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$101,091: Annual Compensation for Average Milwaukee Teacher

and it's not just public pensions

Governors: Medicaid More A Budget Buster Than Ever : NPR

hundreds of billions of dollars---NOW

a mature perspective should eventually come to see that the numbers added up in these links really should preclude any attempts to spin, reduce them to the mere pursuit of personalities

ie, your debate points appear petty in comparison

party on
 
Whichever state is willing to have the stupidest kids wins apparently! :sun

Stupid kids make good employees, if they can be stupid and do the job asked of them. They can work for minimum wage, corporations gotta love that...
 
and it's not just public pensions

Governors: Medicaid More A Budget Buster Than Ever : NPR

hundreds of billions of dollars---NOW

a mature perspective should eventually come to see that the numbers added up in these links really should preclude any attempts to spin, reduce them to the mere pursuit of personalities

ie, your debate points appear petty in comparison

party on
I don't know the criteria for getting medicaid, but I bet there are many abusing that system. I know too many people who have the funds to buy healthcare insurance, but don't....
 
Stupid kids make good employees, if they can be stupid and do the job asked of them. They can work for minimum wage, corporations gotta love that...

And the taxpayers money that would have gone to education goes to corporate tax breaks. Its a win-win situation..............for corporations!
 
Historian Gaetano Salvemini argued in 1936 that fascism makes taxpayers responsible to private enterprise, because "the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise... Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social." Fascist governments encouraged the pursuit of private profit and offered many benefits to large businesses, but they demanded in return that all economic activity should serve the national interest.

and that is certainly a facet of Fascism; everything must be turned to serve the state, whether that interest is economic, social, political, religious, etc. as Mussolini put it, "everything within the State, nothing outside the State". So, for example, the Bailouts of GM et. al. were classic Corporatist (fascist) economic maneuvers; the privatization of profit and socialization of loss.

what is not a distinct facet of fascism, however, is wealth accumulation in the hands of a small minority. Fascism is ideologically a response to the Englightenment. However, wealth concentration was a defining feature of Feudal (pre-Enlightenment) society. You would be left arguing that Fascism could pre-date itself. You might as well declare that wearing brown was fascist, or that speaking German (or Italian) was fascist as declare that wealth concentration is.
 
Please show the connection. Almost every state I ever head of has a completely separate account for pensions and for annual governmental operations.

:lol: like the SS fund, eh? :)
 
It's possible I've missed this, but Noodle, if being a teacher is such a great gig, why aren't you one? I mean, You only work 30 hours a week and make a bazillion dollars. It has to be better than your current job
 
:) this would be the same proposed budget that took seriously the notion that congress is going to cut $500 Bn out of Medicare, and claimed that a growth rate of 3.5% would drive unemployment down 7.5% this year, yes?

Yes, the most realistic proposal given so far.
 
Yes, the most realistic proposal given so far.

..... you consider the belief that congress will actually destroy Medicare, growth will actually be 3.5% for every year for the rest of the decade, and unemployment will actually drop to 7.5% this year to be realistic???



HOW?
 
It's possible I've missed this, but Noodle, if being a teacher is such a great gig, why aren't you one? I mean, You only work 30 hours a week and make a bazillion dollars. It has to be better than your current job

I don't know of him, but I see some reasons.
1. Hard to become a teacher and when you get a position, then it is often the worst schools who take you.
2. There are jobs out there with better pay, but they also require a lot more hours and education
3. Interest, teaching kids that don't really want to be there is not very interesting for many people.

But teachers are overpaid. How do we know, because else it would have been easier to become a teacher and states without collective barganing for teachers have lower salaries. If teachers aren't overpaid, then they will keep their wage if their barganing right is removed, so that won't be a problem.
 
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