the government shutdown.

Ok hold on to your panties this is going to piss some of you off. I think we need a government shut down. A systematic planned stopping of government programs. I think everybody on welfare should grab a broom and head to one of the national parks and get to work. We have plenty of highways that need to be cleaned up as well as the inner cities. If they get a check they need to be working. No more volunteers needed to man the parks and welcome visitors. Put the welfare recipients to work. I want to know why we pay for their health care, give them a bigger check each time they get pregnant. There are some families in the inner cities who have never had anyone in their family work. They have been on welfare for generations. Their kids need to go to school get good grades and get jobs. There are plenty of jobs out there all they have to do is look in the paper and pick one. We need farm laborers, trash collectors, hourly skilled laborers, daycare workers, you name it. There are jobs out there if people want to work. If we put all the welfare recipients to work we wouldn't have an immigration problem because there wouldn't be any jobs for them. This is kind of an incomplete thought, but I'm tired of hearing about all the things we will have to do without when the government shuts down. I'm pretty sure that most of the salaried government workers shut down years ago. Have you tried to get good service at the post office lately.

Next issue. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. I think he has some very valid points. Especially when it comes to teachers. I was an Ag Ed major in college, and have spent most of my adult life teaching in some form or another. I've been taking a poll lately and asking my co workers and friends how many good teachers they had while they were in school. The average answer is 2. 2 good teachers for at least 12 years of schooling including higher education. I have teachers as friends and I can tell you which ones are any good and which ones suck. I don't think any teacher in any capacity deserves tenure. They should all be judged on their results. I get paid on producing results as well as most of the workforce.

Don't get me wrong I think that parents need to do their part too. Kids need to go to school and treat teachers with the proper respect and not be a discipline problem. In turn the government needs to stay out of raising our children. I am almost positive that the kid the police sprayed with pepper spray needed it. Obviously talking to him doesn't work. If he felt some consistent pain on his ass from getting it whipped for misbehaving, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be a problem.