The calloused attitude among Florida’s elites, both white and black connoisseurs of Bush-speak, toward their poor neighbors in districts far from the beach front housing is appalling. In the name of cutting taxes and cutting entitlement psychology, we anti-communists reject socialistic tendencies everywhere. But people do care about education of youth, health care, homeowners insurance, and just wages. Most people believe that good education, health care, insurance, and good wages shouldn't be reserved for rich people. Every week we hear about spiraling increases in costs, and how more and more Americans cannot afford adequate basics. This is a crime and a shame. However obscene the difference between Superintendent Thompson's salary and benefits and mine, I agree with him on Amendment 5. The state legislature is the very group that's causing the budget problem across Florida and the very group that should solve it. Mr. Saunder's criticism of Dr. Thompson was certainly correct; however, cutting support for everything, including our schools is pinching pennies out of the wrong pockets--just to satisfy the Bush-speak anti-socialists who believe in no taxes at all. Public support for anything not a private moneymaking corporation they scornfully call socialism. Corporate welfare, on the other hand, is applauded by these greedy, selfish "hogs at the public trough." The corporate welfare system is what needs to be dismantled; the risks in our society need to be shared. It’s apparently not obvious enough that the people who are the “haves and have mores” are taking way more than their fair share. The super salaries and benefits provided by corporations to the most efficient down-sizers are obscene. Theirs are the pockets who can spare the change all the rest of us need. We're not going to reform the politicians. We cannot force them to stop funding pork. So we must share the risk. Vote NO for Amendment 5. Vote YES for the referendum to transfer funds from CCPS's Capital account to the Operating account.