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Embracing Common Core as a Pro-Growth Strategy

May 2, 2013 in Busniess, Education with 0 Comments

The GOP is missing a real opportunity on the Common Core debate. The party would be better off embracing Common Core as part of a larger educational reform agenda that includes charters, vouchers and choice. By only supporting stuff that doesn’t touch regular public schools (which will still be the vast majority of kids) we look like we are throwing those students and their parents (+ their votes) away. This larger education reform agenda could be a real way to broaden the base of the party and steal this topic away from the left.

As an educator, I believe we have to have a starting point. A set of principles that all of our children should know. In Georgia, we have had Quality Core Curriculum (QCC), Georgia Performance Standards (GPS) and now have adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Georgia is developing our own curriculum based on these standards. Each local system will decide how to implement that state created curriculum. In Bartow County, we are moving to 1:1 computers as a part of our overall educational reform efforts, which include CCSS. This is very different than other systems around the state and the nation. Common Core is not a forced federal liberal mandate that some Republicans would have you believe. The State of Georgia and local school systems are driving this process and if the party is not careful we will perpetuate the stereotype that only the Democrats care about the future of public education for ALL students.

Common Core fits perfectly into our pro-growth agenda because it provides an opportunity to create a better-trained workforce that will be positioned to fill the jobs that our economic polices are trying to create. As long as the party centers its education policy around a constituency that makes up such a small percentage of the national audience we will continue to have no credibility on education issues.

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School Boards, Professionalism & Economic Development

January 24, 2013 in Busniess, Education, Politics with 0 Comments

This is a key reason why we MUST have a school system that functions professionally. To many of our fellow citizens are out of work. We cannot allow the school board to be the reason why companies bypass our community in favor of another one. Help me change the tone, leadership & direction of the board!

~Matt Shultz

*Courtesy of the Cartersville Patch:

Bartow County’s more than 4,200 unemployed residents drove its jobless rate up in December, according to the state Department of Labor.

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County            Rate

Forsyth             6.5%
Cherokee          6.9
Paulding           8.0
Bartow            8.6
Douglas           8.8
Fulton             9.3

Cherokee County – 6.9%

 

 

Right to Work: Be Honest Mr. President…

September 4, 2012 in Busniess, Politics with 0 Comments

Earlier this week in Toledo, Ohio President Obama said the following about Right to Work legislation being passed all over the country:

“So, Toledo, what you need to know is this: When they’re trying to take your collective bargaining rights away, when they’re trying to pass so-called “right to work” laws that really mean right to work for less and less, you should know this isn’t about economics. This is about politics.” ~ Barack Obama

From 1990-2010 Right to Work states (non-union) experienced better economic growth than union states http://t.co/f6e2RKzF The President is not being honest again on this issue. These states like Georgia keep adding population and growing influence with new Congressional seats while union states keep seeing a net loss in people living there. Americans are voting with their feet and moving to states with MORE opportunity. The National Right to Work Committee posted these statistics about young people in right to work states:

In the Right to Work states as a group, the number of 25-34 year-olds increased by 20.0% — more than double the national average — between 1999 and 2009. (Oklahoma, which adopted its Right to Work law in 2001, is counted here as a Right to Work state for the entire period.) 

Meanwhile, the 28 states without Right to Work laws collectively saw their 25-34 year-old population grow by just 3.3% — barely over a third of the national average.

The clear indication is that right to work states have performed much better than the states that pander to union interests.  The President has proven once again that propping up his Big Labor base is more important than being honest with the American people.  We have seen the influx of people here in Georgia as they flee anti-competitive states from other parts of the country.

The President was right about one thing…It is about politics and he is letting his disdain of our market economy color his rhetoric.  The only way to climb out of this economic downturn is to embrace American Exceptionalism and let our entrepreneurship society once again lead the world in innovation education and job creation. We must have a leader who believes more in the spirit of individual opportunity than group think collectivism.  Our country must always be a place where freedom is celebrated and opportunity available to anyone willing to work for it.

Here are some additional links:

http://www.nrtwc.org/young-employees-thrive-in-right-to-work-states/

http://www.demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=JimsBlog&ContentRecord_id=c21045dc-6672-45ba-9475-92814eabd9fe

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/feb/28/bill-oreilly/bill-oreilly-says-unemployment-lower-right-work-st/

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/frederick-douglass-model-ages/2012/may/2/did-president-obama-malign-right-work-laws/

Can’t Fix what you DON’T Understand!

November 28, 2011 in Busniess, Politics with 0 Comments

 

 

Is it really any surprise that our economy is not improving? President Obama came into office with cabinet members who had the lowest level of private sector experience dating back to Teddy Roosevelt. His team is full of government bureaucrats and academics who have never had to worry about the same challenges confronted by corporations and small business people everyday.  Our economy will not turn around until President Obama is gone.  We are not Europe….The experiment failed.

President Obama campaigned and came into office promising to “fundamentally transform” this country…and he has. Is this the change you wanted?  Our country is economically weaker and so is our standing throughout the world.  President Obama is proposing and has made decisions that harm our military and impact our ability to project our strength globally. We cannot afford for President Obama to do for our National Security what he has done to our economy.

America is standing at the most significant crossroads in our countries history since Thomas Jefferson first drafted the Declaration of Independence over 200 years ago. We have two choices and they are not about party or politics. Those two choices are freedom and institutionalized socialism.  It is time for another group of Americans to send a message to our elected tyrant and issue a “Deceleration of Freedom” so that our children will have the same opportunity to experience what an America blessed by God really looks like. Never forget what this country was so we can ensure once and for all what she will continue to be!

 

Pepper Spray, Protesting & OWS

November 25, 2011 in Busniess, Politics with 0 Comments

Over the past few weeks, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has spread across the country from one metropolitan city to another.  The protestors are upset about the current state of our economy and have placed the blame incorrectly on the highest income earners in our country….the 1%.  As a result they carry signs proclaiming to fight for the other 99% (usually without the benefit of appropriate hygiene).  These Obamaville’s have been problems for the cities involved because they have been trying to balance the right to speech against existing law & other people’s right to use public spaces. The movement itself is disorganized with no real message but apathy and entitlement. OWS and the students who subscribe to this philosophy want success given to them.  Their argument is weak and America would have never survived with this moronic communal mentality.  Officials from across the country are finally kicking these parasites out of the public spaces but the costs are mounting. The figure is about $13 million nationwide so far and around $650,000 in Atlanta alone.  Some protestors went peacefully and others got arrested as they were kicked out of their tent cities. Here are some thoughts and suggestions for the people of OWS:

  1. 47% of Americans pay no income taxes….Please change your signs.
  2. Calling for boycotts on Black Friday will not help your job prospects.
  3. The 1% hire people….Think about it.
  4. Take a bath.
  5. If you decide to protest, the police tell you to leave & you don’t….please be prepared to get pepper sprayed or hit with a baton. Don’t Whine about it.
  6. It’s not the cops fault you got the pepper spray….You could have left. (Reinstate the UCDavis officers and fire the Chancellor for throwing them under the bus)
  7. Don’t be interviewed on TV/Radio if you can’t speak intelligently
  8. America is about the OPPORTUNITY for SUCCESS…..Not a GUARANTEE of success.
  9. Thank someone in the military….They fight so you can occupy public places and spout nonsense.
  10. Find your God ordained purpose and participate in society with no expectation in return.

 

America is great because we live in a society where failure is possible and actually healthy for our economy. Some of the most successful people in the 1% are products of multiple business and personal failures. You sit in the parks screaming about the end result of someone’s achievement without any knowledge about their sacrifice along the way. Get up, Get busy and See #4…..America is an exceptional place for those who are willing to fight, fail, & earn their success.

Here is another article I wrote on this subject called:

America the Free…Not without the ability to FAIL.

Social Media, Delta & the Bag Fees

June 9, 2011 in Busniess, Tech with 0 Comments

Some troops on orders recently had to pay over $2800 in bags fees on Delta Airlines. After some inflight rants on Youtube that took the airline to task for the fees for military passengers the policy was reversed.  Just another example of Social Media and it’s impact on business and our culture.