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I am sick of firefighters and cops being USED politically.
They're all Obama mentions when he talks about the public sector..
Not the thousands of bureaucrats who vastly outnumber firemen and police.
Just another example of no straight talk from the left.
Krugman utterly despises conservatives, remember, so there's no way he's intentionally advancing this damning indictment to damage the president he'll support in the fall. Perhaps he just assumed that because he was among friends at Netroots Nation (you know, the conference that cheered abortion), he had extra latitude to...
But they know about condoms, global warming, and gay families.
I think there are good teachers out there, but personally, the public school system has become so corrupt that if I were ruler for a day, I'd fire them all, and start hiring back the good ones.
You can't fire them in many school systems, particularly if they are black. I have seen teachers come into the system and bait the principals to fire them so they could bring a lawsuit.
What happens? They get moved to another school.
Not sure who Lady Wolverine is, but as I said, tehre are many good teachers out there. They work in a corrupt system. the good ones are the worst off for it (along with our kids).