Well…have been reading a bunch of the accounts of the bravery of the teachers in Oklahoma who were trying to save their kids and if there is one thing we take away from these horrible events it should be that teachers are humans, too. They are not the socialist, lazy, union thugs that the right and much of the MSM has portrayed them to be. They are friends, and neighbors…they are Americans who, in this crisis, went above and beyond to protect those in their care…using their bodies as shields over the children, organizing getting the kids to safe areas as the buildings were being blown down around them, and then helping to rescue those who were trapped. So, the next time the right tries to villify teachers as being a detriment to society, just point to Oklahoma and ask: who did you save today? Geez….
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Well…out the bike, I had an idea that ended up being way too depressing…the title was going to be “what happens when your dreams are gone?” but that’s way too depressing even for me..so let’s go another direction. You know I’ve been severely critical of our gov Snyder and his plans to raise taxes on everyone but corporations….and I may have been a little too strident but that reaction comes from my long experience following politics and the fact that since Reagan, there has been a notable bias by the repubs against the middle class. Can a leopard change it’s spots? So, I think I’ll take it easy for a couple of days and try to regain my perspective…and I’ve always said that I don’t mind paying taxes since it is one of the responsibilities of any society; I just don’t like it when corporations get to freeload on the infrastructure you and I pay for. It would be nice to have an I-94 that didn’t destroy you car when you use it and schools that aren’t crumbling. That brings me to the one last thing…when did teachers become the devil? The way the right is foaming at the mouth about them, you would think they stole the candy from the mouths of babies and kicked puppies. I for one, have always looked up to good teachers and I don’t I don’t understand whey they are always considered overpaid when a ceo or hedge fund manager makes a thousand times more than their average. Just a question…don’t expect an answer…