Promises are Meant to be Broken
by pwceducationreform
There’s one things politicians like to do. They like to make promises they can’t keep. Politicians are also really bad at telling people the whole truth. Below are a few of the whoppers I’ve heard from about the pool from people who are far too smart to be saying such stupid things.
The pool won’t cost anything because it is a one time expense
You only build a school one time, just like you only build a house one time. But, just like building a house isn’t free, building a school isn’t free either.
Most people don’t have enough money sitting around to buy or build a house with cash from their savings accounts. So most of us have to borrow money to buy our homes. The amount we borrow is the principal of our mortgage. We borrow that money from a bank, which charges us interest on the principal of our mortgage, and pay them back over an extended period of time. The amount we pay back each month, our mortgage payment, includes both interest and principal.
That same thing happens when government entities, like school systems, build expensive things.
Schools cost millions of dollars to build, which PWCS doesn’t have sitting around in their checking account. When
