schoolteachers would be rehired with and we would be out of this depression. in terms of the republican counterargument on this, i ve been sort of calling this wisconsin school republican politics, romney arguing against the idea of public sector employment as something that somehow crowds out private sector employment. but there s also been a strange argument, at least strange to my mind, made by his campaign that we actually need fewer teachers. that we ve got too many teachers right now, artificially supported, i guess, by union rules or something, and we ought to have fewer public sector people, because we ve overpopulated those sectors. first of all, try visiting a classroom. do you get the impression you know, i sometimes wake up with nightmares of actually ending up being an elementary schoolteacher or a high school schoolteacher, which would be a much harder job than i have now. do you really think those hard-working teachers have an easy time because they don t have th
know, i sometimes wake up with nightmares of actually ending up being an elementary schoolteacher or a high school schoolteacher, which would be a much harder job than i have now. do you really think those hard-working teachers have an easy time because they don t have they have too few students to teach? but the other thing is, look, we are in a depression. right now, public sector employment doesn t crowd out private sector employment, it s reversed. slashing those jobs is making our economy worse. this is not the time i think it s a stupid argument to say we need fewer schoolteachers, but for sure this is a really bad time to be laying them off. even if we didn t have enough, this might be a good time for some extras. that s right. and, by the way, the president also did say, you know, what about the potholes, which are proliferating, certainly, all over my state of new jersey. what about construction? what about repair? what about all this public spending we ve been cutting