Just got an email on the state of TN cutting higher ed by $55 M + $22 M in cuts to pay raises and cost of living increases.

Hmmm...I got one of the highest evaluations at my school, why should I be penalized for someone else f*cking up and allowing the economy to tank?

Your big problem is you don't understand economics. And that's our problem since you teach. As long as you educators rely, march lock step with the NEA, FBE, SBE, your local unions, and school board, your income will continue to suffer, at the rate of educating students.

I have no time for govt employees who complain about income. You get hired, and spend a little time in the gig, keep a warm temperature, and in short order you have tenure. Short of pervert behavior, you can't get canned.

You have two choices, actually 3. 1. Move to another industry PRIVATE SECTOR. 2. Get hired into a PRIVATE SCHOOL SYSTEM. 3. Suck it up and stop whining.

That screwed up economy you elude as being Bush's, does not begin or end with him totally. Do some research on the energy crisis we have currently in play, and see how much ethanol, is costing our economy, and how the environmentalist whackos have screwed up our domestic oil.

There is soooo much more to say, but I'll allow you to respond.

"Thank me".

Yeah, why pay union teachers when illegal immigrants can be hired to teach English, or is it Spanglish for one quarter the wages. And they work harder than American college grads, too.

Hilarious. We have no teachers unions here in TN or the South, your point is totally superfluous in this case. Do some homework about the economics of the teaching profession in higher ed.

Again, you have no idea what you are talking about. I have been on committees that have let professors go. I am totally sure I spend far more time doing my job than you do in your job, let me know when you want to compare notes on that and will be more then happy to go through the #s of hours doing what I do.

I have worked in the PRIVATE SECTOR (8 years), I have worked for the military (6 years), and now for a public university. Private schools systems do not unsure higher pay or higher quality, that is a fact. You truly have no idea what you are talking about. You must be living in a cabin far away from civilization and real people.

We are in the exact same place we were when just about to pull out of the Vietnam War. The dollar is hitting the skids due to borrowing an astonomical amount of money to pay for the war in Iraq in conjunction with a screwed up housing market that was messed up by HUD and other governmental entities taking their hands off the wheel (it really took off just after 2000, the amount of bad loans took off, thanks to Bush appointees...do some reading please).

The price of oil is greatly determined by the what OPEC sets as a price out of the Middle East...McFly, the Sierra Club does not set the price of oil. In fact, there will be a South American oil cartel soon and that will put more pressure on this. Remember the unrest from the downfall of the Shah in Iran and the price of oil going through the roof in the 70s? Yeah, well, invading Iraq and staying there is the perfect excuse for the oil ministers in the Middle East to keep that price high. If you did not notice, Mr. Bush's visit to the Middle a few months ago centered around begging the Saudis to help with the price of oil...they basically laughed in his face.

Get your facts straight about oil and who holds the cards as per the price of oil.

If you want to know more about the economics in this state and how these larger problems are messing things up then keep going, otherwise you have said what amounts to sum zero.

The whole government is screwed up, thanks to Khazars in every facet and in control, to the point that our government works for them at the expense of Americans. THEY are sucking this nation dry, and anything short of civil war won't straighten it out.

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Ay, si senor...

Economist John Williams is saying that we are headed for hyperinflation that is so bad is could possibly be discussed in the realm of national security. He says that the M3 money supply is growing at a never before seen rate. He also contends that the government knows how to massage the numbers to get the message that they want out.

The full video is on Stock Shotz

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We all know how to kill inflation, problem is, nobody wants skyhigh interest rates. What kills inflation, kills the economy. Hopefully, the middle and lower class can wait out the downward trend, it will get worse before it gets better (but it will get better).

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