I really have to say something...

Though I've had little time to blog lately, and still have no time, I have to say something about the reform/union issue in Wisconsin...
The merits of the legislation and the tactics being employed to pass/prevent said legislation are purely political questions - meaning there are no right or wrong answers, simply winning and losing answers.

There is on issue that is not at all a political question, rather it is a moral and/or ethical question that has a definite "right" and "wrong" answer...
Can you call in "sick" to work when you are not really sick?
Say I called in sick at work.  Later that day, while cruising Seaside Heights, I am caught on camera by a news crew covering a story about the location of "The Jersey Shore."  My boss sees that story and me downing a huge funnel cake (I would too!)
I would be fired. No questions asked. Perhaps I would be formally reprimanded (as a first-time offender) but all trust would be gone and I would never get a promotion.

With that in mind, here are the people who are teaching Wisconsin's children and youth:
Teachers swamp clinics in Madison Friday to get sick notes

And here are their willing accomplices in this fraud:
Doctors handing out fake medical excuses at WI union protest

All of these folks should be severely fined, if not fired.  The doctors' licenses should be revoked and their teaching/clinical positions at UW Madison terminated.

Finally, if any one of the people engaged in this practice are members of my own faith, they should turn in their recommends right now - they obviously have no meaning to them (something about "honest in your dealings with your fellow men....)

Brad