Teacher's Strike?

I heard on the news today that the teachers of Tacoma, Washington are on strike because the classes are to big and the pay is not enough. According to public records the average teacher salary last school year was $63,793.
I am sorry but this seems a little extreme to me. don't get me wrong, I love teachers . for the most part. My mother was a teacher and worked very hard to assure that her students dd the necessary work to progress in school. However, when I see public employees going on strike, I wonder why they think this is okay. It is not the state that is paying them, it is the taxpayers of that state. These people on strike against the families of the children they are supposed to be teaching.
This teachers union said the strike was for the teachers and the students, but how does this help the students? I understand overcrowding and some of the difficulties that teachers face everyday, but a strike is not the answer. Is this going to endear them to most of the families? NO most of these families are the taxpayers who pay them and the private sector is losing jobs like a leaky rain barrel. At what point will the public sector understand that the money is running out? Will it take a strike by the taxpayer to show the unions and public employees that they have had enough?
The new poverty statistics show that 48.5 million people are now below the poverty line and yet the public sector is growing. Even now the President says his new jobs bill is to put more teachers and fire fighters to work. More public workers, who only pay taxes from the taxes they receive as pay.
I don't want to get rid of teachers and other public workers, they are necessary,but there has to be and end to the selfishness of these people who think it is okay to strike for more.
I know many good teachers and many of them are between a rock and a hard place because they want to do a great job with kids, but the unions tie their hands and they are afraid of losing their jobs if they speak up. so they are forced to go along with much of the problem.
Teachers need to go back to work or the parents need to take their kids out of school and home school. then the teachers won't have overcrowded classes and eventually they won't be needed at all.

Enough Is Enough

I received this in an email and I thought it was appropriate for this day. WE Have allowed illegals into our country to easily and some of those illegals were the terrorists of 9/11.

"My Grandfather watched as his friends died in WW I...
 My Father watched as his friends died in WW II and Korea ...
 I watched as my friends died in Vietnam ...
 None of them died for the Mexican Flag...
 Everyone died for the U.S. flag...
 In Texas , a student raised a Mexican flag on a school flag pole; another student took it down. 
Guess who was expelled...
 the kid who took it down. 
Kids in high school in California were sent home this year on Cinco de Mayo because they wore T-shirts with the   American flag printed on them. 
Enough is enough."

The below e-mail message needs to be viewed by every American;
and every American needs to stand up for America .
We've bent over to appease the America-haters long enough...
 I'm taking a stand...
 I'm standing up because the hundreds of thousands who died fighting in wars for this country, and for the U.S. flag can't stand up...
 And shame on anyone who tries to make this a racist message...
    
 Let me make this perfectly clear!

THIS IS MY COUNTRY!
 And, because I make This statement
DOES NOT
Mean I'm against immigration!!!
YOU ARE WELCOME HERE, IN MY COUNTRY!
 Welcome!
To come through legally:
 1. Get a sponsor!
2. Get a place to lay your head!
3. Get a job!
4. Live By OUR Rules!
5. Pay YOUR Taxes!
And
6. Learn the LANGUAGE like immigrants
have in the past!!!
AND
7. Please don't demand that we hand over our lifetime
savings of Social Security Funds to you. 

 If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone,
Then YOU'RE  PART OF THE PROBLEM!
 When will AMERICANS STOP giving away THEIR RIGHTS???
We've gone so far the other way...
bent over backwards not to offend anyone...
But it seems no one cares about the  AMERICAN CITIZEN that's being offended!
WAKE UP America !!! 
!