Teachers are leading the way in the fight against the low tax paradise shithole Oklahoma has become in the hands of a GOP majority.
Time is running out for Oklahoma lawmakers. They have until April 2 to reach a spending deal or teachers will strike en masse.
Oklahoma’s teachers are rebelling against years of deep cuts to education that have left 20 percent of public schools on a four-day-week schedule and average teacher salaries ranked 49th in the country. Last year, about a quarter of the state’s public school teachers left the state or quit teaching altogether.
Those who remain have come up with a list of demands. Teachers want raises for all state employees for the next three years, plus more spending on health care and pension plans. They also want lawmakers to restore millions of dollars in school funding that have been cut in the past decade. To meet the educators’ demands, state legislators need to come up with $3.3 billion over three years to pay for it.
When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one
For the Union makes us strong
Solidarity forever, solidarity forever
Solidarity forever
For the Union makes us strong!
This is what happens when you run the famed “Experiment” that devastated Kansas and is doing the same service for Oklahoma. Everything is sacrificed for tax cuts that have never ever delivered on the promises, the only result is an impoverished state that can’t even educate it’s children.
https://youtu.be/9g1IArAW5Dk
It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
But the union makes us strong.
So….Delaware public schools are generally shit holes because of to high of income Taxes? LOL
This is what happens when you run the famed “Experiment” that devastated Kansas and is doing the same service for Oklahoma. Everything is sacrificed for tax cuts that have never ever delivered on the promises, the only result is an impoverished state that can’t even educate it’s children.
https://folkways.si.edu/almanac-singers/talking-union-2/american-folk-struggle-protest/music/track/smithsonian
My father was a union organizer vs. United States Steel…just what we need today, only jazzier.
Kline seems emotionally invested in the fantasy that tax cuts work. So many fantasies out there for him to fall in love with, and he picks that one.
Klinebot: “So….Delaware public schools are generally shit holes because of to high of income Taxes? LOL”
Actually Delaware schools are shitholes because of LOW taxes. Plus white flight policies.
I missed the monkey dance last night. God Damn-it!