LOL @ GOP

[Tahoe]

On aggregate? I can see how they'd average out and sometimes exceed in certain branches of the gov't, but I was talking more about the typical sectors you'd think of. . . public schools, mainly.

Teachers in the bigger districts will make over 100,000.00 on average in compensation this year.

[DE]

Aside from the specifics of this there are two things about this attack on teachers and teaching unions and public workers that honestly saddens me. First it shows the place we hold teaching, teachers and education in this society. I absolutely believe the common belief that we are told that access to education is one of the biggest reasons the United States grew as strongly and as quickly as it did over the last century. Teachers in so many countries/societies/cultures are given revered status (and I don't mean worship) or, basically, it is made known the importance of what they do. They teach our children. Their work affects our futures, directly and indirectly. They cultivate our human capital. I honestly don't think this debate is about good teachers versus bad, that's not the case. It's about the absolute devaluation of our society of something important.

Along those lines is this assault on public workers, public unions or unions in general. I can't stop reading about the enormous growing chasm between the über-rich and the poor in this country. The poverty level grows every day. The number of families and children who live in poverty grows every day. The richest % of the US are getting richer. And yet we are to attack a middle class group of society? They are supposed to be demonized and blamed for the problems we have? Shouldn't we, as a society, aspire so that every worker in this country can have a decent salary, health care (forget public or private or whatever, just health care) and some way to be taken care of after retirement?

[Tahoe]

The middle class are the hard working peeps who are paying for the public workers elite HC and Pensions.

As far as attacks go, the only attack I see is the Unions attacking hard working peeps paychecks. They want more and more and more. Its time for the madness to stop.

[Tahoe]

Hard working middle class peeps just need the public employees to pay their own way, the way we do.

[Vinny]

Tahoe's going to kill me...

[Glenn]

Anchiello at 5:02

[Uncle Mxy]

That video could just as well be posted in the LOL@Dems.

I don't think either party has a monopoly on stupidity.

[DE]

True. Maybe we should have LOL @ USA.

[Vinny]

Fucking Mxy, always trying to ruin everybody's fun. What a jerk.

[Tahoe]

It should stay here cuz that one girl took a class with a Republican.