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Georgia’s govenor is a moron

Friday | September 23, 2005 | 5:51 pm  

It’s offi­cial, our govenor is a moron.

As gas prices climb, and another hur­ri­cane threat­ens off-​shore oil rigs, what does the illus­tri­ous gov­ern­ment of the state of Geor­gia do?

It shuts down its schools for two days so that school busses, fac­ulty and staff won’t be on the road.

Schools!

Why, of all things, would you want to shut down schools!

You know, the places where we edu­cate our young, so that they can become suc­cess­full mem­bers of soci­ety. In a state where our SAT scores are dead last, don’t you think we need more school­ing, not less?

Can some­one tell me what per­cent­age of traf­fic in the state is made up of school busses. Because I’m going to guess, that the vast major­ity of cars gas-​guzzling SUVs on the streets and high­ways are folks com­mut­ing to their jobs?

Maybe we should have the state gov­ern­ment telecom­mute on Monday and Friday, and encour­age busi­nesses to have their employ­ees do the same?

Or the state could offer a one-​time tax break to any indi­vid­ual that takes public trans­porta­tion to work next week rather than drive.

There are a mil­lion dif­fer­ent things we could be doing to save gas, but am I the only one who thinks that shut­ting down schools is not the answer?

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