Best Wishes to the teachers

Will it be a new era, or merely a minor spat as the citizens of America give up yet another of so many rights that we have lost this decade? Last I heard, the teachers had even accepted the budget changes, all to their loss despite their typically low state government pay (but nice benefits such as every full-time employee should be able to have). What they really want is to keep their democratic rights, collective bargaining, hard won and long accepted as a symbol of the power of the people, now so active in Egypt and its neighbors. To have it snatched away without debate (I smile with delight and offer encouragement to the senators,too, who delay the premature vote and aide the debate their rivals would end unbegun) is not democracy but short sightedness and the loss of yet another freedom in the name of expediency. Power to the teachers and the other state employees. Power to the people and to the remnants of American democracy.