Great advise from an old football player

[Lunkerdog]

Hey, just because I'm a conservative from Minnesota doesn't mean I'm being partial on this one

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...ditorialPage_h

[sachiko]

Excellent article. He starts out by posing an alternate reality where NFL players are paid according to seniority rather than on-field skills.

"If you haven't figured it out yet, the NFL in this alternate reality is the real -life American public education system. Teachers' salaries have no relation to whether teachers are actually good at their job—excellence isn't rewarded, and neither is extra effort. Pay is almost solely determined by how many years they've been teaching. That's it. After a teacher earns tenure, which is often essentially automatic, firing him or her becomes almost impossible, no matter how bad the performance might be. And if you criticize the system, you're demonized for hating teachers and not believing in our nation's children."

[bergall]

This is 'unionism' at it's most basic. THat's why unions should be anathema in a capitalist society. I do not see how capitalism and socialism can co-exist.....