Outspoken Calif. Lib Draws James Woods' Fire After Complaining About Life in Leftist State
In November of last year, the Sacramento Bee reported that 130,000 more people left California for other states than moved there. And that’s been an ongoing issue for the Golden State: Since 2001, the state has seen a net loss of 410,000 residents to Texas alone.
Allow Cenk Uygur and James Woods to explain to you why.
Uygur, for those of you unfamiliar with him, is one of the hosts of the YouTube program “The Young Turks.” If you’ve seen clips of the liberal extravaganza but are unsure of which one he is, he’s the one that’s always kind of screamy.
On Sunday, Uygur tweeted in favor of a prospective teachers strike in the city of Los Angeles, where his children go to school:
My kids go to a public school in LA. Their teachers are going on strike tomorrow. All the wealthy put their kids in private schools & then the government bled the public schools dry. 80% of kids in #LAUSD need lunch assistance. Fund the schools! I support the teachers! #Strike
— Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) January 14, 2019
“My kids go to a public school in LA,” he wrote.
“Their teachers are going on strike tomorrow. All the wealthy put their kids in private schools & then the government bled the public schools dry. 80% of kids in #LAUSD need lunch assistance. Fund the schools! I support the teachers! #Strike.”
But according to an NBC report, the union’s real problem isn’t “wealthy” parents putting their kids in private schools. It’s desperate parents, fed up with failing public schools, taking the opportunity to send their children to charter schools — a non-traditional public education outlet that bypasses the rigid rules created by teachers’ unions.
“Union officials declared an ‘impasse’ in negotiations on Friday, saying an offer from the district to raise salaries, cap class sizes and hire 1,200 additional staff was good for only one year,” NBC News reported about the strike.
“Nor had the district followed up on a promise, they said, to examine what union president Alex Caputo-Pearl called an ‘existential threat’ — the impact of non-union charter schools on the city’s public schools.”
So parents are determined to do what’s best for their children, even if the teachers’ unions don’t like it.
How very non-egalitarian.
James Woods had a little something to say about that. And his response to Uygur is dead on.
LA and CA are under the control of a Democrat mayor and Democrat governor respectively; Democrats have a supermajority in the state legislature; and CA courts are the most liberal in America. Liberal Democrat morons like you started this dumpster fire. You put it out. https://t.co/QLxX8DxCmf
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 14, 2019
“LA and CA are under the control of a Democrat mayor and Democrat governor respectively; Democrats have a supermajority in the state legislature; and CA courts are the most liberal in America,” he wrote.
“Liberal Democrat morons like you started this dumpster fire. You put it out.”
Exactly. While union officials “have described Monday’s strike as a last stand against decades of defunding public schools,” according to NBC News, Los Angeles is one of the most liberal cities in the most liberal state in the nation.
And yet, Uygur doesn’t think they’re liberal enough when it comes to schools.
Neither does the teachers’ union.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is why Texas, Nevada and Idaho are filling up with Californians. This and taxes on drinking water, insane wildfire policies and other absurdities.
Will the last sane person to leave California turn out the lights — assuming they haven’t banned lightbulbs by then?
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