Together they thrive:
Protesters, scores deep, crushed into a corridor leading to the governor’s office here on Wednesday, their screams echoing through the Capitol: “Come out, come out, wherever you are!”
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“(Governor) Walker, whose family home was surrounded by angry workers this week…
Yes, it’s time for a new tone:
With more protests planned over the coming days, WEAC has provided a list on their website of the home addresses for all legislators…
beagle –
The story you refer to concerning Wisconsin’s budget is incorrect. It was promulgated by Rachel Maddow, and others, and has gotten legs.
Jason Stein, in the Wisconsin Sentinel Journal clarifies that the state IS in a deficit this year, and a non-partisan budget committee of the legislature further details the looming $258 million expenditures that put the budget in deficit. The spending is mandatory, per Federal law, so it will come to pass – Medicaid is a big chunk of it.
Dave in Pa @ 11:00 am, that was a great letter to read. I feel sorry for the writer, but a similar situation exists here in Canada.
EBD, the situation regarding wage and benefit differences between public sector and private employees is just as great in Saskatchewan as it is Wisconsin and I suspect that this would hold true all across the country.
Average Annual Salary per Teacher
(Elementary, High) $100,005.00
Net Salary Paid to Teacher $43,500.00
Net Benefits (pension, health, etc.) Paid
on Behalf of Teacher $56,505.00
Teacher Contribution from Net Salary toward
Pension $0.00
Teacher Contribution from Net Salary toward
Health Care (Medical) $0.00
Present number of open jobs as a
Teacher in Milwaukee 0
Gee, beagle told an un-truth? Say it ain’t so, doggie!
By what right do the teacher close down the schools? There’s a positive correlation between days of instruction missed by students and poor educational attainment.
I hope the legislature lengthens the present school year in all the school districts that have been closed down by as many days as is the strike continues, so at least the children don’t get cheated.
The Westernized Education System was originally foisted upon us by the Marxists with the goal of producing well “trained” employees for the factories during the industrialization of the resource rich new world, and then high-jacked by the unions (read: mafia) as a very lucrative and clandestine money making scheme.(it costs money to organized, don’t ya’ know)
The fact that times have changed and the heavy industrialization has been forced out to other parts of the world because of the wages and benefits which are no longer viable and sustainable seems to have been lost. The unionized teachers unions have morphed into social engineers more that educators of the basics of the 3-R’s, and have lost touch with the needs of educating the children for the information age, which we are now in.
The education model doesn’t fit the demands of the workplace, but because the unions are not forward thinking but reactionary to the needs of the working world, they have become and see themselves as the victims of the society which is now beginning to deem them as archaic and redundant, reducing them to black holes which the taxpayers keep throwing money at and getting very little return for their investment.
If I were a teacher, I would be demanding that the education system return to what it was designed to do, teach! Stop the social engineering and leave the parenting up to the parents. If the parents won’t be willing to do their job of raising well mannered and polite children, ripe for learning, then the children lose the right to receive an education. Then we can get the laborers we need in our society.
Education is a privilege, not a right.
Someone should tell the teachers the same.
For the teacher who complained that she would have to look for another job consider this:
She says her and her husband will have to pay an extra $1,200 a month for the extra benefits.
Wow! That’s a lot of money.
But it is only an extra 7% from their paychecks.
That means they are earning over $17,000 a month.
Maybe they can afford it!
Find another job? Really! Who’s kidding who!
Yes, and lost in this is the pathetic performance of students in the public school system. Rest assured that the unionized help will tell us “it’s the parents fault” when the public looks for accountability.
Perhaps if we were getting exceptinoal value for the exceptional dollars that are being spent, we MIGHT be empathetic. That’s a BIG might!