Outrage: City-County Council Planning To Spend $1.7 Million On Pre-K Education

You read that right. The Administration & Finance Committee of the City-County Council voted tonight to find a way to give $1.7 million to Mayor Greg Ballard's ill-conceived plan to force city government to begin funding pre-K education, an obligation it is neither constitutionally nor statutorily charged with performing. Yeah, you may have pothole-riddled streets, neighborhoods without streetlights and sidewalks, neighborhoods which flood every time it rains and run-down parks, but there's always plenty of money for the downtown mafia, the billionaire sports team owners and the real estate developers who stuff money in the politicians' pockets for the hundreds of millions of your tax dollars they give away to them for their private real estate development projects.

Now you're going to be seeing millions of your tax dollars go to glorified day care centers where the elitists in this town send their children so you can lower their child care costs under the guise of helping low-income children who are already taken care of through the 100% federally-funded Head Start program. Seriously. Think about it. Do you think these people would actually be spending anything to help poor people? Can an old dog be taught new tricks? The typical citizen is too ignorant to know any better. You only believe the lies you read in the Indianapolis Star or hear on the evening news, which are nothing more than mouthpieces for the corrupt ruling class in this city.

You'll never guess where these dishonest council members claim they've found funding for pre-K education. Oh, the city budget includes $12 million for the homestead credit. That would be the credit Ballard wanted to eliminate to fund pre-K education. Well, it seems we really only need $10 million for the credit they're now telling us. It's possible we're going to shortchange some homeowners, but at least on paper we can pretend we're only going to need $10 million. No, what they really mean is that they're taking money from your pockets that should be spent on other underfunded basic services and spending instead on something that promises something in return to them individually for agreeing to obligate city tax dollars for pre-K education. Only people who are deaf, blind and dumb don't know better, which in Indianapolis represents 98% of the population. Bad ideas never die in this city. Just the good ones.