Why Does Matt Blunt Hate School Administrators?

Blunt Announces School Spending Proposal:

Gov. Matt Blunt on Thursday proposed requiring public school districts to spend at least 65 percent of their money on student instruction.

Blunt's proposal would define instruction to cover everything from teachers' salaries and textbooks to the arts and athletics. But even so, Blunt said, a majority of Missouri's school districts currently would fail to meet the threshold.

Matt Blunt apparently didn't get the memo that the business of education is the business of education, not educating students, and that the goal of school districts is to lay waste their powers getting and spending. Instead of this sordid boon, Matt Blunt dares propose money go to education and not administration, consultants, reports, and whatever the hell else school districts spend their money on.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Bill McClellan Endorses Matt Blunt

Sort of:

....it's possible that Matt Blunt could someday be president.

He was governor at 34. If he is re-elected in 2008, he will be 38 when he starts his second term. He would then have to look around at the political landscape. If he thinks he can get the second spot on the ticket in 2012 - when he will be a 42-year-old two-term governor of a swing state - he can serve out his term. If he is not so sure about grabbing a spot on the ticket when he leaves the statehouse, he can run for the U.S. Senate in 2010 when Kit Bond, who will then be 71, is expected to retire. Blunt would run for the Senate as a sitting governor. He would be 40.

Well, not exactly, but although we at DMB 2008 are not journalists, we can take a soundbite out of context and run with it.

Bill McClellan then goes on to list Matt Blunt's accomplishments as governor, but he casts them in a negative light as one might expect. Smothering poor people, stealing cars for big business, whatever.

McClellan's scenarios, though, are too conservative for our taste (this sentence marks the first ever to include the words McClellan and too conservative); we would prefer, as you might expect, to see Matt Blunt president in 2009.

Matt Blunt Costs Metro Area Employers Money

Because as they continue hiring more people, they're paying out more in salaries and benefits:

In St. Louis , employment increased by 11,200 jobs, Kansas City employment grew by 8,700 jobs, Springfield added 3,300 jobs, Columbia employment grew by 2,100 jobs, Joplin added 1,800 jobs while non-farm payrolls were up by 700 jobs in Jefferson City and 300 jobs in St. Joseph.

"The consistency of these increases in jobs shows that more Missourians are heading back to work and that is good news for the families of our state," Gov. Matt Blunt said. "These very positive job numbers are also good for our economy as a whole and we are encouraged by the economic direction that our state is headed."

Columbia had the lowest unemployment rate among metropolitan areas at 3 percent while Kansas City topped the list at 5.1 percent. Unemployment was 3.5 percent in Jefferson City, 4.1 percent in Joplin, 4.7 percent in St. Joseph, 4.8 percent in St. Louis and 3.6 percent in Springfield.

Putting Missouri in the pocket of big business sorta seems to be putting big business's money into the pockets of Missourians, no?