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http://dearborn.patch.com/articles/union-concessions-not-enough-to-save-48-teaching-jobs#comment_906057
http://dearborn.patch.com/articles/union-concessions-not-enough-to-save-48-teaching-jobs#comment_906057
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What we are seeing in this country is not really
Austerity or an Economic Downturn, but a
Vastly Unequal Distribution Of Wealth
(VUDOW Economics).
Anyone who looks around can see that there is an obscene amount of excess cash floating around, but it's all been sucked up to float the yachts of the One Per Centers while leaving the frog ponds of the peons low-down, dry, and dirty.
But if you need sadistics, here's the latest couple of items hot off my newsfeed —
Bloomberg.com • “High-Income, No-Tax Returns Jumped in 2008”
• http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-14/high-income-no-tax-returns-almost-doubled-in-2008-irs-says.html
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The number of people who reported incomes of at least $200,000 and paid no U.S. taxes jumped 79.5 percent from 2007 to 2008, according to an Internal Revenue Service study released today in Washington.
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The Feral Conservative • “Teachers and CEOs”
• http://open.salon.com/blog/the_feral_conservative/2011/03/12/teachers_and_ceos
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What about merit pay for teachers — just like the private sector?
Jeffery Immelt was CEO of General Electric and in a ten year period, Jeffery managed to drive the value of the stock so low that his shareholders (the equivalent of a teacher's students), suffered a 58% loss of their investment. What was Jeffery's merit pay for this ten year period? He took home a handsome $125 million dollars. Yeah, old Jeffery is really making sacrifices, just like the rest of us in these hard times.
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Lee,
If all the ads were true …
You have wrapped yourself in a fantasy bubble of wishful thinking, and I'll just have to leave you to it for now.
When you talk about things like the blessings of Right to Work laws, it is clear that you are reciting some jingle you read on a blog and that you have no real experience with what you are talking about.
I grew up in a State where unions were weak. My father worked in an industry where unions where non-existent. So we lived in a sector of the economy that had a top and a bottom but no middle class. When I came to Michigan on a scholarship 44 years ago, I got to see, for a space of time, what it was like for the kids who grew up in union families.
The universities understood back then that their phenomenal growth and strength was due in large part to the union families who were sending their kids to college for the very first time in their genealogies. But at least my childhood experiences in a non-union State prepared me for what I see Michigan becoming today, yet another State Gone South, as they say, with a middle class that is quickly evaporating.
Welcome to Michissippi !
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