We who work in the private sector are the new slaves. Our masters are unionized government bureaucrats. We work every day to pay the taxes that pay the wages and pensions of teachers, professors, inspectors, social workers, environmental fascists, career politicians, and those PennDOT guys who lean on shovels. We are paying the pensions of unionized auto workers in Detroit and even those of the rioting union workers in greedy Greece. It seems like we're contributing to every pension in the world except our own.
State workers are retiring at 55 or younger. Meanwhile, we in the private sector may not be able to retire on meager Social Security until we’re 70, and if Social Security goes bankrupt, perhaps never.
We’ll have to work an extra decade to pay for the early retirements of our state-worker neighbors. As we toil those 10 years, we’ll have to listen to them brag about their new cars, boats, RVs, ATVs, DVDs, HD-TVs, and their trips to Cancun and Aruba. And as they dine in fancy restaurants, we’ll have to subsist on Ramen noodles.
In the southern states before the Civil War, blacks worked their lives away so whites didn’t have to. Today, we in the private sector are working our lives away so those in the public sector don’t have to.
There’s something deliciously ironic about a black man presiding over a nation in which the practice of slavery has been re-introduced. It’s ironic but it isn’t funny.
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Showing posts with label unions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label unions. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Bail Out Teachers? Are You Kidding?
Well, the Democrats have done it again -- another bail-out gift to the unions, this time $10 billion to the teachers’ unions. First they forced us, the taxpayers, to pay the pensions of union auto workers, and now this. Just when you thought the DemoRats had sunk about as low as they could go, they even farther lower the Limbo stick.
The bailout is intended to prevent teacher layoffs, but there’s a simple alternative to layoffs – do what the private sector does: reduce salaries across the board. I’m sorry, but I just don’t buy the union argument that little Bobby can’t learn to read unless his teacher is paid $60K. I’ll bet little Bobby could learn to read just as well from a $58K teacher (or better yet, a $28K teacher).
First Chrysler and GM and then the banks – all too big to fail. Now, apparently, Democrats think our schools are too big to fail. Well, in my opinion, the only thing too big about our schools are their payrolls. And besides – in case you haven’t noticed, our schools are already failing – failing to adequately teach our kids the basics. And this is due to bad union-protected teachers who just keep getting paid more the worse they perform. Education would improve in the U.S. if the worst 10 percent of teachers were laid off. Instead of bailing them out; we should be kicking them out.
And if you want to talk about true failure, about the people who are failing the most, who are the absolute kings and queens of failure – let’s talk about the Democrats. They are failing to represent the will of the majority of taxpaying citizens. They are failing at their jobs. Let’s lay off all of them this November!
The bailout is intended to prevent teacher layoffs, but there’s a simple alternative to layoffs – do what the private sector does: reduce salaries across the board. I’m sorry, but I just don’t buy the union argument that little Bobby can’t learn to read unless his teacher is paid $60K. I’ll bet little Bobby could learn to read just as well from a $58K teacher (or better yet, a $28K teacher).
First Chrysler and GM and then the banks – all too big to fail. Now, apparently, Democrats think our schools are too big to fail. Well, in my opinion, the only thing too big about our schools are their payrolls. And besides – in case you haven’t noticed, our schools are already failing – failing to adequately teach our kids the basics. And this is due to bad union-protected teachers who just keep getting paid more the worse they perform. Education would improve in the U.S. if the worst 10 percent of teachers were laid off. Instead of bailing them out; we should be kicking them out.
And if you want to talk about true failure, about the people who are failing the most, who are the absolute kings and queens of failure – let’s talk about the Democrats. They are failing to represent the will of the majority of taxpaying citizens. They are failing at their jobs. Let’s lay off all of them this November!
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