> If only government spending was thrifty. I know of a government agency that allotted a few thousand dollars for a desk that could be found easily at a cheaper price elsewhere, and at the same time I have volunteered at a local public school for desperately disabled and underpriviledged children where teachers pull over a hundred dollars EACH out of their paychecks every year to give these kids the supplies and resources they need.
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> Our tax dollars hard at work.
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> Dagmar

Oh, I agree. It's ridiculous that teachers have to spend their own money for that. I heard on the news last night that in Oklahoma teachers frequently spend as much as $600 of their own money for supplies for their students. And all so somebody can have a desk from *that* store instead of *that* one. I think they ought to buy them from Wal-Mart and put them together themselves.