Officer Derbyshire

He'll take your kids to school:

I'm going to continue voting down any and all local spending proposals every chance I get. You'll cut school buses? I have a car. You'll cut police? I have guns.

Of course, school buses are to help people who don't have cars or who have to work 50 hours a week and don't have the time to drive their kids to school.

And I bet John has a hose. So who needs firefighters? And with a first aid kit, John can heal himself after his gunfight with a masked intruder. No more hospital aid! Maybe John could get a road paver as well. And we all waste tame at those unnecessary street lights...

There's more from John:

Good point from a reader: "A quick way to debunk the 'we need more money' claims from public schools: calculate how much they are spending per class.

"Lets suppose the district is spending $8,000 per student, which I believe is below the national average and well below what they spend in your region. If each class has 20 students, which again would be quite low, they are spending $160,000 per class. If there are 25 students then its $200,000. On what? Pay the teacher $80,000 and you still have $80,000 left for the building, administrators, buses, books, etc, $120,000 if you use the bigger class.

When I went to school, we also had more than one class. We had eight of them, if I remember right. Which works out to $1,000 per student per class. Which would be great if school only went for one day a year.

Of course, the real problem is illegal immigrants.