‘Million Teacher March’ Falls About 992,000 People Short
by Kyle OlsonTeachers unions and their supporters hoped to draw 1 million people to Washington D.C. last weekend for their “Save Our Schools” rally. They apparently fell about 992,000 people short.
The embarrassing attendance underlined one major truth – there is no mass movement to maintain the status quo in our nation’s public schools. The only people defending the current system are those who profit from it, like the leaders of the nation’s teachers unions.
The “Save Our Schools” message was honest in one respect – the union goal is to save public schools as they currently exist. Notice that there was no call to improve the quality of education for students, because that’s not what the unions are fighting for.
Their only concern is to maintain a system that has kept unions financially health for decades. The fact that American students are struggling in this system is not on their agenda.
The unions certainly did their best to draw a crowd, even going as far as inviting Matt Damon to be a keynote speaker.
The burning question in my mind was if Damon would draw more people to this rally than he did to his recently flopped film “Green Zone.” The answer was a definite no. And he got a little temperamental when pressed by a reporter from ReasonTV.
Person behind the camera: Aren’t 10 percent (of teachers) bad though? Ten percent of teachers are bad. Ten percent of people in any profession should think of something else.
Damon: Well, okay, but I mean, maybe you’re a shi**y cameraman. I don’t know.
A popular theme of the rally was to attack student testing. See, if the establishment can get rid of any sort of objective measure of student performance, then they can dicker about subjective measurements for employees, such as how much they work, how much they care and how hard they’re trying. It has been a full-frontal attack on objective measurements, which they’ve deemed “high-stakes.”
The unionists were also complaining about Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, collective bargaining reform in Ohio and boogeymen such as the Koch brothers.
Once hoping for 1,000,000 teachers in front of the White House, they could only rustle up about 8,000 attendees, according to unofficial Parks Department estimates. Even grading with a curve, that’s a big fat “F.”
But never fear, they have millions of people behind them, Damon said. They just happened to be at the beach or on vacation because, after all, it’s summer, you know.
Perhaps the real reason for the poor turnout is that millions of union teachers throughout the nation disagree with their leaders’ rejection of necessary reforms.
Either way, the poor turnout demonstrated that there isn’t much enthusiasm nationwide for maintaining our public school system in its current form. Most people want change, and all the union bluster in the world will not alter that fact.
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It is not a good time to be a SOCIALIST TEACHER. Many are not THANK GOD!
"Million Teacher March" falls about 992,00 people short but I'll bet they left enough trash behind to make up the difference.
The million teacher march sounds a bit like a practice run for the riots they have planned when they don't get their way.
My husband's father started out as a teacher and coach. Jack worked his way through being principal and on up to superintendent. After retirement and a stint as restauranteur, he worked for the school system as a consultant.
He always said that generally speaking, teachers were the laziest people ever. (generally–we all know brilliant educators)
This showing may just support his theory.
HOME SCHOOL.
Gentle and Wisely . . .
August 2, 2011
Dear President Obama,
I often wonder after one of these debates you, Boehner, and Reid, lie in bed, gently sharing a cigarette, and ask the open question, “Was it good for you?” Because, Mr. Obama it wasn’t good for the American people, frankly, we are left wanting. We got the aggravation, but no action. XXXX, we can’t even have a cigarette anymore to calm our nerves. Frankly, Sir, I don’t smoke, but even I could use a XXXXXX stick about now. In fact if I could buy America one thing, other than a Coke, it would be a cigarette and place to smoke it free from some goody-two-shoes telling them to put it out.
Towards the end of this debate I was likened to a terrorist by Joe Biden. This coming from a guy from the same party that has sit downs with real terrorist like Basher Assad. I, and no one I’ve ever met who wants government to be even marginally more responsible, is a terrorist. If I thought they were I would call my friend in the FBI and ask him if I should report the situation. We are regular people who have credit cards who think that when the bank sets a limit, it’s for a good reason, and if we want an increase we have to justify it and they have to make a determination based on past experience. In this present case the American people determined that enough was enough, and it was time to stop the bleeding and save good old Uncle Sam from an early demise.
For this we are vilified. We are called racists. We are likened to the deepest evils to have ever roamed the earth. Just because we want to gently and wisely begin to affix a bandage to our Uncle Sam and get him back on his feet while not billing taxpayers for that 5th pair of orthotics that he could pick up at a local Walgreens for far less cost. We do not want to end these programs that tens of millions of Americans and some future Americans rely on. We want to save them. We want to create a better way for the next generation to save for retirement and their eventual infirmity. We want to have family and faith and not government at the center of their lives. We want community not to be organized around race or economic class, but comity and common purpose.
Are these pipe dreams? Maybe. But they are worth the fight. They are worth an argument, and they certainly are worth a few hurt feelings. One of the reasons we all fight so hard is because we are Americans and we find losing hateful. In this most recent debate and vote Americans, once again, lost against a stacked deck. Some day soon we are going to take that deck and shuffle it a few extra times and we are going to be certain those cards hit face down. A casino is the place for gambling, the federal government is not the proper venue especially when lives are on the line. Last November we said enough is enough on November 6, 2012 we will do it again. If my math is right you’ll be short a few more Democrats, and I’ll be showing a few more Republicans of the TEA Party variety. That’s a deck “We The People” can’t wait to play with:)
Respectfully,
Joe Doakes
If the union thugs would have thrown this bash during school hours, they would have had a much larger crowd since all those in attendance would have had a fake doctor's note.
Darn it, I missed it. But you know, I had to do my hair…or I had a headache….or….???
eww yeah I hope someone took before and after video. that is always a good proof thing to keep on file.
and forced to pay dues- my brother in law in MI being one of them.
hee hee good one- Damon says they are on vacation- we know where their values lay- in themselves. I believe you are right though- if it was on the taxpayers dime- heck they would be there. Anything to have another day off and not teach. Oh wait- with their propaganda teaching that might be a good thing.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Matt Damon did his best work in TEAM AMERICA: WORLD POLICE. He's been on his way down ever since.
You kind of tip your hand when you charter buses and offer free rides to bring the upset or aggrieved to the show. Particularly when they were not upset or aggrieved enough to show up on their own.
Speaking of public sector unions. The recall elections in Wisconsin are getting interesting. Dems are doing it again and bribing voters with food and a ride to the polls. This is ILLEGAL. http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/126548768.html
In the new math/every answer is right in education, 8,000 is the same as 1 million.
More teachers out protesting means less teachers pushing the "works" of Howard Zinn…
"My summer softball team is in the NEA/SEIU/AFSCME league quarterfinals!"
yes we need to stay up on this and do what we can as hardworking citizens vs. the unions. thanks.
Did they have 8,000 teachers,
or just 8,000 people who draw a school paycheck?
We would have to talk to some their students to find out.
What do you get when you cross the Million Teacher March with the Million Lesbian March and the Million Man March? Three million people that don't do d!@k………
Congratulations!!! But, how hard is it to BEAT the unions??? Next year maybe you guys could move up to the Brownie league.
I'm surprised I didn't hear reports on the MSM on how hundreds of thousands of teachers showed up to protest.
Maybe they couldn't read their maps to figure out how to get there? Actually I love most of my kids' teachers, it's their unions that suck. I'm a public safety employee, our national union is terrible, anything I get from them goes immediately in the trash, I'm sure it's probably the same for the teachers.
do the unions think that the teachers would spend their own cash to go to washington.air fare, paying for a hotel room,food ect.why didn't the unions pay for this after all the teachers pay dues.
I thought they were all having a "tent city" camp-in in Madison. Whatever became of that harebrained scheme?
Amen!
No.
Yet the media will report it as 2 million, while under counting tea party rallies by a similar number. Worry not, TP members know the deal and this sort of media chicanary simply steels their resolve to oust the pickpockets in congress, the senate and White House in 2012.
YES
Obviously, don't want to be identified with the enemy within…known as the union 'goons'!
~~~
BANISH THE UNION ‘GOONS’ – BOTH PUBLIC & PRIVATE
IS YOUR STATE “RIGHT TO WORK”? – http://www.nrtw.org/rtws.htm
992,000 short? HAHAHAHAHAHA! No, seriously, people are getting sick of them doing this.
Unions have crossed the line so blatantly even those who once sympathised with them have turned against them. Schools are producing faulty products………….student not ready for college and those finishing college not prepared for the real world of work. Were they a major corporation they would be sued for product defects subject to recall.
you may have a point. more would have shown up if they could have gotten a paid sick day out of it.
Was the NEA skimping of free lunches for the protesters?
Million Moron March.
That and they didn't offer the freeloaders lodging at a 5 star rated hotel or an open bar.
They would have had better results had they planned this after September – that way the teachers could have skipped doing their actual of "educating" to participate. Besides, did you really expect them to interrupt their summer vacation?
Some of these comments about teachers are hugely offensive. Go ahead and jump on the backs of hard working, underpaid professionals who do what they do for children out of love and commitment.
I never expected my fellow conservatives to act like such morons. Maybe there are no thoughtful parties. You guys are pissing me off!
On the local media here in DC we didn't hear anything about this. Not even warnings to avoid downtown.
Im a teacher and I never heard a word.
My favorite leftist website for comedic reading (I won't name them, why give them free advertising) had a few threads in May pushing the march. Afterwards? No mention at all. Now I will have to look around and see if any leftist websites have photos of the march. A dead giveaway of low attendance is when they only use closeup photos of a few people and no crowd shots at all. LOL
Well said!
8,000 more than the tea party's 2011 rallies have been (oh wait, there were none….c'mon where is everyone?)
There is a lot to what you say and there is no doubt that most teachers are at least competent. However the teaching profession has nobody but themselves to blame for the ongoing wave of criticism. Over the last fifty years teachers have intentionally wedded themselves to a 19th Century trade-unionism that is increasingly obsolete. Teachers want to be regarded as "professionals who do what they do for children out of love and commitment" on one hand. However they ALSO want to be hard-butt trade-unionists wielding the political clout of a United Auto Workers.
I would argue that they can't have it both ways. Either teachers are the dedicated "hard-working professionals" you speak of who are right out of a Reader's Digest "My Most Unforgettable Character" article or they are Johnny Friendly and his goons in "On the Waterfront." It's this constant back and forth between the two roles that has contributed to the dissatisfaction that people now have with the teaching profession. In a sense a lot of people are saying to themselves…"Why can't these people make up their minds?"
And you're qualifications are….what…
And apparently the "teachers" we have in public school are so qualified that America ranks far below the rest of the industrialized world. What are THEIR qualifications? A degree in Diversity and Social Justice?
It all about economics.
Today in most unions only about 15-25% of the members work.
Between 60-75% of the members are retirees.
Thus Unions are dealing with an ever shrinking number of workers trying to maintain an ever growing number of retirees. (Sort of sound like Social Security, doesn't it.)
So Unions are doing their damnedest to either force more people to join, see card check, or get us to pay their pensions, see General Motors.
That's why the Right To Work movement is to the unions like sunlight to a vampire.
Here's something else, around 70% of union dues go to their national office.
This does nothing for the rank and file.
But it sure means a lot for big salaries for the leadership and big political donations.
In the end like all socialist structures, unions are pretty much are toast because of simple economics.
Unions in the end will cause their own economic distruction. No amount of bailouts will prevent this, just delay their own downfall.
Sadly, our government is working the exact same way and explains why such economics never work. The government currently is stealing from the citizens just as unions do to their rank and file members. It all comes down to just one thing for them, money and power, nothing more.
Wow Matt Damon is quite the draw….
Ive taught school in five states and the unions have never stuck their hands into our business. In my school, there four people who belong to the union. Most who join do it for legal protection against unwarranted accusations. Kids are pretty savvy about how they can get back at a teacher who attempts to control their behavior.
"hard working, underpaid professionals"?
go do your homework on their hours/work year, tenure, salary, bennies, etc. and get back to us on that. while you're at it, take a gander at student performance over the last 30-40 yrs and see what we've been getting for our money.
None of your business.
So your drawing a line in the sand without any knowledge whatsoever, and saying that a Union teacher can provide a better education that I could?
You sure you want to go down this road there Sparky?
less than 50% of high school graduates are qualified for anything more complex than sucking on the welfare teat,and you want us to coddle and protect the people directly responsible for this failure? are you a teacher by trade?back in the 40's and 50's kids came to school with less and left learning more,why? because teachers cared and worked hard,now teachers are just over paid baby sitters.out of 1000000 expected 999200 realized the truth and couldnt be bothered to show up.
Its Time for local communities to take control over schools once again. You can track the decline in education in this country with the rise of unions in our schools. Don't take my word for it. Do some research from 1965 on. I'm not trying to be mean to you…. do you really think bureaucrats in Washington know whats better for you're community then the people who live there?
After 18 years in the profession, I make $39,000 per year. I have an M.Ed and have to update every five years. I currently have more years in education than most lawyers and doctors.
The performance over the last 30-40 years has been a result of the deterioration of the American family and accountability of the family. We attempt to educate everyone whether they want to be or not. We battle TV, video games, sports, computers, iPods, and a myriad of other things. We battle parents who think that their child could not possibly do anything wrong or disruptive…..and don't forget, their child is gifted.
We deal with many things….but that has never stopped me from forming real connections with children who are starved for them, …….discipline, and caring as well.
BTW…I can help you with your capitalization problems.
The current form is testing.
According to the proper logic, this should mean there is enthusiasm for the current system.
Hauling ash wrote:
"Its Time for local communities to take control over schools once again. You can track the decline in education in this country with the rise of unions in our schools. Don't take my word for it. Do some research from 1965 on. I'm not trying to be mean to you…. do you really think bureaucrats in Washington know whats better for you're community then the people who live there?"
Hauling ash, that is what the March was all about. Perhaps Olson missed this. The first answer to the FAQ part of the website:
Q: What is the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action? What do you hope to accomplish?
The Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action is a grassroots movement dedicated to restoring educator, parent, student, and community influence over education policy and practice. We are a varied group of people with different perspectives, experiences, and views on education. But we agree that those who know the most about education, our schools, and our communities—the educators, students, families and communities in and around them—should be the ones to have the most influence over education policy and practice. Our goal is to put public school stakeholders back at the center of all education policy conversations, and to refocus national, state, and local efforts on providing the resources and support schools need in order to provide a high-quality education for each and every student.
I just read Yahoo!'s little article about this same march, and Matt Damon shot his mouth off about how teachers generally put in very long hours and get really crappy pay for it. The fact of the matter is, though, the union thugs couldn't even get more than a few thousand teachers out, out of a planned 100,000.
Teachers also don't have to work more than 9 or so months out of the year, and they usually get upwards of $80,000 or more (one district that Governor Chris Christie mentioned was paying one of the district employees upwards of $250,000 a year), plus virtually free Cadillac-quality healthcare coverage plans with no more than 6.5% to 12% being contributed by them. These people can sit here and gripe all they want, but they're getting good salaries, more time off per year than most people can take off in several years, and they got job security thanks to unions. I have to work from dawn until dusk every day just to keep afloat with all the bills I have to pay every month, and I can't even remember the last time I took a vacation!
The teachers I know were most likely not there because they are getting ready for this coming school year. School around here does not begin until Aug. 22nd, but most teachers are already in their rooms…and they don't get paid to do that work. Lazy for sure…
They are also most likley putting supplies bought with their own money in their rooms because people don't want a one cent or two cent increase on their property taxes per $1000 of assesed value.
Teachers are about to start 9 months of working 8 hour days and then taking work home to complete in another two or three hours before bed. If they coach it will be long practices trying to make your kids the best they can be only to be yelled at when 5'4" Johnny does not start on the baskeball team.
Teachers will put in countless hours teaching your students to do better only to sit for four hours during Parent-Teacher Conferences that the parents don't care to attend and call the following week and bitch about Johnny's report card.
Damn lazy worthless hack….no not the teacher…the parents.
You will call a repair man to fix your air conditioning because you are not a AC/HVAC specialist, but you somehow feel the person teaching your children does not need any formal training.
Smart…real smart…your kid could always grow up to change my oil….
I bet you could not write a paper with sources and citations on why you don't like what Howard Zinn has to say. All you can do is bitch about teacher because you refused to do the work your teachers assigned you in school and now you are in a job where you have a weekday off becuase you have to work 2nd shift on the weekends at some local bar.
You seem to know a great deal of D!@k to make such a comment….you must have done a term paper on svck!ng D!@k in college….
You are just upset that what you do does not Unionize and have political pull. It is not illegal you know.
Well said. Public school teachers are given what the parent have. It is not like the parents are keeping the smart kids at home.
Not all parents are the same, so go back to your dark corner of the basement and continue your yankin Billy.
Besides, your 9 month working teachers make much better salaries than many of us who couldn't take off 3 months a year if we begged on our knees for it, so shove your real estate tax whineys side-ways. Parents of students long graduated still pay through the nose to the schools to maintain ownership of their houses, just to support a system that can't turn out students who can compete on the international scene.
Parents are to blame just as much as you want to blame teachers. Students who come into the schools are the products of their parents/guardians. The parents created the clay, we just try to mold them into something better. If the clay is crummy to start, that is the parent's fault.
You seem to be doing just fine changing your own oil there. Meanwhile, you don't know squat about Petro's ability to service his own equipment, so you just keep on mindin' your own. Yank.
I thought you would bring up that 9 months of work and three months off in the summer bull2h!t. Did you know most teachers are paid for just 9 months….you know for the 9 months of work they did and then have their salaries stretched out over 12 months?
You can apologize anytime.
I am guessing you are not a teacher. Know anything about child psychology or research methods, MLA, ACT testing or State Testing, maybe you could enlighten me on your thought on RtI and Inclusion or how to deal with Autistic students at verying degrees of pronouncement.
You mind your business….I'll mind mine and don't ever think becuase you went to school that you could ever teach without formal training.
With spelling like that I am guessing that you shouldn't be a teacher.
Let see here……..you state little billy "you somehow feel the person teaching your children does not need any formal training"
Where exactly did I say that? That's right, I didn't, you decided to change the narrative based on your own presumptions and most likely because of your own deficiencies in education.
Here, let me try your tactic. You think based on your two terms at a community college that you are smarter than us who have degrees at accredited colleges. You believe just because people oppose indoctrination from Marxism, Communism and Liberalism and choose individual liberty, freedom and personal accountability that they are crazy……right?
This post now explains exactly why someone SHOULD be home schooled, to avoid growing up just like you, although a very strong argument could be made that you never really did grow up.
Let us know if you ever form your own thoughts and quit following your masters narrative.
One last thing…………please please stay away from our children, you sound quite unstable and I don't want you going Laughner on our kids.
Sorry to offend you with quick typing
"Varying" and "Because"…that ok for you…would you like to spend 3 hours a night grading papers? It is so much fun after 8 hours in the classroom.
You said to home school….
Shows how much you know…to teach you have to have 4 years of college…most likely 5 years to obtain all the required classes on education and then be certified by the state and obtain a license. That license must be renewed every 5 years with a B.A or B.S. and every 10 years with a Masters.
Where in the world did you hear teachers only need two year degrees at a community college? Your parents or conservative friends…would not trust them.
And why do you think I am a communist or marxist because I teach and how in the world do you know what I teach? Where did I say I was a communist or marxist…is that just a go-to for conservative pukes like you?
Please….keep you kids out of school…I would hate for them to learn what type of parent you are by having them learn to think for themselves and form their own opinions.
If your a teacher, you are absolutely the worst one I have ever seen. You can't even read, let alone comprehend what you read.
You are again, precisely the prime example of why I would never let a child near public school.
I will debate with someone who has a valid argument, I don't argue with idiots, and you are clearly one. I feel very sorry for not just the children who have to endure your fabricated thoughts, but the parents who will have to fix their kids after you have screwed them up.
You ever watch Carlos Mencia? He has a skit he does called "De DE De". You know, with drooling, and that "mentally challenged look" on his face.
That's who we are dealing with here Reb.
Don't be an ass. My family is chock full of teachers and they tell me regularly about how the dead wood "works" so harrrd. Like I said, I was speaking generally. My relatives work during the school year and during any additional classes they take in the summer. They contract to do it. My heart is playing the world's smallest violin for all of them. They are not conscripts.
Your logic is about a third grade level on that one. The choice to have their pay split into twelve instead of three is usually that…a choice. they can have a whole other job during the summer if they choose. One of my relatives goes to Germany every summer. She packs her Coach bags and her Chanel lipstick. Yeah. She's hurtin'.
Can't let this go. $49,000.00 is $49,000.00 for nine months of work or stretched over twelve months for the same amount of work. It is the piss poor excuse for equivocation that makes your argument weak.
There are some very dedicated teachers in the school systems and I will not deny that. It is tenure that allows so many mendicants to continue while under perfoming as compared to their hard working peers.
Teachers used to only need 'certification', NOT 4 years of BS college – circa 1890's.
Children back then were more educated and had a huge vocabulary, unlike today.
Is obvious to me, the more college education re: a teacher, the more dangerous.
That psycho babble has become more important than the 3 R's is proof in itself.
Test scores have plummeted since the '50's. Public education is a failure and has
failed its taxpayers, parents and most of all, its students. And let us not forget, the
NEA leader made it clear – it is not about the students, it is about power and money.
Ditto that, HoR. If the Fed Dept of NO-Education were to be abolished today – WHO would notice other than those "who do nothing" employed there and the Teachers Unions ???
That 'bout sums it up, WU.
On the contrary – my main complaint about Howard Zinn is that his most cited work, A People's History, lacks the very footnotes and citations that you claim are so important. Zinn admitted that his tome was overtly political – "a part of the social struggle". He has repeatedly and reflexively sided with the enemies of the United States, whether they be Communist or Islamist. Futhermore, I did do the assignments that my teachers assigned me. I graduated sixth in my high school class from a public school back when a public school education meant something. I even went to college and got a Master's Degree. I do have a job and, no, it's not shift at some local bar (which you seem to imply as being a bad thing – a lot of working-class people have put themselves through school working second shifts at local bars).
Do you deduct the amount you spend on teaching supplies from your federal taxes? If so, why are you unwilling to pay your fair share of taxes?
If not, why? Are you lying about being a teacher?
Thanks. I was too stunned to come up with your succinct response!
Someone forgot to ring the bell.
Nope…it is usually not enough to deduct…but it still comes out of my pocket.
I don't like all the psycho babble either…but it is now part of the teacher landscape. The student of today has a very different home life compared to the 1890's…so what is different?
YW Red, I was a bit throttled when I read the comment from Billy and forgot to read your response. My apologies for the repetitive nature of my comment. The mentality of the regressive hordes never fails to amaze me. Each time they make half baked statements they prove that the education system is failing. Each time they get indignant over our pointing that out proves that their parents failed as well.
I've got to check it out, Bro. Youtube?
Would you like to try 80-100 hr weeks in the industrial service sector, out on the road hundreds of miles from home managing client situations and equipment that you can't hear yourself think around even though you are double- ear protected, with no summers off; sometimes no weekends off for months, and to top that off for less than half the money that some cushey teachers haul down? Quit whining Carlos. Real people are out there working their butts off to pay the ever-increasing real estate taxes on homes that they rarely get to enjoy because of the *^(%)$* teacher's unions, and for lower salaries than the squawking whiney %&^*$ teachers unions hold kids hostage over.
It will be shortly, I'm heading back in today. I'll send you a link soon.
I was giving you accolades
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I love your p o v on who failed.
So, in your martyrdom, you don't even spend $250/yr on teaching supplies? Why not? It's for the children, after all. Why do you hate kids, Billy? I suspect the truth is you're just another lazy, greedy communist pissed about having to do something, anything, for a living. Why don't you just admit you're not a teacher but a LSoS, water carrier for the DemoCPUSA?
Of course what they do is legal. But then again so are the "tax breaks" given to large corporations like General Electric as well as the dozens (hundreds) of government perks handed out to Big Business (pause to admire Thomas Nast cartoon) by Congress. However when these perks and privileges are exposed to the light of day a lot of people get upset and seek change.
BTW – Just for the record I am a former teacher and has had the opportunity to see the local teacher's union at work up close and personal. When it comes to wielding political clout in their own interest they act more like John L. Lewis than "Our Miss Brooks."
Do you ever make a reply to someone who does not agree with you without calling them communist or a member of the communist party? It is a standard go to that makes you feel good.
To be honest I voted Republican for my state's governor two years ago as well as my state rep….
Why do you think I hate the kids…I spend more time with them during the day than with my own family…I have given 17 years of my life to teaching and you have the balls to say I hate the kids…
And how much have you really studied about the communists? Do you believe that in Communist Russia the people just sat around doing nothing and the government gave them a house, car and food? Do you even have a simple understanding of anything?
"Do you ever make a reply to someone who does not agree with you without calling them communist or a member of the communist party? It is a standard go to that makes you feel good."
Quit projecting, Billy. For you to imply that I derive a sense of superiority in correctly identifying you indicates that 1) I struck a nerve, indicating it is true 2) You're also an idiot for not seeing the truth of something so obvious and 3) I have the same self-esteem issues you have.
The real question you should ask is why you label as a greedy anyone who doesn't want you using the force of a workers' collective or the government to rob them?
"Do you even have a simple understanding of anything? " You.
You people aren't nearly as good at obfuscation as you think you are.
Wow, you really are a sad little person who cannot read anyone. No nerve struck here…it is just that so many people on this site reply the same way to anyone…not just me…but anyone who disagrees with them as a marxist or communist. It must be like a pacifier for you Conservatives…always going back to what makes you feel calm.
How are teachers or teachers unions robbing yo?. Maybe you would like to pay an hourly rate for sending your kids to school instead of a property tax. I know I would sure earn a little bit more money a year.
Pretty transparent construct there, Billy. Unjustified condescension. Too bad you're not dealing with someone as stupid as your own ego requires you to believe they are for that to have the effect I'm sure you were hoping it would have.
I don't believe you're a teacher. If you are, you're obviously not happy with being one. Do your students a favor–find something that compensates you in the manner to which you would like to become accustomed–nobody's making you teach. I doubt if anyone could, given the attitude you have.
"Maybe you would like to pay an hourly rate for sending your kids to school instead of a property tax."
If you don't know what that hourly rate would be, Billy, how do you know you "would sure earn a little bit more money a year?"
Kind of a dumb thing to say, Billy.
Regressivism–it destroys everything it touches.
snivel snivel waaaa!
So what, I bought goodies for my troops for 20 years out of my pocket, why do you think your something special?
Typical Libtard always looking to a villain to blame, likely never did anything out of goodness.
Billy Yank = a real jerk.
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