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The Opposite of Attraction

by: susanthe

Thu Mar 22, 2012 at 14:54:52 PM EDT
Telegraph:

Community college faculty are getting a $1,000 pay bump, but the raises are offset by increases in employee health care expenses.

A union representing faculty at the state's seven community colleges, including Nashua Community College, agreed to a new one-year contract with the Community College System of New Hampshire on Tuesday after 10 months of negotiation.

Once the contract goes into effect May 4, union officials said they will still earn less than their New England counterparts.

In summary: teachers at NH Community colleges are getting a raise. The raise is offset by increases in their health care plans. After getting this raise, NH teachers will earn less than community college teachers in the rest of the New England states.

It seems likely that teachers will choose either to move out or not move to NH. How, exactly, is our state's failure to support education a good thing for our state?  
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I am getting rather scared (4.00 / 1)
In our family, we were taught to revere education. The goal was to know and be right about stuff. It was taken as a black mark if you did poorly on tests, made mistakes in public, said ridiculous things. I think something has changed. Being wrong seems no longer to have any shame attached to it. If you think about this presidential campaign, there are false claims made that a child can diagnose and no one seems to care.

There have been several instances in which Republicans have come right out and said that they don't really care. Leading the list is senator Kyl (R-Ariz) and his comment that his statement about Planned Parenthood doing 95% of their business in the abortion field (instead of the 3% which is reality) "was not intended as a factual statement. Then there is Tucker Carlson the other day saying that he was misstating his own views. There are any number of others.

I don't know what to do about that. When people act like that there is no point in trying to persuade them. They don't care about facts. They don't care about logic. I love to argue and it is pointless. Anything that they don't like is labelled false by Fox or someone and quickly achieves immortal status. This is the shadow behind the talking points that you see everywhere in Republican/Conservative punditry.  

Repeating myself (4.00 / 1)
But why would any business that was going to pay more than minimum wage (federai, because NH no longer has one) want to choose NH when our legislature makes it clear that they don't support education?  Never mind keeping up roads and bridges or making sure that communications are good enough for the 20th century.  We will end up sending both our tax dollars and the profits from the money we spend out of state, sucking all the economic life out of our state.  That's what voting GOP does today.
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