Kasich Off To An Early And Ignorant Start
GOP Gubernatorial hopeful wannabe cannon fodder John Kasich paid a visit to Ashtabula County over President's Day weekend and spoke to 138 folks who were willing to listen to his vision of American values—created, of course, by the very, very rich. The average per-capita income in Ashtabula County is roughly $26,000—wonder what it was among those 138 people?
One of the major items on the agenda? Teacher-bashing. His comments were documented in an article run in the Ashtabula Star Beacon.
“I am convinced (teachers) are a lot more concerned about their own situation rather than the situation of our children,” Kasich said.
Really, John? Is that why I don’t get to pee until after school? Is that why I risk bodily injury to break up fights between students, because I care more about my own situation? Perhaps that’s why I come to school early and stay late and give up my lunch period to work with kids that need to pass the state achievement tests that politicians like you mandated? Maybe that’s why I come to school even when I’m sick because I know even if I’m sick, I can teach loops around a healthy substitute. Come shadow me for about two weeks. I can do your job (not that I’d want to), but you can’t do mine. I'm not concerned about my own agenda.
Kasich didn’t stop there, continuing on to set his sights instilling another upper-class value to the people there—union busting.
“We need more school choice, we need to break the back of organized labor in the schools, and we need to turn our schools into institutions that excite our kids and teach them, and the best way to get it done is to give mothers and fathers the power to take their kids out of bad places and put them in good,” Kasich said to a round of applause.Really, John? Is it a good thing to break the back of organized labor, the only group that truly advocates for the needs of teachers? When I became a teacher, I didn’t give up my rights or my humanity—something most people believe happens when you sign on the dotted line on your teaching contract.
Ahh John, I will dance on your political grave come November 2010.
" Is it a good thing to break the back of organized labor"
Absolutely.
Why not! Let's go ahead and finish out the neocon agenda!
Robberbarons in complete control- check.
Women's rights- still working on it, but we're shutting that down
Equality for all- heh, we're rolling back that agenda. Only if you are white and hetero.
People so desperate for a job that we can ignore workplace safety,and any other standards including providing health care- check, there are 500 people waiting for your job if you dare raise a voice!
Retirement plans gutted- now you can work forever for subsistence wages!
Gut funding to agencies that make sure our food, water, and products we use are safe- check, check and double check!
Return to the 1900's--
Mission Accomplished!!!
kasich also said at a campaign event last fall that obama voters are "sinners."
kasich is a nutbag, just like the rest of his party.
And Obama said that there are 57 states to name one of his wonderful pronouncements.
Your point is that we should judge EVERY word out of someone's mouth, right?
John has shown himself to be an honest man in doing the business for which he was elected to Congress. You wish that Ted Strickland were so honest. If he were, he would announce his non-candidacy now because he has not even come close to "solving" the educational disparity in Ohio.
"What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
G. W. F. Hegel
"What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
G. W. F. Hegel
i don't expect honesty from bourgeois politicians, period, mr. historian; however, i am selective as to which nutty pronouncements and bald-faced lies to attack for the sake of furthering certain historical objectives.
right now, the gop is providing enough fodder to render themselves irrelevant for a generation. it might soon be time to move onto the bourgeois left. they seem to be building up a good head of steam...
You must not have read why, Michigan Democrats should be worried
Irrelevant for a generation?
Conservatives are making a comeback....keep watching over our shoulders!
"right now they've been deluded into the whole 'middle class' american sham. everyone thinks they're middle class, even if they're only one missed paycheck from living in a cardboard box."
Well stated. Middle class in this country is far more of a mindset than a reality. Families who make $35,000 a year between them think they're middle class.
So does a friend of mine who is 26. He makes over $200,000. Both of his parents have master's degrees. His father is an administrator in a wealthy school system. The family owns a vacation home on the eastern seaboard. But he's convinced he's "middle class."
He grew quite angry with me when I informed him that his claim to be "middle class" defies all logic because he makes more than at least 95% of the nation. He then railed against tax cuts for people who make far less than he and railed against the EITC by proxy (i.e. tax cuts for poor people who don't pay any tax). When I informed him that he railed against one of St. Ronald Reagan's biggest domestic economic policies, he got really mad.
It's perfectly acceptable to delude oneself into believing one is "middle class," so long as that person supports economic policies that lift up the working classes of this country to close the immoral, unconscienable oceanic trench between the rich and the rest of the country. Absent that support, however, dellusionally believing onself a member of the "middle class" is stupidity or a pompous attempt to assuage one's conscience about profiting while others suffer.
That's when the cost of educating oneself on an issue exceeds the potential benefit that the knowledge would provide.
It's one of the major downfalls of democracy and allows those in government, both elected and appointed, to saddle us with policies and programs that we would reject if better informed .