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In reply to the discussion: have president obama come home and "walk on that picket line" with the chicago teachers union [View all]Edweird
(8,570 posts)65. No, YOU brought up "federal funding" and I gave you the opportunity to elaborate.
Which, not surprisingly, you have not done.
Obama weighed in on union teacher terminations in Central Falls. He approved of them.
I find it rather odd that teh mostest liberalest president EVAH in eleventy hundred brazillion years is only interested in unions when he needs votes ("look at me playing kissy-face with the SEIU" yet is clearly a union buster in action ('cadillac tax', Arne Duncan, Rahm Emmanuelle, Central Falls, etc).
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have president obama come home and "walk on that picket line" with the chicago teachers union [View all]
mopinko
Sep 2012
OP
No. It's not the place of a President to get involved in a city's contract negotiations.
Honeycombe8
Sep 2012
#63
the central falls firings were a direct result of his education policies. *direct*.
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#14
the entire ruling class agrees with rahm and his policy. when the (putatively liberal) gates
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#35
chicago schools get federal funding, and chicago's renaissance 2010 was the blueprint for obama's
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#46
No one said they *ran* the schools. You said that because the feds supplied $$ to central falls,
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#49
No I did not say that. Not at all. I said that the feds supplied money to schools, I did NOT say
MADem
Sep 2012
#50
you implied it in your exchange with edweird. after you said obama should stay out of
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#51
Schools do not have to take federal funding. If they take it, they know they are on the hook in
MADem
Sep 2012
#52
I see. You're claiming "federal funding" makes it appropriate for Obama to weigh in
Edweird
Sep 2012
#58
There is no REQUIREMENT for the federal government to weigh in on ANY state issue.
MADem
Sep 2012
#60
No, YOU brought up "federal funding" and I gave you the opportunity to elaborate.
Edweird
Sep 2012
#65
And I have done that--too bad you don't like my answer but that doesn't change reality.
MADem
Sep 2012
#67
You have, yet again, failed to explain what "federal funding" has to do with this.
Edweird
Sep 2012
#73
See, that's the point. Federal funding ALLOWS a President to remark on an issue with a certain
MADem
Sep 2012
#74
his chief of staff, his education policy, his political base. like that'll happen.
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#15
Maybe Chicago could quit diverting 1/6 of taxes collected into private persons' pockets.
HiPointDem
Sep 2012
#32
I have a feeling he is on Rahm's side on this or he would have told him to shut it down...
dkf
Sep 2012
#26
The union in Chicago is doing an excellent job of presenting their position.
MineralMan
Sep 2012
#68
For why? This is the guy who not only appointed Duncan but loves his bullshit
TheKentuckian
Sep 2012
#72