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In reply to the discussion: What sort of person does this? [View all]senseandsensibility
(16,712 posts)19. Your icon is hilarious,
especially since as a teacher, I see actual students doing a very good imitation of that daily. They really do that, and if they don't get called on they slap the desk. That is, until they are told that if they slap the desk again they won't get called on the next time either. Oh, to be that young and enthusiastic again.
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In Wisconsin the Republican led government crippled the unions then cut their pay
alfredo
Sep 2013
#36
Pay for executives should be voted on by members. Unions are democracies, and shouldn't allow
alfredo
Sep 2013
#40
Not sure what is going on for labor in those right to work states. I lost touch when I retired.
alfredo
Sep 2013
#44
It's happening now. I won't get to see the blossoming of the next generations. Old fart I am.
alfredo
Sep 2013
#45
All the while admiring people like Mitt Romney, thinking one day they can be like him.
NYC_SKP
Sep 2013
#56
In the article they talked about the final decision about closures happening in May.
alfredo
Sep 2013
#37
I know this one. Someone who believes the choice is Saint Ronnie or Soviet Style Communism.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2013
#22
People who mouth platitudes but don't really care about children. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2013
#25