Mooooooooooon Blather, wider than a mile! Lambro needs the job Sun-Myung Moon provides, because he couldn't survive in the real world.

Again, you presume that a teacher is only working when s/he teaches class. Factor in lesson prep, exam grading, parent-teacher conferences, and continuing education, and it works out to a 2000-hour a year job. Moreover, in other professions, there is the potential for upward mobility that teachers have limited access to. There is a reason why half of our teachers leave the field within five years.

If it wasn't for Republican mismanagement, we wouldn't be in the shape we are in.

Seven-figure incomes? Where? Most TOP union bosses make 200-300k, lieutenants don't make much more than workers. Union stewards are paid for their time at union wages. We don't see the excesses you find on Wall Street.

Must move on. As always, kiddies....

J1: "Mr. Ed really is a socialist. I'm not a defender of the chicago school. But the Chicago school never destroyed any economy. It is a hilarious joke to accuse the Chicago school of destroying out economy." "The Chicago School tried their economic policies for sixteen years in near-laboratory conditions in Chile. The results were exactly what liberals predicted: falling wages for workers, soaring incomes for the rich, the destruction of social programs without sufficient replacement, wild swings in the economy, and some of the worst pollution in the world." http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-chimain.htm After they screwed Chile up, they moved on to America.

There are rules for default, which are built into the contract. Didn't you know that?

The revolving door is a problem; Goldman has had its hand in every recession since the Great Depression.

A website discussing teacher issues; I forget the actual external citation (to a reputable study). It comported with what I know personally, as I have family members who left the field on account of the abysmal pay. [No one in my extended family is a teacher, though that tree does boast several retired college professors.] If teachers were being paid more than they were worth, turnover would be negligible.

My family did, too. I've worked in the factories, and carried a union card. I know from personal experience that you are completely full of it. As one union exec explained, you have to be for the workers, but not at the expense of the company. If the company doesn't do well on account of unreasonable work rules, you aren't acting for their benefit, so you have to craft reasonable work rules.