Posted on 08/19/2005 12:21:33 PM PDT by truth49
NEW YORK - This week's award goes to the National Education Association for its silly boycott and slander campaign against Wal-Mart. The NEA claims with no evidence that the discount chain has "drained billions from public coffers, money that could otherwise fund schools." This shows two things: Politics trumps children's welfare at the NEA; and the country's largest teacher's union hates market economics.
The volume of Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) rants, and their feverish tone, is amazing when set against the paucity of words on the NEA's purported mission: education. On economics, the NEA proves itself a perennial dunce about free markets and freedom of choice. The Wal-Mart screeds contain the usual union twaddle about the hell that happens when individuals choose freely, whether that's working at Wal-Mart or sending the kids off to private school. Markets don't work, in the NEA view. People should not be given choices.
NEA's obsession with Wal-Mart reached bottom last week when the union participated in a national "back to school boycott" against Wal-Mart. Read the excellent account in Boston.com.
Read more of NEA's published statements about Wal-Mart.
The NEA is a subversive organization with no real interest in educational improvement.
The NEA is a communist front group (at least at the leadership level). DUH!
The NEA has drained billions of dollars from public coffers that could otherwise have gone to fund schools.
Schools have drained billions of dollars from taxpayers which could have funded alternative educational choices.
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