Teachers certainly are greedy, aren't they? They make $50,000 a year with medical and dental benefits (outrageous!), have summers off, and live off of taxpayer money like vampires who love multi-colored construction paper. They could really learn a thing or two from Wall Street -- so it's a good thing Jon Stewart is here to explain it to them:

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Let's recap: getting $50k a year borders on avarice, but $250k is "close to poverty." Teachers take the summer off, but while bankers made shadowy deals that brought down the global economy they showed up year round. Teachers are paid with tax dollars, unlike those Wall Street firms who got bailed out. And if we cut Wall Street compensation, we'll break contracts and have a huge exodus of talent. We can't afford that, since they did such a good job of not wrecking the economy last time. The same can't possibly be true of teaching, right?

Hats off, Jon Stewart. You nailed it.