Randi Weingarten loses it over student debt screaming 'That is not fair!'

American Federation of Teachers union president Randi Weingarten almost had a bowel accident during a speech she screamed in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. She disingenuously compared the so called President's student loan giveaway to the COVID-19 small business loans of 2020. The latter were loans given to businesses that were forced to close down while the former are loans students took out to go to school and promised to repay their debt.

Weingarten was screeching at the Student Debt Crisis Center [the 'crisis' is not a crisis for responsible people] in Washington while SCOTUS justices heard challenges to Biden's  student loan debt handout.

The money giveaway would remove $10,000 in federal student loans from those making less than $125,000 a year, or households earning less than $250,000 a year as of 2020 or 2021. and put the debt onto the backs of taxpayers. 

This is analogous to the Left's reparation demands that ask people who had nothing to do with slavery to pay reparations to people who were not slaves simply for being Black.

The plan, which would also give an additional $10,000 in debt cancelation to recipients of Pell Grants. The cost to taxpayers is roughly $400,000,000,000.24 over the next three years, as per the Congressional Budget Office.

Weingarten compared this to the COVID-19 small business loans but this is really like comparing apples to hand grenades.

"If we go to college, and we stay in college, we need to actually make sure that it's affordable – that it doesn't take everything and everything that our families can do," she said. "And so that is why President Biden said we are going to deal with that … and the Secretary of Education has the right to do it."

"And frankly, and this is what really pisses me off," she screamed. "During the pandemic, we understood that small businesses were hurting, and we helped them, and it didn’t go to the Supreme Court to challenge it. Big businesses were hurting, and we helped them, and it didn't go to the Supreme Court to challenge it."

"All of a sudden, when it’s about our students, they challenge it, the corporations challenge it, the student loan lenders challenge it," she continued, screaming and jumping up and down. "That is that not right, that is not fair, and that is what we are fighting as well when we say cancel student debt. This is about the people, and it is about the people's future, and it is about all of your futures."

There is no such thing as cancelling debt--somebody has to pay for it. Obviously, in this case it 's the taxpayers, but if we didn't have to foot the bills, the schools would have to do it, which is untenable and never going to happen. So it's the tax-and-spend mentality of government [yes, even the GOPers do the same, albeit it at a slightly lower level] that puts the debt on the shoulders of the public, even if they didn't go to college or have kids that did.

The Supreme Court will hear a pair of challenges to the student loan debt handout, both of which involve questions about whether the Department of Education was authorized by Congress to advance the rule implementing Biden’s plan and followed the proper regulatory procedures.

If we give the President the ability to cancel school loans, what will stop him from grabbing even more power? It's unconstitutional and rightly so.

And can we get someone to tell Randi Weingarten to close her pie hole?

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Randi Weigarten's 'alternative facts' and her pandemic actions that hurt our kids

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had labeled Randi Weingarten "the most dangerous person in America." Weingarten is the head of the American Federation of Teachers" and was instrumental in preventing children from getting an education during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to Pompeo's words, Weingarten came up with her alternative facts.

“Our teachers give their all for their students, showing up every day for their kids, partnering with parents and helping the next generation fulfill their dreams,” she claimed.

Her statement wasn't even true before China release the hounds of COVID upon the world. Of course there are many wonderful teachers but the fact is, every year we see clear testing evidence showing the  public school system fails the most vulnerable kids again and again. [H/T NY Post]

In New York City 43% of high school graduates were assessed college-unready by the state in 2019. 

When COVID hit, Weingarten and her esteemed cowards demanded pointless school closures to ensure the safety of teachers, not the children because they were not dying from the China virus. This went on for two years in public schools, whereas the Catholic schools, which called for in-person learning, the kids did not fail, as assessed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress issued earlier this year.

Reading scores plummeted during the pandemic, the most drop among nine-year-olds since 1990, with an even worse drop in math--the first-ever such drop.

Other data analysis showed that the worst losses were among black and Hispanic kids. But at least the teachers got paid for staying home and not showing up for their kids.

Weingarten claims how important literacy is for children but did nothing to show she meant it. Roughly one third of the youngest school children are failing to reach reading benchmarks. 

She claims to be "doing the serious work of helping our nation's kids, families and communities recover and thrive." But when asked about lost school time she dismisses it with “kids are resilient.” 

So screw them--they'll do just fine; they can fend for themselves. Pass me that mask, Doris.

It's one thing to head a union and advocate for your members. But when the advocating comes at the cost of serving the children, you are indeed, the most dangerous person in America.

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Teachers Union don't really care about teaching or kids

As much as Fox News has swung from center right to center left as seen by them calling Arizona prematurely in the presidential race, and Neil Cavuto cutting off Kayleigh McEnany after one minute of discussing election fraud, you have to give them credit for Martha MacCallum challenging Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. 

MacCallum pressed the overpaid Union head over New York City's scientifically baseless decision to close public schools to in-person classroom teaching. 

City officials declared Wednesday that schools would be closed indefinitely starting Thursday after the seven-day average coronavirus infection rate for the five boroughs ticked above 3%. This is in spite of the fact that children below the age of 10 are highly unlikely to contract the virus, and if they do, they have an enormously high survival rate that greatly exceeds that of the flu. And schools are not closed down during flu season. 

Also, there are no cases in which teachers were infected by students and succumbed to the virus as a result.

Weingarten admitted that while evidence has shown that in-person classes are not "superspreading events", "the problem is that schools are not impervious to all that is going on in the outside.

"What the mayor [comrade Bill de Blasio] saw today, or the last couple of days, is that in Staten Island and other regions in the city, you were seeing a trajectory [of cases] that was going way up," Weingarten added. "And so what [United Federation of Teachers President Mike Mulgrew] and others are saying to the city, begging the city [is] 'wear your mask, get the infection rate down, because we want schools to be safe.'"

Pro Tip: Danish studies have shown that masks are useless in preventing contagion.

The back-and-forth went like this:

"No, the schools need to be open, is the point," McCallum responded. "The kids need to be in the schools ... it sounds like the union doesn't want the teachers in the classroom and the mayor doesn't want the teachers in the classroom. The parents clearly want the teachers in the classroom and the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] wants them in the classroom."

"Martha, you're actually not listening to me," Weingarten responded. "What has happened here is that New York City was the only major school district in the nation to actually reopen schools --

"But they're closing now, Randi," MacCallum shot back. "Why are they closing?"

"They're closing now," Weingarten replied, "because what the city said and frankly, what lots of other places are are also seeing, is a huge skyrocketing increase -- "

"OK, now you're not listening to me," MacCallum jumped in. "You're not listening to the science here, Randi.

"Yes, everyone agrees we see a spike. We're in a second wave. You and I totally agree on that," the host went on. "What they're telling us, though, is that the wisest scientific move is to have children in school, because what we're seeing is a tremendous loss of learning.

"We're seeing kids who are emotionally unstable because they're not in the classroom, because they're not seeing their friends, and we know from the studies -- this isn't me saying this, this is Brown University and other studies -- that the transmission rate is very, very low. It's a great news story. It's a great news story what happened when you opened the schools. The kids made out very, very well. That's wonderful news. They should stay there."

"I agree. I agree with you," Weingarten answered. "And what the UFT is trying to do is that they're trying to figure out a regional way of opening and closing like they did after -- "

"They don't need to close, that's the point!" McCallum exclaimed. "They don't need to close, is the point."

Weingarten had no pithy reply and the My Pillow guy did his thing.



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