I imagine many of our politicians would benefit from going back to sixth grade, or whichever grade basic civics is taught in their home school district.
The state government thinks that after 17 months of frozen health care rates, the teachers won't have the energy and determination to strike once the rates skyrocket.
They don't realize that this wage victory has empowered the teachers, and they are much more likely to act just as 'impudently' in the future.
With luck, both the national gun control issue and the West Virginia teachers issue have both undergone a radical change in political dynamic.
It's true - it's just terrible here. There are far too many craft breweries, the produce is so fresh you almost want to eat it raw, and they need construction workers so badly they recruit them from (those people) neighborhoods to go to a free 8-week school, after which they start work as "apprentices" in a *grasps security blanket* UNION JERB!
It's amazing all the PETTY fuckery that went into the tax bill. I mean the worst thing of course was the boondoggle for rich people.. But there's a long list of just petty, dickish cuts in there. I can't remember them all, but the teacher thing seemed to be especially dickish.
I imagine many of our politicians would benefit from going back to sixth grade, or whichever grade basic civics is taught in their home school district.
I'm becoming an OLD union thug.
Why do I think the legislature is going to be assholes about all of this?
As Dok says above - majored in cynicism.
The state government thinks that after 17 months of frozen health care rates, the teachers won't have the energy and determination to strike once the rates skyrocket.
They don't realize that this wage victory has empowered the teachers, and they are much more likely to act just as 'impudently' in the future.
With luck, both the national gun control issue and the West Virginia teachers issue have both undergone a radical change in political dynamic.
Wait - out of their own pockets? Something fishy here . . .
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One of the WV teachers NPR interviewed yesterday is running for the state house. (As a D, of course.)
Not WV, but something odd is happening in this school -
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It's true - it's just terrible here. There are far too many craft breweries, the produce is so fresh you almost want to eat it raw, and they need construction workers so badly they recruit them from (those people) neighborhoods to go to a free 8-week school, after which they start work as "apprentices" in a *grasps security blanket* UNION JERB!
Save me! I'm lost in a low-unemployment dystopia!
Slightly more than I made as a starting engineer - in 1984. JFC, that's messed up.
It also might help offset the positive publicity for those teachers putting food on their students’ families. Why, yes, we did major in cynicism.
You call it cynicism; I call it realism.
damn onion ninjas.
IKR? That thing about the packed lunches, they started chopping doubletime.
So eerily accurate.
"a sixth-grader named Gideon Titus-Glover, who urged him to reconsider his stance on teacher pay"
Clearly paid and coached by Soros personally.
[ Note to the planning committee: they actually fell for one! Let's remember to use sixth-graders a lot more in the future! ]
It's amazing all the PETTY fuckery that went into the tax bill. I mean the worst thing of course was the boondoggle for rich people.. But there's a long list of just petty, dickish cuts in there. I can't remember them all, but the teacher thing seemed to be especially dickish.