Greed is Good... Unless You're Teaching My Kids Math!

Crooks and Liars

My homeboy Roy Edroso has an outstanding job of rounding up the rightblogger reaction to the teachers' protests in Wisconsin. You'll never believe it but... they really hate the teachers! It's totally shocking, I know.

What I've found most amusing about the rightblogger critique is that they're trying to frame the teachers as "greedy." These are the same folks, after all, who have told us since Reagan that greed was good! But apparently greed is only good for people doing useful things like trading housing derivatives and not good for people who do useless things like teaching our kids math. Here's John Hinderaker with a typically insane argument:

It is infuriating to see our President weighing in on behalf of overpaid, underworked and greedy members of public employee unions. They are among the more privileged members of our society, but, as full partners in the Democrats' scheme to suck up ever more money even if it bankrupts the country, they have Obama's complete support.

Riiiiight, the people who take home an average of just under $50,000 a year in pay are the "privileged" members of our society.

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