Chicago has the distinction of boasting the highest paid teachers in the nation. Average salaries are $76,000 not including benefits like not having to work nights and weekends, and all holidays off, and summers off. Throw in a generous retirement plan and the boundless opportunities for sex with young taut student bodies and what is not to like. Life is good for the few who can and do!
Why would they turn down a 16% pay raise? They are teachers, they can do the math.
Costs have risen more like 50% since the former prince of Chicago, Barack Obama started infusing money into a broken economy. The teachers know they will be short if they do not reach parity with the dollar's value in 2009. They need to average $112,679 per year just to break even. Yep, the dollar is that weak.
Time for Rahm Emanuel to take a page out of his former bosses book and spread the wealth around.
Chicago teachers are the first in the country to realize that Obama's economic policies have crippled our purchasing power. I say make your demands, stand your ground. Take your wages back to parity!
The teachers in Chicago are teaching all of us a valuable lesson. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. It will not be long before our leaders will have to admit to the inflation that has been placed into the system by deficit spending.
In Chicago, America's chickens have come home to roost!
If there is reincarnation, I pray, I come back as a Chicago public school teacher.
What could be better?
Jackson Delano Maybolt, President Urban Poverty Law Center
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