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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/nj-teacher-union-head-lifes-not-fair/366626

Here is the full text. Still terrible. [/quote]

The full quote:

"Life's not always fair, and I'm sorry about that, but to suggest that we take money from taxpayers and give it to certain taxpayers to use to educate their kids outside of the public school just seems to me to be [wrong]"

I am not exactly sure what is offensive about this. The fact that "life is not fair" has been one of the primary slogans of those opposed to OWS. Personally, I'd like to try to make it more fair. But, for example, Rick Santorum was recently proclaiming unfairness to be a positive characteristic of our society. Similarly, in almost any other context, giving taxpayer dollars to individuals to purchase commercial services for personal use would result in a Tea Party demonstration.

Edit: Here is Santorum's quote. Isn't this actually worse than the quote above?

"I’m not about equality of result when it comes to income inequality. There is income inequality in America. There always has been and, hopefully, and I do say that, there always will be."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/opinion/blow-santorum-exalts-inequality.html

Note that the union guy's quote came in response to the questioner saying "some of these parents can't afford to take their kids out of failing schools." So, the "unfairness" to which he referred was exactly income inequality -- something Santorum hopes we will always have.
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