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Lampasshole Solution To LISD “Teacher Shortage”

Today’s Dispatch tells us that LISD is “seeking alternative ways to hire more teachers”. Apparently the guy in charge of this effort will be “doctor” Chane Rascoe.

[Rascoe is the guy who makes well over $200,000 in salary and benefits every single year and educates exactly zero students.]

I’m guessing the eventual answer will be “we need more money”, as it usually is. This may shock you, but I’m OK with that.

However, that money doesn’t need to come out of the taxpayer’s ass. The taxpayer is already soaked hard at the local, state and federal level to keep a lot of people fat and well-paid. Resources are limited and we are all tapped out here in the private sector, buddy.

I propose to start cutting salaries of the Nerf positions and eliminating a lot of bullshit paper-pushers outright. Those savings can then be used to hire more REAL teachers. You know, the ones who stand up there and TEACH and deal with asshole kids all day, rather than push papers around in the back office.

The increase in administrators and “other” employees has FAR outstripped growth in student enrollment…

***WAY more staff and administrators per pupil***

So, let’s see where there is fat to cut, shall we?

Chane Rascoe: Slash his salary by 20%. It is outrageous that this guy costs taxpayers about $18,000 per MONTH and presumably gets summers off. I just saved you about $40,000. If he doesn’t like it, show him the door. I hear Wal-Mart is hiring truck drivers.

Eliminate the assistant superintendent position. I have no idea who it is since Bott left. I’m guessing nobody reading this has any idea either….so he can’t be THAT important. Whoever he is, he makes over $111,000 and educates nobody. He can go drive trucks too. I just saved you another $111,000 to hire real teachers with.

In fact, eliminate just about any job title with “assistant” in it. That goes for all the assistant principals.

Eliminate more Nerf jobs altogether:

Occupational therapist? Sounds like bullshit. Bye bye. Just saved you another $76,000 to hire real teachers with.

Educational diagnostician? Sounds even more bullshitty – possibly the biggest joke job in the world. Eliminate it. Saved you another $76,000 right there.

What are we up to now…about $300,000? That was easy. Let’s see what else…

School counselor? Gimme a break. MAYBE you need one or two of them at the high school level to help you decide what to do with your life. There is no need for that at any other school. Your parents should be your counselor. We never had any of that shit in my grade schools. There are NINE school counselors listed on the first 3 pages of the LISD salary site. That is insane. Say goodbye to seven of them at about $65,000 each – just saved you another $455,000.

I have now saved about three quarters of a million dollars ANNUALLY. But we aren’t done yet!

Psychologist? See “counselor” above. LISD salary site lists FOUR psychologists in the first three pages of salaries – at about $57,000 each, I just saved you another $228,000.

They WILL have to spend $19.99 to replace all those psychologists though. Meet your new psychologist:

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If you think this is all outlandish and we can’t POSSIBLY get rid of all these important people, I give you this chart yet again:

I’ve ranted before about how my grade school was run with very few people and a class size of 30 kids. I would also argue that kids were FAR better educated back in the 1950s and 1970s than they are now. We spend a LOT more money for shittier results. That is a fact you cannot deny.

Part of the problem is an absolute explosion in “administration and other staff”. You see the same thing at hospitals. Time to slash and burn, baby. There are TONS of jobs going unfilled out here in the real world. Time to wean some of these people off the government titmilk for good.

LEDC and City Council Predictions From Exactly 5-7 Years Ago Are Completely Wrong. Why Keep Believing Them???

This month, the LEDC will embark on spending ANOTHER $2.7 million on the train wreck known as the Business Pork project. Supposedly, THAT will finally make the project “super duper shovel ready” starting in May 2023 – a mere 19 years after purchasing the property.

Here are some predictions from the wizards in charge of the Lampasas Economic Development Corp and City council from almost exactly five and seven years ago. These are all predictions about the Business Pork project after they spent millions of dollars – all taken from the local newspaper The Lampasas Dispatch Record:

“Ms. Toups said she wants to continue to provide infrastructure to develop the business park — which she said Harrison spoke against publicly. Ms. Toups said through the Lampasas Economic Development Corp.’s hard work, “we are on the verge of seeing large corporations come in [to the business park].” – April 21, 2017

[On the verge? BAHAHAHAHA!]

“DeGraffenried said the LEDC was bold in its decisions to purchase the business park property and extend utilities to it. The city manager predicted Lampasas will enjoy many “spin-off benefits” throughout the city because of the utility work. ” – Oct 23, 2015

[Spin-off benefits = new fishing boat for Pope Eckermann]

“Recent land clearing and development of a road at the business park, Mrs. Masonheimer added, have made the site more attractive to prospective businesses and U.S. 183 passersby.” – Oct 23, 2015 [Masonheimer was Mandy Walsh’s predecessor]

[So attractive that it sits empty seven years later!]

“An economic study in 2001, [Neal] Leavell said, concluded a business park was the main item Lampasas needed to attract development.” – Oct 23, 2015

[The 2001 “study” was clearly wrong!]

“We look forward to working with you and working to fill this business park with good jobs,” she said [Carol Faulkenberry, Texas Dept Agriculture] – Oct 23, 2015

[Fill? There still isn’t ONE job…unless you count the small fortune Pope Eckermann has made off of these clowns]

**Sample of money already wasted in 2014, 2015, 2016**

“Mrs. [TJ] Monroenoted the Lampasas Economic Development Corp. is working with the business park south of town on U.S. Highway 183, and she said she hopes the site will attract good employers to Lampasas. [Council member TJ Monroe] – April 14, 2015

[No employers attracted yet – but one murderer was attracted enough to dump a corpse there!]

“The incumbent said the city acquired the business park property several years ago but has lacked the infrastructure needed at the site. Soon, she said, the business park will be developed enough to be inviting to businesses. [Then-council-member Wanda Bierschwale] – April 10, 2015

[“Soon”? LOL!!]

“I feel like we’re getting somewhere,” board president Dr. Neal Leavell added. “I think we’ve really accomplished something. It’s taken a lot of patience, but we’re here.” – September 23, 2014

[Leavell STILL sits on the LEDC board]

“Economic development officials have said utilities for the business park are essential to make the 165-acre area attractive to companies.” – July 22, 2014

The LEDC was “proactive,” deGraffenried said, in acquiring the U.S. 183 property several years ago for a business park. The goal of utility extensions, the city manager said, is to develop the land into a site that can promote economic growth. – June 17, 2014

[Eight years later? Zero economic growth or tenants]

Here is the final side-splitter – September 23, 2014:

“The LEDC’s new debt service payment will be about $150,000 a year, Mrs. Masonheimer said. The economic development corporation projects annual revenue of about $250,000, which will leave approximately $100,000 for operating costs after making loan payments.”

[Actual annual revenue 8 years later? Zero dollars!]

Only a Socialist Bum Like Clayton Tucker of Lampasas Texas Would Be Trying to Shut Down Oil Pipelines on April 15th.

If you are an unemployed bum who lives with his parents, the date of April 15th means very little to you. It’s just another day. Another day to sit on Twitter and post garbage while mom and dad pay the rent:

[Notice this was posted at 10:30am on a Wednesday (April 13th). Because lots of REAL farmers/ranchers/cowboys spend their entire mornings posting commie crap on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram.]

What is a “Big Oil trade attack on climate policy”? Sounds like Green New Deal/Big Gov socialist crap to me.

And it is….

If socialist bum Clayton Tucker of Lampasas was a REAL rancher/farmer/cowboy, he would not be applauding and encouraging the shut down of pipelines on any day of the year. He would instead be screaming bloody murder about the high price of diesel and livestock feed. But a fake rancher/farmer who raises imaginary crops doesn’t have these worries. He can just sit around posting stupid ideas that will fuck up the economy even more…

Clayton Tucker is not a farmer. Or a rancher. Or a cowboy.

For the productive members of society (the ones who get up at 6am, drive an hour to work, work a 12-hour shift, come home to kids and a house to run and DON’T sit around posting crap on Twitter at 10:30am on a Wednesday) the date of April 15th means a lot.

April 15th is the day you have a large portion of your income forcibly taken from you and handed to shitbirds who can’t be bothered to work at all or repay money they borrowed. Shitbirds like Clayton Tucker who want “free” medical care and “free” college.

Comrade Clayton is a HUGE fan of “free” college for everyone. He can’t wait for student debt to be cancelled. He tells us this all the time, in between his slurps of Bernie Sanders withered, dried-up, Triscuit-like scrotum…

That way, we can have an entire country full of Clayton Tuckers who get a useless degree in “International Relations” while fucking around for 4 years while people who DIDN’T waste money on college pay for it with their taxes.

They then ‘graduate’ and go back to living with mom and crying about how they deserve ‘free’ health care and a $15/hr wage the very first day they show up for work with zero skills.

Remember Clayton Tucker when you file your taxes on Monday. He is the kind of useless commie scumworm you are paying for:

**“I’ll put my fist THIS far up the taxpayer’s ass!!”**

City Manager Tells Blatant Lie To Council Without Blinking

While discussing the skate park last night, a few questions were asked.

[Frankly, it seems lately (maybe the last 9 months) a LOT more questions get asked by council. Perhaps it’s the addition of two guys who came in from the real world? I don’t know, but it is pleasing to see. It never happened under the Talbert Gang of Cronies. I think more questions and clarifications have been asked for in the last 9 months than in the previous 3.5 years, to be honest.]

Anyhow, this exchange took place at the 1:17:25 mark:

Zac Morris (addressing Finley): “So we were at about $300,000 and now… we’re at about half a million for that skate park?“

Finley: “Were it to be…[blah, blah, blah, waffle, waffle, filler talk]….it would be $470,000…correct”

Cathy Kuehne: “Wasn’t the original [estimate] for like $200 [thousand]?”

Finley: “No”

Just an absolute blatant falsehood from City Manager Finley DeGraffenreid. It takes years and years and a salary of $140,000 to be able to lie that nonchalantly and project bullshit with such confidence.

As a reminder, Finley – this comes from YOUR MINUTES on August of last year. You can link HERE and go to page 20. It was an estimate provided by FINLEY HIMSELF (also known as “staff”). Here is the screen shot:

Skate park: August 2020 estimate $200,000 – updated estimate $400,000

It doesn’t get much more clear-cut than THAT.

Of course, Finley has amassed a large body of work already in the lying department. I keep track of them over at my GLOSSARY OF TERMS. Here is the entry for Finley DeGraffenreid:

Finley “Spinley” deGraffenried: Nickname for City Manager Finley deGraffenried. His nickname comes from his ability to spin tall tales of bullshit such as “the computer attacks were unrelated” or “we didn’t need to bid that project” or “Old City Hall will be ready in January of 2019” or “Old City Hall rehab ‘only’ cost $1.02 million.” or “our electric department does carry adequate reserves or “the skate park estimate was never $200,000”

The best bullshit your tax dollars can buy!

All this lying without consequence is hilarious to me. Rumor has it that former ACM Gary Cox was fired (by Finley!) for lying about some Goldfish crackers. Guess the rules don’t apply to Finley.

LEDC Strikes (Out) Again!

Good thing the Lampasas Economic Dunces Club is spending $7 million on a Business Pork Project to bring “high paying jobs” to Lampasas. They have been at it for almost 20 years now and have squandered millions.

Meanwhile the private sector is way ahead of them, as usual:

Mandy Walsh had zero to do with this. Misti Talbert had zero to do with this. The LEDC had absolutely zero to do with this. Yet somehow, there are some great jobs available! How did they ever do it without a bunch of bumbling morons wasting millions?? It boggles the mind.

So Wal-Mart is desperate for workers. Everyone is desperate for workers. There are WAY more jobs available than there are people to fill them, so naturally the LEDC thinks they need to spend millions to “bring jobs” here. Makes complete and total sense.

This is the SAME Misti Talbert who, when she was mayor, had trouble finding enough lifeguards to open the City pool! Truly, hers is a towering intellect and razor sharp business mind.

I have already brought this up before: Why the Business Park is a Disaster Than Cannot Be Fixed. But that didn’t deter LEDC President Misti Talbert from scamming $971,000 straight out of the City coffers to waste on this project.

Speaking of Misti…she assured us a mere 7 weeks ago that there is NO commercial space in Lampasas! Her beloved Business Pork is the only game in town! She told us this when she begged the City for $971,000 for her idiotic project:

***Groveling for money: lies and more lies***

Makes me wonder how THIS place opened, if that’s the case….

Not to mention NextLink, PhoLicious, etc, etc, etc – how can this new place possibly exist when “there is no commercial space in Lampasas”?

What a bunch of maroons.

Skate Park Cost Shoots Ever-Higher. Looks Like We May Get Ripped Off. Again.

When they first started selling us on the skate park, the estimated cost was around $200,000.

Pretty small potatoes, in the grand scheme of things – considering City council wasted over ONE POINT FIVE MILLION dollars (or almost EIGHT TIMES MORE) just to renovate the Old City Hall building that nobody (except City council and City employees) gets to use.

Then a year later in August 2021 (page 20), we were informed that actually, the cost will be more like $400,000 – a straight doubling of cost in one year.

NOW, hidden down on page 65 of the latest council packets, Finley informs us that “consultants estimated the increased cost of construction to be on the order of $170,000“.

By my math that makes it $570,000 for this thing – but the packet (page 69) tells us $470,000

Of course, that same page also tells us a lot of what ISN’T included and will be “done by others”:

So your guess is as good as mine but I’d say we are looking at WAY over a half-million bucks for sure. Sounds very expensive to me. I paid less than that for my house – and this is just a bunch of shaped concrete. According to the plans (page 69 again) the Lampasas skate park will be 5,000 square feet.

Let’s see what the experts say:

The average price to design and build a skatepark is from $40-$60 per square foot. Most projects cost around $50 per square foot in total. Skateparks rarely are more than $65 per square footand can sometimes be as low as $25 per square foot.

At the average cost of $50 per square foot:

A 3,000 square foot skate spot will be $150,000 and will support a few skaters at a time.
An 8,000 square footskatepark will be $400,000and will serve a neighborhood of about 25,000 residents.

So we’ll get 5,000 square feet instead of 8,000, it will cost about $100,000 more than the above assumptions, and Lampasas county has pretty close to 25,000 residents. It works out to about $100 per square foot – or double what the experts say is average.

All in all, it sounds like the kind of typical fucked-up, overpriced deal that TJ Monroe and Cathy Kuehne would slobber over and call “an excellent price” while a couple hundred grand of tax dollars disappear unaccounted for into thin air (see also: Campbell Park pre-fab bathroom, new City council chambers, Azbell A/V system, Business Pork Project, RKJ elevator, etc).

I also don’t hear a peep about “volunteers” or “fundraising” anymore. That charade has been dropped. This will come 100% out of the taxpayer’s hide. As usual.

I can GUARANTEE you that neither Kuehne nor Monroe (nor Williamson) has spent one second of their time Googling “skate park costs” over the last two years. This is all play money to them – especially Kuehne who is up for election next month.

Even Those Frog-Eating Socialist Loons Know How to Vote Properly.

Yesterday, the socialist nation of France held elections.

In that election, there was no mail-in voting or early voting. They use paper ballots cast in person and counted by hand.

In fact, mail in voting was BANNED in 1975 amid fear of potential fraud!

There was a mandatory proof of ID to vote.

Why can’t we get that basic election integrity here? Much of the rest of the world understands how to run secure elections. Hell, even Puerto Rico is far more stringent than us. You know, that entire island populated by “people of color”. Somehow THEY all manage to get with the program and obtain ID for themselves.

One can only conclude that: a) those opposing voter ID laws (like local socialist bum Comrade Clayton Tucker) are racist/classist/elitist toward those they (incorrectly) view to be inferior and without the means and wherewithal to get a voter ID (see Ami Horowitz’s video)

Or…

b) the issue is just a smokescreen and those who oppose stricter voter ID laws really ultimately want to facilitate voter fraud and voting by non-citizens because they believe it benefits them politically in terms of obtaining and retaining power.

Some Lady Rented Out The Hostess House – Shows Us What a Shit Pile It Is…

Catherine Groothoff recently rented out the Hostess House.

It did not go well:

The City only just barely took control of the Hostess House a mere 29 months ago! What do you think they are…miracle workers?

Catherine must be new in town or she doesn’t read here. If she DID, she would understand that the numbskulls who run the City can’t be bothered with the little things. They are too busy arguing about how to blow the next million dollars on some hare-brained project – like the Business Pork.

You want them to spend $400 or $500 to fix a sink and get a new microwave? Surely you jest. They are busy planning to spend $1.4 million on the Hostess House “facelift” and “minor repairs”. It will take another year in addition to that $1.4 million. They cannot be bothered to replace a microwave. What fun is that?

I’m sure they DO have people to fix a sink, but they are too busy wasting time and money putting in hose bibs, pipes and a $12,750 water tank for a local moron to grow a couple of squash at the Community Garden!

It’s the same reason they blow almost $200,000 on a “pavilion” but literally 100 feet away at the local pool, they won’t spend any money to hike lifeguard wages to make sure the pool is fully staffed for summer. They’d rather close it an extra day every week.

It’s the same reason the City electric fund is “in trouble” and rates had to be hiked on everyone last November while they simultaneously give out hundreds of thousands of dollars in ‘free’ electrical subsidies to rich developers at Stone Valley, Hidden Oaks and Hillside Acres.

See how it works?

It’s also the reason the water fountains at the 580 Sports Complex have been non-functioning since March 2020. They cannot be bothered with something that tiny. They are too busy deciding if they should waste $1.3 million on a bike path over there that nobody will use.

Now, I’m not sure who to point the finger at…..so I’m just going to go ahead point it squarely at Cathy Kuehne since she is up for election next month and actually has a challenger. She’s also the one who was quoted that they should keep the historical look at Hostess House “even if it costs a little more“.

Cathy Kuehne: great spender of OTHER people’s money since 2018!

NOW It All Make Sense

I always wondered why Robert Francis put his hands protectively around Comrade Clayton Tucker….

Comrade Clayton went from short hair and clothes you might find in the men’s department to looking like a lesbian at a hemp rally….

The purse…the fupa…the longer hair…

It all makes sense now….

As the kids say: “OK groomer!”

Weird. Now that Robert Francis is officially running for governor, you’d think Comrade Clayton would be pumping him (pardon the pun) on his Twitter and FB pages non-stop. But Clayton Tucker has been strangely silent about Robert’s entire campaign.

OR, maybe we need to ask Clayton to show us on a doll where Robert Francis touched her/she/him/his.

***Yes, yes we know about your “big news”: you’re transitioning to female. I guess we can add “Freedom from a ball sack” to the list above.***

More Proof Liberals Are Morons Who Deserve To Be Scorned And Shipped Off To California.

I really hate liberals. Is that apparent yet? These aren’t the Carter liberals from my childhood who merely bleated for more welfare spending. These are complete commie lunatics who want to take down America. I cannot share Texas with them. Like termites, they should be removed and sent to California or New York

Today we have Krista Lindley:

Whenever I see someone asking for something very basic like this, I think to myself “has this person never heard of Google? This looks like a very helpless/dumb person. This person is probably a liberal”.

I’m not talking about people who ask LCBN to recommend a contractor – that is a different story. There are times you need to ask the community for a reputable painter or contractor because there are a lot of shady shits out there who will ruin your house with poor workmanship.

THIS can be solved by Googling “Lampasas appliance repair” in 3 seconds.

So I decided to dig deeper and see how liberal this moron was. If you are friends with Krista Lindley, you may want to stop reading here. I am about to rip her to pieces and it will not be pretty.

Krista is not only too stupid to use Google, she is too stupid to remember the answer to a question she already asked 3.5 years ago:

I just KNEW this had to be a Biden-loving, triple-vaxxed, BLM-cheering, free-college-loving retard.

I was right.

Over a YEAR since the “pandemic” started, and she is still too petrified to walk around outside. This shows she is incapable of reading statistics and data on Covid – because they all show that as a young female, she is not at risk. This is more evidence that she is a moron incapable of critical thinking.

She also went ahead and injected a brand-new “vaccine” into herself AND her young kid, despite this “vaccine” not being subjected to the years of testing we normally do for a “vaccine”:

Yeah…I remember when I got “vaccinated” for the second and third and fourth times for polio as a kid. Totally normal to get “vaccinated” over and over, right?

She is also too stupid to see the difference between burning, looting and destroying entire cities (BLM protests) and a protest at the Capitol building where video shows Capitol police OPENING THE DOORS and waving people in. The January 6th protestors did not burn down anything or shoot anyone. That would be the Capitol police shooting an unarmed woman named Ashli Babbitt.

You see, the Capitol Police officer who murdered Ashli Babbitt was a black man…so he cannot possibly be at fault.

But to morons like Krista, they are the same thing, apparently:

Because looting and burning Target stores and electronics stores and running out with expensive stereo equipment is a completely valid and normal way to protest something in the tiny mind of Krista Lindley.

Yes, I DO call the dems “violent protesters” – they did billions in damage.

Naturally, she is in love with Joe Biden:

But she is a little miffed that Joe didn’t just let every deadbeat off the hook with their college loans – she thinks college should be “free”…

That way, everyone can soak the taxpayer for hundreds of thousands of dollars for useless degrees like “nutrition”:

Grad school too! What’s that like? Six years total of “eat more veggies and less McDonald’s”? Wow. Sounds like a very difficult area of study. Too bad you didn’t take a class on how to replace the drive belt on a clothes dryer though, hey?

So the guy who goes out and fixes Miss Liberal’s dryer, air-conditioning, SUV transmission, leaky faucet, etc likely said “fuck college” and went to a trade school to learn useful skills. Miss Liberal now wants THAT guy (the repair man who saved her ass) to pay for HER useless degree though his taxes.

Sounds really fair.

If you love Biden, then you obviously also love border jumpers – and you hate Trump:

No, the problem with illegal invaders is (1) they vote in elections that they are not allowed to vote in, thus putting shitheads like Greg Casar into office (2) they are a massive drain on the taxpayer through things like Medicaid, food stamps and the hiring of more teachers to teach English to illiterates.

[Krista also ignores how her hero Joe Biden used an S Corp to avoid paying taxes on the $13 million in speaking fees he and his wife collected. Who in hell pays money to listen to Joe Biden ramble incoherently? Morons like Krista Lindley, I would assume]

You know what I hope? I hope that when Lampasas Appliance Repair (who kicks ass, by the way) shows up, they tell her she needs a new belt but it will be 6 months because Joe Biden’s idiotic policies have incentivized people not to work – so the belt factory had to shut down for a while.

Also, the moronic Covid lockdowns that crashed the economy (but which Krista Lindley loudly supported because she has a Nerf job herself) also shuttered 50% of the dryer belt-making factories.

Also, that dryer belt will cost 300% more than it did three years ago, because of Joe Biden’s retarded economic policies, which include printing up trillions and handing them out to deadbeats. It will also be tough to find a driver to deliver it. If we DO find a driver, there will be a 10% fuel surcharge because the price of diesel is $5 a gallon – ALSO thanks to your hero Joe Biden.

In short Krista Lindley, I hope you end up washing your clothes with two rocks in a stream and hanging them from a clothesline to dry them – because that is what they do in shit-hole socialist failed nations like Cuba and Venezuela, you absolute unmatched imbecile.