state of oregon budget cuts: My family has to cut back, maybe you should do the same thing! - 07/10/09 04:33 PM
 
Mark MacKenzie wrote a great article the other day that was about how local governments are finding their budgets are being cut because the house values are dropping.
My comment slowly became its own post.
You see the problem with government in the past 50 years or so is that they can’t seem to budget as a family would budget. When my family doesn’t make enough money because I didn’t sell as many houses one month or the houses I sold were at the lower end of the market, my family cuts back, we decide what we need and what we want has … (21 comments)

state of oregon budget cuts: Beaverton Oregon Home Schooling – Where public and private don’t meet in the middle - 02/26/09 04:10 AM
Asa parent with two parents as public school teachers,a brother who teaches at a middle school in Tigard, and grandparents onbothsides of my family who were also teachers, this sometimes can be atouchysubject. But, you know what? Ibelieve what we are doing for our kids is the right thing.
Schools today try to teachto a test or to the dumbestkid in the class, so they don’tmakecertain kids feel bad about themselves. This basically makes our smartchildrendumber and does nothing for the kids who really need just some one onone help.
But, that isn’treally what this post is about. This post is about thebudget … (14 comments)

 
Todd Clark - Retired, Principle Broker Oregon (eXp Realty LLC)

Todd Clark - Retired

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