I signed this petition from daily kos

Sign our petition denouncing the House for passing food stamp cuts, and urging the Senate to reject them with this:

Restore the pre-President Clinton tax rates for the rich and the pre-President Clinton Wall Street regulations.

Make the rich and the corporations pay their fair share of taxes and do business without injuring, poisoning, maiming, and killing average people and the environment.

Stop giving the country away to the 0.7%.

If you get your priorities straight, then you will not have to resort to telling the poor that they are only allowed to eat three weeks out of every month!

Honestly!

You people should be ashamed of yourselves!

STOP giving yourselves salaries, raises, and benefits out of our taxes and live for a month like the people you're kicking around like so many political footballs!

Are you sick of highly-paid teachers?

By sboucherFollow

Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work nine or ten months a year!

It's time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do--babysit!

We can get that for less than minimum wage.

A friend on facebook shared this with me, and it's a hoot.

Read on.

That's right.

Let's give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school.

That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and planning--that equals 6-1/2 hours).

So each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children.

Now how many students do they teach in a day...maybe 30?

So that's $19.50 x 30 = $585 a day.

However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!!

I am not going to pay them for any vacations.

LET'S SEE....

That's $585 X 180= $105,300 per year.
(Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).

What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master's degrees?

Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour.

That would be $8 X 6-1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.

Wait a minute--there's something wrong here!

There sure is!

The average teacher's salary (nationwide) is $50,000.

$50,000/180 days = $277.77 per day / 30 students = $9.25 / 6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student--a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!)

WHAT A DEAL!!!!

Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.

Meredith Menden