Posted on 06/30/2011 3:46:46 PM PDT by Qbert
Althouse:
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:Cost savings from worker contributions to health care and retirement, taking effect today as part of the new collective bargaining laws, will swing the Kaukauna School District from a $400,000 budget deficit to an estimated $1.5 million surplus . The district plans to hire teachers and reduce class size.Lets stop and think of all the protesters who carried signs asserting that their opposition to Scott Walker was for the children.
Preposterous! Surely she cannot mean that lower labor costs per worker might free up money to hire more! What next, claims that increasing the minimum wage kills jobs? That much of the money lost to unionization is eventually recouped at the expense of consumers?
The irony here is Walker’s new rules, opposed by union thugs, is freeing up money to hire more teachers... more UNION members.
Smaller classes aren’t what is needed!
Disipline in the classroom is!
In the 1940s when I was in school Los Angeles schools had a minimum class size of 34 students and if there wasn’t that many they combined classes.
The difference was you didn’t screw up or you got whipped!
Why isn’t this story being aired all over the country several times like the Wisconsin protests were?
(Don’t bother answering that -I know why)
BUMP!
Union dues are no longer collected automatically under the new Walker budget. If what happened in Indiana is any indication, union dues will drop by 90% within two years.
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