Chicago trying to close their public schools?

...and now Chicago officials have decided it was good idea to layoff 2000 public school employees (with over 1000 of those being classroom teachers)?

Good call, Chicago!

***will any city be able to withstand liberal leadership?

 

Well if you want smaller government then unfortunatlly those employed by central/state/country etc are always the ones who suffer first due to contractions of governmental responsibility

 

I didn't hear a peep out of him when I repeatedly mentioned that Michigan did the same thing.

Then again, Michigan is completely controlled by republicans.

 

So, we can take it as read that you support raising the taxes necessary to fund the schools and avoid these layoffs. Well done; welcome to reality.

 

Huh? How do you come to that assumption? I know nothing about you but it's my experience that only a real whacko would automatically assume the only solution to any financial problem is to raise taxes.

 

Nobody is automatically assuming anything, nor is this just "any financial problem." I look forward to reading your explanation of how the Chicago schools should have handled this situation.

 

I'd have to disagree with you on that statement. Your reply to my post was tax-increase specific. You offered no other response or solution but the assumption that tax increases were the solution.

 

In other words, more specifically those of Jr. Bush: "I'm not a solvinator, I'm the decidinator....person. I hear a problem, I become concerned, then I inform other people about my concerns....and the fooled ain't gonna be fooled again'...problem solved!"

 

Um, yeah...and now back to the topic...

 

Chicago schools need a complete overhaul. With unions out of the equation.

 

It seems reasonable to assume that the reason for the cut-backs is a lack of funds. Maybe you have a creative solution for that which doesn't involve raising taxes, but generally taxes are the way that government programs like public schools are funded. Thus:

 

I doubt there's a magic wand one could waive to make all of Chicago's problems disappear. I also doubt the schools financial problems just popped up recently. I would guess the financial problems being faced by the schools is merely a symptom of a much greater disease. Similar to Detroit, years & years of democrat rule, bloated government and malfeasance have come home to roost.

 

Even excluding all their other problems, when the population of the city drops 10%, why would you expect them NOT to lay off teachers?

 

Oh my. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, to have it confirmed that the OP was nothing but a pointless and tendentious diatribe.

 

Oh my.

 

Apparently, you're another who has nothing of substance to contribute on this topic. What a surprise.

 

And I still don't like your "raise taxes" solution either.

 

They can't say "privatize"?

As for Detroit's issues, it has nothing to do with other Michigan cities' teachers being dismissed. Private companies are hired to fill in for the former unionized teachers.

Point: They want to break-up the unions and privatize them.

Their buddies make more money that way, but at the cost of teachers losing their jobs. It's their version of how schools should be run...everywhere.

They want smaller government too, so they're making smaller government, by firing teachers, imposing massive and unprecedented costs onto the Postal System, and firing other public employees. It's the grand plan, and they are being quite successful at it.

I've never been a fan of teacher's pay myself, as I feel they got too greedy, but to fire them all is pretty brutal, IMO. Imposing an unprecedented financial burden on the USPS is insane, as the USPS ha no choice but to raise prices, and that's a bi-partisan decision so it's not all on republicans here.

Time will tell what the outcome of these brazen moves are, but in the short-term, they (republicans) have already won. The damage they caused can't be easily repaired, but they're fine with that. The problem is their nearsightedness is likely to cause more recessions and even depressions, with massive starvation being a highly likely outcome in the not-too-distant future. Prices skyrocket, jobs plummet, but they can't see how, and that's the reason I can't stand republicans.

It's funny in a way though, because their goal is kin to Socilism. In unionized workers, a select few enjoy more profits, but the employers take a hit for it. In privatization, the employers benefit, but the workers are paid less...as in more like Socialism.

So, republicans are Socialists towards workers pay, but not employers. They want to continue that trend, the trend from the past, which they appear to have forgotten where that leads to: Depression.

 

Ummm, Detroit's problems are a local issue (50+ years of having demcRATS calling the shots)...and the USPS is a federal agency. How are the two related other than that both have failed under a democRATS watch?