Mott the Hoople
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Weenie!Uh oh. I think I have work to do.

Weenie!Uh oh. I think I have work to do.
The freak drinks from the toilet, he thinks it's lemonade.
Things are NOT going well in Wisconsin. Let's start with public schools:
Milwaukee Union Refuses Modest Concessions, Forces Teacher Layoffs
Earlier, we covered the total savings that school districts stand to save from concessions in their latest employee contracts. We’ve also covered how big a role selective buying plays when it comes to saving money when shopping for teacher health insurance. Here, we examine one outlier in Wisconsin’s education landscape.
Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) are the most embattled entity throughout the state’s educational system. Currently, the district is facing major layoffs due to the combination of both budget cuts and the expiration of one-time Federal stimulus funding. One recent report suggests that the district is $82 million in debt, and that they’ll have to cut staff just to stay afloat.
However, many of these upcoming layoffs could have been prevented.
Milwaukee’s public school teachers inked a new contract in 2010, ratifying the extension weeks after Scott Walker was elected Governor. The agreement was a four-year pact, which is the only four-year contract in MPS history. It covers the prior 2009-2010 school year and extends into 2012-2013.
This contract included concessions that would save $94 million in funding over the next two schools years. It also included a groundbreaking contribution from the district’s staff – a payment of two percent of each employee’s health care costs. There was no contribution to teacher retirement systems at all included in the extension.
Milwaukee’s wasn’t the only school board to ratify a new contract or extension before the budget bill was passed, but it is one of the few that failed to take any of the cost saving measures into account. After the increased contributions were announced, many Wisconsin school departments rushed to negotiate their own staff contracts before being legally obligated to play by the state’s new rules. These districts included La Crosse, Wausau, Oshkosh, Superior, and several others that approved contracts by the end of March 2011.
However, the key difference between these districts and Milwaukee is that even though their contracts were signed before the budget bill passed, they still included the debated contributions to teacher benefits. A 5.8 percent salary payment towards teacher pensions (which was matched by the state) and a payment of 12.6 percent of their health insurance premiums, along with wage freezes in many cases, were the norm throughout the list of contracts that had been updated between January and March of this year. Almost all districts included pension payments, and all included significant increases in health care contributions.
Milwaukee, having ratified their contract months earlier, did not update their contracts to reflect any additional savings. Throughout the course of the budget debate, the teachers held strong to their commitment to the four-year deal they had signed in November.
Despite MPS Superintendent Gregory Thornton’s request to re-open the contract in order to save jobs, MTEA President Bob Peterson has strongly suggested that the district has no intention of amending the current contract. As a result, 519 layoff notices hung over Milwaukee Public Schools this summer.
There’s still time for the district to reopen negotiations on the already-completed contract. Milwaukee will have until late September to make moves that could retain over 200 teachers for the 2011-2012 school year. If the district can adhere to the staff contributions that have saved hundreds of millions of dollars statewide, they’ll be able to bring back a large part of their young corps of teachers.
ROTFLMAO....Cypress is a real scientist who showed you up as the neophyte you are and his crushing you was some of the best comedy that's ever been on JPP.![]()
Link?
You are digging yourself a hole, but you're too stupid to know it. Do you know anything about government bids?
You crack me up Mutt. Cypress and YOU lost every single one of those 'debates'.
You should use that line every time. It simply shows you to be the fool that you are. But let me guess, you think its clever?
http://maciverinstitute.com/2011/09/mi-report-chronicles-success-of-wisconsin-budget-reforms/
So those layoffs... there is 15% of the total net job losses right there. All because the unions refused to pay their fair share. So don't bitch and whine. It is not Walker's plan that is causing them to lose their jobs. It is their REFUSAL to take advantage of the plan that is costing them their jobs. Tell me, do you really want people that ignorant teaching future generations?
lol, the thought of Mott winning a debate on science reminds me of my first adventure here.....I was warned there was a ringer on the board who never lost a debate on science.....from day one he's never had the balls to even respond to my posts on scientific issues....
Hey freak, do you ever READ what you post?
"Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) are the most embattled entity throughout the state’s educational system. Currently, the district is facing major layoffs due to the combination of both budget cuts and the expiration of one-time Federal stimulus funding."
Who the fuck implemented the budget cuts?
"Scott Walker's rhetoric met reality today, with a report that is as sad as it is shocking for the future of our public schools. Contrary to months of propaganda supported by corporate front groups, Wisconsin's schools are suffering at the direct hands of Walker's immoral budget. When seven of 10 students attend a district with fewer teachers and nine out of 10 students saw a cut in staff, when 40 percent of our schools have larger class sizes and when more than 60 percent of our school districts say they see more drastic cuts coming, Scott Walker should be ashamed to claim that his assault on public education is working.
According to the data, even one of the anecdotes that Scott Walker trots out most regularly, the Kaukauna School District, is a sham, with that school at the top of the list in losing teachers and increasing student-to-teacher ratio.
The propaganda machine for Scott Walker is well-funded - as we see with his shameless fundraising trip to Arizona, Kansas and California in the next week that begins today. The corporate front groups that have infested our state have tried mightily to fool, confuse and lie to the Wisconsin public. Today's report is a damning rebuke to any of those who yet believed Walker's hollow empty rhetoric that cutting education in Wisconsin by $2.6 billion, to fund tax cuts for the very rich, would help our schools.
Same toilet...lap it up freak!
Poor Cypress.......I wonder, is he still worshiping at the alter of global warming even now that its been exposed as a liberal/Democrat work of fraud....
Yes, but apparently you do not. As the article states, MPS refused to implement any of the budget savings measures available to them. But I guess you missed that part in your selective reading.
Um... Walker... because the state had to actually balance its budget. Now moron, WHO refused to implement the cost savings measures for MPS? You know, those measures that allowed many other districts to run surpluses. But MPS refused and the teachers got fired instead of simply having to pay their fair share.
Fair share... isn't that the mantra of the left? Shouldn't they also have to pay for their benefits? Or do you just want to lump their bills onto the backs of private sector workers?
So if a district lost one teacher or one staff member or if class size goes from 25 to 26 that would qualify it in those statistics. Nice spin job moron. As for the districts that SAY they see more drastic cuts in the future... funny, because their fearful predictions didn't come true regarding the effects of this bill.
Talk about propaganda. Do show us some evidence of the above.
Aw Cypress, I knew you could implement your new joke in every thread. Good boy. No... bad pervert... no leg humping.
State leads in government job cutting
Employment ranks fell 10.1% in second quarter
Wisconsin shed a larger share of state government jobs than any other U.S. state in the second quarter of last year, according to the most accurate and comprehensive data that exists, released Tuesday.
Wisconsin government entities at the city and county level, including public school districts, were unchanged from a year earlier.
Wisconsin lost 3,900 private-sector jobs in December
Oh, that's right..."It is their REFUSAL to take advantage of the plan that is costing them their jobs...
Now THAT is spin...
It is their REFUSAL to take advantage of a pay cut, benefit cuts and the lose of worker's rights...
Does Wisconsin have a budget deficit?
It depends on accounting method used
By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel
Jan. 22, 2012
Madison - Gov. Scott Walker's administration has touted for months its efforts to balance the state budget, but now it also has acknowledged a significant way in which the budget isn't balanced.
To keep the possibility alive of making further cuts to state health programs, the Walker administration quietly certified to the federal government on Dec. 29 that the state had a deficit.
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Expect More Arrests in Scott Walker Corruption Probe
A new round of criminal charges is coming soon against at least a couple of Gov. Scott Walker’s former county staffers for doing extensive campaign activity while on the taxpayers’ dime, sources say.
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Sayeth the king of the circular argument. No one said I was a ringer on all topics of science. I told you I was a ringer on the topic of evolutionary biology as I have a graduate level education in biology. You then made some undefensible statements that I clearly pointed out were wrong and then you proceeded to babble incoherently in circles. Since I couldn't make sense to the senseless, why try?lol, the thought of Mott winning a debate on science reminds me of my first adventure here.....I was warned there was a ringer on the board who never lost a debate on science.....from day one he's never had the balls to even respond to my posts on scientific issues....