Informative article by John Fund at WSJ.
When teachers call in sick to attend a protest, often bringing their own students with them, and then say that they are doing this "for the children," or because they "love their jobs," I smell a rat. They would sacrifice 5,500 jobs throughout the state of Wisconsin so that they could continue to suck the coffers dry? They would continue to force other laborers to pay union dues, even though they do not want to belong? (In the state of Washington, my brother does not belong to a union, but he is required to pay dues anyway.) They think that they shouldn't have to put as much away towards their own health and retirement benefits as the rest of us, but they say they are protesting "for the children?"
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Yeah, it's been kind of interesting to watch, especially concerning as far as traditional etiquette would go.
"You're not paying me enough!" is the "teachers'" battle cry, and it smacks of selfishness.
Well, it more than smacks.
It REEKS.
And I've seen it in Idaho debate, as well - "why are we talking about cutting teachers' pay?" [Note: they're not.] "We barely have enough to take care of our family, [Yes, we know money's tight; have you actually listened to the new plan?], so The Others should pay more taxes!" [Easy to be generous with other people's money!]
Back to Wisconsin, though, it's insane. And this sense of entitlement - and more noxious, entitlement to *force* - is on full open display. Exercising compulsion against another, by force of law, (especially when they do NOT want to support that organization), is just wrong, in every possible way.
Doesn't it seem like it's the tyranny of whoever's-winning-at-the-time, sometimes?
In a way, I'm just glad that they're being so openly horrible; it makes it easier for people to wake up to the multitude of sins that the false-flag "for the children" mantra can cover...
http://dailycaller.com/2011/02/21/wisconsins-teachers-make-a-little-more-money-than-theyre-letting-on/
Sorry, I don't have enough code memorized to turn this into a link, but this journalist did some interesting research into what those "poor" teachers make in 9 months.
Hmm... interesting! Thanks! :)
I have to admit, that I'm not going to say $50k/year is just an outlandish salary, but particularly counting benefits, it's nothing to sneeze at, either.
Of course, the closing point in the article puts that $50k in perspective - the average in WI in 2009 (the year of the data) was just over $37k.
That makes me take the following approach to the complaining teachers:
*ahem*
WAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! ;)
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