Vetteman94 said:
SO now the arguement is the interest isnt very good? Thats funny. As for my family, my fathers pension is currently looking well for when he retires. Couple that with what he will receive from SS and he will be doing quite alright for himself. I wish I could say the same, dont have one, since my company got rid of it to maximize profits and "stay competitive". About SS, raising taxes is not needed, you obviously didnt understand that part or you are deliberately twisting the words to make it looks worse. The maximum taxable income for SS is 90K, meaning a person who makes 90K a year, a person who makes 250K a year and people who make 2M a year all pay the same amount to SS. Raising the maximum taxable amount to say 150K, the person who makes 90K a year wouldnt pay more, neither would anyone who makes less, only the people who make more. But the difference is small on the paycheck itself. Obamacare needs fixing because of all the other crap that was forced on it in order for it to be passed, its barely recognizable from its original form. It funny that the 2nd best health care system state by state is Mass which has a state run Health care system almost identical to Obamacare. And a Republican, Mitt Romney, is the man responsible. Wonder where the uproar for that is. So basically your arguement is that those people didnt deserve the wages they were making because the corporations said so? The same corporations that pay their execs $20+M, and instead of looking in the mirror they blame it on the workers. As for where I work, I work for Caterpillar INC, so I see first hand how they treat unions as we deal with quite a few. Plus my father and brother are both in unions themselves. And Im sure I will get a comment that Im baised because of this, so whatever. Your last statement is a joke though, corporations flee to non-union states so they can maximise profit by getting the cheapest workers possible. Its the same reason the outsource jobs to other countries, its cheaper plain and simple. Its cheaper to open a facility in some countries and hire over 100 engineers, with degrees not worth the paper they were printed on, than to just add 50 here. Well i guess then our education system should be getting better and better than since it has less money now that federal funding has been cut for it, since thats one of the reasons my taxes went up. And one of the reasons the tax cuts dont help people like me. |
@ Vetteman94: You think by increasing funding to the public school system is the answer? no, my friend this is what we have been doing over the past couple of decades and it is not working. So many presidents in the past have tried to create new programs all to pump more money into the education system, because thats what they thought it needed. Clinton, Bush, Obama, ect. Things are getting worse and not better. You want to know the real problem in the public school system? Unions, and all the ridiculous guidelines. If you look at the school system today you will see some schools that have many students that excel and get sent onto college.
Then you have other schools where it seems atmosphere is dead and litterly some have more than 50% drop out rates. Why is this? Is it because they are not getting enough funding? No. One of the main issues with Unions in public schools is the tenure. Some of the teachers in the public school system have no business being there, but guess what...A school can't just fire a teacher for not performing well many times, because they are protected by the Union. There are many local issues that are not being corrected, because the Union will not allow bad teachers to be let go and good teachers to be hired on. You do investigating is some of the failing public schools where the drop out rate is high and its due to the Union protecting even the bad teachers. Why is it that when you look at most Charter schools, they are way outperforming most public schools? There is no Unions involved in Charter schools. If a teacher is not performing their duty well and dosn't have a genuine care to help their students learn then they are fired. Simple as that.
The public school system in Amercia will NEVER be improved unless the unions are taken out of the public shool system, or at least make it easy for the schools to fire unperforming teachers. We should not be worried so much about protecting teacher's jobs as much as we should be about giving our children the best education by the best teachers available. In order for a public school teacher to let go there are so many loop holes that have to be gone through that most of the time the school can never get rid of the teacher, or they get moved to a different public school that has a failing record. Therefore that public school goes even further in the hole.