"Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message news:<ben9bq$6l3c4$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> John W. wrote:
> > "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:<bel1pq$6erpl$1@ID-105084.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> >> John W. wrote:
> >>> "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
> >>> news:<bei31q$5dbad$1@ID-105084.news.dfncis.de>...
> >>>> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33485
> >>>
> >>> Yep.
> >>
> >> Nope, but feel free to tell us how much teachers should make and
> >> what the
> >> indicators are that tell us that they are underpaid.
> >>
> > I think teachers should get paid enough to allow them to buy a home in
> > the area where they teach.
> 
> Now this is just outlandish. Why should this standard not apply to every
> other occupation?
> 
It should. Actually, teachers and police officers can get some
excellent mortgage rates compared to other professionals, and IIRC
they can get up to 50% discount on HUD homes.

> > Sounds simple, but it doesn't always work
> > that way.
> 
> No, it sounds idiotic.
> 
Why? You've obviously never worked your ass off, made a decent salary,
and still been unable to buy even the cheapest house.

> > Rarely do teachers get fair living wage increases.
> 
> What a fair living wage increase?
> 
It's a wage increase that allows for the higher cost of living in a
certain area.

> > Someone
> > making $40,000 a year in East Tennessee can live nicely (if they have
> > a dual income family); but that's also the salary teachers made near
> > where I lived in Berkeley, barely enough to give any hope of ever
> > buying a house.
> 
> Oh well. The last I check, become a teacher was a voluntary choice, even
> near where you live in Berkeley, I suspect.
> 
I don't live in Berkeley any more. But even so, would you suggest that
no teachers live in expensive areas? I suppose that's one way to make
the cost of living go down.

> 
> Wow. The person in you sample of one sure is busy. It's lucky for me that
> the friend who composes my sample of one cancels him out.

Then I feel bad for that person's students. Or is he a gym teacher?

John W.