ICE is offering a $45,000 SIGNING BONUS plus $100,000 starting salary.

I make $55,000 as a teacher in my 8th year with a Masters.

It was never true that wE dOn'T hAvE eNoUgH mOnEy to pay teachers more. It was always intentional. Education has been INTENTIONALLY defunded for decades because an educated populous is a threat to power. Read the books. Do the work. They are TERRIFIED of education.

Accurate. Also “populace” (noun), not “populous” (adjective).

I’m seeing this error quite often. Autocorrect, perhaps?

Doesn't matter what country you are USA or UK (other countries are available)

The oft use phrases

'We don't have the funding' .. 'Their is no money available' .. 'We cannot afford to do that' etc

Are all lies

And here I was wondering how they would fill up their ranks. I looked it up, starting salary for the army is Private First Class $25,297.20, if your a are married private (E2) in Fort Campbell, KY, with less than two years of service and all bonuses you'll be at $67,285.

This is how they bypass trained soldiers not obeying illegal orders. Damn.

back in the 80s conservatives had my dad and others convinced that school was a waste of money and was just "good people paying to raise welfare kids". he voted for oregon's ballot measure 5 which limited the state's ability to use property tax to fund schools. in the following years we saw schools cut music, shop and media production classes and cut a week or so at the end of the year to make up budget deficits.

it gives me a bit of shadenfreude to see people who supported this back then melt down about how nobody wants to have kids now.

Doesn't seem like the OP numbers are correct. The GS pay scale starts at 22k$ a year if you start with no qualifications. It can reach up to 122k$ but that appears to be rare that you would ever start at that level.

The point is still valid of course, the budgets seem to be available but not sure they are spent on people here either
opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/…

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@barryjsullivan @waynedixon

Yes... that's the best adjective to describe it and I wish people would stop pretending.

@tseitr

🤣 I totally believed it... then again I don't go really...