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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality is US tax payers are sick and tired of public employee unions demanding even better pay and benefit packages in times of a recession.  There is a finite amount of money (look at California) and while the rest of us have seen our wages decline over the past six years, public sector employees want more.  You can't have private sector equivalent salaries and public sector benefits packages. There simply is not enough money.

And what the union does not want to admit is that there is surplus of teachers in the country.  Chicago can fire all the teachers and replace them all.

And finally, if as a 10 month employee, you feel $75,000 per year plus benefits is not enough, please go to the private sector and see what your masters in education will get you.[/quote]

No, the reality is big business has flexed its muscle and US tax payers are frightened of losing what little they have. Do you know anyone in the private sector who doesn't fear pay cuts, a pink slip, working longer hours, etc.? Unions are not the enemy. Businesses and the super wealthy pretending we're all sharing the pain while they giggle and smirk dangling the carrot of more money to the little people are the enemy. There's plenty of money. It's just being sat on by the few, the weak, and entitled.

Moreover: there's an excess of well-trained, experienced teachers? You just want them all fired and replaced, basically, with scabs? Tell me, when they "threw the bums out" of Congress, what'd we get? Worse people and intractable gridlock.

Ante up. If you hate unions so much, I'll thank you to start showing up in weekends, give up whatever OSHA provisions you have, and give back any kind of health care. 
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