Compare our Military to union teachers (Vanity)

4/7/2011 | meredith Jessup

[Kimmers]

When people sign on to become a member of the Military or become a teacher they have one thing in common, wages. They both realize they will not be making six figure salaries. There ends their common ground

Obama is threatening to financially cut off our military and how is our military reacting? I can tell you what I don't see them doing. They are not leaving their duties to protest in Washington. They are not running ads hiring people to come to Washington to protest and they are not publicly threatening the lives of the elected.

Our Military continues to do their jobs knowing the circumstances they are in, trusting Washington will come to their senses. In the mean time they hope they can have at least one holiday with their loved ones and the only spring break they are familiar with is the coil spring that broke on the troop transport truck last week.

Contrast this with the teachers’ reaction to states wanting to reign in spending. Thousands of teachers called in sick so they could travel to protest at state capitols. In the mean time schools scrambled to find substitutes costing already financially strapped districts hundreds of thousands to pay” ill” teachers and their substitutes. Lesson learned for the students? It is okay to lie and walk out on your responsibilities.

I realize not all teachers agree with the actions of the union and to those I say thank you for doing your job well and without protest. To those that support the actions of the union think about our Military when you are planning your guaranteed holiday or spring break with your family. I bet you won't dining on an MRE.......

[2banana]

From a 2banana LTTE:

Dear Editor:

For over two years now, American service members (all volunteers) have been fighting in combat in the war against terrorism in far away lands.

I was “over there” also, serving with the US Army in Afghanistan.

So why do they do it? Why do people voluntarily risk their necks for a year at a time while we sleep safely in our beds?

After many, many conservations with the “grunts on the ground,” I can report the following informal conclusions on reasons that do not motivate them to fight:

1. No one is fighting so that a mother can abort her child up to the day before delivery for any reason.
2. No one is eating MREs for 6 months straight so that they can pay higher taxes.
3. No one is risking their life on a daily basis so that “Daddy and His Boyfriend” can be taught to our children in public school.
4. No one is dodging mortar rounds so that trial lawyers can sue companies and doctors into oblivion.
5. Not one grunt is sleeping in the mud so that one day he can register and/or turn-in his personal guns when he gets back home.

Something to think about in the upcoming electoral season.

[OldDeckHand]

"They both realize they will not be making six figure salaries. "

Just for factual accuracy, I would point out that many officers (which would probably be the educational equivalent of many public school teachers) over 20 earn (at least) $100K/annually when accounting for all pay and allowances. However, there are also many officers who could have made much more in the private sector. I know I could have.

I'm work part-time now in the private sector, and I made more last year than I did in the last year of my military career, easily.

Also, you might be surprised how much some teachers make. I believe I read last year that the average DC city teacher made a little more than $80K.

[GladesGuru]

If I may invoke both Occam and the KISS rule, teachers tend to be commies whereas the military tends not to be.

‘Nuff said.