The Republican Party has let us know who they believe is at blame for America's collapsed economy -- a crash which has devastated the nation and caused massive unemployment.
Teachers.
Not the financial industry that dealt in high-risk, mortgage-backed derivatives which collapsed the housing market.
Teachers.
Not Wall Street executives manipulating toxic assets, not big bankers manipulating bad loans, not corporate CEOs manipulating markets.
No, no. Teachers. The real high-finance scourges of the American economy. Those rich, jet-setting, highfaluting teachers. They're paid truckloads of money, have such cushy jobs, rake in ungodly benefits and have bankrupted America.
Teachers.
Just watch Fox News. They know. See Republican critic after Republican critic blast these money-grubbing, greedy, lazy, freeloading moneybags who are offensively overpaid, get off work at a leisurely 2:30 in the afternoon, have three months of vacation, and can live off their fat pensions in high-life luxury retirement, jetting to Paris and Biarritz and drinking champagne cocktails while sucking the life out of the Real America.
Teachers. Why do you think they turned down the low-paying corporate jobs, or avoided going to paltry law school, or medical school? Because they wanted to make the big bucks.
And as these teachers lay waste to the American economy, thank God above that Republicans have been there to make sure we've been able to provide at least some comfort to the needy Wall Street executives, big bankers and corporate CEOs with desperately-required tax cuts and corporate loans, allowing them to squeak by on their meager existences of pennies a day.
All because states have been economically ruined by teachers. Greedy, fat cat teachers. And avaricious janitors and sanitation workers. And nurses. Nurses! Bad, bad people those nurses, who only care about themselves. All these people, these are the ones Republicans tell us have destroyed the American economy. Just cruising along on big overblown paychecks and cushy jobs. Whose high compensation packages have caused the great recession, bankrupting states across the nation bringing about massive unemployment. Teachers, janitors, sanitation workers and nurses -- and also road repair crews, bus drivers, park rangers, and snowplow operators.
You know, the upper-class elite of American society.
These are the people who have made the American economy collapse, who have bankrupted America with budget deficits. Once upon a time, of course, we thought these were the very people who made America. Who were the backbone of the nation. But leaders of the Republican Party and its brave governors, they have shown us the light.
Thank goodness that we have men of courage like Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) and Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) who understand that it is these people who must sacrifice, who must cut back their retirement pensions, who must alone bear the burden of the economic disaster that they brought about. Make them sacrifice for the woes they have caused society. These teachers, nurses, janitors, bus drivers, road repair crews, sanitation workers, park rangers, and snowplow operators. "Public workers." Ha! They're who caused the economic recession, which has caused the budget deficits. They caused it. They should pay for it. They should sacrifice for it.
And if we're being honest, if you just got rid of them all, think how the budget deficit would disappear and how much better society would be then! After all, Gov. Walker, his fellow Republican governors and the loudest voices of the Republican Party clearly think teachers and public workers are overpaid, underworked and don't provide enough service to society, so who even needs them?
Thank goodness too that Gov. Walker had the foresight to give a corporate tax cut of $140 million before there was a new budget, because otherwise these stricken corporations would truly be suffering. Or at least the one-third of corporations in Wisconsin that actually pay taxes. Far better that your child's teacher take a pay cut and that nurse and swanky janitor, too, before some corporation. After all, the corporations need the money.
If teachers, nurses, janitors, bus drivers, road repair crews, sanitation workers, park rangers, and snowplow operators decide they're not paid enough for their glamorous jobs and want to quit -- let them. They're apparently not worth what we pay them anyway.
We should all just say "thank goodness" that Republican governors across the nation are placing the blame for the economic collapse and for their states' budget deficits right where it belongs -- on the backs of greedy, overpaid, unnecessary teachers. Nurses. Janitors. Bus drivers. Road repair crews, sanitation workers, park rangers, and snowplow operators. You know...
Everyday workers.
If it wasn't for such forthright Republicans, we might otherwise be seeing blame for the economic collapse placed on Wall Street executives and big banks, and that would be so unfair. As unfair as pointing at tax cuts for corporations and millionaires for adding to the deficits. As unfair as forcing all of them to sacrifice for being the ones who caused the great recession.
No, no. Republicans have it right. Protect the big financial institutions. And place the blame for the great recession, economic collapse and budget deficits squarely where it belongs. On greedy, overpaid, unnecessary teachers, nurses, janitors, bus drivers, road repair crews, sanitation workers, park rangers, and snowplow operators. Make them pay for it.
But mostly teachers. It's their fault, really.
Who needs 'em?
http://TheEducatedSociety.com/what-no-education-reform-ever-addresses/
PENSION FUND, SOCIAL SECURITY FUND, MEDICAL DISTRIBUTION FUND, ...etc. are where the big money located. Those COWARDS in congress try whatever they can to dip their hands in with the stupid excuses such as reduce deficit, reduce entitlement, reduce pension. Those funds are set up legally and belong to the designed individuals but only managed in group. They want to bankrupt them by pulling tricks called PRIVATIZATION to move into corporates' pockets. Trickle Down economy is to build another form of SLAVERY, The Haves controlled the Haves-Not. Such attempt to privatization these big Money Funds is HIGHWAY ROBBERY. The tell-tale concept of FREEDOM without adequate financial backing is MEANINGLESS. Open your eyes to find out CAPITALISM is never to build a society the Rich dictating the POOR but to build more MIDDLE CLASSES. It means we must have a system to fairly distribute the WEALTH of a nation that creates collectively by all citizens, never by a few riches. Go other way like WHAT GOP ATTEMPT TO DO NOW is a WAY OF ROBBERY TAKING CARE ONLY A FEW PEOPLE and make MAJORITY HOLDING THE BAG. It is unacceptable. We refuse to take "So be it". We have no interest to READ ANYONES LIP. GOP THE CULPRITS, NOT TEACHERS
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/Public school teacher, 20 years
If it wasn't for education - we'd all be following the sheep instead of protesting or writing our representatives!
Thanks for teaching MsJoey! Hope you get to keep your day job.
32 years, two masters, national board certified.
I am heartily sorry for these my offenses.
When we had the economic meltdown of 2008, billions (maybe trillions) of dollars were lost on Wall Street. Much of that vanished money belonged to public pension funds.
Add that even in the good economic years, many governors didn't put money or enough money in the public pension fund leaving "future" governors to deal with it down the line.
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Vanished public pension money from the economic meltdown and governors who did not bother to put money in the pension funds...........left the pension funds without enough money to pay out the future pensions.
And NOW, the teachers (and other public workers) pay the price. Underfunded pension plans mean pensions will be trimmed or eliminated.
A contract is only enforceable if the oligarchs benefit. Teachers aren't oligarchs, so their contracts will be busted like their pensions.
To add insult to injury, teachers are being demonized!
There used to be regulations in place that restricted how state pensions could be invested. Republicans deregulated that specifically so Wall Street could get their hands on that money.
Republicans also changed the way pension solvency is reported, making them all look insolvent even when they're not.
Let them all homeschool their kids.
The wealthy will employ all of the teachers for one on one tutoring.
The moderately well off will let their illegal nannies teach their kids Spanish.
And the rest will fall further into poverty when Mom has to quit her job to stay home and teach, or they both work, pay for childcare and then have to spend their evenings teaching a kid that is too tired to learn.
Do it.
My resumé is ready.
I've got a bachelors in music (for those parents that want a teacher qualified in the arts), a multiple subject credential, good for grades K-8, a masters degree in eduacation, a masters degree in library and information science, so their kid will get plenty of technology education embedded in the curriculum and I'm national board certified.
My starting salary will be six figures and I'll demand healthcare as well.
Also a copay into my 401K.
I'll actually be a LOT better off.
Higher salary and only a few kids a day instead of several hundred a day.
Bring it on!
Fact: Blue collar and middle class families have had stagnant incomes for 30 years.
Fact: The top one percent of Americans have captured 80% of the gains in wealth for the past 30 years.
Therefore, we cannot afford to raise taxes on the wealthy because the "bottom 99 percent" consist of greedy leeches, who are stealing from helpless, down-trodden billionaires.
Our economy started to tank when America stopped producing anything except stock dividends.
Get rid of public teachers - less state & local costs (buildings / salaries / benefits)
Close all public schools for "home schooling" - less state & local costs (as above)
One parent MUST quit their day job to home school any children under 16 - jobs available
Less kids will obtain GED or graduate - employers pay less for less qualified workers - corp benefits
Next generation is further "dumbed down"- will accept their limited lot in life without complaint
College is ONLY for the wealthy or brain-y
Prison population will explode
WHAT DO YOU WANT AMERICA TO BECOME?
Not that it will matter.
Elections will be a sham anyway.
Corporations already own D.C.
has no idea what sarcasm is
because you, all of your kind, see the world in extremes.
told them how to write the laws and regulations that would benefit LARGE MONEY, and get rid of
the laws and regulations that would hamper LARGE MONEY greed and self-interest. LARGE MONEY and their government campaign contribution slaves rigged the system and tilted the table too far in their averice and broke the system. I don't think they meant to, they just weren't as smart
as they thought they were. And now rather than demand justice - make LARGE MONEY give back, put some LARGE MONEY and government slaves in the pokey - LARGE MONEY reframes the debate and blames the victims. and the LARGE MONEY owned media
repeats the falsehood as they are told to do.
WHAT DO YOU WANT AMERICA TO BECOME?