Tea Party: Teachers and Public Empolyees Unions are the Problem?

What caused the Crash of 2008?  According to my Tea Party friend, Ron, it was brought about in large part by unions demanding wages and perks for their members.  Accordingly, this labor cost pressure prompted corporations to off-shore their needs for less expensive, e.g., more profitable labor.  And then I pointed out that, as far as I understood, there are no labor unions in the Peoples Republic of China.  So it was the workers themselves, who with their labor, produced the wealth and expected a representative share of that wealth.  And with that wealth, the auto makers, for example retooled for business outside the United States.

The other issue is public emplyees:  most especially teachers.  Ron asserted that teachers should have no union rights.  When I inquired as to whether this included retirement benefits and health care, Ron was clear.  It has to go.  Ron alluded earlier to the one world government that was trying to bring down American standards of living to match the "third world."  Looking at Ron's plans for workers' unions, especially public employees, this looks more likely to lead to third world whatevers than anything else.   A big draw on the public coffers is public employees.   I pointed out that the goal of coporations is the privatization of public education.  We would still pay the taxes but the funds would go to "for profit" corporations.  Given that CEO pay is reported to have increased by an average of 23% just this past year during this jobless recovery, I can assume that a large portion of public treasure will be directed the CEO's of the educational services corporations.  What makes it to the students will be determined by profit margins.

Where did these ideas come from?  Public funding bad.  Public spaces bad; and they need to be privately owned.  For a chance to explore answers to this question, I suggest visting the folllowing web: http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed.  The move toward anti-tax and privatization has come straight from some of the most powerful sources including the Koch Brothers.  Like the founding of the Tea Party, the privatization movement has been a top-down effort.