***UPDATE: Sorry Lefties, but when the price goes up on something a teacher buys voluntarily, it’s not a pay cut — even if it’s benefits. I also saw the full video and discovered that Stewart is specifically talking about WI, so his stating that pay cuts and benefit cuts are on the table is provably false. That’s not a part of the plan in WI, nor is anyone calling for it.
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Does anyone understand what Jon Stewart’s talking about in that video? Because what he’s saying sounds like total misinformation to me.
Here are the direct quotes:
Sarcastically: “We the taxpayers have a right to cut teachers salaries and benefits. They work for us.”“I wonder how how those same people who would have the government limit teacher pay and benefits would feel about the government limiting CEO pay at taxpayer bailed out firms.”
Unless another state besides Wisconsin is doing something I’m unaware of, I know of NO ONE, not a single soul talking about cutting or limiting teachers pay or benefits. And if you notice in his Fox News clips, there’s not a single clip of a single Fox News personality in favor of cutting or limiting teachers’ pay or benefits, either. So where is this narrative coming? Where is this “Evil Righties Want to Cut Teachers’ Pay” coming from? It certainly isn’t coming from Wisconsin, and judging by his own clips, it certainly isn’t coming from anyone at Fox News.
In other words, all this talk about cutting teachers pay is coming only from Stewart. He’s filling in his own blanks!
The smoke and mirrors at work here is a new low, even for Jon Stewart. And as far as the final clip where a Fox anchor says it’s time for teachers to make concessions, does he disagree? Would he prefer the States go bankrupt? Because other than taxing job creators (the rich) to the point where they create even fewer jobs than they already are, asking for concessions from these bloated public unions is the only answer. There are other jobs at stake here. Not just the sacred teachers. What about the private sector jobs the unemployed need, the private sector jobs that won’t be created if guys like Stewart get their way and taxes are raised further to pay for bloated public unions. But, you know, screw them. Private sector workers vote Republican. They deserve to suffer.
In Wisconsin it’s just a fact that Governor Walker’s budget repair bill is not cutting teachers pay or benefits. All he’s asking is that all public workers (not just teachers) chip in more for their benefits and pensions. And even after these small increases take place, not a single Wisconsin public worker will be paying anywhere near the national average the rest of us (who pay public worker salaries and benefits) pay in the private sector. Furthermore, what public workers chip into their pensions they will — wait for it! wait for it! — get back! All of it. Duh. It’s a pension It’s their own money!
Also take note that Stewart doesn’t mention pensions when he discusses public worker benefits. That’s probably because those of us paying for those pensions have none of our own in the private sector and he’s nervous about that unatrractive nugget of information getting out.
Stewart’s second question quoted above is a stupid one. The question isn’t whether or not we should limit the pay of CEO’s running taxpayer bailed out firms, the question is whether or not these firms should’ve been bailed out in the first place. The answer, of course, is no. The government picking winners and losers isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.
I also find it revealing that when Stewart talks about bailouts he only talks about Wall Street. Wonder why he doesn’t mention General Electric. You know, all those union workers we bailed out as a part of that giveaway? The same General Motors Electric that’s part owner of NBC and MSNBC.
And why not mention Cash for Clunkers, which also kept union workers artificially employed with taxpayer money?
Let me close with just a bit of advice for Mr. ClownFaceFunnyManSmirkBoy…
If you want anyone to even begin to take you seriously when you discuss the financial collapse, I suggest you teach yourself to use the words “Freddie” and “Fannie.” Because until you do, you’re just another dishonest, left-wing, Palace Guarding propagandist.
P.S. Naturally, our left-wing friends over at Mediate found nothing at all hinky about Stewart here, but I’m pretty sure they pre-write their Stewart/Colbert gushes in advance. They’re on a pile somewhere waiting for the blanks to be filled in. Skepticism? Hard to catch the nuance of Stewart making up stuff about teachers pay cuts when the article’s already written.
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