Being the daughter of two teachers and the wife of a member of IBEW, I am solidly with the protestors in Wisconsin. Teacher salary in this country is a disgrace for the educational requirements and the crap they have to take from kids, parents and administration. They are forced to teach for the test now and have kids who don't want to learn, parents who don't give a damn and no money for their classroom supplies. Underpaid and overworked in a system that lacks real education, and now the governor wants to take away the only perk they have, benefits. What he really wants to do is bust the unions and make no mistake about it, they have lifted wages and benefits from the crapper for all of us, union or no. Everybody in the middle class owes them a huge debt because they futhered all of us. Do you really want our kids and grandkids to go back to the days of low wages, poor benefits and no retirement?
Look, I know government entities are strapped right now and nobody has the balls to say we need to raise taxes, but these aren't the people that we need to go after.