Earlier this year, a few weeks? months? ago, I was shaking my head at the Austin school district people. They were talking about hiring an additional teachers and spending like $50M for a dual-language program. I wondered how they could possibly do that sort of thing in the middle of a depression. Turns out, much like the guy down the street from you who lost his job a year ago and didn't tell you he isn't paying his mortgage, they can't afford it.
The radio news this morning said they are looking to see how AISD can declare a state of fiscal emergency so they can lay off a bunch of people to make up for a $46M budget gap. The problem, if you haven't been paying attention to Michael Shedlock, is not the number of teachers. The problem is the teachers' union. Nobody has to be fired, if some would take a pay cut. Nobody would need a pay cut, likely, if they would all agree to a cut in their medical/dental/pension benefits. Unions like pissing in the pot until the pot is kicked over, however, and so they're going to be getting some of their members fired.
Why would they do that?
Because, as Michael Savage told us, liberalism is a mental disorder.
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