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You have to remember that Bill O'Reily Was in fact a teacher by vocation. It would seem to me that he would have the inside track on understanding the true nature of the whole argument.

The teachers up in Wisconsin look like a bunch of spoiled brats. I'll tell you one thing, I personnaly have walked the union pickett line from Texas to Dresden Ill. to West Virginia and down in Kentucky. You want to know what I never saw in any of those pickett lines? Not so much as one teacher. This whole idea that labor is in lockstep with professional people is a new one as far as I have seen.

Collective bargaining for wages and conditions in the work place I understand. Collective bargaining for state employees, teachers, and government employees is like scubba diving on Mars to me, I don't understand it and can't see the need for it. Seriously, do you really want teachers to be able to dictate classroom cirriculum through the unions? How about when to teach your kids their idea of sex education? In the workplace Architects spell out spicifically what they want in a building project. How stupid would it look to have a bunch of union workers trying to dictate what types of building materials to use? Their job is to do the work not decide what color a building is or how many stories it will be or how much parking is neccessary or anything else, just do the work.

I bolded the part that confuses me about you statement. You say that you understand the work conditions and wages, but in the very next statement you say that it should not be held for teachers and state workers.

My question is this: why?

If you say because it is considered a service, is not the medical field a service or air traffic controllers a service. If you say because you should not because you are working with someone elses money, but I would say doesn't everybody. If you say you signed up for this type of service, you are right but now people are changing the rules in midstream, at which point I did not sign up for.

So again ask why is a teacher not allowed to have the same benefits as say a union employee in any other field?