Any union teachers watch Morning Joe today to see how they cut all of our throats?

[NNN0LHI]

They had a "discussion" going on about your pay and benefits with about 5 people. No teachers or union officials were there. The NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin(Famous for the $70 dollars an hour UAW worker lie) was there to take your side. And he did too. For about two seconds. Didn't take much for New Jersey Governor Christie to get the little snake Sorkin and everyone on the show to start agreeing with him. Mika even called in on her cell phone from a plane to wish the Guv well. She sure sounded fond of that pig.

They all agreed it sounded unreasonable for the teachers not to take a pay cut. Christie said a pay cut would prevent any layoffs or other job cuts if they just worked for a little less money. Only about $800 dollars a year in cuts they kept repeating over and over again. Like $800 is nothing. It is nothing to these wealthy pigs!

Thats what they told us UAW members when they got us down too. Just take a little pay cut and everything will be well. They were lying of course too.

These pricks will never address the real causes of this recession:

http://www.globalexchange.org/war_peace_democracy/oil/1589.html

Ford plant closing symbolic of loss of manufacturing jobs

Associated Press
February 22, 2004

EDISON, N.J. (AP) —When the Ford Motor plant closes its assembly line Thursday, it will continue the steady departure of manufacturing jobs from New Jersey, particularly in the auto industry.

New Jersey's auto industry once included plants in Mahwah and Edgewater and had more than 14,000 workers in 1970.

After the closing of the Ford plant, that number will drop down to little more than 1,000. General Motors, which operates the state's lone remaining auto plant in Linden, said last week it will lay off 350 of the factory's 1,350 employees.

In all manufacturing, New Jersey has lost 241,000 jobs, or about 40 percent, since 1990.

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Lose your tax base from manufacturing jobs like these and your state will go broke. No doubt about that. That worker in another country who built someones imported car is not paying into our state and federal government tax coffers. And the autoworkers who used to pay taxes into it are now needing government assistance because they don't have a job any more. So its a double whammy.

No, they won't mention this stuff.

Because they think we are all stupid.

Don

[DrDan]

1. it sounds reasonable - after all, with your 9-month work schedule and Christmas holidays . . .

joking - my wife is a teacher - I only wish she had a 9-month work schedule.

[Generic Other]

2. And did the governor plan to take a pay cut?

I should think all state and federal politicians ought to take a pay cut as an example. From the head cheese on down. In economic hard times it seems only right. After all, they share responsibility for creating the problems. All their pay should be tied to their ability to keep the American economy healthy.

Merit pay for politicians is an idea whose time has come!

[Jefferson23]

3. K&R

[MidwestRick]

4. Is it true...

that the union member pay nothing their entire career for health insurance?

-MR

[Brickbat]

5. No.

[NNN0LHI]

6. It used to be that way for UAW members

And that gave them extra money to purchase products or services that other workers provided. Might even be some product or service you provide? Or once provided?

Not so any more. That is why the unemployment rate is near 10%.

Don

[MichiganVote]

8. Yeah that's another line of BS.

[MichiganVote]

7. They're all assholes and sink sanctimony to a new low.