Posted on 05/19/2019 6:46:01 PM PDT by Libloather
If Bernie Sanders were an MLB general manager, he would probably be the type who chases bargain players rather than signing free agents to mega contracts.
The presidential contender posted a video on his Twitter account Saturday showing him at a campaign stop talking about raising pay for school teachers. And he used baseball salaries to make his point.
"If we are a nation that can provide contracts to baseball players for hundreds of millions of dollars, don't tell me we cannot pay teachers in this country the kinds of wages and salaries they deserve," Sanders said.
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Politicians should have to give all their money to baseball players.
Reminds me when Babe Ruth was asked why he made more than president Hoover and he said, “I’ve had a better year than Hoover”.
In what, GCP?
Who’s opinion was it, then?
I might agree with your argument, but, the truth is, even people making a little better than an average income pay, in total, about half of what they make to the gov’t, when all is considered. This doesn’t even count what they DON’T make, in many cases, due to gov’t interference in, well, just about everything.
So, yes, most compliance is voluntary to one degree or another, but it IS slavery, just of a more cleverly carried out sort than usually considered.
Put another way, I suppose the question is, if the police did not exist, would, for example, most people not speed on the highway? And so on.
I have my doubts.
You are touching on a good point: In MLB, the players and owners make the big $$ (perhaps a few successful managers do fairly well too), but that’s the top of a pyramid called “organized baseball” in the US, in which most participants (not just players) make much more modest incomes from the activity.
In education, you have those top end administrators you speak of, at the top of the pyramid, and don’t get me started on what even mid-level Universities spend on head coaches these days. (The latter I somewhat understand — a successful basketball or football program at the Division 1 level can bring in lots of $$, but even pretty mediocre coaches get paid rather handsomely.)
Let’s have Bernie go on the warpath against high salaries for education administrators. Throw in top dog lawyers. Or, how about high payments for speaking engagements by former pols?! Watch the fun begin!!!
Agreed 100%. Great comment!
He's got it all wrong. Should read;
If baseball players make millions, Plumbers deserve a raise.
Now it makes perfect sense.
Perhaps MLB should fund schools? They could force more teaching of baseball and use the schools as an extended farm system.
Teachers should generate rare and valuable skill sets worthy of higher pay
Plastic masters degrees get raises but are for the most part worthless
If fielders dropped the ball 40-50-60% of the time, they’d be out of a job.
Good idea baseball owners pay the teachers,that will give me a tax break
Hard to say if Sanders is right. I suppose we know about ball players because we can watch their product on video, teachers are afraid of cameras in the classroom for fear we’d learn that many are incompetent yet get paid huge salaries and benefits. You can fire a ball player that doesn’t earn his salary, not so for teachers.
So perhaps he should argue for what Eric Hanushuk argued for, Merit pay instead of union pay. Higher salaries for great teachers, fire the bad ones and the mediocre get mediocre pay.
Why do they always choose athletes and not pop stars, super models or movie actresses?
Is Bernie going to take this up with the owners of MLB?
A half dozen... I still remeber my sixth grade history teacher. She was great.
Yeah, but they’re getting schooled, right? Ironic!
This is all about motivating the teachers union lemmings to get out and campaign for Bernie.
I’m not surprised. You are just another stupid teacher with a degree in nothing and a teaching certificate from a cereal box (or is there a test?) making twice what you are worth as a officious bumbling moron.
Teachers have zero to do with curriculum in every large school system and when they do stumble into it, they bring their own defective understanding to stain the sheets. And, with three family members on the teacher roles and my experience as a guest lecturer in our so called “college prep” high school several times, I have seen enough to make me ill.
You need to wake up and smell the coffee.
Ah, good old 10-289. She was more right than even she could guess.
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