Once in a while I want to post something that makes people happy.
Look at these graphs from the latest Gallup poll on political views. (H/T Ace of Spades via ECM)
Here are the numbers:
Conservatives are at 42%. Moderates at 35%. And Liberals at 20%.
And the independents?
Independents: 41%. Independent Conservatives: 36%. Independent liberals: 19%.
This is good news. But it will not be nice for us when we have to have “austerity measures” to prevent bankruptcy.
The Blog Prof is a great Michigan-based blog and the proprieter is all over this story.
Excerpt:
Thousands of teachers are gathering in Lansing today to protest having to pay 3% towards their generous pension and healthcare benefits. Michiganders are waking up to the reality that public employees, and especially K-12 teachers in this state, are enjoying extravagant reimbursement for their services far in excess of the public sector such as 1) higher pay than their private sector counterparts, 2) better job security than anyone in the private sector, 3) healthcare benefits far in excess of the private sector, and 4) pension benefits that are far in excess of the private sector. Fact is, here in Michigan teachers are paid better than any other teacher in the country per unit Michigander income…
Check this out:
And this:
And this:
Remember, I am PAYING FOR THIS NO MATTER WHAT.
Public schools are funded by compulsory taxation that takes money out of my future family’s coffers so that we have FEWER CHOICES about how we have to will serve God by raising godly children. It’s money taken away such that my future wife will have fewer options and opportunities because she will have less to spend as she sees fit. And we will be forced to pay for our neighbor’s kids to learn values that we don’t hold. Ridiculous! I didn’t make this money to give it away to secular leftist indoctrinators with guaranteed jobs and pensions.
Awesome video from Hot Air. (H/T Cubachi)
Excerpt:
Governor Chris Christie gives remarks regarding teachers and the teachers Union, the NJEA during a Town Hall Meeting in Robbinsville, NJ.
Christie explained that his fight is not against teachers. It is against the NJEA. Christie cited this stat: a teacher who is in the union, pays $730 a year to join. If a teacher doesn’t want to join the union, they pay 85% of the $730 per year, to not join.
That money raises $130 million a year to pay for lobbyists, to stare down the legislature. They also spend the money, as well as tax payer money from NJ residents from property taxes and other taxes to buy ads attacking the governor.
Here’s the clip:
I found another good 4-minute clip from a different education policy speech at the Heritage Foundation, too.
The full speech from the American Federation for Children Policy Summit is in 4 clips on YouTube:
And you can learn more about how school choice helps students to learn, and parents to get their money’s worth.
I love policy. The quickest way to a man’s heart is tax policy and education policy and foreign policy.
WINTERY KNIGHT 