From Mediaite:
With the Wisconsin union situation an ongoing, seemingly interminable mess, Jon Stewart took some time tonight during the opening of The Daily Show to analyze the protagonists of these protests: the teachers fighting for collective bargaining rights. Turns out many of them make a salary reaching all the way up to five figures! This, along with benefits, Stewart found to be “bordering on avarice.”
Getting his audience up to speed with the latest out of Wisconsin, Stewart made a point of Governor Scott Walker’s claim that everyone in the state had to sacrifice, and that couldn’t exclude teachers. “Everyone must sacrifice,” Stewart reiterated– “teachers, teachers’ assistants, student teachers, retired teachers… school janitors.” He then took a look, mostly through clips from Fox Business, as to why those in public schools were particularly susceptible to these sacrifices. Simply put, $50,000 a year with medical and dental business is simply outrageous, especially to the unemployed, as one commentator put it. “You know what?” Stewart replied. “That does sound great to someone without a job.”
Stewart then analyzed these same commentators’ positions on other “fat cats,” like bankers and those affected by the Bush tax cuts. Shockingly, opinions began to shift.
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