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I really want to be as responsible and respectful to you as I can when I say this. For the record I like teachers very much and value their contributions. I don't think they are overpaid, and you certainly can't help it if the school year runs for 9 and a half months but, you just did what I hate and that is to 'spin' my comments.

People can't legislate themselves into an idyllic, happy for life, existance, through the government, or unions, or a mixture of both. That's what this whole thing in Wisconsin looks like to me. The perfect one two punch of government and the union contract that will take one to financial freedom, and all you have to do is vote for everything you want. It's almost like people are trying to merge the unions and the federal government. The law of supply and demand is what drives the market in this land, not contracts. That is unless Obama really does succeed in "fundamentally transforming" our country. My contract might state that I get all kinds of benefits and perks, but if my employer doesn't have work then I don't have work, or benefits. You can bet employers don't let uneeded labor stand around telling jokes for long no matter how good their contract might be.

There is no short cut to success. But here in this country there is opportunity. The hourly worker deserves to live a respectable lifestyle taking his contribution and his sacrifice into account. That is all unions do, give decent folks a chance. The emergence of unions on the scene in this country and the circumstances surrounding those days are a matter of recorded history. I really don't want to offend anyone at all but, to me, teacher unions are out of place, all square pegs in round holes. As I said earlier a misapplication of a good idea because service providing workers don't have the moral right to strike. Which is at the core of collective barganing. What are you going to use to bring pressure to bear if not refuse to work? There is no way that would be right because you would at that time be using your students as hostages. I know highjackers take hostages when they negotiate, it has the advantage headlines and results though.

Except in oil:biggrin: