Chicago Public Schools to lay off 2,100 teachers and staff

[fan_since79]

Budgetary chickens coming home to roost.

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57594485/chicago-public-schools-to-lay-off-2110-teachers-support-staff/

 

School district spokeswoman Becky Carroll says the district is facing a $1 billion budget deficit, much of it driven by a more than $400 million pension obligation.

 

 

[TobiasFunke]

Should make a bunch of you on here happy

[Vernster52]

Racists.

[mtangelsfan]

Should make a bunch of you on here happy

 

What is sad is people like you really believe that. 

[Glen]

As long as we can keep funding prisons and cops, I'm good with this.  Priorities.

[red321]

What is sad is people like you really believe that. 

 

Have you seen some of the commentary on the public intertubes about Detroit...it's pretty easy to understand why one would think that.

[mtangelsfan]

commentary on here?  I'm no fan of the unions or of the pensions they have been receiving but I would never want to see people lose their jobs like that.

[red321]

No, that's why I said public intertubes mt.

[mtangelsfan]

No, that's why I said public intertubes mt.

 

This is the post that my response was to:

 

Should make a bunch of you on here happy

 

[red321]

And that's why I said...

 

Have you seen some of the commentary on the public intertubes about Detroit...it's pretty easy to understand why one would think that.

 

It seems that a whole lot of "conservatives" take extreme pleasure when they perceive something "liberal" has failed.

 

Yes...I know...I know...I probably just started a round of everyone's favorite pastime..."BOTH! SIDES! DOIT!" (you need to picture the wheel of fortune intro with the crowd yelling to make that really work...go back and try it, it's fun)

[AngelsLongBall]

This is the post that my response was to:

 

Should make a bunch of you on here happy

Here, I'll make him happy:

 

Validation for rich white people!

[TobiasFunke]

What is sad is people like you really believe that.

Come on MT, you know that people are stoked union/public employees are getting canned.

[Spirit]

Keep the teachers.  Ditch the union bosses. 

[mtangelsfan]

Come on MT, you know that people are stoked union/public employees are getting canned.

 

Really?  This is why there is such a disconnect.  People are convinced the other side is evil.

 

Who is happy when somebody they don't even know loses their job?

[TobiasFunke]

We'll let them peek their head in here and speak for themselves if there are any