Posted on 09/10/2012 10:41:31 AM PDT by mandaladon
CNN seemed to indicate this morning that the real issue is the annual performance evlautions, which, if implemented, could cost 6,000 teachers, who are performing poorly, to lose their jobs.
The horror.
I don't know if it's a setup, but I'll bet the "white horse" idea has crossed Obama's perverted mind.
It might actually be good news for Rahm in 2016. Might win some moderate fans if he can get concessions from the teachers.
$75k/year up bennies so 21% of 8th graders can read (per Drudge) “See the dog. See the dog run...”. Where do I sign up for this gig? I’d be willing to dodge bullets for that dough for what, seven month work per year.
Labor is not going to lose this “fight” in Chicago unless the hard-working suckers who actually pay taxes in that city finally stand up and march against the thugs who are stealing their money.
I really want to know how the city conjures up all this extra money to pay the teachers? Chicago is already bankrupt.
Just looking towards the future.
Why doesn’t Michelle Obama step in and solve the crisis? She’s spent the last three years ranting and raving about school children not getting healthy-enough lunches, yet the many poor children of Chicago who qualify for free school lunches will not be getting ANY lunches during the strike.
Surely, a lecture from Mrs. Obama about the harm the strike is doing to the favorite objects of the Democrats’ bleeding-heart outpourings — ‘’the children’’ — would save the day.
The teachers know they can be fired unfarily at any time over politics and they don't like that.
I believe the teachers are the people that the Republicans should be supporting in this.
They won’t get rid of the worst teachers with the performance evaluations, instead they will play more politics. The teachers realize that anyone can be thrown out for “politics”, unfairly and that is what the strike is about.
Why is this only happening in Chicago?
Rush and the "this is a setup" believers could be right.
Organized labor has experienced a series of major setbacks over the past few years... losing a Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) ... Gov. Scott Walker in the 2012 recall race. Those losses make it very difficult for labor's credibility to weather ANOTHER high profile defeat in Chicago. If labor loses this fight it may be a sort of death blow to its longstanding image as the big bully (in a good way) in politics.G'night all.
While it could be a set up, as Rush eluded too today, it may not.
The relationship between Obama/DNC and labor is at a absolute low. The last two years have been Waterloo to labor and Obama/DNC left labor at the altar in Wisconsin twice. Labor is not donating the money it used to as a result. It’s not happyville between the two camps.
I would not be surprised if labor flexes its muscles here to hurt both Rahm and “the chair”. If this strike goes on for over a week, it will hurt them.
This orchestrated “strike” is the pre-election “October Surprise”....mark my words.
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