Only someone who works for the government…

…would think that $6 million dollars wasn’t that much money.

In a blog post reacting to the WTMJ story critical of the amount of money spent on travel by Milwaukee Public School employees, best viagra rx school teacher Jay Bullock wrote:

“While $6 million over four years sounds like a lot of money, malady it is about one-eighth of one percent of the MPS budget over that time. If even as many as half of the “junkets” were wasteful or fraudulent–which seems unlikely–that’s still very little waste at all. I think most organizations would be happy to know 99.9% of their spending was not wasteful.”

While I actually agree with Jay that the story is misleading, I think I need to remind him that $6,000,000 is a lot of money in a state where the average income for an entire family is around $45,000.

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