10-21-2011, 07:06 PM
Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]
A well reasoned commentary. In a collapsing economy when the State cannot afford to fund even the most basic necessities, why must a political group hold on to their storied sense of entitlement ?
They don't actually make much of an argument in the editorial.
The author(s) mostly list a bunch of opinions as if they were facts and then jump to a conclusion.
That isn't an argument.
It's disinformation.
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Senate Bill 5 outlaws strikes and arbitration. It removes pension and health benefits even as it sucks more money out of teachers' salaries for the few benefits remaining. Incredibly, it takes negotiations out of the hands of unions and puts final decisions about salary and benefits in the hands of a conservative board. And it makes layoffs "performance-based" in such a way that a school board member with a tick up his ass could get rid of any teacher s/he'd like.
It's fascist. It's fundamentally unamerican.
It's also a republican wet-dream.
So, yeah. It seems that the editorial board's objectivity is compromised.
What he said.