Veri nice site!

There’s an important distinction between calling teachers “terrorists” and calling the teacher’s union “terrorists.”

The existence and legality of unions is controversial, the left tending to be in favor and the right against.

Everybody likes teachers.

Your headline says the secretary is badmouthing them, but in fact he’s being a right winger and bad-mouthing unions. So your head is misleading.

Second, you imply in your Guantanamo comment that all members of the teacher’s union are in favor of the union. My belief is that teachers choose to become teachers because they love teaching, not unions. They’re in the union by force (which, ironically, is not the case with real terrorist organizations… ; ). Some unknowable percentage of the teachers agree with Paige.

Unions function today like wasteful, beaurocratic extortion rackets, forcing people who want to do specific things for a living to hand over their earnings as “dues” — or else!

It’s wrong and bad to label the NEA a terrorist organization, but necessary, in my opinion, to oppose them at every opportunity. They waste money, force people to “join” an organization they may not want to join, create harmful antagonism between employers and employees and generally make life worse for millions of Americans.

I think the best way to support teachers is to ban the teacher’s union and let teachers keep their dues money as a much deserved raise.

Great blog!

Mike

There’s an important distinction between calling teachers “terrorists” and calling the teacher’s union “terrorists.”

The existence and legality of unions is controversial, the left tending to be in favor and the right against.

Everybody likes teachers.

Your headline says the secretary is badmouthing them, but in fact he’s being a right winger and bad-mouthing unions. So your head is misleading.

Second, you imply in your Guantanamo comment that all members of the teacher’s union are in favor of the union. My belief is that teachers choose to become teachers because they love teaching, not unions. They’re in the union by force (which, ironically, is not the case with real terrorist organizations… ; ). Some unknowable percentage of the teachers agree with Paige.

Unions function today like wasteful, beaurocratic extortion rackets, forcing people who want to do specific things for a living to hand over their earnings as “dues” — or else!

It’s wrong and bad to label the NEA a terrorist organization, but necessary, in my opinion, to oppose them at every opportunity. They waste money, force people to “join” an organization they may not want to join, create harmful antagonism between employers and employees and generally make life worse for millions of Americans.

I think the best way to support teachers is to ban the teacher’s union and let teachers keep their dues money as a much deserved raise.

Mike