Well over 60 people showed up to the meeting and 12-20 of them were Pitt-Greensburg students. Nice to see people showing up for events here.
As for the meeting, to a point it was a waste of time. Many locals are fairly conservative so anything that came up lik raising taxes was met with a wave of boo's. This meeting was like watching Fow News and yeling at the TV...it was pointless. Kim Ward had very little to say, well I guess that's not true. She talked a lot but there were no REAL solutions mentioned. There was a lot of banter and repetitive phrases like, "we're working on that, we need to look at that, we're planning to do something about that, we need to change this or that, and I can't do anythig about that." As far as answers go, no real answers were given. Many questions involving budget cuts or school recieved one of the previously mentioned blowoff answers. What is she actually doing? I don't know. I should've asked, I know, but I was afraid that my Hopey-changey-liberal-socialistic views would come through and I would be beaten by Kim Ward's minions.
What did I learn? Kim Ward would "love" to take a pay cut but that would never be passed by her peers. Thanks to a very passionate questioner, I found that Kim Ward isn't sure about something like an alleged 18% spent on "food". I don't know if what this man was saying was true or accurate but I do know that Kim Ward seemed to have no clue what that guy was talking about. Was this guy just crazy? Or does Senator Ward not fully understand something with Governer Corbett's budget cuts? To me, if this man was just blashing bullshit, or untrue and innaccurate facts and numbers, all over the place like Fox News does, he could just be misunderstanding something? right? But Ward had NO IDEA what he was talking about...not good. This makes me think that Kim Ward doesn't fully understand everything in the governer's budget and only knows what she supports.
Ways to fix this? Have elections where political affiliations aren't listed and the remove the option for people to select "straight Dem or Rep". Force people to actually vote. I'd be interested to see if people really have a reason for voting the way they do. Yes, that's it. A way to measure competence in each voter so the "Duuuurrrrr Republicans! or Democrats" votes don't happen. Vote for a reason or not at all. Who could look over these essays? The members of our prison systems, of course! Not likely, but I'm trying to make this lively.
Summing up the night: Kim Ward blabbed for a while and people bitched and moaned for a while. Ward doesn't seem to have made any changed to her agenda...but she knows college kids, parents and liberals aren't a fan of her or the Corbett's budget cuts (among other things). Progress made? I don't think any was made...but atleast something happened. Right?
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