Elected Officials

[lroberts]

I can tell you with 100% honesty I would cop the attitude that it's payback for something the Dems have done in the past but I would realize that this is crap politics at work again. It's so typical of what's wrong in this country. One group is strong-arming locals by using a political party to get their way. It stinks.

Now what about the same question to you?? If another party did this would you feel the same way? Just curious how you feel about it.

Watched an interview on CBS ( I think) and the reporter asked the senator if he felt like he is not doing his job. He replied I am doing my job by doing what the people want. I guess he forgot the folks who voted for change and balancing the budget which started this whole uprising in Wisconsin.

I am a Republican.....I was just wondering your position. My problem is that I am a teacher and some of the things that the majority is trying to push could affect me in a negative way....and in ways that I KNOW will be bad for many students across the state. Vouchers for Charter schools that comes from public taxes is the worst idea EVER. If you look at the success rate of Charter schools on the ISTEP tests (which is how Daniels wants to evaluate teachers and schools) public schools FAR outscore them. You have to go through almost 200 public schools before you find a charter school that scores as well on ISTEP. Out of the 50 lowest scoring schools on ISTEP, 31 are Charter schools. The Dems are fighting for Unions (good for me/bad for some I guess) and the fact that our state Legislators are blaming the economy and perceived problems in education on Unions which is just not true. The economy and our deficit was caused by the home loan mortgage idiots and reckless spending/investing on Wall Street. The little/poor guys are the ones who are now paying for it. I agree that the size of our govt. and its spending needs to get smaller....but lets find the true root of the problem and solve it that way. Busting the teachers union is not going to magically solve our budget issues....in fact I just got an email from Tony Bennett and he said that no bills he supports or is pushing through will lower any teachers' salary....so how are is the state saving any money? Maybe through less pension and insurance input......but even that is not a guarantee at this point. Daniels and Bennett are not really concerned with saving $$$$ through education....they just want to bust unions and take power away from the people.