{"id":8088,"date":"2012-12-20T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8088"},"modified":"2017-02-27T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T19:22:21","slug":"ignorance-is-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=8088","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance is bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Dixon; whom the <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3429\">DNT&#8217;s editors believed<\/a> a few years ago when he told them that the School Board would soon have 32 million in Red Plan savings to spend; also said that school board member Gary Glass&#8217;s suggestion was not possible for the school district. Gary&#8217;s suggestion was to do what any homeowner might do to cut monthly payments by extending a home loan&#8217;s payback period. Dixon&#8217;s face saving claim has now, in his absence, become gospel.<\/p>\n<p>We will evidently never find out if Gary&#8217;s three-year-old suggestion has merit because Dixon&#8217;s leftover bureaucrat doesn&#8217;t want to find out if we could save money to reduce the District&#8217;s horrendous class sizes. <\/p>\n<p>This is from the DNT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/253227\/publisher_ID\/36\/\">story<\/a> yesterday about about the just approved 12% tax hike for the schools (over and above all the other Red Plan tax hikes)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Member Art Johnston said Red Plan consulting firm and manager Johnson Controls should have to answer for its claim that the plan would remain &#8216;tax neutral.&#8217; He said he&#8217;d rather extend payment on the 20-year bonds to 30 years than raise taxes. District business services director Bill Hanson said the district has researched that, and it wouldn&#8217;t be cost-effective.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hanson, the man who stood behind all of Dixon&#8217;s bloated and broken financial promises [Remember how proud Dixon was to have compromised with Red Plan critics who wanted a smaller plan but then boosted Red Plan&#8217;s cost by fifty million?] asserts <em>without bothering to investigate<\/em> that extending loans won&#8217;t cut current expenses. The man is a genius. He would have done Bernie Madoff proud.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody on the School Board who puts faith in this lack of initiative should have their head examined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Dixon; whom the DNT&#8217;s editors believed a few years ago when he told them that the School Board would soon have 32 million&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8088"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20110,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions\/20110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}