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> We, then, exist to ensure that the union "class" gets to live happily every-after with their wonderful lifetime pensions and healthcare. This is beyond wrong.
by jberryman 14y ago
> We, then, exist to ensure that the union "class" gets to live happily every-after with their wonderful lifetime pensions and healthcare. This is beyond wrong. This is criminal.
Oh, please. Public-sector employees make on average less than their private-sector counterparts, even taking into account fairly-negotiated benefits.
It boggles the mind how you can be such a misanthrope as to believe that teachers' healthcare coverage is a scourge on our society and "criminal". What's criminal is that the richest country on earth cannot educate its children or provide for the health of its citizenry.
- adventureful 14y agoThe richest country on earth spends nearly twice as much on education per student as any other country on earth. Our college students now carry one trillion in debt, more than all credit card debt in America. That debt went to pay for university facilities and extraordinary teacher benefits and salaries. Meanwhile 50% of graduating students can't find a job. There's only one place for the blame to go, unless you intend to blame the students. The teachers and their unions have been given resources that other first world nations would kill to have.
- reitblatt 14y agoYou are confusing cost and price. The cost of education has risen at a pace comparable to other labor intensive fields. But the price has sky-rocketed due to decreased state support over the past few decades.