Comments by "Common Sense Craziness" (@commonsensecraziness7595) on "Province taking action in response to CUPE strike" video.

Apparently putting kids first means a public school system that is 100% online.
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Everyone on the bottom who are already so poorly paid, many of them have 2nd and 3rd jobs.
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@OutdoorsWithChad Do you understand supply and demand? When one job type puts people in poverty, they look to alternatives. When there's an influx in labour (supply) that's greater than the demand (employment of better paid jobs) they lower the wages of that job. Sector after sector that used to offer a living wage are now either approaching poverty wages or already are. What you're talking about is a false choice while our economy dies, the wealth gap increases, and the middle class is completely gutted.
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@Noneofyourbusiness691 The fact that some people get paid a living wage is not proof that they shouldn't. It's proof more people need to be paid more.
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Many Conservative politicians didn't show up to work today because they knew they were going to be protested.
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@tomh.7895 Who's using the children? The government wants public school to be 100% online. They just got their way today. They're loving this.
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@Dave-lj6vl And just like in the case of nurses, the Ford Government can be expected to provide a private sector solution that will cost 2-3 times what it would cost to give the workers what they're asking for.
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@tomh.7895 They don't care about schools, they don't care about kids, and they don't care about the rights of Canadian citizens. You clearly don't get it.
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The Ford government wants a public school system that is 100% online. A service provided by their private, corporate buddies, of course. Think of the savings of all those pesky brick and mortar buildings!
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@joshuarittenhouse4938 Yep, they're all hiding out from the protestors.
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@srouji6 Except we have a mountain of evidence that online education is not better. But hey, it's definitely cheaper and that's what matters to them.
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@gordonwelcher9598 Very true. If you don't pay well-educated people properly they'll go elsewhere. Then what are you left with? Ideologues that don't do it for the money.
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@fleshwithoutblood I don't think it's necessarily all misinformation. Listen a little bit longer to them, and you'll find most of them have no respect at all for the educational system or the people that work in it. This is just another thing to bitch about for them. A useful idiot in a divide and conquer strategy.
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@tomh.7895 In Ontario they were doing online learning. That was their genius solution. And now that education workers are on strike, that's what they're doing again. Because ultimately, that's what they want to do.
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@tomh.7895 I think you've misunderstood. That's what the Ford Government wants. A 100% online school that they can farm out to private sector buddies (with a nice kickback as a thank you probably). [And the reason this is so controversial is because they asked them not to strike again for at least 5 years, because schools have been shut down for about that same amount of time ] There's a pattern of giving less. The last contract was 1% with inflation of 2-3%. After decades of that, you slide into poverty, which is what's happened. [At the end of the day, $27 an hour should be more than enough to be a babysitter,] Clearly you have no idea what goes on in a school and you certainly don't value education. Maybe YOU just think it's babysitting, but no one who does it as a job thinks of it that way, and all the work they do that isn't paid for is proof of that.
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So an offer of 1.5% somehow is nearly a 50% increase according to Stephen Lecce? Does anyone have a translation book for Ford government lies? I don't know what this guy is even talking about any more.
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@joycealdrich We don't even know what % is actually being offered because these people constantly lie. Steven Lecce just said on TV that they're asking for close to 50% increase - clearly BS. From what I saw the union asked for 2.5% and they were offered 1.5%.
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