SOUTH BRUNSWICK – Blame others rather than SBEA

By Joe Schwartz, Kingston
To the editor:
    In his letter of May 5 concerning the recent school board election, Kenneth White writes, “Shame on the SBEA (South Brunswick Education association), shame on the timid citizens of South Brunswick for not standing up to the self-serving, greedy SBEA.”
   ”Self-serving” and “greedy” are interesting qualities to ascribe to schoolteachers in an age where investment bankers turn the U.S. economy into a casino, hold it hostage while they extort billions of dollars in taxpayer bailouts, and then award themselves record bonuses; oil companies write energy legislation, obtain billions in government subsidies, then reap outrageous profits by raising gas prices; mega-corporations like GE help write the tax code and then avoid paying taxes by taking advantage of the loopholes they’ve created while availing themselves of obscene corporate tax breaks; and defense contractors promote endless wars costing thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
   His annoyance that a member of a public employees union would “get to vote” in a school board election is profoundly and dangerously anti-democratic.
   There’s plenty of shame to go around. Let’s direct it where it really belongs.