Posted on 05/14/2011 6:52:29 AM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
I've been arguing with my leftist friends again. Bad habits die hard. I still manage to let the dirty laundry pile up for weeks too. Some day I'll learn my lessons -- and have more leftist drinking buddies and fewer days wearing faded t-shirts from college.
This time it's Chris, an admitted Socialist and proud Union Man. (I suppose I'm being redundant aren't I?)
An argument that started over the futility of the attempt to create a "digital picket line" to boycott the Huffington Post (Chris's link was responsible for me suggesting to our star blogger Walter Hudson that he write this FANTASTIC post here) soon drifted over to the subject of the damaging effects of teachers unions. I challenged my friend when he seemed to play dumb on the horrific effects of lousy tenured teachers:
Oh come on, Chris. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Are you disputing the obvious reality that the result of making it much harder to fire elementary and high school teachers is that more bad teachers get to keep teaching kids poorly? It's very hard to fire a tenured high school or elementary school teacher. The result of this is kids get left behind when they're stuck with a lousy teacher for a year. Are you telling me that you're perfectly satisfied with the status quo of the hoops that have to be jumped through to fire bad teachers?I expected Chris to argue with me about this and insist that I'd been indoctrinated by evil right-wing talking points -- not that I was genuinely concerned about children getting a good education.
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LOL, no apology needed…
You did me a service, I didn’t have to hunt around to find that thread! (Which was the next thing I was going to do after my post, to make sure I didn’t get the facts completely wrong)
Ha Ha ....
Now this is purely my opinion mind you, but I wouldn't say that I'm living comfortably on 3 times that. IMHO, that's the answer right there.
Keep in mind, that few liberals in real life fit the raving moonbat stereotype often depicted by pundits such as Coulter. Nor do we fit the mold for a conservative as envisioned by the likes of Mahr.
Damn, that’s cheap, for both states. Property taxes here are 2.74%. That would be $8k for your $300,000 home.
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