2591
(2 votes, average 5.00 out of 5)
Mar 24, 2011
Republicans used to trick Americans into supporting economic policies that have their worst interests at heart by raising the terrorism threat level or inflaming homo hatred. But that’s so Bush era.
Today’s economic elites have found a new scapegoat in their war for every last dollar that America produces: school teachers.
According to Gov. Scott Walker and his fellow Republican corporate shills, public school teachers are lazy, incompetent and shockingly well paid. They work part-time for nine months, then take off the summer to enjoy fabulous vacations on your hard-earned tax dollars.
Of course, this is all an utter fabrication, as anyone who knows a school teacher can attest.
It’s true that many public school teachers today, unlike a generation ago, earn livable wages and enjoy good benefits. Such benefits were standard for most Americans back when the middle class was strong, before greed-driven corporate policies widened the gap between the nation’s haves and have-nots into a shocking chasm.
But it’s tragic that Walker et al are able to fuel middle class resentment of teachers’ modest benefits. Instead of resenting those benefits, people should ask why they’re not getting them too, as their parents did.
LGBT people could sit back and enjoy it as Republicans turn their demonizing rhetoric and unrestricted corporate advertising dollars on another group for a change. We probably have the least to lose in this race, since we’re the least likely to have kids.
So why should we care if the GOP destroys public education in order to create a moronic America that’s even more susceptible to the fact-challenged pundits of Fox News?
For one thing, we don’t like the people behind this latest scapegoating campaign. They’re the same interests that have provoked voters to blame us for their bad marriages and unwanted sexual urges. Now these same interests are blaming public workers for the budget deficits caused by their recklessness.
And we care because an ignorant America is an intolerant America where the already shrunken middle class will all but disappear. It’s an America without a future, and patriots care about that future, even if they are childless.
Fight back by voting Democratic on April 5 and supporting the recall efforts against Republican state senators.
Comments