How often do you hear people rail against the sports figures who make millions while our teachers – our teachers! – struggle to get by. I hear it more than I care to remember. Athletes are paid what the market will bear. If Americans decide to stop watching sports, and paying for game tickets and merchandise, the salaries of professional athletes will be reduced accordingly. For the most part, our tax dollars do not fund the salaries or pensions of professional athletes.
Not so when it comes to teachers. Public school teachers’ salaries, pensions, and health benefits are funded 100% by the taxpayers. Even the taxpayers who have never had children in public schools. Most teachers make more than the majority of the taxpayers paying their salaries, and they certainly have better benefits than anyone in the private sector. And let’s not even talk about the time off none of us in the private sector can ever hope for.
But the teachers unions don’t want you to know any of that.
Oh, and by the way, guess where most of the Porkulus money went? If you guessed “teachers” you get a gold star!
Yep, that’s right. The safest occupation in America received the biggest benefit from the Democrats’ Porkulus package.
Big Government: Based on the Recovery.gov data, more than two third[s] of the 594,754.3 jobs “created or saved” with the stimulus funds were “created or saved” in the Department of Education (see chart). Basically, what the administration meant by shovel ready projects was funding for your next door teacher.
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Now, what do you think the chance are that the stimulus funds for education will be made permanent?
So, please, can we stop playing the violins for the teachers? Heck, what other occupation in America gives you tenure?
Via memeorandum, and a big hat tip to Stacy McCain for working the links into an “Eric Massa is a weirdo” post. Touché.
What BS!
Teachers are paid a wage that is derived from taxes.
More teachers does NOT mean more jobs….just bigger gov’t.
More jobs are those added in the private sector.
The Dems don’t get this. Few have had to make payroll, few ever had REAL jobs…..and besides, they were too busy taking Existential Frizbee in college to study basic economics.
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I saw earlier on Drudge that government workers are not feeling any of the economic pain the rest of us are feeling. It’s just not right.
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[...] "How often do you hear people rail against the sports figures who make millions while our teachers – our teachers! – struggle to get by. I hear it more than I care to remember. Athletes are paid what the market will bear. If Americans decide to stop watching sports, and paying for game tickets and merchandise, the salaries of professional athletes will be reduced accordingly. For the most part, our tax dollars do not fund the salaries or pensions of professional athletes." – The Lonely Conservative [...]
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