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Oh probably not. There’s the whole southeast to compete with after all.

But our own bloated, pompous Leader continues to come up with dumbass ideas that the Democrat-controlled legislature will probably roll over and approve. Monday’s amazingly simplistic and ultimately (financially) meaningless gesture comes in the form of a proposed cap on superintendent’s salaries.

It turns out, there are some supers in the state who, using the awesome power of the free markets, actually shop around for jobs to find ones that pay best. The horrendous result of this apparently socialistic phenomenon is that some of them end up making bigger salaries than the governor himself!

According to nj.com, the windbag-in-chief says

The proposal would mean pay cuts for 366 superintendents at the end of their contracts, saving school districts $9.8 million.

Which if you do the math is about a buck-and-a-quarter for every man, woman and child in the great state of New Jersey, per year.

I can hardly wait to start spending a windfall like that.

The cap for our own district would be $175,000, a cut of over $25,000 for our current super. $175,000 is enough? Not to the competing district in New York that’s offering $25,000 more than that.

“Christie acknowledged ‘we may lose some’ superintendents because of the pay cuts, ‘but if that’s the sole reason they’re here, then goodbye.’”

And since when are Supers supposed to be like priests or monks anyway? Did they take some vow of poverty, right after spending six figures on earning their PhDs?

So for me the net result is, I’ll save less on my taxes in a year than it takes to buy 28 oz. of Poland Spring; but I’ll be trading in my good school superintendent for a third-rate administrator who can’t find a job anywhere else. I wonder how that will lower my property values. I’m guessing more than the price of the bottle of water.

It’s an inane, cheap, disingenuous gesture — not even a gesture — from a guy who sends his kids to private school anyway. Which to me is the bottom line: what does he care if the public schools go down the tubes? He’s got his.