[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3068]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 BLAME FOR OUR NATION'S FISCAL PROBLEMS

  (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, it's hard not to get angry 
when watching the news or reading the newspaper about Wisconsin.
  We are trying to recover from the biggest financial crisis since the 
Depression, and who is getting the blame for our Nation's fiscal 
problems? Teachers. Teachers certainly aren't the people who caused the 
Great Recession. It was a group of Wall Street executives who brought 
about the financial crisis which led to the budget shortfalls in the 
States.
  Blaming teachers or cutting their pay is wrong. Working to strip them 
of the basic American right to collectively bargain because some greedy 
Wall Street executives made huge mistakes and went too far, well, 
that's absolutely also wrong. Of course, Wall Street executives have 
gone back to collecting big bonuses while teachers and public workers 
are collecting the ridicule.
  It's time to quit blaming hardworking and dedicated teachers and let 
them get back to focusing on their students.

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