Trump winning immigration debate, slow motion southern invasion helps

Don the non is winning the immigration debate.  As thousands of Central American “refugees” march in a “caravan” toward our southern border aided and abetted by the Mexican government Don the non is the only thing standing in their way. 

Stupid Demo Dopes (but I repeat myself) are warning the Don not use military money for a wall or to impede the progress of the “caravan”.  As Coach Brisker used to ask me, “How dumb are you, son?” 

First off notice how it's referred to as a "caravan" not an invasion.  The "caravan" is a totally visible symbol of what happens when a nation does not have a serious deterrent (wall) or serious laws to dissuade illegal aliens from entering the country but compensates for those shortcomings with a generous welfare system. 

Republicans ought to be sounding the alarm.  The leftist candidate in Mexico's election has a double digit lead.  We all know what happens when leftists in Hispanic countries take control. We may be 10 years away from Mexico becoming the next Venezuela.  If that happens the southern border will have 10s of millions of “refugees” in the "caravan". 

My guess is that a majority of Rat establishment Republican Caligula, D.C. ruling class azzwipes are perfectly okay with millions streaming across our southern border.  If they weren’t, they make the money available for the wall. 

I’m still not delighted with Don the non’s signing of the omnibus, but we have face reality PDJT is the ONLY thing standing between Dopes and ReRs who would consign America to the ash heap of history and that exact fate. 

The good news is that on the Second Amendment, immigration, DACA, taxes and just basic American freedom PDJT is successfully smoking the Dopes out on their real aim. 

Without segue way I offer, that is why the Mueller investigation is NOT going away.  Mueller is apparently a bipartisan swamp creature.  The Dopes and ReRs want something on PDJT.  As a result Mueller is here for the duration.       

Today’s JG rant
Public School Teachers could go the way of burger flippers

When Lefty Libs talk about teaching they generally refer to the teaching profession as a “calling”.  For those truly “called” to professions like preaching, soldering, ministering to the poor and the sick and teaching, compensation generally is not the first consideration. 

The obvious answer to me for raising teacher’s pay is to ask them to work the full year.  50K plus a year for nine months of work with a generous year-round healthcare package and getting more days off during the nine months of activity than the average working stiff does not sound like slave labor to me. 

Let’s try tying teacher pay to a similar “calling,” like a military officer. Military officers are generally on call 24-7, 365.  Most can be deployed with no-notice around the world.  A high percentage are guaranteed to be placed in harm’s way several times during a career. 

Starting pay for a military officer is about 37K a year or 28K for 9 months work.  If the officer demonstrates competence and is promoted on time over a 20 year career the pay goes to about 108K or about 81K for nine months work. 

The big difference between teachers and military officers is that officers cannot be replaced by the internet on snow days.  Which raises the question, if the internet works on snow days, why can’t it work during teacher strikes or any other day? 

Which raises more questions.  Why is education trapped in a 19^th century model?  If teachers don’t want to teach and aren’t particularly good at it anyway, why are parents forced to bus their kids into classrooms run by incompetent people who don’t want to be there? 

My advice to teachers is that strikes will call attention to more cost effective ways to achieving better results (homeschooling, vouchers, e-learning etc.) which, in the long run, will and probably should break the teacher’s unions’ stranglehold on public education. 

Raising the minimum wage in restaurants in San Francisco had the unintended result of many of them closing and others going to automation leaving many former employees without jobs.  Education is not immune to economic forces.  Labor and pension costs in education will eventually cause the people paying the freight to look at more cost effective alternatives. 

My advice to public officials is to come into the 21^st century and get on with finding those alternatives. 

More public teachers find their voice

The roar started in West Virginia and spread to Kentucky and Oklahoma. It's the sound of public school teachers frustrated by policies affecting their salaries and benefits and eroding resources available to their classrooms. 

In West Virginia, teachers won a 5 percent raise after a nine-day strike in early March. After Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill Thursday to place teachers in a hybrid cash-balance plan instead of a traditional pension, walkouts forced several Kentucky schools to close Friday. Thousands of Kentucky teachers marched at the Capitol in Frankfort Monday. Arizona teachers appear to be close to walking out.

Oklahoma lawmakers approved a raise for teachers last week, but it wasn't enough to quell the protest in Oklahoma City, where thousands of teachers from across the state demonstrated. 

“If I didn't have a second job, I'd be on food stamps,” Rae Lovelace, a third-grade teacher from northwest Oklahoma, told NBC News. She said she works 30 to 40 hours a week at a second job teaching online courses for a charter school.

According to data from the U.S. Department of Education, the average teacher salary in Oklahoma in 2016-17 was $45,245. Kentucky teachers earned $52,339.

And Indiana teachers? They earned less than their Kentucky colleagues – $50,554.