T.L. Davis said it beautifully back in December...

and we thank him.

Wisconsin Blues 

What is the first sign of catastrophic fail? Where is the moment of epiphany? At what point does the general public look up from the television, the sports page, the sly motel rendezvous and realize that they are the targets of a government gone berserk?  read the rest

 

 

Wisconsin Democrats Call CNN with list of demands...

 please tell me this is a joke.

 AWOL Wisconsin Democrat calls CNN with list of demands

State Senator Mark Miller, a member of the missing band of Wisconsin Democratic lawmakers who fled Madison Thursday to avoid a vote on a budget bill, called into CNN with the group’s list of demands for Republican Gov. Scott Walker. read the rest

What - so they want tuna sandwiches sent in before they release the other senators?  This is hilarious.  Really.

However, Senator Miller has given us our quote of the day - and we thank him.

“The economy’s recovering and the governor is completely ignoring the fact that we have a… recovery going,” Miller said. “The only thing that hasn’t recovered has been the rate of unemployment.”

That statement deserves a big, huh?

 

Obama sides with unions... w/ Update

why am I not surprised?

Let's put this in perspective.  Are the teachers being asked to take a 50% cut in pay?  Pay 100% of their health insurance costs?  Why no.  They're being asked to to cover half of their pension contributions and 13 percent of their own health insurance costs.  That's it. 

Obama Sides With State Government Unions Against Cuts

To repeat:  Fire them.  Immediately.  

Update:

From Gateway Pundit:

Shocker… Obama Administration Is Behind Chaos in Wisconsin – Students Used as Props

this is outrageous!!!  

Wisconsin: Reason Number 4,085 to Homeschool

These are the faces of the people teaching your children...



There have been reports that teachers actually dragged students to some of these protests. Is that even legal without the parents consent?

I have long advocated for the privatization of schools. Dump the Department of Education, the local school boards, over-paid administrators, principals who make more money than the average attorney or doctor, and let the cream rise to the top.  Quit stealing money from taxpayers to fund a failed system that turns out functional illiterates.

As for the teachers marching around in Wisconsin protesting?  Fire them.  Immediately.

From Doug Ross:

At the federal level, President Obama's budget calls for $77.4 billion to be allocated to the Department of Education, which represents a 22 percent increase from 2010, and a 35 percent increase from 2008.

Take a look at how the game works.  As always - Doug has some fine graphics - and we thank him!

Increasing funding for the Department of Education has nothing at all to do with education. It has to do with getting more Democrats elected -- using the taxpayers' money. read it all

More:

Patrick McIlheran at Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:  Unions want to overturn election result 
Hot Air:  Have teacher unions nuked the fridge?

Teacher's Pensions. Read it and Weep!

I have an ex-sister-in-law (actually I have many ex-sisters-in-law - but that's another story) who taught in the Minneapolis school system.  Her "retirement" - or pension, if you prefer,  allows her to teach as a substitute teacher with out affecting her pension payments, sucks in about  about 60 to 70K per year.  To be fair, I am going by second-hand information, but it has the ring of truth. 

From Doug Ross at Journal:

Did you think the California teachers' pensions were out of control? Wait 'til you check out Illinois. I laughed, I cried, this changed my life.

While the California teachers' unions are effectively destroying one school system after another, an alert commenter pointed me to some even more shocking news from Illinois. Their pension system for educators is -- if you can believe it -- even farther off the reservation. read the rest