates the fact that money is not the answer.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />If the parents are busy making ends meet, then the education of their kids is mainly on the shoulders of the school teachers. One way is to put the money on the teachers...</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Instead of perpetuating and expanding a system of government sponsored slavery, require employers to pay a living wage and require people to succeed or fail based on their own decisions.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Someone has to teach our kids. protect us..... The private sector can't provide these services any cheaper or with more quality than government employees. So let's top making our schoolteachers and firefighters the bad guys. God bless America and Cranbury</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>wage war</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sat, Feb 20 2010, 11:39 am EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">“The state’s policies have failed to extend a lifeline to many low-income kids in districts with high numbers of chronically underperforming schools,” Mr. Bradford said.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />As taxpayers, we have sent millions of dollars to the Abbott districts. These schools continue to underperform, which illustrates the fact that money is not the answer.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />If the parents are busy making ends meet, then the education of their kids is mainly on the shoulders of the school teachers. One way is to put the money on the teachers...</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Instead of perpetuating and expanding a system of government sponsored slavery, require employers to pay a living wage and require people to succeed or fail based on their own decisions.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2010, 11:40 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">How is publius right? It is a rant. There are no facts. No logical or coherent argument. To my point however, it has nothing to do with Cranbury. The past year we have listened to those on the right and the left post screeds like publius. Fine, but on this forum try to make your tinfoil screeds relevent to Cranbury. I am sure someone can link David Stout to some international cabal.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>pookie103</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2010, 10:49 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>publius wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">You do realize there are people working on Wall St. for those firms who are making less than our teachers, police, etc...These people depend on the firms making money. We have a friend who was paid 35,000 as an admin with Lehman and was let go. She is still out of work.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Good job twisting my message. <br />Malefactors of wealth are not the secretaries and barrow-boys who work ON THE STREET. <br />I mean the muckity-mucks who pull the strings in this country. The ones who are in bed with lawmakers and lobbyists who make dirty deals behind closed doors and use OUR tax money to pay for their stupidity and greed! <br />They claim that they are too big to fail. Maybe, they should be cut down to size a bit and not allowed to get to be so big in the first place. <br />And what is the deal with retention bonuses? <br />We have to spend money to retain the morons who structured this debacle in the first place? <br />I know why these big shots go into finance in the first place. It's THE perfect place for a scoundrel (dirtbag) to hide and make a fortune at the public's expense. <br />Forget about Obama! <br />He is also part of the problem. <br />Summers and Geithner and those guys are all in the same boat together. Nobody wants to bite the hand which feeds them. <br />I believe that our nation is doomed. Its much too late to fix things. Just grab whatever you can and hold on for dear life, its going to be a bumpy ride!</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Tinfoil hat posts are some of the most entertaining on this board. They may be nuts but at least they have to do with Cranbury. Please contain your ravings to include Cranbury content.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />As far as tinfoil hat goes........................how is publius wrong? <br />The crooks who run the financial, political and economic spheres of this country are all raping us all blind. <br />Maybe, you just haven't bothered to notice?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>publius</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2010, 10:47 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Uh-Oh...........it appears that I may have ruffled the feathers of some muckity-mucks who probably work on Wall St. <br />I know how it works. <br />They throw you minions a few crumbs and then you defend them tooth & nail when they rob the rest of us blind for your benefit. <br />Lemme guess. Goldman Sachs? <br />They pretty much own this country, anyway. <br />That guy who flew his plane into that building was probably driven mad by the injustices that he saw inherent in our current system. <br />The rich get richer by sucking the marrow from the middle-class. <br />Talk about your glass ceiling!!!!!!!!!!!! <br />I know that you moneybags don't like to talk about class warfare because you know that if The People ever caught onto your shell game, they would tar & feather you and run you out of town on a rail like they should to all the dirty dealers who (mis)handle OUR money. <br />I know that Cranbury is imune to the vaguries of the larger world. <br />The moneychangers feel safe in their incestuous, insulated little world here.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2010, 3:33 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>publius wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">You do realize there are people working on Wall St. for those firms who are making less than our teachers, police, etc...These people depend on the firms making money. We have a friend who was paid 35,000 as an admin with Lehman and was let go. She is still out of work.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Good job twisting my message. <br />Malefactors of wealth are not the secretaries and barrow-boys who work ON THE STREET. <br />I mean the muckity-mucks who pull the strings in this country. The ones who are in bed with lawmakers and lobbyists who make dirty deals behind closed doors and use OUR tax money to pay for their stupidity and greed! <br />They claim that they are too big to fail. Maybe, they should be cut down to size a bit and not allowed to get to be so big in the first place. <br />And what is the deal with retention bonuses? <br />We have to spend money to retain the morons who structured this debacle in the first place? <br />I know why these big shots go into finance in the first place. It's THE perfect place for a scoundrel (dirtbag) to hide and make a fortune at the public's expense. <br />Forget about Obama! <br />He is also part of the problem. <br />Summers and Geithner and those guys are all in the same boat together. Nobody wants to bite the hand which feeds them. <br />I believe that our nation is doomed. Its much too late to fix things. Just grab whatever you can and hold on for dear life, its going to be a bumpy ride!</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Tinfoil hat posts are some of the most entertaining on this board. They may be nuts but at least they have to do with Cranbury. Please contain your ravings to include Cranbury content.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2010, 3:30 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>publius wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">When they say wealthy, do they mean the malefactors of great wealth like the crooks on Wall Street and BIG corporate America? <br /> <br />just wondering</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />With all do respect Publius this comment has nothing, nothing to do with the wealth gap in public schools. It is an interesting rant, but it also has nothing to do with Cranbury. Currently there are plenty of message boards filled with populist screeds against Wall Street and Corporate America. Go to one of these sites, you will enjoy yourself.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest 2</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2010, 1:29 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Hey publius . . . you don't fly planes do you???? Your rant sounds familiar.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>publius</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2010, 11:09 am EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">You do realize there are people working on Wall St. for those firms who are making less than our teachers, police, etc...These people depend on the firms making money. We have a friend who was paid 35,000 as an admin with Lehman and was let go. She is still out of work.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Good job twisting my message. <br />Malefactors of wealth are not the secretaries and barrow-boys who work ON THE STREET. <br />I mean the muckity-mucks who pull the strings in this country. The ones who are in bed with lawmakers and lobbyists who make dirty deals behind closed doors and use OUR tax money to pay for their stupidity and greed! <br />They claim that they are too big to fail. Maybe, they should be cut down to size a bit and not allowed to get to be so big in the first place. <br />And what is the deal with retention bonuses? <br />We have to spend money to retain the morons who structured this debacle in the first place? <br />I know why these big shots go into finance in the first place. It's THE perfect place for a scoundrel (dirtbag) to hide and make a fortune at the public's expense. <br />Forget about Obama! <br />He is also part of the problem. <br />Summers and Geithner and those guys are all in the same boat together. Nobody wants to bite the hand which feeds them. <br />I believe that our nation is doomed. Its much too late to fix things. Just grab whatever you can and hold on for dear life, its going to be a bumpy ride!</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2010, 10:00 am EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">“The state’s policies have failed to extend a lifeline to many low-income kids in districts with high numbers of chronically underperforming schools,” Mr. Bradford said.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />As taxpayers, we have sent millions of dollars to the Abbott districts. These schools continue to underperform, which illustrates the fact that money is not the answer.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />If the parents are busy making ends meet, then the education of their kids is mainly on the shoulders of the school teachers. One way is to put the money on the teachers, so that the children can stay in school and be taught by the teachers longer. <br /> <br />I heard on the NPR radio a few months ago about a school in NYC that educates kids in poor-neighborhoods from early morning to late evening. The students are given an incredible amount of work to do to get even with the more affluent kids. The school is so successful that a majority of the students graduated to attend colleges.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2010, 9:21 am EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">“The state’s policies have failed to extend a lifeline to many low-income kids in districts with high numbers of chronically underperforming schools,” Mr. Bradford said.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />As taxpayers, we have sent millions of dollars to the Abbott districts. These schools continue to underperform, which illustrates the fact that money is not the answer.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri, Feb 19 2010, 7:26 am EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">You do realize there are people working on Wall St. for those firms who are making less than our teachers, police, etc...These people depend on the firms making money. We have a friend who was paid 35,000 as an admin with Lehman and was let go. She is still out of work.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>publius</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2010, 11:50 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">When they say wealthy, do they mean the malefactors of great wealth like the crooks on Wall Street and BIG corporate America? <br /> <br />just wondering</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu, Feb 18 2010, 9:58 pm EST<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Wealth Gap for Schools in New Jersey Is the Highest</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Wealth? wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">... <br />Wealth is not annual income.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Right, anyone can go broke if the income cannot support the expenses. <br /> <br />But I believe most high income people are not senseless spenders (i.e. they will invest and save portion of their income). That's why most high income people are not poor.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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