Here is a man that is not making my day so sunny after all. Governor Pat Quinn has proposed laying off 17,000 teachers this year. No, that is not a typo - 17,000. How can this possibly be a good thing? This is all in proposal of helping the state's deficit. In addition to letting teachers go, the Governor is planning on reducing child care assistance for the poor, and cutting back on state troopers, and raising taxes.

Let's be logical. The state's unemployment is ridiculously high. Won't it be even higher when you are letting go of this many teachers and troopers? Won't the state be paying for tens of thousands of people collecting unemployment checks? Poor people need child care assistance. They are out scraping for jobs to support their families, and they need help with child care. When you take that away, children will be unsupervised, and bad things could happen. But you cannot call the police because they will be cut back and will not have time to address smaller problems that could potentially be harmful issues. I just don't understand.

As if this is not enough, Governor Quinn. He is looking to decrease the government support for each school child by 11%. Classrooms will be overcrowded with lack of materials. This is the quality of education that we are suppose to provide for the future of Illinois? Does he not care because he will be old and dead by the tie our students are the ones running the state? As a teacher, I think this is absurd. Maybe the government should look twice at the dirty politics and figure out where our tax money is going. Raising taxes on top off all of these cutbacks will still leave the state short in recovering it's deficit. Governor Quinn needs to step back and take a look and possibly a giant salary cut of his own. Perhaps he should cut out some of the useless government people and stop taking away from the education system.