That’s Right Nate

Like many Americans, I was overjoyed to hear that about 100 teachers and staff were fired from Central Falls High School this month.  I was surprised and delighted today to learn that President Obama applauded their firing as “courageous”.  If our country is to succeed, accountability must extend to all employees whether they be cops or teachers or work for a self-storage company.  As we all know, the big enemy of accountability is the union.

Sure union advocates will point to countries like Singapore, Germany, and Japan with higher rates of unionization than we have in the United States or they’ll point out that the best scoring schools in the world are in Finland where the teachers are far more likely to be in unions than teachers in our country.   However, as a business owner I know that I need maximum profits if I’m going to do my part to grow the economy.   I’m happy to say that when George Bush fired the air traffic controllers, bosses were making 43 times what their employees were making.  Today, after 20 years of economic prosperity, employers are making 431 times what their employees are making.   This gives us the ability to hire even more workers and grow the economy even faster.

Let’s not stop at teachers if we’re going to get serious about eliminating socialist labor unions.   Just as firing teachers from schools with high drop out rates is courageous, so too would be firing all the police officers from police stations with high crime rates in their districts.   Don’t forget these cops, firemen, and teachers actually expect the taxpayers to pay for their retirements too.   I don’t see anybody lining up to pay for my retirement.   Labor unions will bring us to our knees if we let them.  I for one, don’t intend to let that happen.

Liberal media has jumped on the Center for Diseas Control’s report that shows Mississippi has become the number one state in the union for teen pregnancy.  You see, it makes the liberals feel good about themselves to point out that with abstinence only education Missisippi’s teen pregnancy rate is 60 percent higher than the national average.  However instead of looking at the 6.8% of teen girls in Misissippi who were pregnant, why not look at the 93.2% of the state’s teens who weren’t.

The reason that Mississipi has such problems with abstinence only education is pretty obvious–its teacher’s unions.  Lazy teachers who are union protected do a half ass job of teaching abstinence because they know that every teen who gets pregnant is another student who will need teaching.  This is blatant conflict of interest.  If they really want somebody to make a case for abstinence bring religious leaders or even parent volunteers into a classroom.  Boys are hopeless at this age, but we can reach the girls.   I can tell you if you let me talk about sex for half an hour with a room full of high school girls they will choose to remain virgins for a very long time.

As I’ve mentioned before, I didn’t appreciate it at the time, but I was very lucky that I grew up in the 1980s when nobody had premarital sex.  Oh it wasn’t from lack of trying on the guys’ part, but the girls always said no.   I worry about my daughter growing up in this era where morals have gone to pot, but I know that I have instilled good values in her and I know that when she starts dating I will watch her like a hawk.