{"id":6936,"date":"2010-09-07T14:47:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T18:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6936"},"modified":"2010-09-07T14:47:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T18:47:45","slug":"the-coming-teacher-union-crackup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6936\/the-coming-teacher-union-crackup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coming Teacher Union Crackup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Hewitt is out today with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/Interests-of-younger_-older-teachers-clash-in-November-752897-102298454.html#ixzz0ys1gbzWw\" target=\"_blank\">sobering call for young public school teachers<\/a> to buck their union bosses and vote for education reform.\u00a0 Consider this bizarro-world scenario facing the newest generation of classroom teachers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama-Pelosi-Reid Democrats and their state counterparts have been dining on the seed corn, running up bills that can only be paid by the taxes of people under 40 working until they are 80 and then retiring on 50 percent of what their older colleagues receive now, if that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, that kind of generation theft what is being offered to every twentysomething public employee these days.\u00a0 Younger workers already get that Social Security won\u2019t be around to help them in retirement.\u00a0 If the message sinks in that their lavish pensions are also a mirage, we could be in for a major shift in public policy after the November midterm elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Hewitt is out today with a sobering call for young public school teachers to buck their union bosses and vote for education reform.\u00a0 Consider this bizarro-world scenario facing the newest generation of classroom teachers: The Obama-Pelosi-Reid Democrats and their state counterparts have been dining on the seed corn, running up bills that can only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,1640,761,461,1801],"class_list":["post-6936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-hugh-hewitt","tag-public-employee-unions","tag-social-security","tag-teacher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6938,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6936\/revisions\/6938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}