From Stark
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wasted no time Monday in linking President Barack Obama to the teachers’ union, as striking teachers disrupted the school year for 400,000 Chicago students.
This AP report outline’s Romney’s statements about the strike, but also notes that Obama has already advocated some education policies that have put him at odds with the National Education Association — the big teachers’ union.
And Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief-of-staff, is the guy in the showdown with Windy City teachers. In this report from the Wall Street Journal, Emanuel criticizes the union and calls the strike “unnecessary.”
Obama’s earlier actions, and Romney’s comments today, make it pretty clear that politicians in both parties are aware that public employee unions are less than popular among the electorate at large. Conservative commentator Michael Barone cites some poll data in this column published online in June 2012.
Looks like the conservative propagandists have done a pretty good job of tricking people into thinking that it’s a good idea for politicians to be the ones who decide how much people are allowed to earn.
I guess they’re right about Romney & Ryan being secret Soviets: http://www.americablog.com/2012/09/national-review-appears-to-portray.html
And not only that, SL, but they also have really stupid and vapid expressions on their faces.
It’s a very creepy depiction; reminds me of Illuminati symbols.
Why would they have this?
Until of course you get to the 4th Corner, and the Bellingham Teachers Strikes, vote Kelli Linville group leader 1989 Bellingham teachers strike, now robbing the Lake Whatcom School Trust Lands of the Organic Act of 1853.
Sending the uneducated to Olympia..you get who you vote for(D)
http://www.leg.wa.gov/History/Territorial/Pages/territory.aspx
FDR wrote the following to the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees in 1937:
“… Meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the government. All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations … The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for … officials … to bind the employer … The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives …
“Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of government employees. Upon employees in the federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people … This obligation is paramount … A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent … to prevent or obstruct … Government … Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government … is unthinkable and intolerable.”…
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“Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has taken her members over the edge…..
….The next few days will be filled with fiery rhetoric, picketers and distressed parents and children. Don’t get swept up in it.
A deal is within reach.
All CTU has to do is grab it.”
http://www.suntimes.com/opinions/15049956-474/editorial-teacher-unions-unwise-strike-of-choice.html
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Are you kidding me? Obama’s support of labor is a corporate owned media fairy tale. Fire Arne Duncan – Obama appointee as Secretary of Education.
Duncan is an Obama friend from the old Chicago days. He does not have the education or the credentials for the job. He was put into place to smooth the way for privatized education (charter schools) brought to you by that well-known fifth column global corporatocracy group, the American Legislative Exchange Council (look it up).
Here’s a recent quote for you: “the President, along with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, supports an aggressive school privatization agenda and is too busy pressuring states to transfer even more money from public to unproven charter schools” See: “The demise of ‘Current Affairs’” online.
“The Chicago teachers strike has put Democrats in a difficult position. Teacher unions are the most powerful constituency in the Democratic Party, but their interests are ever more clearly at odds with taxpayers and inner-city families. Chicago is reviving scenes from the last crisis of liberalism in the 1970s, when municipal unions drove many American cities to disorder and bankruptcy…..
….Public unions do well in flush times like the 1950s and 1960s, but they suffer when taxpayers feel their true cost, as in the 1970s—and today.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444017504577645550224040874.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h
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