O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas – small dead animals

Hear my prayer: Between 2000 and 2010, the [California Teachers Association] spent more than $211 million to influence California voters and elected officials. That is more money than the oil, tobacco and hospital industries combined. . . .

15 Replies to “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas”

Unionized public employees are a natural conflict of interest at best and at their worst a criminal conspiracy against the taxpayers. When you have a constituency of government employees who extort dues from members to influence both sides of the negotiating table through political influence and or service blackmail it is no longer a public service but organized crime masquerading as such.
In the public sector, no one should be compelled to join a union and no public service union should be allowed to engage in political action. Privatize education and offer vouchers to parents.

I noted in the link that Cali students are 2nd last in 4th grade reading, beating only Mississipi. How the mighty have fallen.

Do yourselves and your kids a favor.Get a private tutor.No union thug teacher has ever done you or your kid any favors.Fire them all,before they haul us all down.Send the commie thugs into uneployement.They are the modern day Mafia.And Mr.Harper,outlaw all unions.Even the ones that voted for you.

That’s different & it’s ok, teachers have no self-interest, are completely altruistic and do it only for the children 😉

“THANKS, Jer!”

I doubt if the rest of the country is much better. They destroyed the old system in the name of social advancement and too many left turns in social engineering did the rest. It was all for the children. Always the children. Now the next generation is circling the drain and the school administration still deny the damage they are doing. No knight in shining armor coming to the rescue either. The whole system is beyond repair. The Unions have done their job although it was never for the students.

The giant 9.0 earthquake in Kalifornia is way overdue.

Once Obama gets preschool added to the education system the unions will be that much bigger and stronger.

Mikey, I says we turn it up to 11

Exactly, John! I’d go even further: Public sector unions should not be allowed because of their inherent conflict of interest. You simply can’t have 2 people negotiating who are on the same side of the equation … albeit spending the money of someone else who isn’t even allowed inside the room during negotiations. It’s completely corrupt.

Many years ago 60 minutes or one of its clones did
an expose of how bad the public school education
systems were in NYC and California. In NYC, much
of the story involved shoddy teaching blamed on
lack of funds with contrast provided by unions that
had a stranglehold on all menial supporting activities
and were run by gangsters with numerous ghost positions
manned a few hours a week by their minions but drawing
full pay.
California’s school system was less blatantly corrupt at
the nuts and bolts level but there was a telling statistic:
over half the teachers working in public schools in California
at the time had enrolled their own children in religious or
private schools at considerable expense to themselves. And
this was before the gravy train had got up to speed for them.