From the buckle on the Bible Belt, a great LTTE

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This will take a minute to explain but has a great payoff, so bear with me...

The following letter to the editor appeared in the local newspaper yesterday, here in Upstate South Carolina.

Title of the letter was "Pickens County School Board Should Be Ashamed."

There's the wind-up...

The writer is personal friends with many schoolteachers in Pickens County. The School Board claims to be so broke, teachers have to buy their own paper and pencils. The writer was especially outraged when the obsolete laptop issued to one teacher quit working, and the teacher had to pay for the repair out of their own pocket.

However, as the writer points out: last year the school board found plenty of money - when it had to fight a lawsuit over its practice of opening school board meetings with Xian-only prayers.

And here's the pitch...

Quoting directly from the letter:

Remember, they spent $55,000 last year on lawyers for figuring out how to pray at their meetings. In March 2015, school board chairman Brian Swords said..."In the last two years, the School District of Pickens County has spent $55,000 and countless hours of debate trying to address this (prayer) issue."

But many teachers have to buy their own paper and pay to repair old antique computers they are given for school use. Nice going, school board! Way to rally behind your teachers!

And he KNOCKS IT OUT OF THE BALLPARK!

That $55,000 was wasted on an imaginary sky god and would buy quite a few new laptops and paper. Please spend taxpayers' money in the real world from now on.

This paper requires real names for its LTTE writers, but I have to wonder. This writer's name was "Beauregard Burnside." Which happens to be the last names of two famous Civil War generals, from the Confederacy and Union respectively. So I suspect he was having a little bit of a joke there. And keeping himself anonymous. A really good idea around here if you're going to argue against God/Jesus, as I myself have found out the hard way in the past.