The ramblings of the entitlement-minded

By now, everyone has heard of what's going on in Wisconsin. It really started here when the governor of New Jersey put is foot down -- right on the feet of the NJEA teachers' union. So this was the comment of one "teacher"

"If your delighted with NFL football played by substitute players wait untill the schools are taken over by 'substitue teachers".
As a teacher where should I go for my best chance of obtaing day labor to teach in the schools? McDonnald's, Denneys, Waffle House or?
Should the students learn Spanish as the migrant labor is brought over to teach and lower the cost of teaching?
Will the National Guard be allowed to carry their weapons into the schools if they are assigned to teach?"

Wow. I tell you what. Isn't that what you want teaching your child? My response was simple:

"And also it's "you're" not your. Between your attitude and your grammar yes, you can go work at McDonald's. We don't need you teaching our children. Responsible teachers understand it's long past time they start contributing to their own well being instead of expecting others to do it for them. The gravy train is coming to an end, buddy. You either are going to get paid what what your bosses, the taxpayers, wants to pay you or you can find a different job. It's how it works in the real world. Welcome to it."

Keep stirring the pot guys. People are losing their jobs, their homes, their life savings. I am one of millions of those people. And yet we still see our taxes rising due to pigs like that guy. There's more of us than you, and all you're doing is ensuring another large defeat for your buddies in elected office in 2012 and making it even easier for us to clean up this mess you all have caused through your greed, and due to us that were too busy with our own lives to notice what you were doing. We are awake and paying attention now, however.

Don't Say Your Vote Doesn't Count

Here in New Jersey we vote on the local level on school budgets. Most years the teacher's union wins their massive increases with rhetoric about "the children" while they continue to rake in what now surpasses private sector wages and pay nothing for their health and other benefits. This year however the feeling was quite different among the people with a new more responsible governor pushing back against the union, and all other kinds of out of control spending. So the local school districts took it upon themselves to try to authorize a massive increase in local property taxes.

In my town, the elementary school alone wanted 1.4 million dollars OVER and ABOVE regular base curriculum spending at a time when people have been out of work for six months or more in record numbers. In my town, the budget was defeated by TWO votes.
Two votes is going to force some actual responsibility from these people for once.

Now don't say your vote doesn't ever count for anything.

Across the state, nearly 60% of budgets were defeated in a promising sign that people are not going to put up with any more out of control spending from the local level all the way up to the federal government. Watch out come November.

The Secret's Out

People are finally finding out what the whole politically correct thing is about. All these years that the left has been indoctrinating people via the media and public schools on political correctness has been in anticipation for this moment in history. And now they are bringing it out in full force in a deplorable attempt to silence any and all dissent to this administration's policies. It's what it has been about from the very beginning. A weapon against anybody who does not agree with their leftist agenda.

The race card has been liberal's primary weapon for decades now. And for the longest time it has worked; it was used to keep racist policies like affirmative action in place long after the need for such reverse-racist thinking needs to exist. This is the twenty-first century people. We have a black president. We don't need "quotas" for minorities in business. Yet it's been kept in place because if you aren't in favor of affirmative action you are racist.

But now people are waking up to this. When PC and the race card are used to try to stifle peoples' right to criticize the government, people are going to notice. And it's going to break more and more people out of the brainwashing they've endured over the past few decades.

This president has done the exact opposite of what he's promised in so many ways. But the two things he's doing that is going to hurt everyone in this country are his continued pursuit of destroying private business, and his apparent lack of interest that he is dividing this country further racially than it's been in decades due to his refusal to diffuse the drive-by media's rampant dropping of the race card. The president's minions' half-hearted attempts to play down this the past couple days is not a good enough statement. The president himself must come out and say so himself. Use one of these daily television appearances to do something useful for once.

Obama Wants to Raise your Children Now

It's bad enough public schools are already too busy teaching important things like multiculturalism and global warming instead of less important things like math, science and English. Now the President wants to address your children and tell them what they should be doing since obviously parents are too stupid to be doing that themselves.

Now we can talk about how heads of state are seen and heard in schools in third world dictatorships and not free societies, but that's a whole different argument.

The point is the President and other government officials have no business lecturing to impressionable children whether it's about politics or not. It's not government's place in a free society to interfere and influence children.

How would you like it if I came into your house uninvited and started lecturing your children on how to live, and how to behave? Yeah, I thought so.

Let's Keep Rewarding Failure

Why is it we keep throwing money at failing institutions and ideas?

The public school system is one of the biggest failures of this nation. Yet year after year we keep throwing more and more money into it. American students are near the bottom in nearly every standardized testing category by the end of secondary (high) school when compared to other industrialized nations.

The "Stimulus" program is another example of this. Monies are directed toward failing areas and programs. In other words, we are rewarding failure. Hello? Aren't you supposed to reward success?

Do you reward a child that doesn't clean his room? Or do you punish him? Do you reward someone for murdering a person? (Well, yes liberals think we should reward murderers... it's why they give them weekend furloughs from prison and gigantic book deals). We continue to reward failure even as we continue to see the results of rewarding failure to be... you got it. More failure!

If a business, industry, or town/area fails, it's for a reason. It's because policies and decisions made were poor and the results are showing. Propping up such business/industry (bailouts), or areas ("stimulus") just exacerbates the problem. If somebody knows that every time they get into trouble financially even if it's their fault, the government will come rescue them, what incentive is there to actually make good decisions and be responsible? The answer is simple: there isn't any. And it's why the Clinton bailouts of the savings and loans in the 90s, and the Bush/Obama bailouts of the financial industry and car industry of the last two years will encourage companies to continue to make lousy business decisions because they can be confident that the federal government will be there to save them at the expense of our tax dollars.

Until we get back to the tried and true method of rewarding success and re-introducing things such as competition and responsibility into all of these systems including schools, we will continue to see the failures pile up, the the costs to us as taxpayers continue to soar.

It's just common sense. And it's why people who have common sense and an actual brain they are able to use wonder if this really is some kind of conspiracy to make people unable to fend for themselves and totally dependent on the government for every aspect of their lives.