Wisconsin's Fight Against Labor Hurts Women More Than Men

having studied to be a teacher in the 1950's I can tell you from experience that in those years teachers made $70 per week, and had very few benefits. I went to work in private industry becasue I could make $80 Most teachers in those days were women, and they stood in back of the line. For those of you who think teaching is easy and not dangerous try teaching in a 'ghetto' school. The union enabled woman for the first time to have decent pay and benefits that would sustain them in their old age. I hope you are all prepared to reenter the world of Charles Dickens - are there no poor houses?

jobs will not come back until the government gets really smaller, taxes get really simpler and fairer and markets are free. ............ as long as there is a trillion dollar national debt, as long as The Fed is printing and diluting our dollar and manipulating stock prices, gold prices and interest rates, and as long as both parties in Congress are social engineering via the tax code, things will not...cannot improve....it's that simple!

With an average teacher's wage of $51K and benefits totaling $38K (according to ABC News) I don't see "the women at the back of the economic line."

So with this logic, more women have been living off the excessive largess of the tax payers for all this time? Shame on them. If you cry when your good pay is cut, why not say thank you for all the years that you have had such a cherry deal? Unfortunately that isn't how it works in America, the Land of The Entiltement Mentality. Give Me, Give Me, Give Me is the chant. I know we have so much opportunity and possiblity in American, but some just want it given to them. If the generations that got through the Depression and WW II could see us they must be so ashamed for raising such whiny, self-absorbed and entilted people. I must tell you, I am ashamed to know some of these people and for the life of me don't know what it is that drives this Give Me attitude.

"Labor"? School teachers are hardly labor; they are white-collar professionals. Wisconsin is attempting to adjust the balance between the compensation of public servants and the burden on the taxpayers who employ them. Collective bargaining for public workers is a privilege granted (unwisely, some say) by some states; it is not by any stretch a right.

As a woman, I resent the comments of Ms. Bamberger. She does not speak for me. I do not feel that women are being attacked in any way. Many states and municipalities in this country are going broke. The demands of public service employees play a large part in these financial problems. I do not believe that federal, state, county or municipal employees should have the right to strike or collectively bargain. They make good incomes and have good benefits. better than most private sector employees and I'm tired of listening to their complaints.

At the same token, the majority of these women have children. Are they willing to saddle their kids with paying the huge debt our government has run up? In addition, millions of women have graduated from high schools and colleges but cannot find work. If any of these teachers/administrators/nurses are fired, there will be plenty of other women willing to take up the slack.

Im sure men cant see this side of an argument, and I am not advokating that we go out and burn our bra's but there are more and more and probably a majority of single mother households in America.....

This is who Scott Walker wants you to believe is the enemy.