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calimary

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15. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!!
Thu May 30, 2013, 01:45 PM
May 2013

I've been wondering how long it'd be before we'd start seeing this, or hearing it, from ANYWHERE.

I couldn't help it, and I apologize if it seems hard-hearted, but I found myself wondering how many of those unfortunate folks in Tornado Alley voted for romney - who fulminated repeatedly about the NERVE, the very OUTRAGE, of wanting to hire MORE police, more firefighters, more teachers... and "burden" the taxpayers, and how they think they're ENTITLED! Who the hell do they think they are? Do they know how much that's gonna cost? And blah-blah-blah. How many of them bought into that and thought it was a good thing? I bet they think differently now - since those same humble teachers and first responders have repeatedly proven they're MORE THAN worth their weight in gold-pressed latinum. When they personally made the difference between whether your precious child lived or died. I wonder if this has changed anyone's mind.

I found myself thinking about that in other cases, too - like with the Jersey Shore or in the path of some other destructive monster storm, OR lunatic with a destructive monster gun or homemade bomb, too, for that matter.

And I wonder how soon they'll forget. And go back to the republi-CON gospel of cruelty and selfishness and shortsightedness - that all those whining teachers and first-responder leaches of your tax money are just useless and they should all be fired, and government is your enemy and is just bad and too expensive and doesn't do anything for you or help pull you out of a jam.

Good Grief, these voters need some serious re-education!!!!!!

The nerve to ask [View all] ashling May 2013 OP
well said! liberal_at_heart May 2013 #1
I said pretty much the same thing sharp_stick May 2013 #2
Doesn't get much clearer than that. AtheistCrusader May 2013 #3
Thanks for knowing yourself and the difficulty of teaching well enough to say that. LuckyLib May 2013 #10
And, chervilant May 2013 #25
Exactly. Remember the old adage BlueToTheBone May 2013 #41
I did try to become a teacher... chervilant May 2013 #24
Same for me ashling May 2013 #39
Okay, I'm thinking about that option. chervilant May 2013 #43
I like it - don't make much ashling May 2013 #44
How about a link to that letter? eom chervilant Jun 2013 #47
Here ashling Jun 2013 #48
Thanks! chervilant Jun 2013 #49
Awwe shucks ashling Jun 2013 #53
They dare to think. This is not good in a GOP mindset. RedCloud May 2013 #4
Oh yes. Yes, yes, yes. Kurovski May 2013 #5
Truer words have not been said... rbilick May 2013 #6
Teachers used to be considered underpaid,... Spitfire of ATJ May 2013 #7
Reagan started the trend to dismantling of unions. Kurovski May 2013 #13
Yup. And now we and our pay and pensions are resented. Gidney N Cloyd May 2013 #14
These days most workers never HEARD the word "pension".... Spitfire of ATJ May 2013 #19
Amen to that! nt caledesi May 2013 #8
Brilliant!!! nt tblue May 2013 #9
well said. blackspade May 2013 #11
Truth. colorado_ufo May 2013 #12
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!!!! calimary May 2013 #15
Because we allow the GOP to control the narrative siligut May 2013 #16
Well said! hrmjustin May 2013 #17
Add to that last line: lastlib May 2013 #18
A society is broken when you attack its teachers kimbutgar May 2013 #20
If they don't go down in flames in November 2014 . . . Brigid May 2013 #30
Unfortunately, some Dems have piled on against teachers and for Ed "Reform" We People May 2013 #33
I'm surprised that you haven't been sent to a re-education camp yet. Major Hogwash May 2013 #37
Even in the old days teachers went to college to learn how to teach kimbutgar May 2013 #42
Teacher an public school hatred is also ashling May 2013 #40
We need lots more crazy union thugs. tclambert May 2013 #21
OH HELL YES! BrotherIvan May 2013 #22
100% Correct. MichiganVote May 2013 #23
On that note... Blue Owl May 2013 #26
+1 Not Sure May 2013 #27
Gosh, not a single DU Teacher Hater© recc'd this. Starry Messenger May 2013 #28
HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT May 2013 #29
K & R. Teachers are what build community. An attack on them, is an attack on all of us! freshwest May 2013 #31
That's it in a nutshell. Auntie Bush May 2013 #32
Hear, hear! We People May 2013 #34
You hit a nerve on this one, Ashling! ReRe May 2013 #35
kr HiPointDem May 2013 #36
K&R n/t myrna minx May 2013 #38
kick Liberal_in_LA May 2013 #45
I love a teacher when they're telling kids to not use a jpeg when plain text would do just fine. harmonicon Jun 2013 #46
Does trying that hard to miss the point in favor of asinine pedantry hurt? (nt) Posteritatis Jun 2013 #50
Does the irony... harmonicon Jun 2013 #51
k&r for educators. Laelth Jun 2013 #52
thank you trueblue2007 Jun 2013 #54
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