Save the Short Term Installment Loans Industry or Obey Your Masters

A controversial news story

If you’ve been reading my blog entries for a little bit of time, you know that I’m a sucker for a controversial news story. My desires were fed this morning with an article from USA Today’s website entitled, “NYC teachers sue to wear political buttons in school.”

In the report, it tells of how Universities, in various states, have forbidden their students, faculty, and staff, from not only wearing candidate-supporting garb, but also participating in partisan rallies and the like. Justification stems from an apparent law, proclaiming that all state employees are forbidden from participating in political rallies and/or expressing their support or opposition of a candidate.

Seriously, isn’t that what going to a public university is about; being able to learn of the world around you, by hearing from all viewpoints equally? At least that’s what I thought, also considering that in order to know who you support for elected office you must know where they stand. I also thought that, despite the predominate slant to the left, a public university is where you can believe what you choose, and shed fears of the prevalent agenda within our nation’s K-12 systems.

Brainwashing children

The late George Carlin explained the pitfalls of the public school system best during his 2001 HBO special, “Complaints and Grievances.” In it, he describes public schools as indoctrination centers, where children are sent to be brainwashed, stripped of their identities and become mindless members of a consumerist society. Brother, we applaud you for telling it like it is.

Further proof can be seen of this, within the evidence I gained during a recent conversation with my boss. During the meeting, she told me of one of her children who was told he was wrong when he answered “George W. Bush,” not “John Kerry,” in response to the exam question, “who do you support for president?” You’d never believe what my rightfully-seething boss was told when she confronted the higher-ups at the public institution.

“Kids in public school are taught that they must be obedient,” one of them responded. Certainly, if that were my child in the system, being told that they’re on the verge of flunking because their views clash with those of the majority, I would be outraged, as well. Because, hey, to say the least, what they’re teaching aren’t the tenets of the true American way; instead, they’re pushing for a socialist society, where we all live the way that Big Brother sees fit.

My stomach turns

Hearing of such things going on in our public schools never fails to make my stomach turn. I mean, the concept of Universities employing agenda-driven professors is nothing new, but today’s students ought to be completely free to learn about the world around them. Then, in the end, the option should be there to decide what they believe, not that of their legislative masters.

The same thing goes for another thing which, in tough times, is just as important as our constitutional right to free speech; installment loans. Just like the right for folks to express their political views on public campuses, the quick and convenient installment loans service has come under fire, with state and national politicians wielding the flame throwers.

Vote YES

We have the opportunity to stomp out the fires they’ve started, coming up on November 4. We can save the short term installment loans industry by voting Yes on Arizona’s Proposition 200, and no on Ohio’s Governor-backed HB 545. Otherwise, our school children will not only continue to be told to “sit down and shut up,” but our economies will suffer even further decay.