"fodder".

I'm surprised Romney hasn't offered to reduce class sizes by grinding up the lowest-performing students into a protein paste which will then be fed to the other kids, thereby reducing the cost of free school lunches.

How teachers, nurses, firefighters, and other people who sacrifice their time, and sometimes their own health, for the betterment of others... are treated as if they owe a huge debt to everyone around them by Republicans. It's evident that the GOP takes these people for granted, sees them as servants rather than providers.

lazy. Unworthy of even decent wages.

What kind of a Democrat is he??/

The same multinational corporations and global banks have successfully colonized both "left" parties. Now we have the "choice" of corporate center-right and and batshit crazy Far Right parties.

Guys like Rahm have led that process of shift-right politics.

back Dems and the GOP wants a one party system, such as a dictatorship involving corporation masters. As to worker rights, well the GOP hates that too, as well as civil rights, voter rights, and women rights.

Now Mittens is blaming Pres O for the strike. The GOP will blame Pres O and Dems for everything wrong or right, it really does not matter, they have run out of steam but not money.

sadly, it's also Dems that are now anti-union:
http://occupywallst.org/forum/teacher-bashing-at-the-democratic-convention-by-th/
http://labornotes.org/2012/09/chicago-teachers-head-toward-strike-democrats-turn-their-union

What's the Romney equivalent of "All hat, no cattle"?

Wow.

If you demean one person for their bullshit religious beliefs, you demean all people with bullshit religious beliefs. There isn't one that's any less zany than another. I would have been fine with that attitude when I was 17, but as an adult, I've found that a person's religion actually has little to do with how they behave as people. Among my good friends, I count Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and even Scientologists. I think all of their religious beliefs are kind of nutty, but I love them as human beings. When someone insults every member of one of those religions by insulting that religion, they're insulting my friends.

By extension, of course, insulting any religion is an insult to a member of any other religion, including the president. That dude thinks that there's a magic fucking sky god that created the earth in a week, and I'm still going to cast a vote for him being the person standing between me and a nuclear war.

I'm sure you didn't just single me out; but instead you did a Google search for every poster here who's ever made good-natured fun of one of the idiosyncrasies of Romney's or anyone else's religion, and chided them similarly.

Because not to do so would be insulting to everyone in all these other religions.

They really are odd, and they think that wealth means they are superior beings to the rest of us. Do some reading on them - they are scary. This is why Mitt is so frustrated - the rest of us owe him this, he is superior to that black guy in the White House, in his view.

Making distinctions between "cults" and "religions" is the work of those who seek to promote one religion at the expense of another.

I know that Mormonism and its history are really fucking crazy and scary. I know the same about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Perhaps you've read the bible? Now that's some fucked up shit. Did you know that there are entire countries where people claim to be better than other people because of their genetic makeup and/or religious faith? It's open knowledge.

I'll fault Romney for his policies all day long, but not his religion. It's how he was brought up. That's the reason that most people are religious. If anything, when making these arguments, one could fault Obama for coming to Christianity as an adult (again, just read the fucking bible - it's CRAZY), but I don't fault him for it, because I'm voting for a man based on his record and what he'll do as a politician.

Because you are a good person. I agree that all religions are what people believe, and that if you look at the beliefs rationally, they are odd. But Mormonism is new, they have a history of racism, and elitism. No thanks,

Seeing as how Rahm is his buddy and Obama has pretty clearly put in with the school privateers.

a thing or two.

Who needs teachers? Romney can do it all.

To do otherwise is to side with those who would destroy public education... though of course Mitt Romney actually knows this.

Rahm Emanuel: We Don’t Need Romney’s ‘Lip Service’

BENJY SARLIN 3:13 PM EDT, MONDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Chicagor mayor and top Obama supporter Rahm Emanuel dismissed a statement from Mitt Romney praising his administration for holding out against striking teachers.

"While I appreciate his lip service, what really counts is what we are doing here," Emaneul told reporters, according to the Associated Press. "I don't give two hoots about national comments scoring political points or trying to embarrass — or whatever — the president."

Emanuel suggested that if Romney truly wanted to help, he'd pledge not to cut education funding.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rahm-emanuel-we-dont-need-romneys-lip-service

Really?

I can't see how Romney blasting the Teacher Union as being a 'positive' thing for Romney.

It shows once again that Rmoney is all about the 1% and screws over the working class.

does this show Dems in any better light? It's Democratic party's de facto pro big money and anti-labor, anti-education and anti-community policies CTU is fighting, allied with Occupy Chicago and other grass roots movements. People vs. corrupt political system.

It's starting now in Chicago - Obama's home town -, and from what I've read, CTU has been radicalized and prepared well for this fight during last year, and there is good chance of the strike spreading also to other places. Their timing is excellent for a strike that is de facto a political strike against neoliberal corporatocratic policies. Democratic party establishment is in trouble, during election campaign time they it is very difficult to take strong actions against the union and serve the interests of their corporate masters, as they did against occupy camps.

He's leading the party that has been trying to destroy the public education system for the last 3 decades.... the utter gall, for him to even open his damn mouth about it. Fuck him and the elevator-garage kept Rolls Royce he rode in in.

I think he's going senile before our eyes. I think he's having unguarded moments of pure venality, and he cannot help inserting himself on the side of greed and crushing the will of all employees, of whom he wants desperately to be the feared boss.

Do you really want this to become a country of semiliterates who have been taught by people who are working for minimum wage and no benefits?

Oh wait . . .

Rahm seems almost as much of an asshole as Romney.

class size and give teachers more resources to help disadvantaged kids.