[StBernard] Teachers hiding behind their students

[Westley Annis]

Has anyone noticed teachers and other public employees protesting the
Wisconsin constitution and its mandated balanced budget that they have
pulled their students into their progressive-socialism march?  When
interviewed by national news teams as to why they were marching, the
students said "we don't know, we were asked to come out."

 

This is a cowardly act on the part of these teachers and public employees
that they can't attract enough of their own to fight their battle, so they
need to mislead our children and suck them into the violent protest - yes
"violent" - did you see some of the uncivilized and hatred speech on some of
their signs and banners?  God forbid someone at a Tea Party rally do the
same - the leftist media would go ballistic.

 

What are public opinion polls in Wisconsin showing? The people are against
them - and the distain Wisconsin taxpayers have for the teachers is growing
with each passing day.  As one taxpayer in the Madison newspaper put it
"times are tough in Wisconsin, but yet they (the teachers) expect us to pay
our way and theirs.  We can't continue to keep our heads above water and
theirs."

 

I could not agree more.  This is a total lack of seeing reality on the part
of the public employees.  Where is it stated that government is a beast that
must be continually fed?  These teachers clearly fail to realize that
government and the services that government perform are only to meet the
"demands" of what the people want?  If "the people" don't want as many
teachers or want as many roads built, then government is to be scaled down
to meet the demands of its taxpaying citizens.

 

And I'm getting so sick and tired of hearing this "but we were promised."
Well, political promises are not contracts.  There is a myth among public
employees that somehow their job is a lock and can't be touched.  And why
should public employees be exempted from the woes of the economy?  If
"everyone else" needs to cut back and businesses have to cut back, then why
not government as well?

 

There has always been a great misconception as to what government is and its
supposed guarantee to those who work for it.  Government is to be prisoner
to the woes of supply and demand as any private business.  That is something
government employees would be better served to learn quickly or reality will
do it for them.

 

John Scurich