More stupid political shit
You guys are going to love this. So even though the government is subsidizing my health insurance, they stubbornly refuse to give me any spending money, so I've been working part-time. I have one job where I stand there doing nothing so I figured I would get another one where I could sit there doing nothing in case I got tired of standing. So I got a job as an on-line tutor for some outfit, working Saturday and Sunday evenings.
I have now done six 5 hours shifts and I have had exactly one student. I am not really complaining but last night I was so bored, I started investigating the company. I was kinda wondering how they could make any money since they were paying me and no one seemed to be paying them. So guess who is paying them?
That's right; the [B]federal government[/B]. It seems they get federal funds to have assholes like me available to answer questions for not just high school kids but college students who are eligible under TRIO criteria (first generation college student, Native American, blah blah blah). This is Bush's brainchild: [B]"No Child Left Behind"[/B] (Jerry Sandusky misread this as "Leave No Child's Behind"). And, they have to have tutors available for all kinds of subjects whether there is really any demand for them or not. I wondered from the very beginning because they had a two-tiered pay structure and some of the classes they were paying a premium for were like Hmong and Lao and such like. And my subjects are also premium ones, and would not commonly be offered at the high school level.
So the government is paying someone to pay me to do nothing. Well, not nothing; they are paying me to watch sports and last night I created a spreadsheet to analyze the effective interest rate on credit card balance transfers. Now that I know this is the case, maybe I will sign up for some more hours. Even if I did accidentally get some students, there is no audio or camera, just a whiteboard, so I could still be watching the games. Plus this job I can take with me when I leave the country again.
The education industry is about as corrupt as the prison industry these days.
The status of forces agreement
I just looked it up and Its called the status of forces agreement. It seems that that agreement isn't the same in every country we have troops in. Some countrys have more leeway when handling an incident with a soldier. In Iraq we demanded That any us military Personal involved in any incident would be handled by the US military. Iraq wouldn't agree to it so here we are. Some of our right wingers in congress have stated that Obama didn't negotiate hard enough. Come on W signed the agreement not O. Also Senator Mccaine said there were loop holes in the agreement. Before we sent advisors back into Iraq the new president signed a new status of forces agreement. Case closed.