a:1:{s:15:"field_blog_body";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:5:"value";s:2457:"Occupy Wall Street warriors, prepare for battle!<br />
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Yes, once again, the capitalist pigs have oppressed the proletariat. While the worker toils in the proverbial mines, the leaders enrich themselves at the worker's expense.<br />
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This must not stand!<br />
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As we speak, the forces of goodness and light are preparing their pitchforks and readying their torches for their assault on <br />
1216 Kendale Boulevard in East Lansing. The headquarters of the MEA will be under siege by tomorrow! The apolitical, non-partisan, completely neutral Occupy Wall Street freedom fighters will descend on the leaders of this evil organization and punish them for <a href="http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/education/2014/12/08/michigan-education-association-leaders-raises/20082425/">their crimes</a>:<br />
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<div>The teachers union's 2014 report, received Nov. 25, showed higher gross salaries for President Steven B. Cook, Vice President Nancy Strachan and Secretary-Treasurer Rick Trainor than in its prior year's report.<br />
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Cook's gross salary was $203,144, up $20,446 or 11%, while Strachan's gross salary was $144,700, up $20,097 or 16%, according to the reports. Trainor received the biggest pay hike &mdash; $48,385 &mdash; earning a gross salary of $158,296, according to the 2014 report. MEA Executive Director Gretchen Dziadosz received a $13,591 or 6% pay bump to a gross salary of $224,858, according to the documents.</div>
</blockquote>All this for the union losing 41,000 members. Those poor workers are probably now homeless, dumpster-diving just to survive on the scraps left by the rich and other Right To Work-loving villains. <br />
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What do these vile bourgeois scum at the MEA have to say for themselves?<br />
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<div>&quot;The MEA does not publicly comment on the salaries and benefits of its officers and staff,&quot; said Nancy Knight, the MEA's director of communications and public policy.</div>
</blockquote>No transparency! No transparency! I expect Michael Brown's ex-con stepfather to yell &quot;Burn this place down!&quot; at the steps of the MEA headquarters. Surely, the union leadership deserves it. The workers will rise up this time, for sure! But in a civilized way - no rapes and assaults like in Zuccotti Park. Those were probably conservatives masking as fine, upstanding Occupy Wall Street heroes, after all.<br />";s:6:"format";s:1:"2";}}}