No universal care system anywhere in the world covers long term care for illegal aliens.

So who should pay?

Why don't both of you send a check to cover her expenses?

Doctors aren't going to work for free, and medical equipment costs money. Somebody has to pay for it.

This naive take that everything should be free, and if it's not then it's a grave inhumane injustice is getting old.

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> Wonder if it was worth all the time they saved not thoroughly inspecting rail cars.

It was. That's how everything works in the world. You find a reasonable medium between cost and benefit.

Do you get a $5,000 PET scan at your routine annual physical? It would very likely find a lot of problems much earlier than otherwise.

Why doesn't every single road have concrete dividers? Why don't cars have 5 point harnesses and roll cages? That would prevent a lot of accident and deaths.

Nobody is even going to look at these books. I don't know what planet you are from, but school libraries were obsolete even before the age of internet. These kids have personal cell phones with internet. They have access to the internet everywhere. If some kid is intent on finding some "sensitive" information, claiming that the school library is their only option is beyond absurd.

> But a few might read them while in the shelves when no one was watching.

Instead of using one of at least several internet browsing devices that each child has access to at home?

> Censorship within the public schools needs addressed; how we make a difference for students and student learning.

No child was going to check out those books. Not even once. You I know. I know it. Everybody know it. It's just an arbitrary "red line" that both sides are fighting over. It's utterly inconsequential for "student learning".

Keeping ideologues on both sides busy fighting over nonsense so they don't have time for the boring stuff, that involves finances, that actually can make a difference for their side.

Maybe ACLU should spend their efforts somewhere else. Like suing someone to change the fact that ⅔ of kids in the largest school district in the state can't read at grade level?

I thought education was a human right?

Injecting themselves into some situation with a satan club seems like an absurd waste of resources. Kids in Saucon can read.

> Philly would have an AWB and mag cap limits in a heartbeat if they could.

What percentage of gun crime is committed in Philadelphia with legally owned guns?

I'd be surprised if it's over 0.001%.

> their abysmal salaries

What is this based on?

There was plenty of discussion here about the Central Bucks school district.

And it was established that the median salary is $94,472 and $58,573 in benefits = $153,044 total compensation.

By what definition is this abysmal?

> Anytime an org is called XX for Liberty or something you can assume its goals are exactly opposite the definition of liberty. Kind of like how the more references to democracy and ‘the people’ there are in a country’s name, the less democratic they tend to be.

Does this observation apply to all the initiatives and ideas that include words like "equity", "equality" and the like?

That's not true. Prison guards are unionized civil service positions.

There are no private prisons in this state.

There are no private prisons in this state.

> they would prefer to put MORE people in jail

What's the incentive to do that do you think?

> Which they don’t actually pay because loopholes.

PA state taxes have no loopholes. Have you ever read the PA tax code?

You do know that more than 10% of all households are millionaires without even counting their house?

When you factor in being able to spell, use of proper punctuation and computer literacy, the percentage is much higher. Don't assume everyone is broke on Reddit.

They are lower than in Montgomery and Chester counties, both of which have higher household incomes.

Doesn't matter. You will read this low effort class warfare fluff piece and upvote it. Or else.

> but it'd be great to see the 1500 millionaires lead the charge to make that number 0.

I'd like to see evidence that there is not enough funding.

> In the academic year 2020 – 2021, 754 students experienced homelessness.

Or even get a definition of what "experienced homelessness" means. Does it include cases where there was a house fire and a family with kids were at a shelter for a few days? Does it include kids that has a fight with their parents and were runaways? How long was the average span of a stay at a shelter?

What they are saying certainly doesn't mean 750 students were homeless for the duration of the whole year.

All of that is the result of inflation. And higher interest rates to combat inflation.

Property taxes go to pay for bonds (with high interest rates now) that are needed to do any municipal projects.

> have a masters

I hope you are not teaching math.

> That high salary is almost twice the highest paid teacher. “Average” is highly skewed because of that.

Look again.

> Average annual salary was $89,910 and median salary was $94,472

Get your degrees, certs, be good at your job, put in a couple of decades to get the experience. In short, work hard, then you can...

> There is a math teacher making $166K in just salary, or $269K with benefits.