Norm Scott, retired NYC teacher posted this on his website, Ed Notes Online:
We have Al Qaeda on the run but right now the biggest threat to our agenda is Karen Lewis and the Chicago Teachers Union,” said an Obama spokesperson.
“Our pal Rahm Emanuel has been forced to close 50 schools in retaliation for the strike led by Lewis and now suffers poll numbers so low they are getting close to the interest rate. He is actually being criticized for using money he saves by closing schools to put $100 million into building a new basketball arena where our president and Arne Duncan will be able to shoot hoops once their term in office is over. For that Rahm is being called the most loathsome politician in America? How dare they?”
“And some in the media have started ganging up on some of our allies like Michelle Rhee. And Arne Duncan’s poor record in running the Chicago schools for so many years has been re-examined due to the work of Karen Lewis’ union.
“And then to top it all our hand-picked crew to beat her in the election got only 20% of the vote despite being supported by our press pals at the Chicago Tribune, thus showing Chicago teachers will not go to the woodshed like the lambs being led by Randi Weingarten, our most important asset, who by the way we have supplied a military escort to protect, but let me point out that we are not using public money for Randi’s escort since Bill Gates is paying.”
“Getting Bin Laden was so much easier.”
Great Satire.
It’s getting where you can’t tell the satires from the straight lines without a program.
Great post. That basketball reference was spot on. Actually makes sense, when you think of the “players” involved.
Their phony game is coming to a close as reality of their failed ideological and bought and paid for game is failing across the board. In L.A. we turned down the $90 billion Measure J for transportation that only had one paragraph for the $90 billion. Monica Ratliff was just elected. Both of these elections were won by the PEOPLE not by big money. Chicago is now turning the situation around as I see it. Emmanuel is acting in this manner as he is up against the ropes and his backers see the public waking up and making the proper moves against them. Just yesterday after a several year fight the last African-American community on the West Coast Liemert Park on the Crenshaw Corridor finally got its station for the rail line. This was a big win again with PEOPLE POWER. Just this morning at about 9:30 A.M. Mayor Villaraigosa announced at a major function at Liemert Park the station is now “Real.” Now, with more PEOPLE and POLITICAL work we will get the rest of the “Corridor” underground without destroying this community which is what happens when put above ground. This is not easy work and Chicago is up to it. We all need to back them in any way we can. Let’s put another faulty mayor out of business and get rid of the totally failed “Mayoral Control.”
Obama has a bigger threat and blemish on his public service record. Being the President that resided over the biggest public school closure in history and in his own state and city. Not a word about this but it will not go away. Obama, what is it going to be, align with the forces of money and privilege for school privatization or support public education. When you were a civil rights advocate, the choice was clear. Now the you are the first black President, are you too big to choose. too beholden to these interests to say.
For sure, we’re with the Chicago Teacher’s Union.
He’ll skate through this as he will everything else, Benghazi, IRS, journalist phone records. This is peanuts. But it is good to see that his true character is slowly emerging. Vote for Hilary in 2016 and it will be more of the same. But support the Tea Party? Never in a million years. Why? Because they want to keep taxes low? Can’t have that. Better vampires than that.
For Obama, there IS no dilemma. . . . He wants to privatize public education, as he himself is a product of private schooling.
He knows EXACTLY what he’s doing.
Make no mistake about it: Obama wants to create a two tier system of education. He is a traitor to the people, to tbhe American Constitution, and it does not matter whether you’re this label or that label. A western European style democrat or a Tea Party member. . .. Obama is pure fraud, pure deceit, pure opportunism, pure disgust in every sense of the word.
Paul Ryan, whose politics are despicable, is more honest and integral than Obama in the sense that what you see is what you get. .. Obamam on the other hand, poses as something he absolutely is NOT!
I won’t vote for Hillary or the Tea Party. . . . I nominate Dennis Kucinish or Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. . .
Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders…YES!
Time to get ready for 2016!
Sorry for the typos. . . it’s so late.
Bill = Money
Money Talks
Politicians Walk towards the Money.
Money-Money-Money
“The root of the Fall of Education”