Teachers: Don’t waste your votes? Waste?
“Portion of people living in Illinois who say they would move elsewhere if they could: 1/2″
- Harper’s Index in the Harper’s Magazine, August 2014 issue
Who believes all the lies about the greedy, lazy, incompetent teachers who are bankrupting the state and failing their students?
When a fear-filled lie, propaganda, is repeated often enough by corporate media outlets, fear wins out and social sanity collapses. Selecting a minority group to be an “other” as a scapegoat is a common propaganda procedure. “Stinkin’ teachers!”
Illinois, Florida, Connecticut, New Jersey, California, and YOUR state use teachers as scapegoats for the financial woes created by their own legislators who annually give hundreds of millions of dollars away to each of their corporate, multimillionaire and billionaire campaign contributors. No money for schools, teachers, pensions or anything except giveaways to cronies.
(By the way, states by definition cannot go broke; states are independent taxing entities.)
This “Illinois Is Broke” Campaign was carried on state government’s own State of Illinois sites (Yes, paid for with tax money.), on TV ads, radio and newspaper ads, and even the billboards that greeted visitors driving to and from the airport. AstroTurf organizations, Teachers: Don’t waste your votes? Waste? | Reclaim Reform: