Another symptom of what is wrong with our education system: Stupid teachers.
Honest to God, teachers in Milwaukee have launched a fight for Viagra drug coverage.
AP Reporter Ryan J. Foley wrote that despite a severe financial crisis, with hundreds of teachers facing layoffs, the Milwaukee teachers union “has asked a judge to order the school board to again include Pfizer Inc.’s erectile dysfunction drug and similar pills in its health insurance plans.”
“The filing is the latest in a two-year legal campaign in which the union has argued, so far unsuccessfully, that the board’s policy of excluding erectile dysfunction drugs discriminates against male employees. The union says Viagra, Cialis, Levitra and others are necessary treatment for “an exclusively gender-related condition.”
Union spokeswoman Kris Collett declined comment, AP reported. “But its lawyer Barbara Quindel said the case was worth fighting despite the district’s grim finances. Quindel said erectile dysfunction is associated with heart disease, prostate cancer and other conditions, and the drugs are approved by the Food and Drug Administration and recommended by the American Urological Association.”
I guess the reason must be so they can continue screwing the people paying their salaries
While I feel for the employees who want better benefits, it’s sign of the times.
The public sector has no idea nor does it care about the private sector and what has happened to them. If being in a union is always about more, more, more even in bad times then I hate to say needs to happen next.
Congress and the Senate pass laws for everybody but themselves.
The public sector employees are out of touch with what is happening in the private sector. They all think they are above us.