Unions Claim they are non partisan while collecting Liberal campaign f

[Scotty]

You wonder why the schools keep needing larger budgets even as there are fewer children? You wonder why classes are overcrowded? It's because of the enormous payout we make to teachers, however mediocre they are. And we pay them not because they're that good or that skillful but because of the way the unions blackmail us.

What’s a fair salary for a fourth-grade teacher? Think of someone with about 10 years’ experience who works standard teacher’s hours, and has lots of paid preparation time, good benefits, job security and summers off. Does $94,707 sound about right? That’s what elementary teachers at the top of the scale make at the Toronto District School Board.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/why-the-teachers-unions-rule/article27047599/

[kimmy]

That's the funny thing about exchanges. You can do whatever you want with the car and they can do whatever they want with (what's no longer) your money.

Yeah, once the money is theirs, they can do what they wish with it, and I don't object to them spending it to publicize an issue or policy that affects them. (Canada's "Big-3" cell-phone cartel did exactly that a while back when it was rumored that Verizon was looking at opening a Canadian division...)

However, the worry of getting caught spending their money in a way that offends a significant number of potential customers serves as a check against that sort of behavior, assuming it's the sort of business that depends on customer goodwill.

Example: the billionaire owner of one of the big US pizza chains went on a rant during the 2012 election campaign vowing to punish his employees if Obama won the election. The customer backlash elicited a speedy retraction.

Counterexample: the Wall Street douchebags (was it Bank of America?) who attempted to sue the US Treasury because they didn't like the repayment terms of their bailout money. The man-on-the-street was pretty disgusted, but the opinion of the man-on-the-street is of virtually no importance to the bottom line of the Wall Street giants.

-k

[poochy]

Rex Murphy hits another home run.

http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/rex-murphy-if-ontarios-teachers-unions-are-non-partisan-then-bulldozers-are-flying-machines

Remember, you can be sure that the vast majority of the people who voted for this corrption last time around also voted for our new federal government, while these same Ontario liberals and the unions they subsidize with our money campaigned on their behalf, but it seems that to liberals this is just a natural state of being.

[Smoke]

Hi, I agree with everything Squid has said in this thread.

Personally, I would support the elimination of ALL third party donations/advertising rather than allowing ALL third party donations/advertising. Let the politicians do their own campaigning.

Smoke