Remember when people were up in arms (not really, since guns are immoral... 0_0) about the deliberation and composition of the certain bills without a single Republican present (and then passed with minimal Republican votes)? Oh, you remember that? Well, it looks like liberal media attempts to make you forget have failed.
Anyway. The same thing happened in Wisconsin with their budget bill, but let me tell you why we're not mad about this.
The Democrats COULD have been there if they wanted to. But they were hiding in a cave in Illinois. So I have no sympathy.
I mean, really? They ran away from their JOBS. It's their job to vote on legislation and do their best to protect their constituents. (Being liberals, they already failed at that second point.) The people of Wisconsin are waiting for their budget, and the Senate Democrats decide that they're just going to schedule a sudden vacation and take off. (I thought that was something they only did mentally, not physically.)
And the bill they're running from? A budget cut bill. Of course. Because nothing scares a Democrat more than the notion of fiscal responsibility.
They claim to be fighting for the rights of their citizens, but how can they do this from Illinois? They're not fighting the good fight--they're kicking us in the shins and running.
Speaking of that fiscal responsibility that I mentioned earlier... Responsibility is such a novel trait in today's society. Maybe, if they're stripped of their collective bargaining rights, teachers will begin to take responsibility, too.
Because getting notes from the fake sick note vendors on every corner within a one-mile radius of the protest, and skipping out on their jobs without penalty in order to retain legal rights to skip out on their duties as teachers... That's just plain irresponsible.
Many teachers, sadly, do not teach. But there is nothing to distinguish their positions from the positions of those who do work, who do teach. The education system is corrupted, and we do nothing about it (because these teachers are protected by the ironclad unions). Maybe, now that they're stripped of their collective bargaining rights, they'll be forced to practice responsibility and care for the students they are entrusted with.
Or they could all just run away to the nearest protest. Or the nearest other state, if they follow the example of their valiant protectors.
It just keeps getting better and better. Where are the children these people are supposed to be teaching?
Probably learning, actually. I wouldn't be surprised if the state of Wisconsin experienced a drastic increase in test scores during the absence of these teachers.
Everything I've ever done, I can credit to genetics, and less than ten teachers in my ten-year career in the public school system. The other teachers, besides those ten, are the ones who would be hiding in caves or receiving fake sick notes from street-corner "doctors." I learned nothing from them.
I wasn't aware that there was even debate over global warming or evolution or overpopulation until I figured it out for myself. Public schooling had taught me one view and one view only. So not only are these people raising idiots, they are raising those who will follow them to their caves and protests of justice.
If these people want collective bargaining rights for their jobs, they can start by actually performing their jobs first, and see where that takes them.
I'm fairly sure it won't be a cave in Illinois.
Quick question: the teachers at this protest, and the senators in Illinois... They're still on our payroll, aren't they? Our taxpayer dollars are still paying them to be lazy and afraid, aren't they? Maybe, maybe not. It's the fact that I can even wonder that bothers me.
I've called Democrats cowards before, but I never thought they'd go to such lengths to prove me right. If I call them socialist and anti-American often enough, they might get themselves deported.
But enough beating that dead horse. We have others.
We have donkeys, too. They've recently begun a massive migration to Illinois. (And they can STAY there.)
