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To: Neeka who wrote (411510)	2/17/2011 9:19:15 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 793917

It is disgusting

To: Neeka who wrote (411510)	2/17/2011 9:25:09 PM
From: greenspirit	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

And I'll bet 180 days is a best case scenario. They always seem to be taking half days off in this area of the country, something they call "teachers day". It's ridiculous what lazy people they are, working the tough hours of 7:30-3, no weekends, summer off, XMAS off, every national holiday, and "teacher day's". No wonder our schools are failing, we have selfish greedy teachers in far too many school systems insisting on better family health care plans than active duty military members have, better retirement and more pay. Imagine if they had to stay locked up in the school preparing lessons 3-4 months at a time with no smoking privileges. That is if they could actually write curriculum. Let them simulate being underway on a submarine for a change and watch how many benefits they scream for. Speaking of smoking, I think we should ban all public school grounds from smoking in honor of submariners who can't smoke. Ban it from the entire grounds of the Pentagon, the Capital, White House (Obama), and every government institution.

To: Neeka who wrote (411510)	2/17/2011 10:17:24 PM
From: skinowski	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

I don't have a particular problem with employees trying to get as much as they can -- basically, as much as the market will bear. But in case of public employees it's not the market, it's the politicians - their true employers - who determine the compensation. And politicians, for decades, simply gave in to demands - so that by now public employees are generally compensated significantly better for the same work. Right now those teachers are raging because they are not accustomed to resistance. They'll have to get used to it - political bosses can't squeeze much more out of the public.

To: Neeka who wrote (411510)	2/18/2011 1:33:08 AM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793917

I think most of us feel the same way you do, Neeka! I'm personally distressed too today, to see that Obama's name is attached with the group that is no doubt sending the buses into WI and leading and paying the protests... A POTUS is supposed to be President of ALL the US Citizens, not just the part of them that he is beholden to politically for money....and even worse than that, the money he gets from the Unions including the Teachers Unions, is chances are, skimmed from the members paychecks. We need to have an expose' of ALL the Unions and the 100 top paid people in each union.....