Originally Posted by
Ferd149
Sorry, been married to one for 34 years. I've always been embarrassed by her level of effort and commitment and lack of pay vs my pay forever. And don't give me the crap about 3 months off, that was always taken up by inservice courses or advanced degree classes. While I sat and watched sitcoms and read the newspaper, she graded papers.
This governor's my way or highway is just as poor as Nancy Pelosi's with the health care issue. The guy is a thug.......with no balls. If he had balls, he would have included the cops and firefighters, he didn't.
In the end it doesn't matter if teachers or any other state worker is paid enough for what they do. Their employer is going broke. When the airlines were failing, we took pay/benefit cuts. It sucked and it was painful. But we had to do it. States are going broke. They cannot afford the compensation package of state workers. There is no choice but to cut that compensation.
I fully support the governors of the states that are finally doing something about their budgets. Frankly, I don't think they are going far enough. Obama needs to follow suit on the federal level.