Short Term Comfort, Long Term Problems

Fiscal discipline is unpopular!!

Stimulants make a human or corporate body feel good temporarily, although easy to swallow they blur reality. They also lead to massive hangovers.

The inclusion in the Plan A of the 2009/10 Delaware Valley School District Budget of federal stimulants at first made everyone on the DV school board giddy with "hope". Millions of dollars to spend without consequence or pain. Last night we witnessed board members in the depths of despair, an almost depression like response, to the news that less stimulant was coming. The hangover is next. Parents be prepared!!!. Everyone has locked unbreakable contracts except your children. Board member Wrobleski constantly reminded the audience that full day kindergarten is not state mandated. Taxpayer United candidates in the past have railed against athletic programs all of which are not state mandated. Many other programs like transportation to and from school is not totally state funded or mandated.

A true fiscal conservative, as I am, would never have allowed the stimulant into the budgetary system. Artificial stimulants like steroids look good in the short run but kill your vital components rapidly. A good looking corpse is still not alive.

The need for a long term multi-year approach to budgeting has never been more clear at the Delaware Valley School District. Removal of the stimulant and hard choices about what is necessary in the budget would have shown more clearly the financial situation at DV.

Instead the DV School Board drank the kool-aid and are asking all the taxpayers to do the same.

I say resist .

Best regards,

JACK FISHER - Candidate for Delaware Valley School Board