The government Protection Racket is in full bloom and the aforementioned were awarded between 2.36% & 5.61% raises to Fort Smith school employees this date.

Government employees across the board already rake in 20-27.5% more than private sector employees who are subsidizing this metastasizing government behemoth.  How long has it been since the individuals subsidizing this grand legalized theft have received a raise and how many have lost employment, while government school employees rub salt into the wounds of the producers with regularity. You know, “cost of living”.

Government schools are failed institutions and their principal commodities are propagandizing, indoctrination and using their corrupt unions to navigate channels that produce political & economic gain, e.g. Ozark Assistant Superintendent & State Representative Bill Gossage who languishes in Little Rock for one school semester.   This can only be construed as insider trading and spending what amounts to a school semester in the Arkansas General Assembly, why is he employed by the Ozark school system?  This self-service is just a tip of the iceberg and an example of gross taxpayer abuse.

Recall when Obama dumped out billions for bail-outs and so called “Recoveries”.  Arkansas school teachers received $93 million distributed throughout the system on janitors and up—a nice corrupt $700 stipend for each school employee.  There was nothing to bailout in the school system and that $700 giveaway demonstrates the lack of character in the so-called education system and vote buying.

The Fort Smith School Board can only be construed as pawns of Gooden and these people often serve more as the employees of the teacher’s union than as their managers—case in point: the repugnant raise discussed above.

Not only have the public unions too often become the dominant partner in the relationship with elected officials, but the contract and the spending that goes with them set other policy agendas.

40% of the Arkansas state legislature is composed of government employees and/or individuals with government ties. Whose interests do you think they serve? Doesn’t say much for the voting public’s mentality does it?

Joe McCutchen
arkansasfreedom.net