I decide to advertise my old clunker for sale for $8,000. My first caller offers $5000; the second, $6500; the third, $4000 (a cheapskate!), and the fourth, a mere $3925. Things are going downhill. I decide to wait a year and try again.
The next year I advertise again, this time asking $7500 (well, it is a year older). Again, offers come in at $6000, $5500, $7000, and $5800. I'm still not satisfied, so I take my offer back.
The third year I try again with similar results. Then in the fourth year, when I ask $6500 for the car, I receive 10 offers: each for $3500.
Realizing I've hit the jackpot, I quickly sell the car to the first caller for $3500, thereby making $35,000 on the deal.
What's that, you say? I didn't make $35,000? Well, tell that to State Superintendent Jim Rex and all of those district superintendents all over South Carolina (and other states) who claim hokey scholarship totals. What I've done with my old clunker mirrors how they've jacked up the totals awarded to individual students.
It's funny money. Doesn't this practice make you wonder how they arrive at other numbers?
Thursday, August 13, 2009
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3 comments:
I needed the laugh today, so thanks.
I also find it quite funny that Jim Rex thinks he's done such a great job as State's Superintendent of Education he's considering a run for Governor. What color IS the sky in his world?
Hopefully a different color than the a-hole we call governor now.....
You mean the pro-Charter, pro-Choice Jim Rex?
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