The Newest California Madness

When you can sit 50 students in the same run-down classroom with a single teacher and an abacus and have 9-year-old students outperform our high school students, the "we need more money" line simply doesn't wash. Unions want more money. Teachers believe they deserve more money. But what's the product they're turning out? If our students were avocados, farmed fresh from California, they would be bland, undersized, discolored, and all that expensive, fancy fertilizer and the farmers making a lot of money would go to waste. Our avocados would pale in comparison to a farmer's whose avocados were grown for 100th of the money, a 10th of the land, and with 5% of the resources available to us. Our product would be weak. Our product IS weak. Their Kung fu is strong. I honestly do not know why a lot of people's answer for everything is more money. The only thing I can guess--and it is only a guess, so someone can beat me up on it if they want--is that most of the people believing money solves all problems actually have money. Their particular problems are solved with money. They have child support issues? Money. They're running too high a tab for their mansions? Money. Someone's threatening to sue? Money. Need to be reelected? Money. Their spoiled brat of a kid needs a private education? Money. I believe that people who actually have money are incapable of thinking beyond money. And this attitude is contagious. It leads a lot of people with little money to believe all their problems--all society's problems--could also be solved with just more money. Potential socialist agendas aside, I'll stick with just the general consensus amongst the left-leaning people in America that we need to further fund our education system rather than hiring better people or demanding more and working to get more from our kids. If I owned a window-making factory that couldn't produce good windows, I would go out of business. If I campaigned for more money and a better pension and fewer working hours and more job security, that doesn't do a damn thing for my product. Even POTUS could stop by--as he's known for doing at window factories--and my product would still fail if I produced a subpar product. I know, I know -- our kids aren't glass or avocados! Well, they're not students either. They're seat-fillers for career-minded people seeking cushy benefits once tenured. (Apologies to the few real teachers out there. More of your ilk are sorely needed.) Teaching seems to be nothing more in some areas than a way to enter politics without having to be elected. Get in there, do nothing your entire time, don't worry about term limits stopping you, don't lose your job if you're inept or involved in scandal, and hold on until you're clear to receive a pension. Meanwhile, kids are failing miserably and growing up without a proper education. And more goddang money is not the fix! It's obvious why teachers' unions want more taxes paid. Their entire livelihood depends on the blood, sweat and tears of the hard-working American taxpayer. They don't operate on a business model of supply and demand. They skirt the laws of business. They're like aliens figuring out how to get around our known laws of physics. They can continue to increase what they're paid despite the fact that they produce nothing of value for it. So, of course they want the "rich" (of which these union bosses are members, ffs) to give more money. But what's everyone else's excuse? Oh, wait. They must have received a public school education from one of these career-minded teachers. They don't grasp math or business or realize dropping your toothpaste cap down the sink to retrieve your other lost toothpaste cap doesn't work.

I see you are like most conservatives: Don't like Unions. This video is not well made, or even well intentioned. However, it does express how many Americans feel about the wealthy in this country (just look at the last election). I have a lot of questions about California being the worse run state, I have looked at the figures, and they don't add up to me. It appears that they use unemployment as a major factor in this list, and poverty as NOTHING. Personally, I feel that if you do a great job of keeping your rich people rich, and your poor people poor than you should be consider the worse run state (enter most of the south especially MISSISSIPPI). Utah? Who wants to live in Utah? I have been to California, and it is one of the most beautiful states I have ever been to. If I could afford to live there, I would consider doing that (maybe when I retire).