michelle malkin schools matt damon

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Matt Damon tries to defend the american education system, and raising taxes on the rich. He doesn't do either one well. Michelle Malkin explains things to him in her column:

http://michellemalkin.com/

 

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More schooling for Mr. Damon:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-shepherd/2011/08/04/time-reporter-cheers-liberal-actor-damon-schooling-libertarian-reporte#ixzz1UD0YAKPJ

from the article:

Sorry, Matt, but if I were your math teacher back at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, I’d have to give you an F. Wrong on theory and fact.
First the data — starting with Matt’s myth that teachers work for a shi— . . .  er, “less-than-adequate” salary.
According to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the average Boston teacher earned around $80,000 last year. That was the average. And that doesn’t include the generous health care or pension benefits, which would equal $100,000 in the private sector. All for just 180 days of work.
Nationally, the average teacher salary is significantly lower — $53,000. But a teacher still earns more by herself (and about 75 percent of K-12 teachers are women) than the household income of the average American family. Once again, with summers and holidays off.
That fact is important because when you break down what teachers earn per hour, the average teacher is better paid ($30.52) than the average computer programmer ($21.27) or architect ($27.71).
So Damon is wrong on the numbers. And his theory is even worse. Modern economic theory is based on the premise of incentives. Damon’s position that incentives don’t affect behavior puts him in the fiscal Flat Earth Society. He’s the equivalent of an economic creationist.


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/ken-sh...n-schooling-libertarian-reporte#ixzz1UJ4g67SV