Here's an interesting statistic...

...from Paul Krugman's End This Depression Now!: 

In 2006 the twenty-five highest-paid hedge fund managers made $14 billion, three times the combined salaries of New York City's eighty thousand schoolteachers.

And Republican governors, like Scott Walker, want to squeeze the teachers?

And, what's more, Walker's going to survive the recall election next month? What are Wisconsin voters thinking?