Replies to post #9829 on Cat House

[SunScents]

Tommy,
Couldn't agree with you more. My wife and three of my 5 kids are teachers. All have Masters or higher degrees. Their average pay??? It's about 55 thousand a year including health and retirement benefits. That's about 42K in cash, the rest is benefits. They all put more than 50 hours a week into their work and pay a lot of classroom expense out of their pockets. No longer do they get summers off. Most school sysyems require extra classes each year in order to maintain their teaching certificates.

On the other hand, My two other kids and myself with BA's or less, earn on average three times more than the teachers in the family.

Teachers have been screwed by those who want to pick on somebody for too much government spending.

[SJOGRINGO]

Tommy.. Trust me.. I am ONE OF THE Few that understands that the United States is a REPUBLIC... Not a democracy or in it its purest form a democrocy is nothing more than a lynch mob..

But think for a moment... let me go back to MY UNION DAYS..

the UNION MEMBERS ELECT Representatives to represent thier intrests with Management and negotiate Contracts with Management...
.. WHICH THEN MUST BE RATIFIED BY UNION MEMBERSHIP DIRECT VOTE... before they can be signed and placed in effect...

DO NOT TAXPAYERS (THE REAL EMPLYERS) deserve the SAME...!!!

and please don't insult my intelligence by using the old worn out union argument that " That will never work...)

( YES>> I AM SHOUTING..)

[Joda]

Oh, so the only definition of democracy is your?

Okay, will conatct the governments of other countries and tell them we are not democratic, only America is.

Do you really belive this stuff?