Oh, wait...that's right. It was the ****ing UNION.Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker explains what happened in the Wall Street Journal:
In 2010, Megan Sampson was named an Outstanding First Year Teacher in Wisconsin. A week later, she got a layoff notice from the Milwaukee Public Schools. Why would one of the best new teachers in the state be one of the first let go? Because her collective-bargaining contract requires staffing decisions to be made based on seniority.
Megan Sampson, Wisconsin's unemployed Outstanding First Year Teacher
Ms. Sampson got a layoff notice because the union leadership would not accept reasonable changes to their contract. Instead, they hid behind a collective-bargaining agreement that costs the taxpayers $101,091 per year for each teacher, protects a 0% contribution for health-insurance premiums, and forces schools to hire and fire based on seniority and union rules.
My state’s budget-repair bill, which passed the Assembly on Feb. 25 and awaits a vote in the Senate, reforms this union-controlled hiring and firing process by allowing school districts to assign staff based on merit and performance. That keeps great teachers like Ms. Sampson in the classroom.
… As I noted on Twitter the other day, it’s easy to oppose merit pay when enough of the people you represent have no merit.
The fact that these unmitigated, leftist assholes have the temerity to lay the blame for the consequences of virtually
all of their actions at the feet of
anyone with whom they disagree proves conclusively that were it not for the New Media, this nation may already have been flushed down the proverbial shitter.
The sooner these teat-sucking genetic defects go screaming into extinction, the sooner I 'll be able to stop taunting them by pissing on trees and wiping my ass with the New York Times.
