Revolting Wisconsin
While Wisconsin teachers throwing their own Greek styled socialist hissy fit is both telling and troubling, it also serves as a microcosm of various economic challenges, political battles and societal shifts all taking place simultaneously.
What to say about those lovable teachers and union drones protesting in Wisconsin? I must admit, I consider it bizarre that people believe they have a right to a pension and benefits to begin with, or even a job for that matter. Stranger still, the striking teachers in Wisconsin seem to believe that they have the right to extract it from tax-payers, regardless of whether or not the state has enough money to go around.
But the teachers’ egregious behavior went beyond refusing to show-up for work. Some took it upon themselves to infect young impressionable minds with their destructive (progressive) attitudes, dragging students along to their protests.
About now, I’m trying to imagine the position of the average hard working middle-class family in Wisconsin who just voted some grown-ups into office to instill some necessary fiscal discipline into state matters. Working in the private-sector, they probably pay twice as much as state workers do for benefits and receive less.
http://thegraph.com/2011/02/revolting-wisconsin/Look this is critical to understand. To these people these rights, these hard earned rights, are a threat to them. They also think that collective bargaining is COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM and FASCISM all the same time.
Tsk, tsk, teachers did not teach these guys the difference? I am sure they did, but the propaganda is hard. Also realize that to these people a 50K salary is too much for them. Teachers should be happy to teach for minimum wage... oh wait, we don't want a minimum wage or taxes. This is what we are dealing with.
And yes. WE are the enemy... so time to refer to them the same way, because they are.