EZRhino

My wife's a teacher at the district office. I know what the average base pay of a teacher is and its not always $50k. There is some places that the base pay $75k. Depends on level of education and district. Teachers at lower income school districts get higher base pay then wealthier districts.

She first joined the union because in her application it appeared that she had too. Later we found out that it was false. During that time there was a push to get teachers to join, so the local union effort found a way to trick teachers into joining the union. After a enough signatures were collected. Bam! New teachers union was created.

Not to long ago we found a article with the public database for the the Orange county school district (Here). So we did a search and found the highest paid teacher in the district was this person, who was mentioned in the article (Mark Dressler). He is just a drama teacher for goodness sakes. What the fuck does he do to deserver $170K per year? And he will get a 2% bump for next year and if he applies to teach another class he will get another stipen ($26k).

Me and my wife have watched countless useless projects get funded and not even be used in the classroom. Hundreds of thousands of dollars just go to waste. Watch one particular teacher spend the last 8 years of her career getting "hurt" at the beginning of the year never come back until the last month before summer break and the repeat the process for 8 straight years. This made sure she got her pension. I think she reached the 35 year mark and gets 85 to 90 percent of her pay.

Unions did a great job to make loop holes as well. My wife works 8 to 10 hours every day and has certain benefits for it. Take the same teacher but decides to work part time and for most of her career and then the last 5 years or 3 years goes to full time status before she retires. Why? Because her pension is based on the last 3 or 5 years of her base pay before retirement. She gets the same pension as any teacher that worked full time for the same amount of years.

Let?s not stop there. Every election cycle there is always a push in the teachers union for specific candidate. My wife hates that her union uses her contributions, that she is obligated to pay every month, to elect a person that we don?t want elected.

Let?s go further. Here in California, the unions are strong. They out spent the campaign to remove unions from being able to contribute to election campaigns by 6 to 1(I believe, I could be wrong about the ratio). To say the least they destroyed the hope of having fair elections in California and change the electoral map for the better and really represent the people. Not one incumbent lost in the past 3 election cycles. California is without a shadow of a doubt votes Democratic local and Republican statewide. There is no question that this is a Democrat state with a Republican Governor bought and paid for with Union money.

Here we have a lot of strong unions and 55% of California?s expenditure budget goes to education (K-12 and Higher Education). That?s for the fiscal year 2011-2012. This gets us a rank of 47 in SAT test scores. WTF?!!!! California went from 5th largest economy in the world to 9th. WTF?!!!!! Silicon valley is gone. Real estate is in the shitter. Mexican activists and unions run this state. And these are your results. It is absolutely insane what the pie chart looks like for the states budget.

And now we need to pay more taxes for fucking unions. They scream and shout about being fair. Fuck you!!! Stop influenceing elections. And bargaining with the politicians you bought. How does a politician, sitting across the table from the guy who helped get him elected, say no to what he wants? He doesnt!!!! Case in point, Richard Trumka and Obama. God Damn socialist assholes. Who want nothing more to take your money and my money away through democracy.

I guess you can say I feel strongly about this.