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Wisconsin Students:
Dunces and Dupes
by Jason Mattera
02/22/2011
There are a whole lot of adolescents in Wisconsin who need to get
smacked back to reality. They’ve been lobotomized, and you can
thank the thuggish teachers union for that.
What’s been happening on the ground in Wisconsin is shameful on so many
different levels.
First, we have labor activists and leftist agitators acting like
complete animals over a proposal to have non-safety government sectors
pay a slither of their health care and pension costs. It seems
these ne’er-do-wells think private employees should put in a hard day’s
work to pay for some public employee’s retirement plan.
Then you have the absolutely asinine, hysterical, and inexcusable
placards the Left trotted out comparing Gov. Scott Walker with deposed
Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak and genocidal mass murderer Adolf
Hitler—because baking Jews in an oven is so like making teachers
contribute 12.6 instead of 6% to their medical bill.
Gird your loins, Poland. Governor Walker’s slogan:
“Bringing about fiscal responsibility in Wisconsin today, invading and
enslaving Warsaw tomorrow!”
But as if those displays on the part of the Left weren’t bad enough,
how about the fact that many teachers encouraged their students to
march with them and trash Walker’s budget proposal publicly?
Apparently, because many Wisconsin schoolteachers ditched the classroom
to protest (and got a fraudulent doctor’s note to boot), the students
did the same.
Read the story with videos at Human Events
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41945
And these students, admittedly, have no idea what they’re actually
protesting. The MacIver Institute, a free-market think tank based
in Wisconsin, asked high school students in attendance why, in fact,
were they jumping around in the streets.
“I guess we’re protesting today,” admitted one clueless female.
Another male student added: “We’re trying to stop whatever this
dude is doing.”
Ah, yes. That certainly clarifies Wisconsin’s deficit
problem: “We’re trying to stop whatever this dude is doing.”
And that “dude” wasn’t the only high school student in the crowd who
needs a tutor.
Other students erupted in the mindless chant of “What’s
disgusting? Union busting,” shouted from a ceremonial 1960s
bullhorn no less.
And the students who weren’t shepherded off to a protest by their
teachers were instead treated to school-wide forums on how “unfairly”
the unions are being targeted in Wisconsin.
“I didn’t get into education to be wealthy. I went into education
because I care about kids and I love what I do. This week is the
first time I said to myself, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’ ” said Tina
Wright, a middle school teacher who was summoned to speak to the
students at Southwestern High School in Hazel Green. “I’m really
thinking about leaving teaching, because you can’t continue to be
bashed all the time and to be blamed for the economic woes of
Wisconsin.”
Wright also told the student body that her protest attire consisted of
a “pharaoh-style” hat while she carryed a sign that read, “Protest like
an Egyptian.”
Now the facts: Government workers cost the states $40.10 per hour
in wage and benefits, while workers in the private sector only cost on
average $27.88 per hour. In case you’re doing the math, which you
should be, that’s a 44% difference.
Tina Wright can relax. Walker isn’t asking her to eat cat food
each night for dinner.
The cruel irony of using adolescents as social justice props in this
Wisconsin battle is that if the lavish union subsidies are not curbed,
it is the students who will suffer—fewer teachers (no money for them)
and an economically depressed state where jobs are about as likely as
Michael Bloomberg doing PSAs for the National Rifle Association.
But union bosses don’t care about the kids. They’d rather molest
young minds with leftist agitprop and leave that generation with the
tab of their profligacy.
Read the story and video at Human
Events
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