Posted on 03/06/2011 7:23:14 AM PST by bocopar
We don’t live in a communist country where jobs are assigned according to intellect or bulk. Police and firefighters weren’t drafted. If you chose to be one, I applaud you but that being said, that doesn’t mean you get to tell us how much you get paid because you chose a job that potentially puts your life in peril. If it’s not worth the risk, I wouldn’t blame you at all if you walked, but this job safety-guilt trip sh-- is starting to fall on deaf ears.
(Excerpt) Read more at black-and-right.com ...
There is a simple way to answer all these unionist positions. Simply ask, “Well if it’s so bad, why don’t you get another job?” If the state isn’t contributing enough to their pension ask, “Why don’t you open up a Roth IRA?”
These are things that you or I have to do. If I don’t like my work, I go find other work. If this job is the best that I can get, I make do and try to get a better attitude. If I don’t have enough saved for retirement, I save more. And so on. I simply don’t expect someone else to do it for me.
Great article! Right on the money.
(thanks for little title change)
Kudos to those who truly serve the people!
DON’T SAY THAT!!!!!!!!!!!
Unions exist to help the little guy be protected from THE MAN (and no man is bigger than big-government). We must understand the rights of the WORKERS to not be abused. We must be willing to pay as much as the workers need, in order for them to live in dignity.
Yea, and it’s easy for US to tell the WORKERS to simply quit and find another job - real easy for us.
But who in their right mind would hire a public school teacher, given the way they’re behaving in New Jersey and now Wisconsin? So they are, essentially, slaves.
LOL.
I was a union officer in good faith for 18 years. Now I look for the union label. If it is there I will NOT buy.
Not to mention the ones who sit back and view videotape to “judge” whether somehow has “violated” a camera intersection . . .or to write tickets for “dangling” seatbeats on the last day of the quota-short month
And then when your car gets busted into or laptop stolen from office .. naw, they don’t bother to come. They’re too busy bustin the ordinary, taxpayer citizens to fund their pensions and benefits
We do owe them thanks for one thing or rather several things. Thanks for helping elect Barack Obama (they spent 400 million) and then there is the millions they spent to push gay marriage in CA which has nothing to do with education, and let us not forget how they helped push through Obamacare. If you can spend 400+ million on politics then you can buy your own damned crayons!
Well put, bobcopar...
Someone sent me a link a while back, I am pretty sure it was before the whole Wisconsin debacle began playing out: I am Hero and Deserve
When I first saw it, it didn't have as great effect on me as it did when I just dug it up and watched it now. Nothing like having the truth of history shoved in your face!
What I found both disturbing and true was the not so veiled type of union threat "Well, you better hope you don't have a fire at your house, because we aren't even going to get out of bed..."
I have actually heard of variants of this from each unionized area making these types of veiled threats, nurses, policemen, teachers, you name it.
Typical.
This is NOT to say there are not good, honorable, dedicated hardworking people in these professions, it is just that the vocal parts interacting with those of us who pay their wages hear this rhetoric more often than we would comfortably like to.
For most of his thirty years he complained about one aspect of his job or another. His department wasn't unionized.
Whenever he started complaining when our father was in the neighborhood the old man would say, "If you hate it so much why don't you quit? I doubt anyone is twisting your arm to make you stay."
My brother had a universal response to that, "Are you crazy? This is a job we all love to hate. Your always right in the middle of whatever action is going on. There isn't a better job anywhere. Period."
I think he always liked his job much more than he disliked it. I also found him to be the best guy with people I ever met. He's too old for the work these days, but I bet he misses it. He also has little sympathy for public sector labor organizations. If cornered he would ask a recalcitrant union guy, "If it's such a tough job, why don't you quit?" Then he would add, "You weren't drafted into that uniform."
I agree and would like to add how sick I am of hearing teachers complain about having to take work home with them at night. They are PROFESSIONAL SALARIED employees - which means they aren’t paid hourly and sometimes they have to do a little more work at home. Gosh, leaving the “office” at 3pm, to me, means they have two more hours at minimum to make up at home - Your comment that they knew the salary going in is spot on. They also knew the perks and knew the requirements - if they don’t like it, there are graduates every single year ready to step into those jobs. Buhbye whiners.
It is stupid that being a teacher requires a degree in elementary or secondary education. I am a CPA, a gold key winner when I sat for the exam, but I do not qualify to teach high school accounting or financial planning in KS schools. I don’t qualify to teach elementary children reading, math, and English.
An excerpt?
From your own site?
Really?
Sorry if this caught you off guard. I’ve done this here for years with no complaints from even the site owner.
“Some occupations that seem dangerous, like firefighting and tractor operation, are actually relatively safe; both of those jobs, for example, are less dangerous than being a car mechanic. The safest jobs of all, with less than 1 death per 100,000 full-time workers, include secretaries, salespersons, food preparers and servers and librarians.”
http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/20/deadliest-jobs-occupational-hazard-leadership-careers-death.html
Great rant!
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