Originally Posted by
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Ts,
I'm sure this discussion is well underway in PM world, which is welcome by almost everyone. So, I will just say this:
When I brought up the point of the teachers salary, it wasn't to complain about the low salaries themselves (Ok. Maybe it was a little.
) But, mainly it was to point out that teachers and the people who know them find it offensive when someone says they make too much or are overpaid. The first sentence of that paragraph leads to where I was going.
If someone told you that you were overpaid, how would you feel?
(And I hope I can say this without upsetting you. But, we have had some discussions privately, so I know where you are coming from and I think you understand where I am coming from.)
If someone told you that your father was overpaid, how would you feel?
It's just not a good thing to say. It's not very objective either. Mainly, because the people who say it, normally don't know what pilots, teachers, or small businessmen do.
As far as the double standard of Rush and O'Riley? I wasn't asked to apply a standard. Buzz asked me to tell him what name-calling he did. That's all I did.
I've never said they were overpaid. I just see the reality of where this country is headed. I understand that you feel your mother was underpaid because of the educational quals she had, and in a way I cannot argue with you, but squint at
this and tell me what color sticks out at you. My wife and I were having a discussion just yesterday about how she wishes somebody would have pointed her in a direction of education that would have allowed for a better paying job. (She was a graphic designer) So is it right for the teachers to expect the already overburdened taxpayers to continue to fund their entitlement programs simply because they are highly educate themselves? We all have selfish interests, and we.. I mean we airline pilots, have already seen where this thing can go. Maybe it's time for them to realize that the wound has enough of a scab to remove the bandage, and let the real healing begin, but the current way of doing business cannot continue.