{"id":33935,"date":"2018-07-28T14:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33935"},"modified":"2018-07-28T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T18:22:58","slug":"people-get-angry-when-you-take-their-free-money-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=33935","title":{"rendered":"People Get Angry When You Take Their Free Money Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday The National Review<\/a> posted an article about some recent activities by the Teachers’ Unions. The headline of the article reads, “Teachers’ Unions Plan to Become ‘More Political, Not Less Political'” This is in response to the recent Supreme Court decision that no longer allows them to take union dues from teachers who do not want to joint the union.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

For unions, the stakes could hardly be higher. Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, warns<\/a> that surveys show \u201cmany [teachers] see dues as too high\u201d and \u201cpolitical activity as too leftist\u201d; she also notes that \u201conly half of all teachers voted for Hillary Clinton.\u201d Internal documents from the National Education Association (NEA), the nation\u2019s largest teachers\u2019 union, anticipate that the union will lose a whopping 300,000 members. Things look even bleaker for the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the nation\u2019s other major teachers\u2019 union, which has 15 of its 22 largest state affiliates<\/a> in former agency-fee states \u2014 and already had fewer than half its members paying full dues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By happenstance, both unions held their big national conventions in July, providing a chance to scour the tea leaves for subtle hints as to how the unions might woo reluctant members, especially the hefty share who take issue with the leftist bent that has characterized the unions in recent decades. Even before the shock of Janus<\/em>, unions worked in concert with Senate and House Republicans in 2015 to pass the Every Student Succeeds Act in a push to roll back many of the federal educational excesses of the Bush and Obama years, so a shift in approach seemed entirely possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It turns out that the tea leaves weren\u2019t that hard to read, after all. At the NEA\u2019s annual convention and representative assembly in Minneapolis, things kicked off on day one with Parkland survivor and woke gun-control activist David Hogg joining NEA president Lily Eskelsen Garc\u00eda on stage to exhort the cheering throng, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing more powerful in America than a pissed-off teacher.\u201d The NEA also made time to award its Human and Civil Rights Award<\/a> \u2014 given to those who have \u201cdemonstrated remarkable courage and conviction to stand up for racial and social justice\u201d \u2014 to recipients including First Lady Michelle Obama and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No political bias shown here.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Somehow, the AFT\u2019s new policies leaned further left than the NEA\u2019s. The AFT unanimously endorsed<\/a> a \u201cpublic investment strategy for health care and education infrastructure,\u201d which includes: universal health care, \u201cwhether single-payer health care or MediCare for All\u201d; free tuition at all public colleges and universities, as well as \u201cfunding for wage justice for adjuncts\u201d; universal, full-day, free child care; doubled per-pupil spending for low-income K\u201312 districts; and \u201ctaxation of the rich to fully fund\u201d a raft of education programs. AFT further resolved that they would \u201ccall on our endorsed candidates to support these priorities, and toward that end we will embed these aspirations in our questionnaires to potential candidates seeking our support.\u201d Swing-state Democrats, beware.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For those who didn\u2019t get quite get the message, AFT president Randi Weingarten told reporters<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019re becoming more political, not less political.\u201d Let educators, would-be members, and public officials be forewarned.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Somehow they never tell you how they are going to pay for all this free stuff–after a while even the rich run out of money to pay their taxes.<\/p>\n

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