Posted on 02/17/2011 11:25:20 PM PST by shibumi
Across the board, public sector unions in the United States have developed an unholy symbiosis with a governmental apparatus steeped in mediocrity and non-performance.
The common perception is that the fruits of hard work and industry are somehow to be regarded as rights for the egalitarian masses. Bureaucratic looters have purloined the wealth of the nation on the local, state and national level and arbitrarily awarded it for substandard performance to union bosses and members. These sycophants, unlike their counterparts in industry are judged not on the superlatives of excellence and achievement, but rather on their ability to lower the expectations of their client populace.
The plummet in real ability to cope with even the most basic of academic problems (let alone anything of a weighty nature in the arena of ideas) is quickly upstaged by the local school’s performance in a sectional basketball game.
While this perverse inversion of priorities is largely ignored by the public, the ominously powerful teacher’s union (NEA) is busy agitating for greater funding to improve educational “quality.” When quality of education is talked about by the NEA it is in reference to class size (read “lighter work load”) newer facilities (read “perk projects for their brothers in the building trades”) and soft programs like art and music (read “jobs for starving artists and musicians without recording contracts“.) In private schools art and music programs are a natural outgrowth of a well-rounded educational experience. It's a dirty little secret that in most public schools however, they are a way of giving credits toward graduation to students who can’t read, write or add.
While modeled after the labor unions of the 19th century, the NEA is in the curious position of having as its adversary not the robber barons of capitalist industry, but the body politic itself. Its wages and benefits are being largely paid by those who are themselves modern wage slaves, albeit comfortable ones.
The union members of the NEA cannot escape the instant karma of economic contraction that results from the constriction of capitalism and entrepreneurship. The laughable (were they not so thuggish) demonstrations in Wisconsin appear nothing more than a futile attempt to increase egg production by strangling chickens. Had the NEA actually produced a generation of citizen voters who understood the system they were a part of, the rampant prosperity that resulted would make demands for money and security a moot point
But of course, that would have necessitated that they actually educate those put in their charge. Instead they indoctrinated, dumbed down and drugged multiple generations, transforming them into an overpaid and under qualified work force of which they now find themselves as the paradigm.
Better yet get rid of public schools. These government freeloaders are insatiable.
So right. The more they ‘demonstrate’ the more the greater public see what greedy slobs they have become.
Spot on.
I saw video of the demonstrators and they sure looked like a bunch of chicken-chokers to me.
Nice article.
Awesome, thanks for the post!
Well-written piece, Shibumi.
What the union parasites are finding is that they’ve sucked so much blood from their hosts for so long that the hosts have deteriorated from chronically anemic to gravely ill. Still, the unions demand more blood. The hosts have had enough and the deparasitization has commenced with vigor.
Sensei’s powers have returned in full force. That’s excellent.
My Kung Fu is strong since I found that USB port.
Of course, this is true across the board for all parties dependent on such illogical programs as illegal immigration, banking corruption, endless foreign wars, etc. One needs to ask themselves: who ultimately benefits? Why was the state, with all its bitter manifestations now bearing fruit, so short sighted?
My personal opinion is that certain people recognized the inherent flaws in the system and devoted themselves to maximizing the available short-term opportunities (ie looting) before a complete system crash.
So you did see my little LOLz. Just for you.
You certainly succeeded. Great work!
You certainly succeeded. Great work!
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