Remember the violent and disgusting demonstrations over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doing away with collective bargaining for teacher's unions? The results are in. Some school districts went from a $400,000 deficit to a $1,500,000 surplus as a result. Why?
It seems that the insurance company that provided all the "so-called" benefits to the teachers was an insurance company owned and operated by the teacher's union. Since the outfit was guaranteed to get the insurance business from the teachers, and the State had to pay for it (not the teachers) the insurance company was increasing annual costs every single year to become the most expensive insurance company in the state. Then the company was donating millions and millions of dollars to its favorite Democrat politicians who, when they got elected, guaranteed to keep funding the union's outrageous costs. In other words, the insurance company was a "pass through" for Wisconsin taxpayer money directly to the Democrat politicians.
Nice racket, and this is the racket that is going on in every single State that allows collective bargaining.
No wonder the States are taking it away. Now the State of Wisconsin is free to put the insurance contract out for bids and, lo and behold, they have saved so much money it has turned deficits into surplus amounts. As a result, none of the teachers had to be laid off, everyone got a raise, etc., and the taxpayers of Wisconsin don't have to pay more taxes to fund the union's political ambitions.
If you weren't aware of the reasons Gov. Walker was fighting to take away collective bargaining, it gives you an idea of the problem the Republican Party has. Outside of one or two, none of them know how to speak up and explain properly what the problem was. We could sure use a Ronald Reagan now - someone who could explain things for people to understand, since we know that people don't like to read anymore.
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But i thought the teachers only cared about the childern?
ReplyDeleteSo they only care about them selfs.
The public is so eager to blame teachers for public education's woes. It is the equivalent of blaming the front-line soldier in Afghanistan for fighting a losing war. What gives? Who's at fault? The folks on the front lines or the fools sending them to battle ill-prepared and without a chance of success. What's with the hypocrisy? Even thought most of us were brought through the crippled public education system, lets try to get real and see what's truly going on. Public education is surely a disaster, but blaming teachers is off the mark.
ReplyDeleteLove this post. You should keep this at the top all night long.
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ReplyDeleteYou should have paid more attention to your self-centered English teacher:
1. Don't start a sentences with a conjunctions. Your 0/2 on that.
2. Plural of self = selves (and it's one word.)
3. I'll assume you misspelled "childern" because that is how you pronounce it. (Although, that's no excuse.)
I bet you'll never hear this on the mainstream media. They don't want to report the truth because the facts don't matter when it proves the falacy of their ideology. However, from what the surveys are saying, Fox News is the new mainstream media with far more viewers than all the rest. I bet they won't report that either.
ReplyDeleteKudos 8:53. When someone doesn't know how to spell and/or there are grammatical errors, his or her credibility is shot.
ReplyDelete8:53 not in my book
ReplyDeleteThey lose their credibility only when criticizing teachers. If you want to criticize the people who taught you, at least SEEM like you were paying attention to the ones you seek to criticize. 8:53 beat me to the punch...
ReplyDeleteUnions are good for one thing in todays business world...themselves! They had there time and place and were a great help to the hourly wage earner. It's time they went the way of hand drills and oil lamps!!
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