jinxed247
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Originally Posted By: jeffoOriginally Posted By: jinxed247Wow...very well said stu and leon. You guys said everything and anything that I was going to post. I did want to suggest one thing though (even though it was probably already stated somewhere) what about doing away with public education and reverting to charter schools? They cost the tax payers half of what a public school does and they have almost double the graduation rate.
The graduation rate in my high school is around 95%. Charter school have double that? Someone must be graduating twice.
Also, the teacher gets paid by his/her merits and if they are not performing up to par then they get fired...explains why the high graduation rate.
My wife is a Registered Nurse and is forced to belong to a union in order to work in this state. She doesn't agree with unions because they often keep incompetant nurses in work...not just her opionion...for ex: a nurse was put on probation for giving the wrong meds to a patient...she was put on probation for a week and told she had to be error free for that week or she would be let go...the very first day that nurse (who has been a nurse for 12+yrs) made three med errors...when the hospital tried to fire her the union stepped in and somehow saved her job...now they have a diehard pro-union worker who is incompatant and shouldn't be a nurse...maybe it's the unions plan to get people to follow the unions by only keeping around the dumb ones who follow blindly and believe everything that the unions tell them.
What also pissed my wife about her union is that they donated money to Obama's presidental campaign and used her mandatory dues to do so
Union dues that go to campaigns are voluntary. Your wife needs to understand the rules better.
..when she complained to the union she was told that she didn't have a say in where or what her dues went for. So yeah, we don't like unions and I hope that when the general public sees how they actually operate and what it is actually costing them, this will be the end of unions in most states...you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Yes I can. And so could you. But with your mentality we'll be back to working 80 hours a week for minimum wage. Maybe you do so now. That's your problem. How do you expect working folks to support local businesses? They stand to lose just as much. I know it's a stretch, but try to understand this.
Her Union dues ARE NOT GIVEN voluntarily to campaigns. You obviously do not know me or my families view on politics. Her unions website even had a banner on it that said that they were proud supporters for the Obama campaign...in her 14 years as a nurse she has never used the union once to resolve a labor dispute so what good is her being forced to pay dues if she never uses the service? As for the graduation rates I am talking on average nation wide. It must be nice to teach at a school that goes from K-12 and you only have to deal with a grauating class of 28 people. Smaller schools tend to have higher graduation rates.
As far as me working for minimum wage..no, as an American soldier currently serving over here in Iraq I make far less than minimum for the hours that I put in. I chose to do it because I believe in this country, but after having conversations with people like you that belief gets shakier and shakier everyday.
Union members are like crack addicts...as soon as you deny them thier drugs they whine and complain and lash out at everyone. Don't worry though. I'll continue to stand the wall so that the big bad wolf doesn't come knocking on your door so that you can continue to rape the American tax payer of thier hard earned money.
The graduation rate in my high school is around 95%. Charter school have double that? Someone must be graduating twice.
Also, the teacher gets paid by his/her merits and if they are not performing up to par then they get fired...explains why the high graduation rate.
My wife is a Registered Nurse and is forced to belong to a union in order to work in this state. She doesn't agree with unions because they often keep incompetant nurses in work...not just her opionion...for ex: a nurse was put on probation for giving the wrong meds to a patient...she was put on probation for a week and told she had to be error free for that week or she would be let go...the very first day that nurse (who has been a nurse for 12+yrs) made three med errors...when the hospital tried to fire her the union stepped in and somehow saved her job...now they have a diehard pro-union worker who is incompatant and shouldn't be a nurse...maybe it's the unions plan to get people to follow the unions by only keeping around the dumb ones who follow blindly and believe everything that the unions tell them.
What also pissed my wife about her union is that they donated money to Obama's presidental campaign and used her mandatory dues to do so
Union dues that go to campaigns are voluntary. Your wife needs to understand the rules better.
..when she complained to the union she was told that she didn't have a say in where or what her dues went for. So yeah, we don't like unions and I hope that when the general public sees how they actually operate and what it is actually costing them, this will be the end of unions in most states...you can't have your cake and eat it too.
Yes I can. And so could you. But with your mentality we'll be back to working 80 hours a week for minimum wage. Maybe you do so now. That's your problem. How do you expect working folks to support local businesses? They stand to lose just as much. I know it's a stretch, but try to understand this.
Her Union dues ARE NOT GIVEN voluntarily to campaigns. You obviously do not know me or my families view on politics. Her unions website even had a banner on it that said that they were proud supporters for the Obama campaign...in her 14 years as a nurse she has never used the union once to resolve a labor dispute so what good is her being forced to pay dues if she never uses the service? As for the graduation rates I am talking on average nation wide. It must be nice to teach at a school that goes from K-12 and you only have to deal with a grauating class of 28 people. Smaller schools tend to have higher graduation rates.
As far as me working for minimum wage..no, as an American soldier currently serving over here in Iraq I make far less than minimum for the hours that I put in. I chose to do it because I believe in this country, but after having conversations with people like you that belief gets shakier and shakier everyday.
Union members are like crack addicts...as soon as you deny them thier drugs they whine and complain and lash out at everyone. Don't worry though. I'll continue to stand the wall so that the big bad wolf doesn't come knocking on your door so that you can continue to rape the American tax payer of thier hard earned money.