{"id":549,"date":"2008-12-12T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/12\/the-biggest-special-interest-in-america\/"},"modified":"2008-12-05T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T06:10:22","slug":"the-biggest-special-interest-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/12\/the-biggest-special-interest-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The biggest special interest in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The teachers unions are reflexively against any adjustment to the status quo, and are notorious for Blocking Education Reform<\/a><\/p>\n

Big labor unions have destroyed countless American industries, including the Detroit automakers who are now begging Congress for a bailout. But these unions don’t just control factories and assembly lines. Our public education system is a slow-motion car crash, driven by the same union special interests that brought the auto companies to the brink of bankruptcy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a particularly apt analogy, since if public education WAS a business (instead of an entitlement), the teachers unions and most school districts would be bankrupt, for failing to produce a product that enough people want to buy, producing it at too high a price, and offering lousy customer service.<\/p>\n

Much more and video at the link. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n

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