Posted on 09/10/2012 2:01:01 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rush Limbaugh: Chicago strike is Democratic ‘setup’ By: Kevin Robillard September 10, 2012 03:14 PM EDT
Rush Limbaugh said Monday a strike by the 26,000-member Chicago Teachers’ Union was nothing but a ploy to help President Barack Obama’s reelection.
“Let’s just see how long this thing goes on, and let’s see how it gets solved,” the conservative talk show host said on his radio show. “Anybody want to bet against me that Obama’s the one that gets credit for this, in a few short days? Anybody want to bet that there might be a little bit of violence and finally Obama will have to move in and do something? He and [Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel] will figure this out so they get credit for solving it. Because, I tell you: There is no union that is gonna go on strike right now for the express purpose of harming Barack Obama.”
The union started striking Monday for the first time in a quarter-century after rejecting a contract that offered them a four percent annual pay raise over the next four years. The union said it has concerns about how the school district’s proposal handled teacher evaluations, job security and health benefits. Almost 400,000 students attend public schools in Chicago, the country’s third-largest district.
“You watch,” Limbaugh predicted, according to a transcript. “Rahm Emanuel himself is the guy who said, ‘Never let a crisis go to waste.’ We know that the unions, Obama and Rahm Emanuel, the Democrats, are in bed with each other. So this, to me, I think it’s a perfect setup.”
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No doubt. He is trying to get that all important union vote and will come out on the side of the public servants. I hesitate to call them ‘teachers’. Probably isn’t a teacher in the whole lot.
And I bet many,if not most, of the teachers there retired with million dollar pensions.
Pension gap divides public and private workers (2007 article but timely)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-20-pensions-cover_x.htm
You can bet the politicians will be looking for ways to steal the 401k savings of the non-government retirees to fund the bloated benefits of the government retirees. The former group has nobody to defend them. The latter has politicians and unions feeding at the trough.
Read pensiontsunami.com regularly. It’s a compilation of news reports, mostly local or regional, about pension problems and abuses everywhere. You’ll see what the private sector is angry about.
www.pensiontsunami.com
Like one of Rahm Emanuel’s dead fish, the longer this strike goes on the more it will stink. And it will particularly stink up the reputations of the City of Chicago, teachers’ unions, unions in general, and the overriding force behind them all — the Democrats. The longer the strike lasts, the worse for Obama and his party.
But if Obama steps in to solve the situation in the next few days, it will not be a major victory for him since the public is not particularly engaged in the issue now. But if he waits for the strike to become a national issue, the public will have become so disgusted with all the players — all Democrats — that his late appearance after so much turmoil will not likely elicit cheers so much as ‘’What took you so long?!’’
"Let's just see how long this thing goes on, and let's see how it gets solved," the conservative talk show host said on his radio show. "Anybody want to bet against me that Obama's the one that gets credit for this, in a few short days?"That will be sauce for the gander, Rush.
I agree. Even if Rush is right, and this is a setup, it’s going to backfire. NoBODY is in the mood for another nasty tantrum union strike. They woke the sleeping giant with the Chik-Fil-A gambit - now they’re poking him with a sharp stick?!
Baaad idea.
The union upped the demand to 35%.
As for teachers, it is not always the fault of the teacher. You should hear what my sister has to put up with. There is a women with 7 kids by different fathers, who wasn’t phased by the fact her kindergardener couldn’t color, didn’t even know what it meant. Or the kids who are violent, and disrupt the class. When she was at middle school, there were kids with generational gang affiliation, prostitute mothers, parents who are drugies, parents who don’t care about helping the kids. I could go on. Kids tried to kill, yes, kill her and another teacher. Teachers have it tough.
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