No teacher in CCPS make $85,000. I'm one of the top dogs. I get $70,000. My "wonderful" insurance benefit has such high deductibles, high co-pay and so many exclusions, and the $450 "gift" is so hard to pry loose from the First Insurance that no administrator should be proud of putting that package together. The one thing that makes sense in this article is "Although Collier is one of the wealthiest counties in Florida, the state has a funding formula that equalizes funding for all districts. The net result: We have minimal funding above other districts and get even fewer dollars from the state than less-affluent districts." How do we get that changed? Pressure on the Tallahassee legislature. If Sarasota can have 1% added to sales taxes for schools and teacher salaries, why not Collier? Why do we have to continually compare CCPS with other Florida school systems? How do the best school districts do it? Let's compare ourselves to the best in the nation and get on track immediately to imitate them. We should never be told that we don't have enough money for taking the essential steps to become # 1 in the United States. The one suggestion the superintendent makes that we can all respond positively to is to pressure Florida legislators to restructure funding to Collier. We shouldn't be giving more than we're getting. We shouldn't have such a huge part of our budget be hands-off capital funds. We shouldn't gloss over the proper salaries necessary to survive in this most wealthy of counties. Superintendent Thompson should be in Tallahassee every week to lobby for this change. Our real capital is the quality of our teachers. That's where our money should go. Write every congressperson frequently on this most important issue: change the "funding formula." Wealth has become very concentrated during the past six years. Today, the richest one percent of Americans has 22 percent of all income and about 40 percent of all wealth. This is the biggest concentration of income and wealth since 1928. In 2005, average CEO pay was 369 times that of the average worker, compared with 131 times in 1993 and 36 times in 1976. At the pinnacle of America's economic pyramid, the nation's 400 billionaires own 1.25 trillion dollars in total net worth - the same amount as the 56 million American families at the bottom half of wealth distribution. We hoi polloi of Collier County live off the flotsam and jetsam. It's not just.