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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
Rahm Emanual, BO right hand man for quite sometime. WH Chief of Staff. Oddly enough, the mayor of Chicago.  |
And Chicago was the place of birth and formal education for Shel Sliverstien, who wrote
25 Minutes to Go for Johnny Cash and who, in turn, was first asked to perform in the White House in 1970 by none other than one Richard Milhouse Nixon, who ordered the coverup of the Watergate break-in. Therefore, the striking teachers are linked with the Watergate Scandal.
The entire demonization of teachers was among the primary reasons that I, a one-time right wing idealogue, began to feel alienation from the Republican Party.
While the image is made to be humorous, it is also the truth. The GOP feels that teachers are overpaid. They hate their union membership. And the anti-intellectualism of the Republican Party is staunchly critical of anyone that has too much "learnin'", which is exactly why their disdain does not stop with K-12 education.